David's Thoughts: Thoughts on Leviticus 18:22, Part 6: Origins.

There is no convincing evidence on why some people consider themselves to have same-sex attraction. I have scoured the internet and found nothing conclusive. There are the following observations:

Homosexuality is exclusive to the human race.

Homosexuality runs counter to evolutionary theory and is an evolutionary dead end.

There has been nothing discovered in human DNA thus far to indicate anything hereditary.

God says that homosexual acts are an abomination (His words).

Many people who identify themselves as gay were sexually abused as children and is a probable contributing factor. In Canada approximately 1 in 100 identify themselves as homosexual.

If we are to believe God’s opinion of two men lying together as denoted in Leviticus 18:22, then it seems to be a reasonable assumption that its origins were in The Fall, one of the many consequences of original sin.

Therefore the only ‘origin’ I can reasonably offer is what I wrote in Section 3:

In Matthew 15:19 Jesus directly refers to sexual immorality, “For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander.” Seeing as the pre-incarnate Jesus wrote and instituted Levitical Laws in the first place, including what we now identify as Chapter 18, it is irrational to suppose that He has now somehow forgotten what He wrote and is now invalidating these laws by not regurgitating each one word-for-word. To the contrary, not only is He validating these laws, Jesus identifies the source of our desire to break these laws. Our corruption of God’s law originates in the heart.