Before attempting to answer this question, it is important to draw attention to some issues. Firstly, when asking questions like “why has God done this or that?” we must acknowledge our limitations; we do not know the full mind of God. Inasmuch as God has revealed his purposes to us through the Bible, we have [...]
Answers about sexuality
Masturbation can be part of a loving relationship between a husband and wife, and in this situation it would be fine; but masturbation as a single person, or between people not married to each other, would be a sin. Masturbation is stimulating the sexual organs for sexual pleasure:1 outside of a marriage, it is part [...]
Some people have wet dreams (otherwise known as nocturnal emissions)1 all throughout their lives,2 and some people don’t ever have any.3 They occur naturally,4 and can, for example, be the result of conditions such as having a full bladder while sleeping;5 so, although they might be a bit annoying, nocturnal emissions aren’t anything we should [...]
Yes, homosexuality is forbidden by God’s words in the Bible. 1Cor. 6:9-11, for example, says: {9} 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, {10} nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, [...]
The only relevant verse here is in 1 Corinthians: Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him . . . (1 Corinthians 11:14) In first century Greece, long hair identified a man as a homosexual. For example, in Juvenal’s Satires (8.112-131) he refers to a “long-haired [...]
