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You have yet to prove that homosexuality is "sin" according to the Bible. The word "homosexual" or one like it, was not used in the original Hebrew and Greek of the Bible, only a false translation in 1 Cor 6:9.

When human depravity reaches rock bottom -- it's a TOTALLY SAME SEX AFFAIR.

"Men burning in lust toward men" -- what else could it mean? Men are the same sex as men aren't they?

It doesn't say men burning in lust toward women.
It doesn't say men burning in lust toward boys.
It doesn't say men burning in lust toward girls.

vs. 27 says men burning in lust for men, after they left the natural use of the woman.

And the verse prior says women with women.


Why isn't male-on-female sex judged the same way under EXACTLY THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES?

You have NO ANSWER, because your excuses fail. Same sex is judged worse in the bible. Call it "tow 'ebah", "pederasty", "arsenokoites", whatever, and it's still judged worse than hetero sex under EXACTLY THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES. This proves beyond any resonable doubt that same sex is worse on any scale of depravity.

So go ahead and pick the scale of depravity you want to put same-sex on -- show how far down in the pit it goes. It only makes you look worse.
 
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Another thing he fails to address is that gay sex is always judged with the death penalty, whereas hetero sex is not judged with the death penalty UNDER THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES. Yes, ALL fornication is sin, but gay sex has a worse penalty.
 
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Yes, they'll heap to themselves tons of mis-information from gay-affirming political websites.
 
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Yes, they'll heap to themselves tons of mis-information from gay-affirming political websites.
Don't suppose you've come up with any non biased, non political, objective, scientifically supported information that suggests anything dissimilar yet have you?
 
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Don't suppose you've come up with any non biased, non political, objective, scientifically supported information that suggests anything dissimilar yet have you?

Well I do have a bible. Its says same sex is judged with the death sentence while hetero sex does not receive the death sentence UNDER THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES.

Hence, the bible proves THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE between hetero and homo.

Show me in the bible where they are judged the same UNDER the SAME CIRCUMSTANCES. You can't. DAVE is desperately trying, and he can't either.

All the "rep points" in the world can't change the facts.
 
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And, with the sound of a thousand red herring altering their trajectory by 90 degrees as they fly in from Left Field... Mercyburst shunts us off down a totally seperate tangent to the question asked...
 
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And, with the sound of a thousand red herring altering their trajectory by 90 degrees as they fly in from Left Field... Mercyburst shunts us off down a totally seperate tangent to the question asked...

You asked for science and I gave you bible, which you can not debate.
 
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You asked for science and I gave you bible, which you can not debate.
And, therin, lies the crux of the matter... when asked for objective, fact based reasons... you are incapable of responding... all you have to base your opinions on are your particular interpretation of the Bible.
 
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And, therin, lies the crux of the matter... when asked for objective, fact based reasons... you are incapable of responding... all you have to base your opinions on are your particular interpretation of the Bible.

That's why I asked you to show me where I'm wrong in the bible.

Gay sex gets the death sentence where straight sex doesn't get the death sentence under EXACTLY THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES.

Old Testment verse: Lev 20:13
New Testament verse: Rom 1:27&32

Prove otherwise.
 
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Um... I'm mopre than happy to accept that you have identified an area of injustice and unbalance in the Bible. Really, thats fine with me.

Um... the greater question... so what? That relates to life in the real world how, exactly?
 
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Um... I'm mopre than happy to accept that you have identified an area of injustice and unbalance in the Bible. Really, thats fine with me.

Rom 1:

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

EP, it sounds like you say the bible is unrighteous.


Um... the greater question... so what? That relates to life in the real world how, exactly?

If the bible doesn't really matter to you, I guess there's nothing else to say.
 
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So the bible is unjust according to you. Hmm, I've already argued that one to death on the atheist forum. I can't change what they believe, and there's no point in debating it.
Um, no... YOUR the one pointing out Biblical injustice, I'm agreeing with you.

Either way, you still havn't answered my question as to whether or not you've got any scientificially supported, objective evidence regarding homosexuality yet?
 
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Um, no... YOUR the one pointing out Biblical injustice, I'm agreeing with you.

Either way, you still havn't answered my question as to whether or not you've got any scientificially supported, objective evidence regarding homosexuality yet?

There isn't any reputable scientific evidence for either side of the debate. So knock yourself out.

Here is what the humanistic APA says about it:

No one knows what causes heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality.

To date, there are no scientifically rigorous outcome studies to determine either the actual efficacy or harm of "reparative" treatments


It doesn't take a PHD for somebody to plead ignorance like they have done.

The bible has the answers anyway.
 
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Therefore all societies and cultures had words to describe what they saw happening among the animals and among human beings. And this is clearly proven by the irrefutable history of the Jewish scholars and the irrefutable history of the early church.

Only recently has the notion of "sexual oreintation" come about. Only recently have the feelings, emotions and attractions been seperated from the sex act.

I doupt ancient cultures had any idea that whatsoever they called gay sex went far beyond the simple act of sex.
 
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Do you take your morality from the same people who justified the Inquisition and sought the burn the very scholars you claim to have on your side, at the stake?

Need we get into the more barbaric things early church fathers believed?
 
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From A Jewish rabbi, "The Rabbis were well able to conceive of monogamous and loving relationships between members of the same sex, and I quote in my paper the texts that prove this beyond reasonable question."

And Clement wrote about Lesbian marriage in the 2d century.
"We Can't Legitimate Homosexuality Halakhically" (USCJ Review, Spring 2004): Rabbi Joel Roth

The two verses in the book of (Leviticus (18:22 and 20:13) which deal with homosexuality are really quite clear, despite the efforts of some to call their clarity into question. (Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 absolutely forbid homosexual intercourse between males. The Rabbis, in the Sifra (Aharei Mot 9:8), also understand the Torah to forbid lesbianism. The Torah’s prohibitions, let it be clear, are against actions, like male homosexual intercourse, not against fantasies or attractions.

The Torah and the Rabbis do not distinguish between types of homosexuals in any way... The Rabbis were well able to conceive of monogamous and loving relationships between members of the same sex, and I quote in my paper the texts that prove this beyond reasonable question. But their words cannot possibly be read to imply that such monogamous or loving gay relationships are in a different halakhic [Jewish legal] category than any other relationships between members of the same sex. The prohibition is clear and total.”​

http://www.uscj.org/POINTRoth6331.html

Naomi Grossman, freelance journalist, states in her April 2001 article in Moment Magazine, "The Gay Orthodox Undergound":

"The Torah strictly forbids homosexual sex, and rabbis have consistently upheld that prohibition through the ages... The prohibition against homosexual sex comes from Leviticus: 'Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abhorrence' (18:22). In biblical times, the punishment for violating that code was clear. 'If a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman, the two of them have done an abhorrent thing; they shall be put to death -— their bloodguilt is upon them' (Leviticus 20:13). The Talmud extends the prohibition to lesbian sex [Hilchot Issurei Bi'ah 21:8]."

Official Orthodoxy makes no distinction between the sex act, which the Torah flatly prohibits, and homosexuality as a sexual identity.
"Homosexuality is not a state of being in traditional Judaism; it's an act," Freundel says. "Desires are … not relevant."

http://members.aol.com/gayjews/moment.html

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor [Paedagogus] Book 1 [153 - 217 AD]

But life has reached this pitch of licentiousness through the wantonness of wickedness, and lasciviousness is diffused over the cities, having become law. Beside them women stand in the stews, offering their own flesh for hire for lewd pleasure, and boys, taught to deny their sex, act the part of women. Luxury has deranged all things; it has disgraced man. A luxurious niceness seeks everything, attempts everything, forces everything, coerces nature. Men play the part of women, and women that of men, contrary to nature; women are at once wives and husbands: [Lesbian marriage!] no passage is closed against libidinousness; [i.e. every possible body opening is used for “lechery”/“libidinousness.”!] and their promiscuous lechery is a public institution, and luxury is domesticated.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf02.vi.iii.i.html
 
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I interpret the scriptures as did the ancient Jewish scholars from the time of Moses, ca, 1200 BC, and the early church the first 300-400 years. The inquisition occurred over 1000 years later, so it is irrelevant.

If you think the early church fathers did anything barbaric, bring it on.
 
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