And, again, in all his ministry he never uttered a word about homosexuality or transgenderism. One would think, if that were important, HE would have said something.
Aimee, it does look like you are repeating arguments from either “Progressive Christianity” or biblical opponents, and not searching the scriptures for yourself.
The word “Homosexual” was not coined until the late 1800’s, so Jesus wouldn’t specifically use that word, but that doesn’t mean that He “didn’t utter a word about it”. Jesus clearly defined marriage as between one man and one woman:
“He said to them, “Have you not read that He Who made them in the first place made them man and woman? It says, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will live with his wife.”
-Matthew 19:4,5
And we have to look at the entirety of Scripture. The entire Bible is God’s Word, not just the words that Jesus spoke. Everywhere that homosexuality is mentioned in the Bible, New and Old Testaments, it is spoken of as being displeasing to God and prohibited.
Jesus also spoke against “sexual immorality”, which includes both heterosexual and homosexual immorality. He warned us strongly about the sin of lust, which would include both heterosexual and homosexual lust.
Scripture gives us only two options when it comes to sexual behavior: marriage between one man and one woman, or celibacy. According to God, people are either to be single and celibate or married and faithful to one spouse of the opposite gender. Jesus considered any other expression of sexuality sinful. This would include same-sex activity.
Regarding the thought that Jesus would have said something specifically about homosexuality if He thought it were important, are every action and behavior to be considered good unless Jesus specifically said it was forbidden, regardless of the entirety of Scripture?
We have to be careful about using the “argument from silence” when seeking God’s will. The goal of the Gospels was not to give us a comprehensive list of sinful activities, and there are many obvious sins that are not found specifically in the “red letter” words of Jesus. Kidnapping, wife beating, and many others off the top of my head. Jesus never specifically said that kidnapping or wife beating were sins, yet we know that they are. Again, we have to look at the entirety of Scripture.
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
-2 Timothy 3:16,17
But good luck following all the instructions in the Old Testament to avoid Hell. I'm good. Thanks.
There’s only one way to tell if you are good as far as avoiding Hell, and that is to repent our sins and trust in Jesus like you’d trust a parachute.
Here’s an illustration. Say I am standing at the door of a plane 10,000’ up, the plane is going down, I know I have to jump, and there’s a parachute there on the floor of the plane. But let’s say that my plan is to jump out, flap my arms as fast as I can and try to save myself. Of course, that’s not going to work. I need to put the parachute on and trust it. In the same way, we all have the death sentence on us because we have sinned against God. Every one of us. But God made a way that we don’t have to go to Hell. We must simply repent of our sins and transfer our trust to the Savior. And the second we do that, we have God’s promise that He’ll give us everlasting life, not because we are good (we’re not), but because He is.
Maybe you have already done this. But I do truly care about you and I want to see you in heaven.