Can Christians Struggle with Homosexuality?

Introduction to the Episode and Guest

Welcome back to another episode of Revealed Apologetics. I'm your host Eli Ayala and today we are going to be having Dr. Braxton Hunter on to talk about a super duper important topic, a topic that's been covered by a lot of people from different angles.

Of course, those who have other Apologetics YouTube channels cover this topic all the time. Perhaps I'm late to the game to discuss this. I don't normally discuss it on a public format like this, but I have had many conversations with folks about this topic.

But I'm excited to have Braxton Hunter on because he's a sharp guy and he has some pretty good things to say on this topic and we'll hear a little bit of his background experience in this area. So the title of the episode is, Can Christians Struggle with Homosexuality?

I guess that kind of sounds like a weird obvious question. I mean for me at least it's an obvious yes, but really the purpose of this episode is not so much to answer that question in like a yes or no and then be done with it, but rather to address it from the perspective of suppose you are a Christian and you are struggling with same-sex attractions.

How might you navigate that sort of situation? And it's difficult, it's challenging and there are a lot of pressures both from within the family situation, the friend situation, the church situation. And so that's what we're going to be talking about today and hopefully Dr. Hunter can, I'm not going to be calling him Dr. Hunter the entire time by the way.

He's a good friend of mine. So I'm going to revert back to Braxton once I get him on, but hopefully Braxton will have some helpful things to say. Otherwise, you know, we'll end it short and I'll apologize for having him on if he messes it up.

Totally kidding. But real quick, let me introduce Dr. Braxton Hunter. He is the president of Trinity Bible of the College and Theological Seminary, which is, and he can correct me if I'm mistaken here.

It is a Bible college and seminary that one can take courses online. So I think it's completely online and you can take classes and there's a whole bunch of different professors from different perspectives, which I very much appreciate who offer classes and you can get degrees there and get your theological education, Bible education there.

And so I know some of the folks on staff and they're great guys. Even the guys I may disagree with on certain points, they're still very sharp and have very helpful things to say. And so I would, I would imagine someone would greatly benefit from an education there.

So you might want to check that out. Once again, that is Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary. Braxton Hunter is the president there. He is also a Christian apologist and he's engaged in some pretty awesome debates.

I think one debate that I think folks should really check out is his debate with Matt Dillahunty, who I'm sure folks who are in the apologetics game, those who run in these circles, right, will definitely know who Matt Dillahunty is.

And from a presuppositionalist perspective, and of course, Braxton being a classical apologist, I was leaping for joy as to how wonderful he did. Despite our apologetic methodological differences, I think he knocked it out of the park in that discussion.

And so I'm really excited to have Braxton Hunter on today. Let me bring him on the screen with me and he can share a little bit about his YouTube channel and what he does there. And definitely if you have not heard of, and you probably already have, but if you haven't heard of Trinity Radio, the YouTube channel, you definitely want to check out that channel and subscribe.

All right. So how's it going, Braxton? Thank you so much for making the time to join me, man. Eli, thank you so much for having me on the great Revealed Apologetics channel. Oh, stop. I'm joining the ranks of John Walton and Jason Lyle and who knows how many others.

Okay, very good. Well, I'm glad to have you on, man, because here's one of the reasons why I wanted to have you on is the topic. I think you shared with me kind of an experience you had with a friend of yours who had a similar kind of issue with homosexuality and things like that.

And I didn't want to invite like not to say that you're not a scholar. You definitely are a very scholarly. You're very intelligent. You're really good at what you do, both in teaching and just doing apologetics.

But because I consider you a friend, I thought that the context of a friendly, organic conversation would benefit people more than if I just had some guy list a bunch of facts and statistics with respect to this topic.

So it is a great joy to have you on for that purpose. I'm sure we're going to enjoy this conversation. Well, thanks so much. And I just want to say something about you and this channel. It is true that while we differ on apologetic methodology and on maybe on issues related to soteriology, this is a great apologetic resource.

I mention it on our show at Trinity Radio all the time. And I say that you are the best, I think, for people that want to learn how to do presubstantial apologetics, which we teach here at Trinity as well.

And so it's an honor. And I'll tell you something. I'll bet your audience would agree. Maybe they can let you know in the comments. Your interviewing ability and the way you interview people has gotten so good since you started.

I mean, you are just an excellent interviewer. You know, interviews can be so boring, but you make them exciting and engaging. Sure. Well, I very much appreciate that. Someone actually called me the brown Justin Brierley.

I was like, I'll take it. Justin Brierley is the white Eli Hall. How's that? That's right. Well, that means a lot. That means a lot to me coming from you. And hopefully this interview will not be boring.

So real quick, got a quick super chat towards the beginning. A former student of mine, Glass Dean Russell, gave a five dollar super chat. Thank you so much. He says, hey, Mr. Ayala, we all miss you so much.

Send all the blessing and nothing but happiness for you and your family. Well, thank you so much, Glass Dean. She was a former student of mine, excellent student, deep thinker. And it is it was such a blessing to have her as a student.

So thank you so much for that, Glass Dean. All right. Well, let's jump right into the topic. Now, I'm going to begin by asking the question that was on the thumbnail and you could answer yes or no, and then we'll take it from there, because really it's just a springboard for getting into a deeper discussion.

So the the title of this episode was Can Christian Struggle with Homosexuality? What do you think? Well, I actually hadn't considered a direct answer to the title until you just now asked me. So off the top of my head, I would say yes in a number of different ways.

First of all, and probably most controversial among Christians is can a Christian struggle with same sex attraction? Now, my answer to that is yes. And we'll get into exactly why that is maybe as we move on.

I also think it's the case that a Christian can struggle with homosexuality in the same in the sense that they may have a family member or a friend who's dealing with that sort of attraction and is dealing with how am I supposed to engage with this as a believer?

What am I supposed to say? And in that sense, it's a struggle, even though they're not personally experiencing it. We could also say in a much grander sense, the church is struggling with homosexuality, not in the sense that we don't know where we stand on it.

Although if you listen to what some churches say, it certainly sounds like they don't know where they stand on it. But rather because probably one of the most unappealing aspects of the evangelical church or the Christian church, whatever in America today, is our position on human sexuality because it is not at all following the cultural narrative, as you know.

And so in that sense, the church struggles with homosexuality in that way. But I think probably for what we're doing here, what you're most interested in, Eli, is getting to that very personal question of can a person who is an individual in the community who is a Christian, or at least is a professing Christian, no, let's say who they really are, a born-again, Bible-believing, Holy Spirit-filled Christian, can they at times struggle with same-sex attraction?

And as I say, that's probably the most controversial issue to discuss, but I say yes. Okay, so you have someone who's a Christian, Spirit-filled, loves the Lord, and is struggling with same-sex attraction.

How do we navigate that? Because I would imagine that introspectively the person's thinking like, wait a minute, I love God, why am I struggling with this? I mean, is it the case that God made me this way?

How does one navigate those sorts of things? Perhaps a Christian who is not very much familiar with some of the deeper things of Scripture, maybe they know what the Bible says about homosexuality, but then they kind of say, well, maybe God made me this way.

How would you, or what kind of advice would you give to someone who is asking those sorts of questions introspectively and kind of wondering like, hey, what's going on with how I'm feeling? Yeah, well, first of all, let me just say as we begin this, and this will be a caveat, there are some Christians who would not want me to say this the way I'm going to say it.

And if you disagree with how I'm stating this, it's your show, and you feel free to follow your convictions there, Eli, and I know you will, but I'm not going to be one of those people that thinks that every time we talk about this issue, we have to apologize and do for things that the church has done in the past.

Although I will say on this issue that my heart goes out to people who struggle, who are wanting to affirm a Bible-believing Christianity and have placed their faith in Christ, and yet are struggling with same-sex attraction.

My heart goes out to anyone who is struggling with same-sex attraction. And that's because, No. 1, I don't know what you're going through. I mean, obviously, I know it in terms of the propositions. I understand what's being said, right?

But I don't have the experience of having gone through it. I've never experienced same-sex attraction. And in fact, the propensities that I have, the desires that I have can be fulfilled in a biblical marriage as I think that God intends.

And so in a certain sense, people who are struggling with this particular sin issue are facing something that I don't have to face. And I just want to say to you listening, if you're someone who is struggling with this, or you have a friend who is, or a family member, or a child, I don't know what you're going through.

From an experience perspective, I don't know what you're going through. You have a unique experience. And so my heart goes out to you that you are struggling with this. And while obviously you're going to hear us say in this video that we do believe that homosexual activity is unbiblical and therefore sinful, that doesn't mean that the fact that you might have an inclination means that you're engaging in sin just for having that inclination.

We can get into that more as we say that to say, while that much is definitely true, I don't want to add to your struggle. In one sense, it's going to sound like of course you're adding to my struggle.

You're affirming that what the Bible says about this is true and that it's sinful to engage in homosexual activity. And yes, that's right. And I'm not going to apologize for the Bible, but I am going to say, I want you to find in people like me and Eli, someone who loves you, people who care about you, and people who are not trying to be condescending either.

We've got our own issues. It may not be this particular issue. We've got our own issues and none of us are perfect. Now to the direct question that you just asked Eli, and I know I'm kind of rambling here, but to the direct question that you just asked, I would say, did God make me this way?

No. Now, did God create knowing that this might happen to you, that you would end up having these attractions? Yes, because God knows all things, past, present and future. God has what we call omniscience in theology.

He knows all things. But having said that, we live in a fallen world. If you look at Genesis 3, it talks about what happened in the garden as a result of Adam and Eve. However you understand that story, Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree and as a result, creation fell.

And then you run to Romans 8, it affirms that. And so the truth about this is the world is not as God would have it to be. That doesn't mean God doesn't value you just the same for sins that you might experience or me for sins that I experience and mistakes that I made.

He loves us all the same. But the reality is, this is not the perfect design that God had in the garden. The garden was the prototype for perfect creation. It was perfect creation and one day it will be that way again.

But people are born with all kinds of proclivities, tendencies, temptations. And while I don't know whether or not, a lot of Christians want to say there's no evidence or the science isn't there to say that people are born with a genetic predisposition to homosexuality.

I'm not a scientist. I don't know about that. But I'm cautious to say if that does turn out to be the case, it wouldn't surprise me. And it doesn't mean that God made you that way or that it's okay to engage in those kinds of activities.

So to sum all up, I just want to say on this point that we love you. We care about you. I understand that from your perspective, it may not sound that way. It may seem like we're adding more baggage. We do not want to be that to you.

And we don't want to sound condescending because we've got our own baggage. And in the end, we live in a fallen world. And so no, God did not make you this way. This is the result of the sin of man. And so I think that kind of is a lengthy answer that also gives a preamble to the discussion.

Sure, sure. Okay. So there are a couple of things that pop in my head that I think perhaps we can speak to someone who's struggling with this and knows the scriptures very well. And so passages like that in Romans where it talks about men burning after other men, right?

Burning in lust after other men. And it speaks about kind of this homosexual proclivity as kind of a judgment by God. But what about the person who's like, well, wait a minute. Well, I love the Lord. And yes, there's sin in the world, but I desire to follow God.

Why am I experiencing this? Is this somehow the wrath of God on my life that I have to deal with this? What's going on? How would you navigate that question? What I would say about Romans 1 is a couple of things.

First of all, this is not the point you were driving at, but I would say that for anyone who thinks, who wants to make a case, and there are those people who claim that the Bible is not condemning of monogamous same-sex relationships like that.

They want to say those can be healthy relationships. That's not what the Bible is talking about. I think that the Romans 1 passage is one of the most difficult ones to deal with because it doesn't specify the nature of the relationship there.

It specifies the act itself and for men and women. So I think that when you come to that passage, the first thing that goes through my mind is if you're struggling with this, it's going to be very easy for you or tempting for you to be drawn to resources that might want to make the Bible okay with this.

And it's not okay. God loves you. God cares, but it doesn't mean that it's okay. Now, to that end, just because something can be a hardening or a judgment or something like that for some people, it doesn't mean that every individual person experiences that.

That's necessarily why they're experiencing that. There would be disagreement probably with some people from certain traditions on that issue. Some people die because of a judgment, but that doesn't mean that everyone that dies is dying because of a particular judgment on their life.

So I think that might be an important thing to mention there. So that's actually a great point that everyone dies, but the death of every person is not necessarily a judgment. A specific judgment. Now, in one sense, it is a judgment because death is a judgment on mankind, but not a specific judgment on their life for something that they did.

That would be an important. So one of the person throws up there, okay, so fine. This might not be a specific judgment because I know myself, I love the Lord. I want to do what's right, but I'm struggling with this same-sex attraction sort of thing.

If it's not God's judgment, then what is it? Why am I experiencing this? So I could picture someone kind of struggling with it from that perspective. How would you speak to that? I think that is a question I would absolutely have if that was my issue.

And I think what I would say to that is, well, again, I don't think that homosexual or same-sex attraction is a part of God's perfect design. What God ultimately wants. And I realize, trust me, I realize how everything I'm saying sounds so offensive to someone who's struggling with this.

But it doesn't mean that, I mean, look, we're all broken people. Again, we all have our issues. None of us. My baldness doesn't reflect God's design, right? But at the same time, I would say that it could be, certainly God knows that you will experience that.

And it may well be that though that is the result of living in a fallen world, it could be that God recognizes this particular person is the type of person that I think will be a person who can handle this particular struggle and live victoriously in me.

I'm going to interrupt you there. Okay. That's an interesting point you made there. So are you saying that God will allow certain believers to have certain weaknesses and proclivities as a way to, as part of their sanctification and fulfilling a purpose, a broader purpose?

So for example, I can say, why am I so addicted? I mean, I love Jesus, but why am I so addicted to drugs? That might be one of the things that like, well, because God wants to glorify himself by using someone like me.

Allow me to go through these struggles and then bring me out and minister to people who have similar struggles. Is that the same? Is that something along the lines of what you're saying, but kind of transposing it on the issue of homosexuality?

Yeah. Well, I think a cleaner example would be to take something that is not something that someone necessarily addicted themselves to, like drugs or something. But perhaps someone has a propensity for anger issues.

Now, again, I want to say, anyone that's dealing with homosexuality, I'm not equating homosexuality with other individual sins. So don't think, oh, you're saying I'm like someone who is an alcoholic or something like that.

Each sin is a little bit different. But the fact is, there are some people who were born with a propensity to anger. People are more likely to be angry and therefore could be more likely to become violent.

God may have allowed that to happen. It doesn't reflect God's perfect design. But God may have allowed that to happen because in overcoming that, that is a great demonstration of God's glory in the person's life.

All right. So that's a very interesting practical look at the issue because, I mean, from a Christian perspective, even when we struggle with anything, it doesn't have to be homosexuality or whatever, I think it's important.

I guess I'm jumping ahead of the discussion, but a piece of advice to give someone is to encourage them to see the world in such a way that God has purposes, right? Absolutely. In other words, seeing the world through the lens of God's spectacle, so to speak, right?

Seeing God in everything so that when I struggle with something as a Christian, I can say, how could I honor God in this struggle? How could I honor God in whatever the struggle may be? Is that something you might encourage someone?

Absolutely, yes. We should seek to glorify God and we should look where God is at work. Now, again, I want to say it this way. I don't think that the design that God produced for us in the garden originally is reflected in our imperfections.

But I do think that God can redeem things in our lives or allow those and then redeem them for his purpose. And perhaps it's a moment like this. I can imagine some Christians out there in the audience or who might see this later who would say, well, hold on a second.

I thought that when you got saved, when you became a Christian, that God would just take that off of someone so that a homosexual person, if they still experience same-sex attraction, well, then obviously they're not in Christ or something.

And I think this might be a good moment to address that biblically unless you have a particular outline you want to go with. Yeah, no, go for it. Why don't you address that? I think that's an important point.

Sanctification, Temptation, and 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Yeah. So we've talked about one of the biblical passages in the New Testament where Paul addresses homosexuality. But I'd like to turn the attention to 1 Corinthians 6 and verse 9. This is another well-known passage that deals with this.

And it's, again, Paul. And I really want people to listen. Now, sometimes people have a tendency to phase out whenever we start reading the Bible. If you're going to phase out, phase out when me and Eli are talking and pay attention when we read the Bible.

But 1 Corinthians 6, verse 9 says,. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Okay, so now when I hear that, I'm listening. Okay, what do you mean unrighteous? What do you mean I want to inherit the kingdom of God?

And it says, Okay, now there's a lot of heterosexuals who are sexually immoral. Nor idolaters, nor adulterers. That's sexual immorality that can happen among heterosexuals. Sure. Nor homosexuals. Okay, there it is.

Nor homosexuals. Nor thieves. Nor the greedy. Nor those habitually drunk or drunkards. Nor verbal abusers. Nor swindlers. Will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you, Paul says in verse 11.

But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the spirit of our God. Now, when I look at that, first of all, it seems obvious when you read that why some Christians will say, hold on a second.

If you really got saved, if you really got sanctified, you should never experience same-sex attraction again. Because it says right there in verse 11 at the very beginning, such were some of you. You used to be a homosexual.

You're not now. But hold on just a second. Notice the other things that are listed here. It also mentions the sexually immoral, which could be heterosexual, as we say. Adulterers, thieves, greedy, drunkards, verbal abusers, swindlers.

All right, now let's just take one of those. Greedy. All right. Let's say there's a guy in Corinth and he's greedy. And then he encounters Paul or the Corinthian church in general, and he becomes a Christian.

He is saved. He is gloriously saved. He lays that greediness on the altar. However you want to say it, he repents of his sin. He doesn't want to be greedy anymore. Are we to say that this person, now that they are, and again, we could say about that person as Paul does, such were you.

You used to be greedy, but now you've been sanctified. You've been justified in all these things. Are we really to say that that person will never again experience a temptation to be greedy? Are we going to say about the thief that he'll never—.

Are we really going to say about the adulterer or the sexually immoral, heterosexual person that becomes a Christian that they're never again going to be tempted by other women besides their spouse? Well, consider the apostle Peter, who is clearly saved, but then was corrected for his sin by the apostle Paul.

When he kind of chose sides between the Jews and the Gentiles, right? Why? Just because you're a Christian doesn't mean—just because you've been washed doesn't mean you are perfect. We still struggle with sins.

You might struggle with a particular kind of sin that I don't struggle with or vice versa. So I think that's an excellent point using the example of greedy because it's part of that list. We tend to focus on—that's the teacher in you making that good point there.

Right, right. And so when you look at homosexuals in that list and you say, okay, if that's true of all these other sins, why do I treat homosexuality like it would be different with homosexuality? The temptation for greed, the temptation for drunkenness, the temptation for adultery, the temptation for homosexuality might still be there.

So then in what sense is a person delivered? In what sense are they sanctified? And we can really say such were you a homosexual or any of the other sins. I think the sense in which we can say this is the person who was habitually drunk or a drunkard, that lifestyle has changed.

He may make a mistake going forward, but that's not his intent because God is doing a work in him. He's got the reformer of the Holy Spirit living inside of him, guiding him, and warning him when he's about to make those mistakes.

So it's a struggle, but it's not his pattern of life. That's right. Okay. And we would say that while he could get all the self-help books in Corinth, and he could listen to Oprah all the time, and he could do all the things to try and reform himself without the Holy Spirit, with varying degrees of what, from the earthly perspective, might look like success, nothing does it like Jesus.

Nothing does it like the Spirit. That changes a man. That does the Romans 12 thing where you're not conformed to the world, but you're transformed by the renewing of your mind. Now, I want to be cautious to say that I have known people, and I believe it is the case because God can do it if he wants to, that God could supernaturally deliver someone from even the temptation such that now they are heterosexual.

What I can't do is guarantee that that will happen for any particular person because I think, based on what we have from Paul, we don't have that guarantee in Scripture. We don't have the guarantee that God is going to do that.

And to the point that we were discussing just before this one, that kind of led into this one, where you said, are you really saying that God might allow someone to have a struggle or something like that in order to glorify himself or in a process of sanctification?

Well, we don't know exactly what it was. It could have been a physical ailment. It could have been some sort of a temptation, but Paul certainly mentions, again, to the Corinthian church. It's in chapter 12, but I can't ever remember if it's 1 Corinthians 12 or 2 Corinthians 12, but he says that he had a thorn in the flesh, a messenger from Satan, and he prayed none less than the apostle Paul prayed three times.

2 Corinthians 12 7 -10, if anyone wants to look that up. So 2 Corinthians 12 7 -10. I think that's an important example because it shows the great apostle Paul and his own struggles. And the response that God gives him in his request to remove that struggle, I think, is a very important thing to read because sometimes God does leave us in those places of struggle so that his strength can be made known in our lives.

But go ahead. You made the point exactly that if none less than the apostle Paul prayed for a particular struggle, whether that was a physical thing or a sinful thing, to be removed from him, and it wasn't, then we have no such guarantee that we will be delivered from a temptation toward any particular sin that we might experience.

And so, again, I do think that God has done and can do that for people. I don't want to take that away. I want to, in any sense, limit God. And if I was a person struggling with this, I would absolutely be praying that God would supernaturally do that for me.

There's just not necessarily a guarantee that he will. And I think that's important to know. And I don't think people should be discouraged of the fact that God may not remove that. I think the thing to glory in and to relish in is that Paul says, such were.

You use that verse to make a point that some people use that verse to say, hey, once you're saved, you know, you shouldn't be exhibiting any of these things because such were some of you. Now, of course, that's an incorrect understanding of that passage and how salvation and sanctification works.

But what an amazing truth that such were some of them. In other words, it's not impossible for God to do those things. We can use all of the Christian cliches in this example, and it would be completely worth saying them all, that nothing is impossible with God.

And so I would encourage people to hold on to those truths. Even if he doesn't remove it, nothing is impossible for God. He can still give us the strength to endure what would appear to us as an impossible situation.

How am I going to live my life this way? How am I going to maintain my relationships? How am I going to go out there and make a difference in the world when I have this thing in my life? God can use you even in the midst of that.

So I think that is, I think, a good verse to be encouraged by. Yeah, and you know what, Eli, to that point, I recently had Dr. Christopher Yuan on our show, and he is a person who was active in the gay community.

He said he had multiple partners every day. Now, obviously, that's not everyone. I mean, I'm sure that's not even your typical person who's homosexually active. But at the same time, he was, and he said on my show this, and I thought it was great.

He was talking about whether God might supernaturally make you heterosexual versus that might not happen. He said, look, really, the point is, it's all about identity. My identity was bound up in being a gay man.

And he said, a lot of people who come out of that, their identity is in being a heterosexual man. He says, you know something, God didn't say, be heterosexual as I am heterosexual. He said, be holy as I am holy, right?

And so the identity we have is in our God, in Christ, and we're to be holy. That's the goal. Whether you're experiencing same-sex attraction or not, whether you are supernaturally transformed in terms of your sexual desire or not, what you're striving for is holiness and being what God wants you to be and being like God.

And I know that's a tall order for someone struggling with this particular sin. Sure. I want to stop you there for a moment because this is what I've heard. I've heard this in my own interactions with people who've approached me and asked for guidance.

It seems to be the case that a lot of people tie homosexuality with their identity, such that to fight against this same-sex attraction, they need to deny who they are. Why don't you unpack that for us from a biblical perspective?

Why is that an inappropriate way to view the situation? You know, I'm denying who I am. What does the Bible say about how we should deny who we are in one context? And why is that kind of a wrong-headed thing to do is to identify oneself to the same-sex attraction that a person is experiencing?

Right. So in one sense, it seems intuitive to include our sexuality as a part of our identity. I mean, obviously, we're not talking about sexual activity here, but think of Teresa. Now, neither you nor I are Catholic, but let's just put that aside for a moment.

Mother Teresa is Protestant. You don't want to make that mistake. That's right. But Mother Teresa, we think of her as Mother Teresa. There's a maternal aspect to who she is. Her sexuality is bound up in that.

She's a woman. It's a maternal approach. Now, that's not sexuality in the sense of sexual gratification or sexual desire. It's more about her role as a mother-like, a maternal-like figure. Her sexuality is important to how we conceptualize and how people look to her.

So I don't make that point to say anything about sex qua sex. What I'm saying here is it's natural to think of our sexuality sometimes as a part of our identity. The problem is that when our sexuality doesn't reflect what God's design for us was and who we are supposed to be in Him, then if we continue to hold that as a central part of our identity, it can mar our identity in a way that is unintended.

The pattern that Jesus points to and Paul points to, and of course that we have in Genesis, is in the beginning, He created the male and female. I've pointed this out, and this sounds incredibly politically incorrect to say, but we're in this deep.

Again, my heart goes out to anyone dealing with this. I'm not saying anything to hurt you. But in Romans 1, again, to make a different point from Romans 1, verse 20, Paul says the invisible things of God, His eternal power and divine nature, are clearly seen through what has been made so that they are without excuse.

He's talking there about idolaters being without excuse for idolatry, when they should be able to look at the created world around them and see that the best explanation is that God made all of this. That's what they should be able to see.

But it also teaches that some of the things we can know about God from looking at creation. One of the things we can know about God is what His intention was for mankind in terms of sexuality. Because without being too explicit, if you simply look at physiologically the structures of men and women, it's clear to see what the maker, you don't even have to have ever seen a Bible to look at the design of man and woman and see what the designer had in mind.