Romans chapter 1 (specifically verses 26-32) is often presented as a gay Christian “beating passage”, i.e. evidence that God hates homosexuality and that someone cannot be a Christian and gay. However, this passage was not about homosexuality at all.
What was it about? Let’s see the context. Paul (the writer of Romans) begins by saying that when we look at the creation, we can see God in it, but that some did not praise God for this or even thank him. He says that they worshiped idols instead. In verse 24, Paul says “for this reason” God gave them over to ritual uncleanness. Now the deciding factor. In verse 26, Paul states that the females exchanged the natural sex for that which is “alien to nature.” In the next verse, he says that the same goes for men too. In the following passages, Paul lists his bad deeds.
In the passage, Paul follows Jewish literature in speaking of idolatry and people who did not acknowledge God, and both women and men who went against nature because of their own burning passions. This has been thought to refer to homosexuality, but it is not even about the union of humans, same-sex or not. The Aphrocryphal literature documents well that certain angels (known as “The Watchers”) go “against nature” and “prostitute” humans. In Romans 1 verses 28-32, Paul gives a list of his evil deeds, and this list can also be found in 2 Enoch 10. The context in 2 Enoch 10 is also about those who did not know their creator but worshiped idols, and about angels lusting after humans.
the ancient jew Wish of Naphtali 3.3.4-5 also states that the women of Sodom had intercourse with angels and that by doing so the Watchers had “changed the order of their nature”. Sounds familiar?
Ancient Jewish literature had various accounts of angels (“The Watchers”) coming to earth and “prostituting” humans. This was described as “going against nature”. In these accounts, it is mentioned that they did not worship the creator, but instead made idols. There are also lists of his bad deeds. This is precisely what we find in Romans 10. ‘Religious’ Christians in Western cultures in recent centuries have seen homosexuality as a sin, so they have read their own personal beliefs into the original words of the Bible when in reality they are not. there at all. Many Christians did not and do not realize that there was a strong Jewish tradition of angels coming to earth, changing their nature and coveting humans.
Romans 10 is not about homosexuality, but about the union of angels with humans.