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    Such a short verse. Only seven words, two and a half of them are auxilliaries of so little account that most dictionaries and concordances do not even index them. The five words of consequence are: ואת־זכר With the male/man תשכ&#1489...
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    Natural ( ) and unnatural ( ) acts, and burn[ing] in [] lust

    Romans 1:26-27 This is the source for these phrases, or more accurately for the anti-gay Christian use of these phrases in their charges that homosexual acts are unnatural, and that gays can't love, but only "burn[] in their lust." But Paul was quoting an older book when he wrote this. In...
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    Farewell

    Earlier in the week, the Lord laid a burden on my heart that requires that I stop participating here at DoH. It saddened me, because I felt he had led me here, and that I was doing a kiddush Ha-Shem. But I am obedient, and I immediately topped posting. And started thinking about what to say...
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    At a crossroad

    Well, now I know why God pushed me into this pool. You know the old saying, When God closes a door, He opens a window? Well sometimes He is gracious and opens the window first. I have to leave the Debates on Homosexuality forum for a while, perhaps for good. I felt good about what I was doing...
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    Jonnie and Dave

    Whatever anyone thinks about the physical relationship between Jonathan and David, there is no denying that the emotional and spiritual bond was real and was strong. 1 Samuel 18:1 Many anti-gay Christians teach that gays can't have a loving relationship with one another. That they can't feel...
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    Matthew 7:1-5

    I posted this in the Bible verses subforum, but now I think I went one forum level too deep:
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    Matthew 7:1-5

    Matthew 7:1-5 This has always been one passage that I thought everyone agreed on. Every commentary I ever read (and I've read commentaries from all kinds of sources, Christian, non-Christian, and what CF has started calling non-Nicean). So I was floored when someone wrote, in one of the...
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    Give Me a Reason (Part 2)

    The other thread with this title went nowhere. It wasn't exactly de-railed, but too many people missed the point of TheFathersDaughter's question. Because she phrased it as an "Imagine that..." question and too many people here cannot imagine a world without the Bible. So, with...
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    Does the Bible really prohibit ALL homosexual acts?

    I'm splitting this discussion off the "Can You at Least Agree" thread, since I think it would tend to derail the discussion from the direction the OP intended it to go. I can agree that the Bible does prohibit certain homosexual acts under certain circumstances, by certain people. For...
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    The Letter to the Romans and "The Law"

    First, let me apologize for posting here. I can't find a more appropriate forum. I don't see any threads for study of the Bible. The "Congregation" forums seem to be denomination-specific. The "Theology" threads (including this one) are issue-specific. And all of the others are about living as...
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    "homophobia" -- again

    I feel that the word "homophobia" is a poor choice. I know of no one who has a clinical fear of gay people, but there is a real phenomemnon that the word "homophobia" describes. The trouble is that "panic-stricken conspiracy-theory-like overreaction" is just too long to fit on the bumper...
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    Two questions.

    1) What do you think the Bible means when it calls an action "un-natural," or says that it goes "against nature"("para physen")? Conversely, what does it mean when the Bible says that something is "natural" or "according to nature" ("kata physen")? 2) Is work a good thing or a bad thing. (This...