Jesus was speaking to Jews who had considered homosexuality an abomination to God for millennia. If He had disagreed with that belief, He would have spoken up.
Jesus was speaking to everyone. The closest we have recorded of Him speaking on sexual immorality also has Him saying His famous "let He who is without sin" quote.
Matthew 19. Audience was Jewish, so was Jesus. He quotes Genesis to define marriage as one man, one woman, one flesh (later indicating it is only one lifetime by explaining there is no marriage in the regeneration). The alternative is celibacy. In the "let he who is without sin" passage, Jesus was not condoning adultery, otherwise He would not have told the woman, "go and sin no more". I'm not arguing homosexuality is any worse than other sin, that's for God to decide.
I don't remember lesbian sex being mentioned in the New Testament. In Paul's "you shall not suffer a..." letter, he was writing in Greek, and he specifically used a word that didn't mean any form of homosexuality, but specifically the unfortunately common practice of older men in a position of educational authority having sexual relationships with their students (who were by definition male).
I really hope it was Paul and not Peter, or I'll be quite embarrassed
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
If God has such strong opinions on the matter, why didn't Jesus say anything about it?
Jesus was speaking to Jews who had considered homosexuality an abomination to God for millennia. If He had disagreed with that belief, He would have spoken up.
Jesus was speaking to everyone. The closest we have recorded of Him speaking on sexual immorality also has Him saying His famous "let He who is without sin" quote.
Matthew 19. Audience was Jewish, so was Jesus. He quotes Genesis to define marriage as one man, one woman, one flesh (later indicating it is only one lifetime by explaining there is no marriage in the regeneration). The alternative is celibacy. In the "let he who is without sin" passage, Jesus was not condoning adultery, otherwise He would not have told the woman, "go and sin no more". I'm not arguing homosexuality is any worse than other sin, that's for God to decide.
Because He didn't say anything (that was recorded) about everything. He didn't say anything about abortion.
But gay and lesbian sex is mentioned in the New Testament as something wrong. So God does actually have a strong rule (not opinion) about queers.
"Better a man have a stone tied around his neck and be cast into the ocean, than any harm come to these little ones"
I don't remember lesbian sex being mentioned in the New Testament. In Paul's "you shall not suffer a..." letter, he was writing in Greek, and he specifically used a word that didn't mean any form of homosexuality, but specifically the unfortunately common practice of older men in a position of educational authority having sexual relationships with their students (who were by definition male).
I really hope it was Paul and not Peter, or I'll be quite embarrassed
Romans 1:26-27
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.