my intention is NOT to stir ANY arguments, but to state a thought that just crossed my mind. a few sessions ago in my anthropology class, my professor stated that supporters pay attention to only the pieces that fit and ignore parts that don't fit (he was talking about believers/followers of nostradaumus, which isn't exactly the same, but do you see my point?)
the bible could mean anything (no offense to anyone) and was written many years -linguistics are very different nowadays -, so to say a verse citing that homosexuality is wrong and using "the bible said so" as justification isn't always going to go well with everyone.
WHY is the bible right? If it was written any other way, if it CLEARLY stated homosexuality should be celebrated, would you believe that? we do not even know how the earth was surely created, how can we know what happened/was said at the beginning of time?
no arguing, please...just let me hear your thoughts
2007-02-19 15:25:30 · 7 answers · asked by jane doe doe 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
we will never know
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2007-02-23 14:56:17 · answer #1 · answered by Tegarst 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I completely agree with you. I'm taking a class called Intro to the New Testament. My professor was stressing to us that we always need to take a verse into context. You are right about the homosexuality argument, people just read the statement, but do not put it into context. For example, the Leviticus verse that states, "A man shall not lie with a man as with a woman, it is an abomination," was actually written to stop homosexual prostitution that was going on in one culture at the time. The story of Soddam and Gammorah has a lot more to it as well.
2007-02-19 23:33:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Genesis 19 and Judges 19 have nothing to do with sex, but with the times and customs they were living in. What I mean is a code of honor about taking in people from the wastes (desert) and protecting them even more so than family. They did this for one reason, to ENSURE THAT if their family members were ever lost or needed shelter they would HAVE IT!
This is why the Levite in Judges 19, Ephraim took his handmaid (common-law wife, not formally married at that time) and journeyed to her fathers home. They stayed for 5 days and left to go home, they had a chance to stay over-nite in what was then Jebus (owned by the Jebusites, now its called Jerusalem) and he told his servants to keep travelling because it was uncivilized (meaning they didn't keep the codes of the Israelites). So, they travelled on to a city owned by his cousins the Benjamites (tribe of Benjamin) and NO ONE WOULD TAKE THEM IN. Finally, an old man took them in, then the Sons of Belial (the Devil), came beating on the house, asking for the man and his concubine. The old man offered his manservant and daughter, but they wouldn't take them, so the Ephraim sent out his concubine and they raped her until dawn, she crawled to the house and died with her hand on the threshold.
The Benjamites would not take them in because they knew something like this would happen.
Ephraim took his dead concubine put her across the mule, and took her home. There he cut her into 12 pieces and SENT ONE PIECE TO THE HEADS OF EACH OF THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, to SHAME THEM OVER NOT TAKING IN PEOPLE!
This story was a LESSON, reminding God's people of their main rule, "do unto others."
2007-02-19 23:38:23 · answer #3 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am not a great believer in the bible. I think that perhaps it is deliberately ambiguous. I think that it has also over time been altered to serve individual or governmental use (as in ancient times). I can't quite get my head around accepting one source of information like it is the absolute truth-without question. People, to me, seem to grab onto the bible because they need to feel that their life has a purpose and that there is something after death. I really don't care for fear tactics.
2007-02-20 00:24:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use an interlinear (Greek,and Hebrew) and a concordance to look up the words in the original language and translate to English.The original languages usually are more blodly worded then the English versions (when you compare verses).
2007-02-19 23:33:37 · answer #5 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the bible was written by man, to control people, sound familiar? ("send me your $$$$$$ because je$u$ told me to) a few of the writers happened to be homophobic (probably guilty gay themselves, those prisons get Lonely)
2007-02-19 23:31:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Welcome to the world of interpretation.
2007-02-19 23:30:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋