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Then what is the context?
Familiar to you now maybe.Ahh, the familiar shellfish talking point. That was for tribes in the OT regarding ceremonial laws and tribal laws, not so with homosexuality.
Ahh, the familiar shellfish talking point. That was for tribes in the OT regarding ceremonial laws and tribal laws, not so with homosexuality.
Those rituals of same-sex sex are wrong. They turned from God to ungodly, sinful acts, like same-sex sex. I fail to see how this changes the message that homosexual sex is wrong.The context is speaking to pagan temple prostitution.
It's an admonition to straight people who took part in the rituals (which involved same-sex prostitutes) of the time.
But you should already know this.
Loving someone as yourself does not mean abandoning your beliefs to appease that person, nor does it mean walking on eggshells so as to avoid hurting their feelings or causing controversy.I think that's wrong.
I think you reject "Love your neighbor as yourself"
and "Love one another as I have loved you."
Yep - I think those are things from the bible you DO reject.
Because those sex rites were homosexual sex, which is against what God tells us! He tells us sex is between a married man and woman only.Familiar to you now maybe.
Homosexuality (or at least, men "laying" with men) was condemned in Leviticus as well. Jesus did not speak a word, that we know of, against homosexuality.
Paul is not Jesus. Paul was not the Son of God. And you don't seem to care about the historical context of Paul's letter to the Romans, which I feel condemns only Christians participating in Roman Sex Rites, and not homosexuality in general.
Those rituals of same-sex sex are wrong. They turned from God to ungodly, sinful acts, like same-sex sex. I fail to see how this changes the message that homosexual sex is wrong.
What about King Solomon?Not according to the Bible.
Loving someone as yourself does not mean abandoning your beliefs to appease that person, nor does it mean walking on eggshells so as to avoid hurting their feelings or causing controversy.
Then why does He not once mention it? Why doesn't He give guidelines for gay marriages as well as straight marriages? Why does He only ever refer to marriage as a man and woman when giving guidelines on how marriage should be?The message was not so much about homosexual sex as about worshiping something other that the Living God. The bible does NOT condemn the orientation, nor does it condemn the wholesome, healthy relationships between members of the same sex that reflect God's glory and love for humanity.
Reading the Bible and just from various sources/books over years and years.
It said it was unnatural and a perversion. I don't see how you get healthy and wholesome from that.The message was not so much about homosexual sex as about worshiping something other that the Living God. The bible does NOT condemn the orientation, nor does it condemn the wholesome, healthy relationships between members of the same sex that reflect God's glory and love for humanity.
It doesn't say "only" it just says between a man and a woman.Because those sex rites were homosexual sex, which is against what God tells us! He tells us sex is between a married man and woman only.
Well I guess if you say you know more than me then it must be true -_-.Well I know the direct opposite from reading the bible and other various sources/books. over years and years - more than you.
Because the audience He was speaking to were mainly Jewish, and they did not have such things.Then why does He not once mention it? Why doesn't He give guidelines for gay marriages as well as straight marriages? Why does He only ever refer to marriage as a man and woman when giving guidelines on how marriage should be?
It never says it is okay, ever. It never mentions men getting married, or supports gays getting married, or offers them guidelines or anything. If it was okay, there would be something there besides condemnation of homosexuality.It doesn't say "only" it just says between a man and a woman.
But it Paul doesn't say that homosexual sex is a sin when it isn't done by a Christian participating in a Roman Sex Rite. That is your interpretation of that section, but it is not necessarily the only interpretation.
Then why does He not once mention it? Why doesn't He give guidelines for gay marriages as well as straight marriages? Why does He only ever refer to marriage as a man and woman when giving guidelines on how marriage should be?
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