Torah and Sexuality -abbreviated

I have been ask to write about what the Torah says regarding homosexuality. This is a Fiery Topic anymore, what with political correctness and pushing against anyone that speaks out on the subject.

So I must start by saying, that I am aware of only ONE GOD, THE LIVING GOD OF ISRAEL; the GOD of Abraham, the GOD of Isaac and the GOD of Jacob; and to the point MY GOD. I am concerned with keeping HIS LAWS and TEACHING, because HE is the JUDGE of my actions and my defense. It is HIS LAWS that I write about. As such I find No Defensible, in favor of those acts in all of the Tanakh(Old Testament) or in the Writings of Moses(TORAH). The discussion of what is permissible is in those places. This is THE CREATOR OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH's Laws, Rules and Instructions.

Let us begin with the most direct source.(Torah)

Leviticus Chapter 18, describes how a man may have sex and with whom. It is only at the end of the chapter, we are emphatically told how important these are to GOD and Ourselves by way of the consequences, for not following them.

Leviticus 18:29 For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.  30 Therefore shall ye keep My charge, that ye do not any of these abominable customs, which were done before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
There is of course, many arguments which people, wiser and less wise have made over 4,000 years, for and against their own opinion or that of another person's opinion. For my part, I know that every decision I make effects my soul and my affect those that have come in contact with me. Because of all of this I am bound to the LAW GIVEN BY MY GOD written in the Five Books of Moses.

There are two notes(attention grabbers) I would like to present now.

The First note: Whatever our position in this world, whether male or female; young or old; tall or short; dark skin or light skin; hairy or bald; over sexed or under sexed; angry at everything or easily self-controlled; each person is required to control themselves and their urges. By controlling ourselves and our urges, and keeping the ALMIGHTY'S LAWS AND TEACHINGS, we stop act as animals made from the dirt and begin to show that part of GOD which is not of this earth or universe, known as the SOUL. The Soul is you "True Value" in and out of this Universe, and so your value may continue far beyond the end of the earth. If you chose wisely!

Second note: It is Genesis 1:26  "And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." Your Soul is in the form of the CREATOR OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. The start of this realization, which for me has been coming for a very long time, is due to phrases like: Leviticus 19:2 . . . ."Ye shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy." ; Leviticus 18:30 . . . "defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God."; Ezekiel 18:4 "Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine; the soul that sinneth, it shall die."; Exodus 32:33 "And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book."

My point on this is: We, including Me are always so concerned with what is going on Now, with how I feel, what do I want, etc, . . . That we forget that our dirt is a very temporary thing, only blink of the eye -- type of existence and that the thing which has the greatest potential, cannot be seen or measured or marked by anyone else, and is prized far beyond our understanding by our CREATOR is my SOUL and your SOUL. More on this at another time.

Yaakov
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