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In [[Romans 1]] the apostle Paul delineates stages of degeneration, with homoerotic desire and acts being a particular effect of making the God of creation, who uniquely created the women of the man and joined them in marriage, into an image of corruptible man. This type of this idolatry is yet seen to be taking place today by pro homosexual authors, such as Roman Catholic priest Daniel A. Helminiak<ref>pro homosexual priest Daniel Helminiak, Sex and the sacred, p. 192</ref>  who assert that the incorruptible [[Jesus Christ]] engaged in homosexual relations. Such extreme blasphemous attempts are refuted by Derrick K. Olliff and Dewey H. Hodges<ref>[http://www.reformed.org/social/index.html?mainframe=http://www.reformed.org/social/hodges_response_helminiak.html A Reformed Response to Daniel Helminiak's Gay Theology]</ref> and others.<ref>[http://www.robgagnon.net/BelovedDisciple.htm] by Robert A. J. Gagnon,]</ref><ref>Patrick Holding, Does John 21:20 Show That Jesus Was Gay?[http://www.tektonics.org/gk/gayjesus.html]</ref>   

In [[Romans 1]] the apostle Paul delineates stages of degeneration, with homoerotic desire and acts being a particular effect of making the God of creation, who uniquely created the women of the man and joined them in marriage, into an image of corruptible man. This type of this idolatry is yet seen to be taking place today by pro homosexual authors, such as Roman Catholic priest Daniel A. Helminiak<ref>pro homosexual priest Daniel Helminiak, Sex and the sacred, p. 192</ref>  who assert that the incorruptible [[Jesus Christ]] engaged in homosexual relations. Such extreme blasphemous attempts are refuted by Derrick K. Olliff and Dewey H. Hodges<ref>[http://www.reformed.org/social/index.html?mainframe=http://www.reformed.org/social/hodges_response_helminiak.html A Reformed Response to Daniel Helminiak's Gay Theology]</ref> and others.<ref>[http://www.robgagnon.net/BelovedDisciple.htm] by Robert A. J. Gagnon,]</ref><ref>Patrick Holding, Does John 21:20 Show That Jesus Was Gay?[http://www.tektonics.org/gk/gayjesus.html]</ref>   

Homosexual behavior was especially manifest in Rome and Greece at that time, but which was and is a historical constant among all peoples, in differing but deleterious forms, and with different degrees of moral degeneration being realized. For the follower of the Bible therefore, homosexuality is not new, nor unexpected, but neither is it justified, rather it is unequivocally condemned, while God is revealed as giving man grace to resist and  overcome sin. (Gn. 4:7; Ja. 1:12-15' 1Cor. 6:9-11)

Homosexual behavior was especially manifest in Rome and Greece at that time, but which was and is a historical constant among all peoples, in differing but deleterious forms, and with different degrees of [[moral degeneration]] being realized. For the follower of the Bible therefore, homosexuality is not new, nor unexpected, but neither is it justified, rather it is unequivocally condemned, while God is revealed as giving man grace to resist and  overcome sin. (Gn. 4:7; Ja. 1:12-15' 1Cor. 6:9-11)

==Jewish and early ecclesiastical attitudes toward homosexuality==

==Jewish and early ecclesiastical attitudes toward homosexuality==