There isn't any proof of this changing. The Bible is not the be all, end all answer to sexual orientation...it doesn't even mention one. Some homosexual acts, perhaps, but the same chapter that they say is the main clobber passage (Leviticus), informs us how we should go about slavery and pass slaves onto our kids (chapter 25).
Which has nothing to do with Chapter 18.
Oppression of Brethren Forbidden. (b. c. 1490.)
39 And if thy brother
that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40
But as an hired servant,
and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee,
and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee: 41 And
then shall he depart from thee,
both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they
are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. 44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have,
shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that
are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit
them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour. 47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother
that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger
or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: 48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or
any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. 50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him. 51 If
there be yet many years
behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him,
and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption. 53
And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him:
and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. 54 And if he be not redeemed in these
years, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee,
both he, and his children with him. 55 For unto me the children of Israel
are servants; they
are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I
am the Lord your God.
Lev. 25:39-55
We have here the laws concerning servitude, designed to preserve the honour of the Jewish nation as a free people, and rescued by a divine power out of the house of bondage, into the glorious liberty of God's sons, his first-born. Now the law is,
I. That a native Israelite should never be made a bondman for perpetuity. If he was sold for debt, or for a crime, by the house of judgment, he was to serve but six years, and to go out the seventh; this was appointed,
Exod. xxi. 2. But if he sold himself through extreme poverty, having nothing at all left him to preserve his life, and if it was to one of his own nation that he sold himself, in such a case it is here provided, 1. That he should not
serve as a bond-servant (
v. 39), nor be
sold with the sale of a bondman (
v. 42); that is, "it must not be looked upon that his master that bought him had as absolute a property in him as in a captive taken in war, that might be used, sold, and bequeathed, at pleasure, as much as a man's cattle; no, he shall serve thee as a
hired servant, whom the master has the use of only, but not a despotic power over." And the reason is,
They are my servants, v. 42. God does not make his servants slaves, and therefore their brethren must not. God had redeemed them out of Egypt, and therefore they must never be exposed to sale as bondmen. The apostle applies this spiritually (
1 Cor. vii. 23),
You are bought with a price, be not the servants of men, that is, "of the lusts of men, no, nor of your own lusts;" for, having
become the servants of God, we must not
let sin reign in our mortal bodies, Rom. vi. 12, 22. 2. That while he did serve he should not be ruled with rigour, as the Israelites were in Egypt,
v. 43. Both his work and his usage must be such as were fitting for a son of Abraham. Masters are still required to
give to their servants that which is just and equal, Col. iv. 1. They may be used, but must not be abused. Those masters that are always hectoring and domineering over their servants, taunting them and trampling upon them, that are unreasonable in exacting work and giving rebukes, and that rule them with a high hand, forget that their Master is in heaven; and what will they do when he rises up? as holy Job reasons with himself,
Job xxxi. 13, 14. 3. That at the year of jubilee he should
go out free, he
and his children, and should
return to his own family, v. 41. This typified our redemption from the service of sin and Satan by the grace of God in Christ, whose
truth makes us free, John vii. 32. The Jewish writers say that, for ten days before the jubilee-trumpet sounded, the servants that were to be discharged by it did express their great joy by feasting, and wearing garlands on their heads: it is therefore called the
joyful sound, Ps. lxxxix. 15. And we are thus to rejoice in the liberty we have by Christ.
II. That they might purchase bondmen of the heathen nations that were round about them, or of those strangers that sojourned among them (except of those seven nations that were to be destroyed); and might claim a dominion over them, and entail them upon their families as an inheritance, for the year of jubilee should give no discharge to them,
v. 44, 46. Thus in our English plantations the
negroes only are used as slaves; how much to the credit of Christianity I shall not say. Now, 1. This authority which they had over the bondmen whom they purchased from the neighbouring nations was in pursuance of the blessing of Jacob,
Gen. xxvii. 29,
Let people serve thee. 2. It prefigured the bringing in of the Gentiles to the service of Christ and his church.
Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thy inheritance, Ps. ii. 8. And it is promised (
Isa. lxi. 5),
Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your vine-dressers; see
Rev. ii. 26, 27.
The upright shall have the dominion in the morning, Ps. xlix. 14. 3. It intimates that none shall have the benefit of the gospel jubilee but those only that are Israelites indeed, and the children of Abraham by faith: as for those that continue heathenish, they continue bondmen. See this turned upon the unbelieving Jews themselves,
Gal. iv. 25, where Jerusalem, when she had rejected Christ, is said to be
in bondage with her children. Let me only add here that, though they are not forbidden to rule their bondmen with rigour, yet the Jewish doctors say, "It is the property of mercy, and way of wisdom, that a man should be compassionate, and not make his yoke heavy upon any servant that he has."
III. That if an Israelite sold himself for a servant to a wealthy proselyte that sojourned among them care should be taken that he should have the same advantages as if he had sold himself to an Israelite, and in some respects greater. 1. That he should not serve as a bondman, but as a hired servant, and not to be
ruled with rigour (
v. 53),
in thy sight, which intimated that the Jewish magistrates should particularly have an eye to him, and, if he were abused, should take cognizance of it, and redress his grievances, though the injured servant did not himself complain. Also he was to go free at the year of jubilee,
v. 54. Though the sons of strangers might serve them for ever, yet the sons of Israel might not serve strangers for ever; yet the servant here, having made himself a slave by his own act and deed, should not go out in the seventh year of release, but in the jubilee only. 2. That he should have this further advantage that he might be redeemed again before the year of jubilee,
v. 48, 49. He that had sold himself to an Israelite might, if ever he was able, redeem himself, but his relations had no right to redeem him. "But if a man sold himself to a stranger," the Jews say, "his relations were urged to redeem him; if they did not, it was fit that he should be redeemed at the public charge," which we find done,
Neh. v. 8. The price of his ransom was to be computed according to the prospect of the year of jubilee (
v. 50-52), as in the redemption of land,
v. 15, 16. The learned bishop Patrick quotes one of the Jewish rabbin for an evangelical exposition of that appointment (
v. 48),
One of his brethren shall redeem him. "This Redeemer," says the rabbi, "
is the Messiah, the Son of David." They expected this Messiah to be their Redeemer out of their captivity, and to restore them to their own land again; but we welcome him as the Redeemer who shall come to Zion, and shall
turn away ungodliness from Jacob, for he shall
save his people from their sins; and under this notion there were those that
looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
What is so hard to get w/this? Yes, some great marriages are mentioned in the Bible. What about the marriages of where the rape victim had to marry her attacker? what about the ones where the slaves were forced to marry their master? (Deut.) There are plenty of terrible rules, and marriages based upon sickness.
So have you research the meaning of these, like with the commentary listed above, for Lev. 25? Reading more than one, getting several opinions on what it means or is saying? I can do some research if you like.
Yes, it's lust. Technically the term for it is "voyeurism"...but I mean specifically it isn't mentioned in the Bible, so if people are looking for a loophole, they have got it, but that doesn't give them a loophole w/the Holy Spirit's conviction upon them.
Why would everything from day 1 till the end of time have to be there by word when if you are not to do the sin of lust you aren't doing porn?
Is the word porn not being there mean that it is ok even if lust of the flesh is called a sin? If every kind of lust of the flesh, even if it is quite clear that is what it is, isn't mentioned then they can not be clear that it is wrong? Yeah I guess the devil can sure use that to deceive, doesn't he?
That is why we are reminded that we aren't fighting against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers.
The scriptures tell us how we can't do anything, but it also reminds us that He can do everything. We just have to give it to Him , and then not pick it back up as we leave His presence. Oh, for the day that my entire heart is His, along with everything else that He didn't what me to hold on to or to try and handle all by myself.
So the thing that can never be forgotten is:
Greater is He that is in me, then he that is in the world.
Where????
