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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jesus talks about homosexuality indirectly:

Matthew 19:4–6
"4 He answered, “Have you not read that [b]he who created them from the beginning made them male and female[/b], 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

Matthew 15:19–20:
"19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

Notice that "adultery" and "sexual immorality" are separated.  In this case, what does "sexual immorality" refer to?  Who was Jesus addressing at the time? 
In Matthew 15, Jesus was addressing the Pharisees, and to them homosexuality was immoral.  So, one can conclude that "sexual immorality" here does include homosexuality.

Again, folks, you have to read the Bible versus within its context, who He was addressing.[/quote]

"Sexual immorality" could easily be pre-marital sex or pedophelia. The Pharisees thought these were immoral too. It would be a big leap to conclude that that passage is only or even partially about homosexuality.
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Or bestiality. Some Christian denominations don't tolerate masturbation. [/quote]
yes, the OT does talk about beastiality as sexual immorality, like it talks about homosexuality.  I don't think beastiality is talked about in the NT, does that mean it's no longer a sin?

Again, just because it is not explicitly talked about by Jesus in the NT, it doesn't mean it's no longer a sin.   It doesn't make it all a free for all so long as you just follow his NT teachings.  He didn't come to negate the OT laws.  He came to fulfill all the Levitical laws that Jews had to follow in order to be "right" with God.[/quote]

Actually, he came to fulfill the prophecies, but he DID negate most of the Old Testament laws. Go to the passage where he's being interrogated at the Temple and they ask him, basically, "are you negating our laws?" His response is incredibly clever: he says that on just two laws (love God, love your neighbor) "hang all the law and the prophets."

Again, we can't insert our assumptions about how God might view homosexuality into a vacuum and call it the truth. This is another reason to let God judge, instead of us calling it "wrong".[/quote]

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