It’s worth first figuring out what the Bible says about sex in general, and then secondly how what Scripture says about sex is to be normative for the new Israel of God. A narrative reading of Scripture cannot blithely ignore the Creation stories. All this is just to say we must first know the story of Scripture, and know how we are related to that story, before we can even begin to think about how the Church might speak to the homosexuals within and without its walls.

Since Adam and Eve caused “the thorn” to “come up” in place of “the fir tree” and “the brier” in place of “the myrtle tree” (inverse of Isa 55:13), I tend to look to Eden as a vague example of what New Creation is purposing.

While those that “shall rise from the dead […] neither marry, nor are given in marriage” (Mar 12:25), I think we can look to Eden to see what we should be manifesting in our lives as a precursor of what is, albeit it similar and yet different, to come. So while marriage and sex have no place in New Creation, I think they were given to us to enjoy in the mean time. However, God created man, and for him, lest he remain alone, created a woman. God did not create a man for a man to be married, nor did he create a woman for a woman to be married; for anatomically, neither could properly become the “one flesh” that is symbolically manifested through sexual intercourse. Since acts of homosexuality are basically distortions of this pre-fall image, I think it should be avoided, whether it is spelled out as sinful or not.

Does anyone else have any opinions?