Tertullian stated,
"I say that my gospel is the true one. Marcion [a leading Gnostic teacher] says that his is. I say that Marcion's gospel is adulterated. He says mine is. Now, how can we settle this stand-off, unless we use the principle of time. According to this principle, authority lies with the one who is prior in time. It's based on the elemental truth that corruption (of doctrine) lies with the one who is shown to have originated later in time. Since error is falsification of truth, truth must necessarily precede error."
Why do Christians today choose doctrines that were first taught 1,400 years or more after the deaths of the apostles over ones that were taught within a few decades of their lives? Who necessarily speaks the true biblical beliefs of faith?
Since more and more denominations are buckling under, rejecting the Word of God, and succumbing to the opinions of the culture (because the Holy Spirit has long ago left their congregations), let us look to what the early Christians taught on the issue:
HOMOSEXUALITY:
"You shall not commit adultery; you shall not commit pederasty." —Didache (c. 80-140, E)"It is well that they should be cut off from the lusts of the world, since "every lust wars against the spirit" and "neither fornicators, nor homosexuals . . . will inherit the kingdom of God."" —Clement of Rome (c. 96, W)
"Some polluted themselves by lying with males." —Aristides (c. 125, E)
"The Greeks, O King, follow debased practices in intercourse with males, or with mothers, sisters, and daughters. Yet, they, in turn, impute their monstrous impurity to the Christians." —Aristides (c. 125, E)
"Paederasty is condemned by the barbarians. However, by the Romans it is honored with certain privileges. In fact, they try to collect herds of boys like grazing horses." —Tatian (c. 160, E)
"They do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways." —Athenagoras (c. 175, E)
"Show me yourself whether you are not an adulterer, a fornicator a thief, a robber, or a thief. Show me that you do not corrupt boys. . . . For God is not manifest to those who do these things." —Theophilus (c. 180, E)
"Men play the part of women, and women that of men, contrary to nature. Women are at once both wives and husbands. . . . O miserable spectacle! Horrible conduct!" —Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E)
"The whole earth has now become full of fornication and wickedness. I admire the ancient legislators of the Romans. These men detested effeminancy of conduct. The giving of the body to feminine purposes, contrary to the law of nature, they judged worthy of the most extreme penalty." —Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E)
"The fate of the Sodomites was judgment to those who had done wrong, and instruction to those who hear. The Sodomites had fallen into uncleanness through much luxury. They practiced adultery shamelessly, and they burned with insane love for boys." —Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E)
"The Christian man confines himself to the female sex." —Tertullian (c. 197, W)
"I find no dress cursed by God except a woman's dress on a man. For he says, "Cursed is every man who clothes himself in woman's attire."" —Tertullian (c. 200, W)
"The coupling of two males is a very shameful thing." —Tertullian (c. 200, W)
"Such sins are committed by fornicators, adulterers, abusers of themselves with men, effeminate men, idolaters, and murderers." —Origen (c. 245, E)
"The sin of Sodom is contrary to nature." —Apostolic Constitutions (compiled c. 390, E)
As you can clearly see, the teachings of the early Christians drive the final nail in the coffin on this issue, ending the discussion once and for all for all time. Only the disobedient and rebellious will continue to disregard their words, and the words of God's Word, and insist against all evidence and logic that homosexuality is acceptable and that Jesus has nothing to say about it.