What are your opinions regarding the verses of Leviticus towards homosexuality?

Question

To prove homosexuality is detestable many quote from the following:

"If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." (Leviticus 20:13)

However I noticed from reading more verses around the quote regarding seperate things that are detestable?

"If a man sleeps with a woman who is a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. Yet, they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed." (Leviticus 19:20)

"Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip the edges off of your beard." (Leviticus 19:27)

(Levitius 19:5-8) "After a sacrifice, eaten upon the third day will make you seperated from your very people?"

And the regards towards the consumation of shellfish, and lobster?

Why of all these things is homosexuality frowned upon when it is not stated to begin with?

How are we to say the reference was not towards male prostitution itself?

Answer 1

It's just nonsense.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

Homosexuality is condemned in a long list of activities that were practiced by the Canaanites. Dietary restrictions, for example, are meant to keep the Israelites from forming covenants with the inhabitants of Palestine. I think there is very good reason to assume that the ban on homosexuality was meant to keep the Israelites from practicing the ritual prostitution seen among the Canaanites. That would explain why it was considered an 'abomination,' along with such mundane offenses as eating shellfish.

Answer 3

The problem is that so many fundies imagine that if a few words are in a book, that must reveal the will of their God. This is absurd, because Christ did not set up a book to be the foundation of Christianity. It is the church, not the Bible, which is the pillar and base of the truth. The teaching authority of Christianity rests in the church - specifically, in the bishops appointed from the time of the Apostles and their descendants through the unbroken line of Apostolic Succession. The Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholics, the Anglicans and the Scandinavian Lutherans maintain the Apostolic Succession, but Protestant fundies have lost it. Now the fundies are adrift, lost and confused, looking foolish and ignorant because they worship the Bible, making its words their idol. Fundies are an embarrassment to Christianity, and their intolerance and hatred toward gays is a consequence of their bibliolatry.
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Answer 4

Point 1, none of the other verses claim the thing is detestable, a rule yes, but not detestable. Not unlike obeying the speed limit isnt as bad as pre meditated murder in man's laws.

Point 2, in Acts, God made it abundantly clear there is no longer need for dietary laws.

Point 3 When the Bible mentions prostitution... it says "prostitute"

Answer 5

I, too, am frustrated with Christians who use quotes from the Mosaic Covenant to make a point. This covenant doesn't apply to those living under the New Covenant prophesied at Jeremiah 31:31-32.

The New Testament reference would be 1 Cor. 6:9-10:

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

Contrary to what some homosexual activists try to argue, Paul wasn't making up a word in verse 9; he used a word that was well-known as refering to homosexuals. While some were Temple prostitutes, Paul's choice of words does not limit God's condemnation to these.

Answer 6

If one part of Leviticus is "true", then ALL of Leviticus is "true".

That means all the godbots have to obey _these_ rules, and if they don't, said godbots can be killed by stoning.

4:2-4 - You'd better tell this to the catholic priests....

5:1-4 - The godbots had better stop watching hollyweird and pop music or they can be stoned to death.

6:2-5 - Any christian caught stealing (even if they're not on trial) needs to be killed.

6:29-30 - Any christian women who partake in religious ceremonies need to be killed.

7:23-24 - Well, whaddaya know a sensible rule: Don't eat roadkill (except that you'll be thrown out of the country if you do).

10:6-7 - Any christian wearing torn clothes or caught without a hat can be killed.

10:9 - Somebody better tell the catholics to stop drinking wine; they're all going to hell.

10:17 - If you don't eat kosher, you're going to hell.

11:3-4 - No more pork for you, or you're going to hell.

11:6 - Somebody better tell "god" that rabbits don't "chew their cud".

11:9-12 - Stop eating shrimp and calamari or you're going to hell. No more lobster, either.

11:13-20 - Tell all the redneck NRA types to stop eating wild turkeys or other animals they kill, or they're going to hell.

11:21-22 - Grasshoppers and cockroaches, however are cuisine approved by "god".

11:23 - Spiders too, since they have more than four legs.

11:29-30 - This "god" thing can't make up it's mind; first it says rabbits are okay, now it says eating rodents is bad and you'll go to hell.

12:2 - No sex for a week after giving birth to a boy...a girl, and it's okay.

12:3 - Sexually mutilate your children or you're going to hell.

12:4 - Why don't christian women lock themselves up for 30 days after childbirth? All those who don't are going to hell.

13:2-3 - Do you see what the ignorance of religion does? Instead of treating a disease, you lock someone up in quarantine.

I can't be bothered reading that filth anymore. I'm not halfway through Leviticus and the list of reasons to kill christians is this long.

Oh wait, that's right: the christianazis only have to obey the parts they like or parts that apply to _other_ people. When christians are told to live by their own rules, they spinelessly say, "We don't have to obey Leviticus, because we're KKKristians".

That's why I call them hypochristians.


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Answer 7

Sexual sin is just that, a sin.

The Holy Bible (Old and New Testament) refer to it a lot. There's a reason. It's an issue for God which means it's an issue for us.

We live under grace in the New Testament as Christians. However, we can and need to know the principles of the Old Testament so that we can apply them to our lives. The New Testament refers to sexual sin (man with man, woman with woman, sex outside of marriage, etc.) Many, many times. We are to stay away from it.

Sexual sin is the only sin that you commit inside your own body. The body is the temple for the Holy Spirit. That is one of the biggest reasons it's a sin.

As for the seafood. In the New Testament, you are not to call dirty what God has called clean. AND Just because you can do something (like eat seafood for instance) doesn't mean you should.

There's a reason God didn't want us eating it in the first place. Filter fish and scavengers are not good for us to eat (heath wise)...but to each his own.

Take a look at the New Testament for additional info.

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Answer 8

Using the same argument I could quote from the discworld series by Terry Pratchett to prove that somewhere there is a flat world supported on the back of 4 giant elephants being carried through space by the great space turtle A'Tuin. Or I could prove that giant triffids are rampaging across the country as we speak.

Quoting from a book doesn't prove anything.

Answer 9

Christian or not why do people hate it when religion is shoved down their throat but think it's ok to shove homosexuality down everybodys throat.

The complementary structure of the male and female anatomy is obviously designed for the normal husband-wife relationships. Clearly, design in human biology supports heterosexuality and contradicts homosexuality. End.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

The Old Testament god can really be brutal. For example;

Leviticus 25:44—46: As for your male and female slaves whom you may have; you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and they may be your property.

Exodus 2:7—11: When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt faithlessly with her. If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.