Why does the God of the Bible condemn homosexual acts?

If you embrace the fact that David “embraced” Jonathan and God was cool with it, you find that your concepts about what God “hates” get thrown out.

Homophobia is a billion dollar business for Corporate Christianity. Isn’t it?

Why is it the Legalists always run to the Law?

What happens if someone fills up their car at the pump but leaves without paying? How is this situation typically handled?

Further Musings:

Him and I are good and that’s all I need.

No. Rape is violence, not sex. The story is about kidnapping into slavery and the abuse of strangers.

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Sodom and Gomorrah. Two cities completely filled with Gay men, young and old. Cities who recently had gone to war, who Abraham had rescued, who Lot went back to live among, who tried to rape two angels that they mistook for men … I guess.

Those women were shunned, shamed, casted out and abandoned. The man had all the power and Jesus dared to challenge that. Even His disciples were astounded.

These were common in that culture in Athens, Corinth, Ephesus, Rome, and Crete, all places Paul went. They existed centuries after Paul.

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(So please, before you enforce celibacy on another, castrate yourself … or leave other people alone?)

Since Paul is who most homophobes run to in order to support their case, I went to him first, there really isn’t much left.

(What do you think he would write a line or two about?)

Have you ever had a weird experience immediately following the death of a loved one that made you think there is an afterlife and that the deceased person was communicating with you?

If anything, Paul was writing about male prostitutes, not LGBT.

The truth is, the Old Testament and New Testaments say next to nothing and sexual orientation is a relatively new concept.

Many believe Paul is writing about what he sees, temples that have male and female prostitutes engaged in ritual activities.

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Try to break free from the shackles of it and you will find yourself outside the fold Pastor.

Scholars and translators know this. The Greek translation of Arsenokoitace is uncertain. The word was coined by Paul (probably) or a contemporary of his. Any person who says they know exactly what Paul meant is lying (seriously).

Christ bringing up Genesis is not Him being exclusionary, it is Him reminding these lecherous men that their wives are bound to their hearts.

Does any unofficial Roman Catholic card exist in the world to play? In Italy, Rome & the Vatican City, can practising Catholics get any discounts as a tourist, & / or privileged admission to certain sights, with different rules for non Catholics?

Today we have Divorce courts, protections, child custody, child and spousal support.

In Romans chapter 1, verses 26–27 are cherry-picked out of the context which starts in verse 18. The context is Idolatry.

Christ bore that, so, hard pass, thanks.

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Last, Leviticus. Two almost identical verses. One sex act (If translated correctly. The Hebrew words are sparse. People debate everything).

Answer to: Why does the God of the Bible condemn homosexual acts?

Mt 19 is about Divorce. Jesus’ reference to Celibacy is that it is a gift from God and that not everyone can receive it.

Do you remember one day, you put a deep smile on someone's face and made them very happy?

No one knows.

Right?

Why can’t some Christians?

Why do I randomly start sweating a lot in public (while waiting in line, in a new class, etc.) then start sweating more because I’m embarrassed that I’m sweating so much? Is this social anxiety?

Men interpret Scriptures certain ways, but Jesus said we make void the Word by our tradition. Groupthink is tradition.

What? It’s okay for David to be both a man after God’s own heart and a Bloody Bipolar Adulterer who even desecrated what was holy, as long as he wasn’t Bisexual, right? Lol

I am not a Jewish man. I’m am not under any part of the Law for my righteousness. To place myself under the Law for my righteous standing with God would be to put myself under the curse of the Law listed in Dt 28.

My boyfriend won’t tell me his past and it hurts me so I broke up with him what do I do?

Didn’t they read Galatians? Romans? James and his “Law of Liberty.” The entire New Testament? You can even find Grace in the Old Testament, some of the Rabbis have.

There were Male Shrine Prostitutes in the OT book of Kings, that practice was old in Paul’s time. Many dismiss the idea based what seem to be personal or sociological reasons, not archaeological ones.

Inhospitable, loathsome, yet leave it to homophobia to twist it and miss it (the verse they use in Jude fails the test because of this).

What did Rama tell Sita about Kaliyug?

Does He?

Where?