Jesus Never Said Anything About Homosexuality?

Jesus’ Teaching on Marriage in Matthew 19

Jesus never said anything condemning homosexuality, so that must mean it's okay, right? Well, based on that argument, you could also say Jesus never condoned it either, so that must mean it's wrong. There's actually a lot of things Jesus didn't say, but on the subject of marriage, He said everything He needed to say in Matthew 19.

It's there He reiterates God's design for marriage. Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?

So they're no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let man not separate. And there you go, in three sentences, Jesus has just given the definition of marriage, which He created, by the way, and anything contrary to that definition is sin, including adultery, divorce, polygamy, pedophilia, and homosexuality.

Sexual Immorality and the Scope of Christ’s Teaching

A few verses later, He says that those who are not capable of keeping with this design for marriage should not get married. And He addresses sexual sins in other places, like Matthew 15, 19, where He says that all sexual immorality is evil.

Scripture, the Words of Christ, and the Authority of the Bible

Something else worth noting here, whatever is written in red letters is no more important than what appears in the Bible in black and white. After all, 2 Timothy 3 .16 describes all scripture as being from God.

And in John 16 .12 -13, Jesus said to His disciples, more teaching was coming through the Holy Spirit, who is God, just as Christ is. So passages such as Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6, and 1 Timothy 1, which condemn homosexuality as sin, are also the words of Christ.

The Old Testament, the Gospels, and the Epistles are all God's word. It's imperative to receive the Bible this way when we understand the text.