Since the word "homosexual" was not invented until Freud's time, what word(s) was used in the New Testament?

Question

in the place of where the word "homosexual" is now listed in the Bible? You now read about sinners being referred to as adulterers, murderers, homosexuals, etc who will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. If homosexuals truely were a hot-button issue back when the Bible was written, what one word description did they have for them and why did it get changed if there ever was one?

Why would it be sodomites when no clear connection was made between homosexuals and the people living in Soddom? They were burned because they were rude to guests, not because of anything else.

So you've all seen the ORIGINAL biblical texts then? So amazing..

Leviticus? Please.. do you still not eat shrimp or pork because of that book? Come off it.

CyberPast - Check the dictionary because none of your definitions for the words you are using match up with the English Language.

Answer 1

When the laws were laid down, as the Hebrews wandered in the desert, in Leviticus it states: "if a man lie down with another man, they shall be put to death" I think thats pretty clear!

Answer 2

Some of the newer English translations use the word "homosexual". Here is how the KJV describes it:

Romans 1:25-27
"Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. "

1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor ABUSERS OF THEMSELVES WITH MANKIND, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."

Answer 3

It seems that there wasn't a one-word description. However, as these scriptures show, no one word description is necessary. You get the point without it.

1Cor. 6:9-11
9 What! Do YOU not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,

nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men,

10 nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom. 11 And yet that is what some of YOU were. But YOU have been washed clean, but YOU have been sanctified, but YOU have been declared righteous in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the spirit of our God.

Rom.1:26,27
26 That is why God gave them up to disgraceful sexual appetites, for both their females changed the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature; 27 and likewise even the males left the natural use of the female and became violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working what is obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error.

1Tim. 1:8-11
8 Now we know that the Law is fine provided one handles it lawfully 9 in the knowledge of this fact, that law is promulgated, not for a righteous man, but for persons lawless and unruly, ungodly and sinners, lacking loving-kindness, and profane, murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, manslayers,
10 fornicators,

men who lie with males,

kidnappers, liars, false swearers, and whatever other thing is in opposition to the healthful teaching 11 according to the glorious good news of the happy God, with which I was entrusted.

Answer 4

arsenakoitai and malekoi. the former relating to the man (arsenos) lying with a man as with a woman (coitus). malekoi i believe has to do with being soft, effeminate. the main thing to point out here is that you are correct, there was NO psychology or lifestyle inferred here; it was 2 heterosexual men giving in to their lusts (which is just a word describing someone who desires to have an orgasm, rather than find love the way god supposedly designed it) and therein completing an act deemed completely against nature.

*it has been awhile since i looked into this, my spelling is probably off, terribly sorry*

Answer 5

In the old Hebrew specifically, the term translated as sexual immorality means "to play the harlot, or go a-whoring" literally, but in certain instances is understood to be more general meaning more like "acting in sexual lewdness".

The chapters of Leviticus 18 and 20 specifically addressed what was considered immoral sexually according to what the people both of the nations whom Israel lived among or conquered and the Israel itself. This was to keep them separate and a holy to people to God, not that they were good at it.

Leviticus 20
22 " 'Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. 23 You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. 24 But I said to you, "You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the nations.

Answer 6

sodomites (in 1 Corinthians 6:9, for example)

Answer 7

1. Corinthians 6:9 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,..."
Effeminate = a person that acts as a female in the homosexual intercourse
Abusers of themselves with mankind = a person that acts as male in the homosexual intercourse

Answer 8

i think of it relatively is a foul be conscious additionally(i'm white)yet i comprehend black human beings use it among themselves and not something is known two times approximately it,i think it is in basic terms a social subject.yet- i might enable him comprehend which you detect it offensive and that when your around if he might desire to no longer use that be conscious,or merely chalk it up for lack of wisdom and locate some one else to love. it relatively is a be conscious he probable makes use of for all time and it would desire to be a habit,and behavior are confusing to break.and that i've got heard it used to describe different race's,yet i might supply him a large gamble besides.

Answer 9

Eunuch, Matthew 19:12

Definition: a person not given to or unable to procreate often due to castration.

You may wish to read Issiah 56:4-5 on if Gay get to go to heaven or not.

Answer 10

"lay with a man" "know" or "Have knowlege of a man" Read the end of the story of Noah and the Ark. The ending clearly depicts a homo-erotic scene.