[Will_00]

And who made that arbitrary distinction? I thought there were only 10 commandments that are considered such. Where is homosexuality mentioned?

There are Ten Commandments. Those are simply some of them, though. God instructed other instructions throughout the Bible.

It's a fine line between obsolete and unnecessary. Plus, now we have the precedent that some of the Bible can be ignored due to relevance. The Bible does give reasons for most of the laws I pointed out (Pigs are unclean, Sunday is a day of rest and for God, etc). However it gives a much less practical and more vague reason for why homosexuality is. Leviticus 18:22 "it is abomination" Romans 1:26-27: "men with men working that which is unseemly" A pig is unclean therefore unhealthy to eat. I get that. However, homosexuality is an abomination and unseemly? Why? The Bible offers no answer. A much lesser explanation.

First of all, your statement that "The Bible offers no answer" is completely incorrect. Again, 1 Corinthians 6:9: "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind," and 1 Timothy 1:10: "For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;"

There are four passages in the New Testament that mention homosexuality as a negitive. For my sanity, considering most Christians dismiss Leviticus and Exodus law, I'm going to focus on the numerous meanings of these passages. Romans 1-27: "And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet" This passage comes while describing how some Christians in Rome had returned to certain pagan rituals, worshiping idols of animals and such things. Pagan rituals included, at that time, huge sexual orgies. The rituals needed you to be in a drunk frenzied state so that regardless of whether you were homo or heterosexual, you just had sex with everyone. So the Bible may only be rebuking orgies and not homosexuality, especially when this passage only makes a pass at homosexuality without forbidding it. It's one meaning. 1Corithians 6:9-10: "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators...nor effeminate [makakoi], nor abusers of themselves with mankind [arsenokoitai]...shall inherit the kingdom of God." First off, makakoi does not mean effeminate. It can mean anything ranging from loose morals, to lazy men. literally it means soft (i think). So it could be any of those "meanings" Second, arsenokoitai's meaning is unclear. In fact, no one knows exactly what that means. Guesses range from temple prostitute, to gigolos, to men who sexually abuse boys. Just the kind people who translated the King James Bible took this meaning. And everyone else followed suit. Once again, multiple meanings. 1 Timothy 1: "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient... for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers (arsenokoitai)... and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine." Again, arsenokoitai. Same argument as used in Corinthians. Jude 1-7: Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." Sodom and Gomorrah were cities that wanted to gang rape two angels and were wiped from the face of the earth by God. Literally translated, similar things were happening in these cities. So that means this passage is referring to rape as opposed to homosexuality. So these multiple meanings mean the Bible doesn't have to be against homosexuality. The meanings did not stretch the literal meaning very far, in fact, some are more logical then their common counterpart interpretation.

This is obviously incorrect - on your part. The Bible CANNOT be tweaked in any manner and used to say "I think" in this case. It is right There in the Bible.

It's not like you just choose one day.

Again, I will state that you wouldn't simply begin to sin involuntairly. That is wrong. It is voluntary.