Does God really condemn homosexuality?
Amazingly, many in our sinful world do not realize that homosexuality is sin. I have studied with more than one individual who had this persuasion even though they were not homosexuals themselves. I Corinthians 6:9-10 makes it very clear that God condemns homosexuality. The word translated “effeminate” by the King James Version, is translated “homosexual” by the New King James, and “male prostitute” by the New International Version. Thayer says the word means, “soft; soft to the touch…in a bad sense: effeminate, of a catamite, a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness.” The word translated “abusers of themselves with mankind” by the King James Version, is translated “sodomite” by the New King James, and “homosexual offenders” by the New International Version. Thayer says the word means, “one who lies with a male as with a female, a sodomite.” Notice that Paul states that such will not inherit the kingdom of God. Notice also that some in the Corinthian church had formerly prac
