I’m not here to hate anyone. I’m against all sin, including homosexual practice, because the Bible calls it sin, and I’m for salvation because Jesus died to deliver people from every sin and to give us new life in Him. This is the only real change that lasts.

Biblically, and by this I mean literally from scripture, I’ve asked myself how does the above square with God’s law, his will, and society? No middle ground.

William Kirkpatrick ( ” the Great Knick”) drilled into C.S.Lewis the habit of never letting a statement stand without being challenged:
“On what grounds do you believe such statements?”
He forced Lewis to give reasons, evidence, and clear definitions instead of generalities, vague feelings, or cultural assumptions. Lewis later said this training was one of the most valuable things he ever received. I will try to apply this principle here.

Precisely and biblically, from the literal text of Scripture alone, I believe  my thinking squares directly and without contradiction or middle ground and I intend to make the case for why I believe it.

God’s moral law clearly identifies certain acts like homosexualy as sin – an abomination and a violation of His created order. Civil governments, ordained by God, have the God-given role to prohibit and punish evil (including this sin) for the good of society. At the same time, the law has no power to change the human heart or produce true righteousness. Only the gospel produces the new creation and born-again transformation and I’m correct to emphasize this. These are not competing ideas in Scripture; they are complementary roles, with salvation as the eternal priority and laws as a temporal restraint. The framing: some might say, “I’m not so much against homosexuality as I am for salvation,”  but this can be (and often  does) get interpreted as: “I’m not really opposed to the sin itself; I just want people saved.” The stronger statement better aligns  because Scripture never separates the two: true love for people is to call sin what it is and point them to the only One who saves from it. So our exact words matter. They can be misinterpreted.

God’s Law: Homosexual Acts Are Sin

Old Testament (Mosaic civil and moral law for Israel):

– Leviticus 18:22: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”
– Leviticus 20:13: “If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.”

This was enforceable civil law in the theocratic nation God established.

New Testament (applicable to all people under the new covenant):

– Romans 1:26-27: “For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 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.”
– 1 Corinthians 6:9-11: “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
– 1 Timothy 1:9-10: The law is for “…the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality… and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine.”

Scripture is unambiguous and literal: these acts are sin. No reinterpretation changes the text. They fall under the broader category of sexual immorality that defiles and excludes from God’s kingdom apart from repentance and faith.

To answer the common objection: Jesus affirmed the entire Old Testament as God’s Word (Matthew 5:17-18) and upheld the creation standard of one man and one woman in marriage (Matthew 19:4-6). He also said the Scriptures cannot be broken (John 10:35). If the Bible calls it sin, Jesus agrees.

God’s Will for Secular Government and Society
God ordains all governing authorities:

– Romans 13:1-4: “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed… For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad… for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.”

Since Scripture defines homosexual practice as wrong, secular rulers function as God’s ministers when they prohibit it (along with other evils like murder, theft, or adultery). This is not optional or cultural—it flows from God’s design for justice.

Further:
– Proverbs 14:34: “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”
– Romans 1:18, 24-28 shows the pattern: when societies suppress the truth about God and normalize what He calls dishonorable (including same-sex acts), God “gives them up” to escalating moral chaos. Prohibitions restrain this unraveling and protect the common good (family stability, child-rearing, public order).

My statement that “prohibitions against biblical sins do help society” is exactly what Scripture teaches. Laws provide external order and reflect natural law written on every conscience (Romans 2:14-15). They are a form of common grace.

Salvation: The Only Internal, Transformative Change

The law exposes sin but cannot save or regenerate:

– Romans 3:20: “For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.”
– Galatians 3:24: “So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.”
– Galatians 3:10-13: The law brings a curse; only Christ redeems from it.

True change is supernatural:

– John 3:3, 5: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God… unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”
– 2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
– Titus 3:5: “He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.”

This is exactly what I’m saying: “salvation, becoming a new creation, being born again, changes people from the inside out.” The law restrains behavior; the gospel and Spirit transform desire and identity. 1 Corinthians 6:11 proves it is possible, former practitioners were washed and set apart.

How My Full Statement Squares with Scripture (No Middle Ground)

My view, “I’m against all sin, including homosexual practice, because the Bible calls it sin, and I’m for salvation because Jesus died to deliver people from every sin and to give them new life in Him” is biblically sound and balanced precisely because Scripture holds both realities without compromise:

– Being “for salvation” requires recognizing the sin from which people need saving. Christ died for these very sins (1 Corinthians 6:11 shows the hope). Neutrality or softening the sin is not love; it withholds the warning that leads to repentance (Luke 13:3, 5: “Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish”; 2 Peter 3:9: God is “not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance”).
– Jesus modeled this: He welcomed sinners but never affirmed their sin. He called them to leave it and follow Him (Mark 2:17; John 8:11).
– Laws against the sin are good and God-ordained for society (Romans 13). They do not save anyone, but they curb consequences and can drive people to see their need for a Savior.
– There is no biblical permission for a “not so much against” posture that treats the sin as neutral while claiming to care about salvation. Salvation is salvation “from” sin—including this one. At the same time, Scripture never makes external prohibition the primary mission. The church’s weapon is the gospel, not the sword (John 18:36; 2 Corinthians 10:4).

No middle ground exists in the text: You cannot claim to be for God’s will while treating what He calls abomination as a matter of indifference. You also cannot rely on laws alone to fix people, the heart remains unchanged without regeneration. The consistent biblical position is exactly this: support just prohibitions within our secular framework that reflect God’s moral law for societal order, while making the gospel and new birth the central, passionate focus. This is how righteousness exalts a nation “and” how individuals are truly freed.

In a pluralistic secular society (unlike ancient Israel), the primary Christian task remains preaching repentance and faith (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 20:21), living as salt and light (Matthew 5:13-16), and praying for authorities (1 Timothy 2:1-2). Where laws can be influenced toward God’s standards, Scripture supports doing so as part of seeking the good of the city and nation. But the power for lasting change has always been, and will always be, the new creation through Christ alone.

This is the literal scriptural accounting of my statement and views on sin. Both elements I have addressed: prohibitions for society (Some would call this “Christian Nationalism”) and salvation for the heart, are present, ordered accordingly, and without tension in Scripture.

The gist of what I’m saying here is that we christians should stand against every sin, including homosexual practice, because God’s Word calls it sin, and our real passion and hope is salvation through Jesus Christ, who alone can forgive every sin and make people completely new from the inside out. This is the only change that actually lasts. Only He can deliver people from all their sin and give them new life.

Amen