He would express his love. Like with Zaccheus, he might go to his home.  Like with the Samaritan woman, he might sit in the shade of the well. As he did with Matthew, Jesus might offer a personal invitation. The exact words he would use, we don't know. But of their sentiment, we have no doubt. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. This includes  homosexuality. Jesus loves his gay children. He made them, came for them, and died for them. And he would tell them so.

He would speak to them with compassion. But he would also speak to them with conviction. And he would also tell them the truth. As he did with Zaccheus, the Samaritan woman, Matthew, and others, Jesus, always full of grace and truth, always told the truth. And the truth is this.

God never approves sexual union outside of marriage. The two unmarried, but sexually involved singles? God disapproves. The two married people who are sexually involved but not married to each other? Their adultery angers God. The man who seduces children? The sibling with sibling? The man with man or woman with woman? The Bible never singles same-sex  intimacy out as a sin above sins.

At the same time, the Bible never minces words regarding God's feelings toward homosexual activity. To the men of Israel, God warned: "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination." (Leviticus 18:22 NKJV) One Hebrew scholar writes: "When the word toevah (abomination) does appear in the Hebrew Bible, it is sometimes applied to idolatry, cult prostitution, magic, or divination...It always conveys great repugnance."

But isn't such teaching archaic? Pro-gay Bible students want to clump the prohibition of homosexuality with cultural instructions like washing feet or wearing veils. If teachings against same sex unions were random or sporadic, we'd have to agree. But God's denouncement of homosexual intimacy Amazons its way through scripture-from one border to the next.
From the earliest code of the Torah, to the later epistles of Paul-the sentiment never changes. God's disdain appears as early as the first book in the Bible when the men of Sodom wanted to see Lot's male (actually, angelic) visitors.

"Bring them out to us that we might know them carnally." (Gen. 19:5 NKJV)In the days of Moses, God had not changed. "If a man has sexual relations with another man as a man does with a woman, these two men have done a hateful sin." (Leviticus 20:13 NCV)

To the Romans, God spoke with identical firmness: "Women stopped having natural sex and started having sex with other women. In the same way, men stopped having natural sex and began wanting each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and in their bodies they received the punishment for those wrongs." (Romans 1:26, 27 NCV)

To the church in Corinth: "Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals, thieves, greedy people, drunkards, abusers, and swindlers-none of these will have a share in the Kingdom of God." (I Cor. 6:9,10 NLT)

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