Editorial November 18, 1972 Issue

The Bible and Homosexuality

Naomi Price

Relationships of people with people feature largely in the Bible— men with women, women with women, and men with men. Sound advice is provided in it on the subject of friendship, companionship, marriage, and the responsibility of friends to each other. Stories are told of real life individuals, some of whom made a success of their relationships with others, and some of whom did not.

In its first chapter, the Bible names God as the one creator. Also, it describes the original spiritual perfection of God's manifestation, the ideal expression of His sublime, infinite Being. This manifestation, or family of man, it says, is made in God's image in both the masculine and feminine aspects of His nature—"male and female created he them."^{Gen. 1:27;}

The individuals within that family reflect all the qualities of the divine Mind, the one creator. They are coexistent with Deity but unique in their manifestation of His qualities. Each is clearly defined, has his or her place and purpose in the universe, and a relationship that is governed by divine Principle with every other one of God's offspring. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes, "There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or Mind, governing all existence; man and woman unchanged forever in their individual characters, even as numbers which never blend with each other, though they are governed by one Principle."^{Science and Health, p. 588;}