Braydon Pate

Jesus didn't explicitly say anything about homosexuality for a good reason. Let's not kid ourselves about it. The Jewish contexts he was in were in widespread agreement that it was sinful to engage in same-sex sexual practices. The Old Testament clearly calls it out as such. No right-minded person can take Jesus not speaking to the topic of homosexuality as room for approval any more than they can take Jesus not speaking about bestiality as approval. Now, when the gospel went from the Jewish world into the Gentile world it entered a new context. No longer were they preaching to communities who all agreed that homosexuality was a sin. No longer were they talking to people who were tied to the Old Testament and it's moral compass. That's why Paul spoke very specifically to the topic in Romans 1 and 1 Corinthians 9. When the gospel went to people who had a problem with same-sex sin, the gospel rebuked that sin. Those who imply that Jesus didn't have an opinion on the topic, or avoided it (usually as an excuse for their own cowardice on the topic, to be honest) are making a harmful mistake. When is it ok to ignore certain sins? When the culture around you is so loudly against them that you don't need to bother waking people's consciences on the topic. That is obviously not the case with same-sex sin in our culture.