No. It condemns pagan Ba'al worship including ritual sexual acts between two men at the altar of Ba'al. According to Leviticus 20:13 men committing this act shall be put to death.
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. (KJV)
The Torah speeks of two kinds of sins, ritual sins and moral sins. If you study the text you will understand that this particular law concerns a ritual sin, not a moral sin:
The Hebrew word "to'ebah" means literally "ritually unclean". The Greek Septuagint LXX (3rd century BC) translated "to'ebah " into Gr. "bdelygma," which meant ritual impurity. Had the acts written about in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 been a moral sin, "zimah" would have been used which translates into Abomination. However both verses use a word which talks about a sin committed to the way religion should be practiced. The verses cite a Ba'al rite where men had sex with other men ritually to honor the Ba'als.
Leviticus does thereby not talk about homosexuality in general as a sin, but the act where men would have sex with other men in pagan religious practices.
And then we have Paul's version:
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 recompence of their error which was meet. (KJV)
This verse speeks of similar acts as Leviticus, but here Paul explicitly talk about married Christian men in Rome leaving their women (wives) to commit adulterous acts with people of the same sex. Not homosexuality, but adultary.
Conclusion: The bible doesnot condemn homosexuality, but rather ignorance. Read the verses in their original languages and remove the blindfold of false preachers claiming biblical fundament for hate against 10% of the world's population. The words used cite ritual impurity and religious sins in the OT and extreme adultary in NT.
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. (KJV)
The Torah speeks of two kinds of sins, ritual sins and moral sins. If you study the text you will understand that this particular law concerns a ritual sin, not a moral sin:
The Hebrew word "to'ebah" means literally "ritually unclean". The Greek Septuagint LXX (3rd century BC) translated "to'ebah " into Gr. "bdelygma," which meant ritual impurity. Had the acts written about in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 been a moral sin, "zimah" would have been used which translates into Abomination. However both verses use a word which talks about a sin committed to the way religion should be practiced. The verses cite a Ba'al rite where men had sex with other men ritually to honor the Ba'als.
Leviticus does thereby not talk about homosexuality in general as a sin, but the act where men would have sex with other men in pagan religious practices.
And then we have Paul's version:
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 recompence of their error which was meet. (KJV)
This verse speeks of similar acts as Leviticus, but here Paul explicitly talk about married Christian men in Rome leaving their women (wives) to commit adulterous acts with people of the same sex. Not homosexuality, but adultary.
Conclusion: The bible doesnot condemn homosexuality, but rather ignorance. Read the verses in their original languages and remove the blindfold of false preachers claiming biblical fundament for hate against 10% of the world's population. The words used cite ritual impurity and religious sins in the OT and extreme adultary in NT.
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