God spoke very clearly about homosexuality and same-sex marriage on the sixth day of this world’s existence, which happened to be the first day of man’s existence. On the very day that God created humanity, He laid out His clear guidelines for human sexuality and marriage.
In the first chapter of the Bible, God created and sanctioned the male-female relationship. “God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them” (Gen. 1:27). To the male and female, He commanded, “Be fruitful and multiply” (1:28), something that only a male and female can do together.
On that sixth day of creation, after God had created the male, He said, “It is not good that man should be alone” (2:18), so God determined to “make him a helper suitable for him” (2:18b, NASB). The word “suitable” literally means “corresponding to.” When the God of heaven made a helper who would correspond (by design) to the male, He “created…woman for the man” (1 Cor. 11:9). God did not create a cheetah for the man, or a duck for the man, or a tree for the man, or another man for the man. “The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man” (2:22).
The foundational law for acceptable sexual and marital relations is found in Genesis 2:24. “Therefore a man (male) shall leave his father (male) and mother (female) and be joined to his wife (female), and they (male and female, husband and wife) shall become one flesh.” Only a male and a female “correspond to” one another and can become one flesh as God intended. The pattern of God’s original creation for human sexuality was and is heterosexual relationships.
It is sometimes asserted that when Jesus lived on this earth that He didn’t say anything about (for or against) homosexuality. Such a statement is absolutely false. First of all, Jesus pointed man right back to this foundational law established by God at the very beginning—“Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?” (Matt. 19:4-5). Second, Jesus condemned fornication in Matthew 5:32, 15:19 and 19:9. Fornication (from the Greek word, porneia) is “all illicit, unauthorized sexual intercourse in general.” This word is the broad term that includes adultery, premarital sex, homosexuality, bestiality, pedophilia, etc. By reaffirming the divine plan from the beginning and by condemning fornication, Jesus spoke very clearly in denouncing homosexuality. May God help us to honor and submit to the foundational law taught by Jesus.