"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1

     The basic premise of the Bible is that God created the universe and everything in it. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1) In addition to speaking the whole world into existence God also divided things, "God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night." (Genesis 1:3,4) God created the world, then He defined it, and in doing that He established basic laws. We call creation, and the laws God established "nature." What we see around us, what we experience is what God has made. When He created man, God made distinctions "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." (Genesis 1:27) God say's in the Bibles that there is a natural use, a purpose that is given to man and woman. 

     In Romans chapter one Paul speaks about two sins of definition in the context of creation; idolatry, and homosexuality. "Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man--and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things…  Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men…" 

    Idolatry is the sin of defining God as something He is not. Homosexuality is the sin of defining man as something he is not. The basis for Paul's two pronged attack on idolatry, and Homosexuality in Romans one is based on the creation account of Genesis 1:26, 27  "Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."
  
 Often times the revulsion we feel towards the act of homosexuality drives our response to homosexuality. But rather then judge another person we should be turning them to God and teaching them that God made them, and so they need to look to God for their identity. The first sin at it's root was all about self definition. Adam and Eve sought to define themselves apart from God's clear law forbidding them to eat of the tree of "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" (Genesis 2:16, 17) Today, at it's root the sin of homosexuality is the sin of self definition.  

  The consequences of sin are hard, accordingly pity and sadness should be emotions we feel much more strongly for homosexuals then revulsion. As followers of Christ we should seek to manifest for them that which according to Romans 1:31 they do not have; "love," "forgiveness," and "mercy."