Fellow Christians: Why is homosexuality a grave sin but we are allowed to eat pork?

If bacon wasn't meant to be eaten, it wouldn't be so delicious!

Actually Jesus did change the laws. Matthew 15:10 & 16-19 New International Version (NIV) 10 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. 11 What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.” 16 “Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them. 17 “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? 18 But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

The vast majority of christian cultists pick and choose those aspects of the cult and cult guide book that suit their already chosen lifestyle. They then explain away the rest as allegory or give some other bullshit reason as to why it doesn’t apply to them. The quicker you understand this the quicker you'll be on the path to "enlightenment" (i.e. realize it's all made up bullshit).

The Old Testament dietary Laws were not made for the Gentiles. Jews and Muslims do not believe that Jesus was the messiah, so they still live by Old Testament Law. But remember, these laws are 1500+ years old. It's like asking, "Why don't we still give a rifle, horse and a sack of beans to someone just released from prison if it's still on the law books?"

There is a good answer about that here: http://carm.org/christians-bound-by-law They also have an extensive section on homosexuality: http://carm.org/homosexuality Wishing you well.

Yes Jesus changed the dietary laws; or more correctly, He put an end to the Law by perfectly fulfilling the righteous requirement of Law and by exhausting the curse of violated Law in His own body when He died on the cross. This was why He said He did not come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it. When He cried on the cross saying "It is finished", that is at least in part what He meant. " For he himself is our peace, who has made the two (Jew and Gentile) one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. " Ephesians 2:14-16 "When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ." Colossians 2:13-17 If you read Acts Chapter 15, you will see when there was a dispute between Paul and Barnabas and the Judaizers who were telling the Gentiles converts to Christ that they were obligated to become circumcised and begin to observe the Law of Moses, that the matter was brought before the Apostles and elders in the Church at Jerusalem, and it was decreed the Gentiles were under no obligation to observe the Law of Moses. However concerning sexuality, they were commanded to abstain from fornication, and this would include any sexual activity outside of the ordained law of God that was established before the Law of Moses, and reiterated by Jesus in these words: “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ ? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.” Matthew 19:4-6 Homosexuality is also explicitly condemned in Romans chapter 1, I Corinthians Chapter 6 and I Timothy Chapter 1. Read what God's attitude was towards this and the other practices of the Gentiles in Leviticus Chapter 18, including bestiality and infant sacrifice idols. The dietary laws were intended mainly to teach spiritual principals (see Acts 10-11). Jesus taught it was not what entered the mouth that defiled a person spiritually, but what proceeded out of the mouth. find sound Bible teaching at: http://www.derekprince.org/

The reason that homosexuality is a sin, is not solely based on the laws in Leviticus. If it were, then your question would be relevant. Homosexuality is a sin because it goes against the divine order God created. He made male and female. The very first commandment he gave humanity was "be fruitful and multiply." This is the main purpose of sex. After all, they are called out "reproductive organs." Sex is meant to be within marriage, and procreative. We are united as one flesh, male and female, in total self giving to one another, AND to be open to life. Homosexual sex can never be procreative. <<But did Jesus change the dietary laws?>> Yes. In a vision to Peter, God rescinded the dietary laws. Acts 10:9-19

Homosexuality is consistently recognized as life-destroying sin from Genesis to Jude (see link). Jesus did change the dietary laws. From Mark 7, the earliest account: 17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’? 19 For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods “clean.”) This is why Catholics can eat port and shellfish. 20 He went on: “What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ 21 For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’” Notice the condemnation of sexual immorality, including homosexuality. To make a man "unclean" is to break off his relationship with God, to make him too unholy for God's presence. Cheers, Bruce

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