The writers still had free will. I find it hard to believe that if someone finds their hearts racing by someone of the same sex, that God would want them to be unhappy by being with someone of the opposite sex or alone.
2007-07-12 01:43:39 · 20 answers · asked by Grinning Football plinny younger 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Note it doesn't say the same about sleeping with children; paedophile priests ?
2007-07-12 01:47:56 · answer #1 · answered by ALLEN B 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The actual writer of Deuteronomy (where it states that gay sex is wrong), was a Priest at a temple, not Moses, as originally thought. Theologians and Archaeologist have been able to uncover documents and stone writings that clarify this from the temple ruins.
It is possible that this priest, or even the entire community, was homophobic. But in all fairness, these people were not really educated. Moses himself was not educated in Hebrew, just Egyptian. And most rules and laws were written to uphold the family order. The continuation the bloodline, and have additional hands to do farm work, trading, hunting, etc....
2007-07-12 09:56:43 · answer #2 · answered by Oberon 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ok think about this - it is a book that has been re-written and revised over and over again so the intepretations have continuously changed over the years that it been around.
The bible I used to read gave me the impression that it was all about a father going into his son's room to betray the little boy. It was about abuse and not of a homophobic subject.
No where could I find this "gay passage" as every christian was telling me. And with that they were telling me I was a bad person of which I am not. I am human like everyone else and have the right to judge them like they judge me.
So on my quest to find this I changed christian beliefs from presbytarian to mormon to methodist and yes even catholicism... What I found was very different.
I went from a girl who believed that christians were kind, loving and accepting of any situation to woman knowing that they are all hypocrits, saying things like any person who does not follow this form of christianity should be stoned or will perish in hell and so on.
So in the end I lost all faith and now dont believe but for those who do - you dont need a bible or a church to tell you what is in your heart and the know that He loves no matter what.
P.S.:Those writers had free will as long as it was according to the priests that stood over them.
P.S.S.: Here is a verse from the bible that should make you realise who you are. I have only put this on here because my civil partner has it tattooed on her back of which she trully believes in.
"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
marvellous are thy works ,
That I know full well."
2007-07-13 08:33:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, well, the Bible also states that divorced people should be sentenced to death, and has no problem with slavery, but does have problems with men with beards...
It's just this book out of which everyone picks what he likes to be re-confirmed in. For some it's a wonderful human heritage speaking of an ideal and just and lovely world, for others it is about a punishing God, and so on. These texts have just been written over too long a period of time in too various a culture.
2007-07-12 16:56:34 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think our modern society should be run by the ideas of old guys from thousands of years ago. Yeah, they said homosexuality is a sin. They also said you should stone disobedient teens or women who have sex before marriage. Why do churches throw away the inconvenient rules but follow the one that says they can discriminate against gays and lesbians? If someone says that homosexuality is a sin, they should take out some time to read the rest of Leviticus. It's full of pointless rules and laws mixed with a few okay ideas.
2007-07-12 09:46:15 · answer #5 · answered by Graciela, RIRS 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well...the way I answer that is, if God didn't want it in the Bible, it wouldn't be there. No matter how much free will those priests have, they can't trump God. They could have written it against God's will, but it wouldn't have found it's way into the Bible.
I sometimes wonder why God would allow me to feel this way. I've loved girls since I could even think of what they were. So, I grapple with the idea of it being wrong.
2007-07-12 14:03:38 · answer #6 · answered by pjonkml 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The funny thing is homosexuality is not ever mentioned in The Bible. If there was a word for homosexual at the time, it was never used.
We see words about acts.
Man shall not lay with man has he lays with woman.
Okay honestly I've known many gay men and they don't lie with a man the way he lays with a woman, you know that joke people use where they put there two index fingers together to simulate two male idiots trying to have sex? Yeah, it's just not possible. Of course it has been issued that this is really about the act of forced submission, basically forcing a man into the woman's role.
Which brings us to Sodom.
The men of Sodom wanted to rape the angles,to force them into subjugation. Lot figured he could turn the men away by offering up his daughters, if they where flaming homos as modern bible teachers want us to believe, how would that plan have made any sense?
Paul talks of people truing away from nature when they lose touch with God, but he talks of men dressing in frilly clothing and seducing woman or husbands running off to have sex with temple prostitutes (some of whom where male) once again this is not a condemnation of homosexuality but of acts some of which may be seen as homosexual.
It is not a secret that there are only 6 passages in the bible that even come close to condemning homosexuality and none of them use a term that actually translates to homosexual.
2007-07-12 09:04:55 · answer #7 · answered by Kith D 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
You hit the nail on the head, the bible was written by homophobic men
2007-07-12 20:22:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only passage in the bible that describes homosexuality as a sin is in Paul's letters to the Romans; it is well known that Paul was homophobic (and misogynistic, and xenophobic).
The passages that are usually used to denigrate homosexual people (e.g. Leviticus) actually referred, in the original Hebrew, to the practice of temple prostitution, and adultery, not homosexuality per se.
2007-07-12 10:15:55 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The bible was compiled 70 years after the death of Christ by his followers who were inspired by his divine words it was an abomination and an affront to God that a man would seek sexual gratification of another man it states clearly in the bible man was created in the name of Adam and woman was born from the rib of Adam known as eve. It was never Adam and Steve. After all our lives and laws are based on the seven commandments to be gay or lesbian is a sin in the eyes of God
2007-07-12 09:48:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
It could have been written by the Piltdown man on fig tree moonshine . nobody knows . This was a heck of a long time ago yall .
2007-07-12 22:24:13 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋