“Homosexuality: “natural” or chosen?

What does the Bible have to say about the claim of many homosexuals today that one’s sexual preference is “natural” and not chosen? Are we born with one tendency over the other? What is the cause of homosexuality?

Several factors must be kept in mind here, the first of which is the most basic: God condemns homosexuality. The Scriptures allow no mitigating circumstances but everywhere treats homosexuality as unnatural and sinful. See, for example, Leviticus 18:22, 24; 20:13; Romans 1:18-32; and 1 Corinthians 6:9-10. These passages of Scripture, and others like them, establish at least these three conclusions:

1) Homosexuality is rebellion against God.  There is no way to speak of any kind of acceptable or “Christian” homosexuality.  There is never any allowance for it, and it is never anything but sinful.

2)  Homosexuality is contrary to nature.  It is a particularly rebellious sin, a violation even of one’s own conscience. Keep Reading...