No more so than a practicing adulterer.
No more so than a practicing thief.
No more so than a practicing murderer.
No more so than an embezzler.
No more than about a billion other things that would be considered "sins."
The reality is, Jesus didn't condemn homosexuality by name in the Bible. Neither did he condemn a myriad of other sins (mortal and otherwise) by name in the Bible either. So what do we have to use here? What has Jesus given us as the proper response to ALL Sin, including homosexuality?
The most appropriate response here quite frankly, is Jesus' response to the woman at the well:
Jesus told her, "Go, call your husband and come back" (John 4:16). Not an odd request, since women couldn't converse alone with a man in a public place. But Jesus' request was more about uncovering truth than about following society's rules.
When she confessed, "I have no husband" (John 4:17), Jesus affirmed her answer, then gently exposed her sin: "The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband" (John 4:18).
Five marriages didn't make her a sinner. Due to warfare, famine, disease, and injury, men in those days dropped like flies. A widow became either a beggar, a prostitute, or another man's wife. Each time, this Samaritan woman had chosen the best option.
But sharing her bed with a sixth man who wasn't her husband? That was a sin.
Did she fess up? Nope. She changed the subject.
Finally, the woman at the well did her best to shut Jesus down. "When [the Messiah] comes, he will explain everything to us" (John 4:25).
How stunned she must have been at Jesus' revelation: "I who speak to you am he" (John 4:26). The next moment, the arrival of his followers confirmed his identity and gave the woman time to process the truth: The Anointed One had come!
Jesus commanded her to "go and sin no more."
Overjoyed, she left her water jar and went back into town to urge her neighbors, "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" (John 4:29).
Much like any sin that our Father in Heaven finds offensive whether it's homosexuality, murder, adultery, thievery, gluttony, and any other sin we can think of, they are all equally abhorrent to our Father. That's why Jesus came to pay with his flesh and blood, a perfect flesh and blood for all of our sins.
"Go and sin no more" is for ALL of us, no matter what our sins.
So, if he doesn't use that particular word its okay?
"lying with mankind as with womankind: it is abomination"
That is pretty darn clear
It took 20 posts to get to the right answer.
Thanks.
No more so than a practicing liar.
You said....”The reality is, Jesus didn’t condemn homosexuality by name in the Bible”
The Bible refers to it as an abomination as you know.
Jesus is The Word, he was in the beginning with God, is in fact God.
Thy Word is truth...anything and everything in the Old/New Testaments is approved by God/Jesus