By Danzil Monk Sr.
HOMOSEXUALITY- WHAT IT IS AND IS NOT
Homosexuality is a psychological, emotional and spiritual disorder that drives people who are affected by it to have sexual desires towards their same sex. Although many homosexual and pro-homosexual activists try to deny the central role that sex plays in the homosexual practice and what constitutes a person being classified as a homosexual, the fact is that same sex sexual engagement is the primary drive of homosexuality.
"In English the word homosexual was first used in 1892 in the English translation of Krafft-Ebing's "Psychopathiasexualis" which was a reference work, in German, on sexual perversions. It first appeared in 1886 and was enormously popular, being reprinted about once a year!"[1]
“Terms used to describe homosexuality have gone through many changes since the emergence of the first terms in the mid-19th century. In English, some terms in widespread use have been sodomite, Sapphic, Uranian, homophile, lesbian, gay, and same-sex attracted. Some of these words are specific to women, some to men, and some can be used of either. Gay people may also be identified under the umbrella termsqueer and LGBT.”[2]
“from homo-, comb. form of Gk. homos "same" (see homo- (1)) + Latin-based sexual. "Homosexual" is a barbarously hybrid word,….;It is, however, convenient, and now widely used.” [3]
What It Is Not
Homosexuality is not a feeling of fondness, strong love, respect, appreciation and deep friendship for a person of the same sex. Such feelings are important and are an essential part of human existence and civilization. The deepest and most admirable of this kind of love is demonstrated between David and Jonathan 1 Samuel 18:3 and 2 Samuel 1:26 and between Ruth and Naomi Ruth 1:16-17 and the ultimate expression is in Jesus Christ towards humanity.
Homosexuality occurs when those normal and necessary feelings are perverted into something more than what they should be, when they are sexualized and used to drive a sexual desire for the same sex.
Normal, natural relationships with the same sex are limited NON SEXUAL DESIRES. Thus any sexual desires between two people of the same sex that include touching inappropriately, holding inappropriately or kissing inappropriately, and talking sexually inappropriately with sexual intent and meaning are examples of crossing the line of decency over into sinful disordered sexual activity.
The above description is important to grasp, because the homosexual activists community has as a major part of their agenda’s strategy, to propagate misinformation about homosexuality in order to make it appealing to the public. And many of them propagate ideas of promiscuity, and pornography to draw the unsuspecting into their web of sexual immorality. Such tactics are often effective on impressionable youth who have not been sufficiently taught about healthy biblical sexuality that is normal, and homosexuality and its depravity. And it can be effective on adults who have been abused or who are addicted to drugs or high on drugs.
Thus, homosexual activists often lie about aspects of what homosexuality is to confuse the issue and to make nailing down key aspects of the condition difficult so that they can create the impression or illusion that homosexuality is normal and little different from heterosexuality.
Their goal is to sanitize homosexuality in the eyes of the public so that its depravity is not recognizable.
This is why we see so many favorable images of homosexuality displayed on TV, in the press and in the movies.
For a detailed examinations of their efforts to normalize homosexuality, see my article “HOW AMERICA AND MANY “CHRISTIANS” HAVE BEEN CONNED BY THE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST COMMUNITY”
They even hijacked the word “gay” that simply means “happy” to apply to themselves to give the impression that the homosexual practice is fun and happy when in truth it is filled with depravity and harm, emotionally, psychologically, physically and spiritually.
For more information on how homosexuals redefine words to promote their immoral views, see my article “HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS REDEFINE WORDS TO MANIPULATE”
Other terms suggested and used to disconnect homosexuality from its same sex sexual activity are “Androphilia” and “Gynephilia”. Note this comment from wikipidia:
“Academia continues to coin related terms, including androphilia and gynephilia which designate only the object of attraction, thus divorcing the terms from sexual orientation entirely.”[4]
As I said, the effort of homosexual activists are to sanitize or clean up the image of homosexuality by use of all kinds of methods. One such method is to apply good sounding words like “Gay” to replace their more accurate titles as “Sodomites”. “Sodomite” is the more appropriate word because it relates to the first major appearance in the Bible of homosexuals and their common devious and obsessive behavior.
As stated in the following quotes, the desire is to distance themselves from words that project the accurate state of homosexuals which is offensive to them.
“Some gay people argue that the use of homosexual as a noun is offensive, arguing that they are people first and their homosexuality being merely an attribute of their humanity.”[5]
Yet their very categorization as people who practice having sex with their same sex, and their demand for rights to have their sexual practices normalized, honored and celebrated makes them the ones who push their sexuality in front of their humanity. The quote continues:
“Even if they do not consider the term offensive, some people in same-sex relationships may object to being described as homosexual because they identify as bisexual+, or another orientation”[6]
This is because the confusion of homosexuality branches of into all kinds of strange sexual behavior and as stated above, they all want to be acknowledge for their particular brand of homosexual preferences.
Wikipedia continues:
“Some style guides recommend that the terms homosexual and homosexuality be avoided altogether, lest their use cause confusion or arouse controversy. In particular, the description of individuals as homosexual may be offensive, partially because of the negative clinical association of the word stemming from its use in describing same-sex attraction as a pathological state before homosexuality was removed from the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental disorders in 1973. The Associated Press and New York Times style guides restrict usage of the terms.”[7]
For a detailed report on the reason and method behind the APA removing homosexuality from their list of mental disorders, see my article “THE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST, A CASE OF THE PATIENTS TAKING OVER THE HOSPITAL”.
As stated in the above quote, before 1973, homosexuality was recognized as a disorder, a pathological state, and it was only removed from that status after activist homosexuals used hostile tactics to harass members of the psychological associations and forced them to back away from that description. Note that it was not scientific research and study but physical force and threats that changed the professional organizations positions. That point is conveniently left out of the above quote by Wikipidia. And it is categorically denied by many homosexual activists. The truth is that homosexual activists rely heavily on the art of lying to promote their pro-homosexual agenda.
Wikipedia continued:
“Same-sex oriented people seldom apply such terms to themselves, and public officials and agencies often avoid them. For instance, the Safe Schools Coalition of Washington's Glossary for School Employees advises that gay is the "preferred synonym for homosexual", and goes on to suggest avoiding the term homosexual as it is "clinical, distancing, and archaic".[8]
More and more in our society this is becoming the standard approach to homosexuality, not because it is right, but because homosexuals have amassed a massive amount of political, economic and academic power and they are using that power to white-wash their image in the public arena. And they have employed a variety of crafty tactics to promote the pro-homosexuality agenda, including misinformation, misrepresentation, lying, intimidation, harassment and physical violence.
Don’t be fooled by their attempt at whitewashing the act of homosexuality. It is still as harmful and as sinful as it has ever been, and no amount of favorable packaging of homosexuality can make it good.
While there are many who understand the dangers and sinfulness of homosexuality, their warnings are basically banned from TV, Hollywood, most mass media press and major social media. But God’s word has plenty to say about it and we will be sharing that important information with you for you to learn in this lesson. But first, let’s deal with the origin of homosexuality.
THE ORIGIN OF HOMOSEXUALITY
Based on the biblical record of human history, it is clear that homosexuality was not a part of the original creation of God. Therefor it is important that we understand where homosexuality came from, since it is clearly now a significant part of human civilization.
First, it must be acknowledge that homosexuality has only become a “significant” part of human civilization within the last 10 or so years. And that “significance” is due not to the importance of or correctness of homosexuality, but rather to the efforts of homosexual activists and the failures of people who have been born of God and who serve Jesus Christ.
Please note that my use of the word “significant” is not to denote importance, but rather to denote the apparent popularity due to the efforts of the unsaved to “normalize” perversion. I have written about this phenomena in my article “How America and many Christians have been conned by the homosexual activists community”
But the question must be asked, if homosexuality was not a part of the original creation, where did homosexuality come from? The answer is simple, homosexuality is just one of the many fallout effects of sin.
When Adam and Eve sinned against God in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3), their perfect natures were corrupted, changed, and their ability to choose evil graduated to a propensity to do evil things. Eventually, homosexuality became one of those many evil things.
In Genesis 6:5,11-12 it says:
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.”
That depth of sin resulted in the universal FLOOD that destroyed the world that was. (Genesis 7)
After the repopulation of the earth with Noah’s family that emerged from the Ark, humans once again chose the path of rebellion against God. And the vast majority of the human cultures that developed, did so in ways that violated God’s will. Included in those violations in some of the cultures (not all) were horrible sins like murder, harsh slavery, incest, bestiality and homosexuality.
The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans states that homosexuality was an out working of the sinful nature of rebellious humanity. Romans 1:18-32.
Below are a few other comments by others who address the origin of homosexuality.
“….God’s original design has been marred and thrown out of whack as a result of human rebellion (see the narrative of mankind’s disobedience in Genesis 3). We understand that, because of “the fall,” every man, woman, and child on earth is “broken” in some respect or another, each in his or her own way. Homosexuals are not alone in this regard. Each and every one of us needs God’s healing grace. Each and every one of us needs a Savior.
The actual mechanics of the development of sexual orientation in the individual is, of course, another matter. As we see it, homosexual feelings and behavior are rooted in a wide array of overlapping and intertwining psychological (mental), physiological (physical), and developmental (life experiences) factors. (Emphasis mine)
It would probably be fair to say that no two people come to the point of identifying themselves as “gay” in precisely the same manner. A variety of environmental phenomena are involved, and there is a great deal of variance in the way these forces impact and shape the individual psyche. For this reason, it’s overly simplistic to assert that homosexuality is merely a “choice” or that people are simply “born that way.” The truth lies somewhere in between. And the important point is that, in one way or another, it can all be traced back to the “brokenness” or “fallenness” of mankind and the rest of creation.”[9]
This quote is from Focus on the Family-Where did Homosexuality come from”
In an article titled “MOSES AND THE ORIGIN OF HOMOSEX
UALITY”
From the advindicate.com 2014 it states:
“Human sexuality, along with a pleasing sexual imperative, is introduced at the very beginning of the Bible story. Mankind was created with gender. Gender was created with purpose.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it. Genesis 1:27-28
Compliantly, in the narrative, Adam “knew” his wife and she conceived a son, and then another, and then a third. And though we don’t have details about differing sexual orientations before the flood, it is certain that only heterosexuals were on the Ark.
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Genesis 7:7
Obviously the origin of same-sex attractions significantly predated its rise to the epic proportions apparent in Sodom four centuries later. However rare gay practice must have been at its beginning, we find men and boys (na’ar) from “every quarter” of Sodom involved in the assault on Lot’s home (in Genesis 19:4-9). [10]
How did homosexual practice originally come into existence? The Bible teaches that it rose as part of a judgment on those that invented idolatry…
Romans 1:21For although they knew God, they …23 exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. Romans 1:21-28, ESV”[11]
As you can see from the above two quotes, God does not leave us without clarity on the subject of homosexuality. Although homosexual activists desire to confuse the issue, the fact remains that homosexuality is a egregious sin and harmful to humanity.
WHY HOMOSEXUALITY IS WRONG, BAD AND DANGEROUS
Unfortunately, in our current society, although many are still aware of the dangers of homosexuality, and make the effort to get this information out to the public, there are many others who are determined to prevent the truth about homosexuality from being heard by the masses. Those people at present are using all of their resources and power to prevent the truth about homosexuality from being shared with the public, and to present instead a false reality of what homosexuality is. This is why so little about what is wrong with homosexuality is available through public schools, psychological institutions and organizations, government agencies and even many universities.
There is no question that the source for the best information about the spiritual problem with homosexuality in all its forms comes directly from the Bible. But “honest”modern history and science has definitively established the justification for God’s prohibition, rejection and condemnation of homosexuality. They have established that homosexuality is not only a spiritual sin, but that it is also a natural crime against humanity.
- It is anti-reproductive by nature. Only a male and a female can produce life. Two males and two females cannot reproduce life and thus homosexuality is by nature a life inhibitor, a reproductive dead end.
- It is physically and medically harmful to the human body. This is clearly understood by the manner in which two male homosexuals engage in sexual activity. Their use of the male anus as a sexual entry point when it was created by God as a human waste exit point, not only demonstrates the irrational and perverted mind-set that male homosexuals suffer from, but also the harmful limits to which they will go to - too experience their sexual pleasure. The human waste that comes from the anus is extremely toxic and that section of the body is not made for penetration by the male sex organ. Doing so has resulted in all kinds of harmful medical conditions that male homosexuals and pro-homosexuals try to keep from the public and those they are trying to recruit to join that sinful life.
- Female homosexuals called lesbians often use man made devices. They use fake man made replicas of male sex organs to simulate their desire to be the male in the homosexual relationship and perform a sexual act as if they were a male. The insanity of twistedness that homosexuals must practice to accomplish their rebellious sexual acts is never discussed in the public arena and the topic is avoided by them accept among themselves in private.
- Homosexuality is psychologically harmful. The fact of homosexual’s unstable mental state has been well established in the medical fields. The required stress of living against ones natural status as a male or a female carries with it a litany of emotional, psychological and even physical stress baggage that very often results in the need for medication, psychological counseling and even suicide preventions. This is another aspect of homosexuality that is whitewashed and downplayed to the public. That is accept when they want to use it to their benefit, at which point they claim that it is our rejection of their homosexuality that is the cause of their stress and suicidal thoughts and attempts. This is a propaganda tactic that they use to shame us or make us feel sympathy for them, a game that they play well. But we should not be fooled by their efforts to gain our sympathy by blaming us for their instability. People are responsible for the choices they make and the life they chose to pursue.
The bottom line is that no matter how homosexuals and their supporters try to clean up the appearance of homosexuality, it is God who decides, and He has made it clear that homosexuality is sinful and should not be engaged in by humans for any reason.
The following are the primary biblical text that address homosexuality.
The first time we are introduced to homosexuality (Sodomy) is in the book of Genesis chapter 19:4-13, here, Lot is a resident of that wicked city and when two angels in the form of men, came to visit him to inform him of God’s order for them to destroy the cities, before they could leave, the men and boys of Sodom surrounded Lots house and demanded that Lot bring the two men out so that they could have sex with them. The angels blinded the men and boys to prevent them from harming Lot, but that did not stop the homosexuals from continuing to try to find them. Verse 11 says that after being blinded the homosexuals “wearied themselves to find the door”. Not to get away, find safety, or even repent of their sinful desires, but to find the door. That is how determined they were to fulfill their lusts. Jude 1:7 in the New Testament makes reference to this event. Ezekiel 16: 49-50 also refers to this event referring to the men of Sodom as haughty and committers of abomination.
In Leviticus 18:22-25 God warns Israel not to practice the sins that the nations He was driving out were practicing. Among those sins was homosexuality. And God said because of their sins the land vomits them out. In fact, unlike today, back then under God’s theocratic government where He was their King, and during the times later when they lived under a Monarchy with earthly kings, the punishment for homosexuality was death. Leviticus 20:13.
Not only was sexual sins punishable by death under the Old Testament form of Government, but God also forbade cross-dressing.
“A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.”(Deuteronomy 22:5)
This is how concerned God was about maintaining the visible and natural differences between the male and female.
In the New Testament, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, the Apostle Paul warns the believers that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God, and homosexuality is one of the acts that unrighteous people did.
Indeed, God’s word on the subject of homosexuality is clear, and only those who seek to bypass God and His clearly stated word on the matter, will try to find a way to get around His clear teaching to justify practicing such an evil deed.
[1](http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_year_did_homosexual_become_a_word)
[2]From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] The Word “homosexual” didn’t appear in English Bible until 1946 by Matt Slick
[4]From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5]From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[6]From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[7]From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[8]From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[9] Focus on the Family- where did Homosexuality come from
[10]MOSES AND THE ORIGIN OF HOMOSEXUALITY
https://advindicate.com/articles/2014/7/8/moses-and-the-origin-of-homosexuality
[11] ibid