Certainly NOT to support homosexuality, considering the Bible's firm stance THROUGHOUT the Old and New Testaments against it.
Leviticus 18:22 -- Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is ABOMINATION.
All related scriptures: Gen 19:5-8; Ex 22:19; Lev 18:22,23; 20:13,15,16; Deut 23:17; 27:21; Judg 19:22; 1 Kings 14:24; 15:12; 22:46; 2 Kings 23:7; Rom 24 1:24,26,27; 1 Cor 6:9; 1 Tim 1:9,10
Thank you "Virginia B" for posting the verse in question. No intelligent discussion of a verse can take place without quoting it and citing it.
Here are some notes from Strong's Concordance to help with the meaning of the key words:
Neither shall he "regard"
995 biyn bene a primitive root; to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand:--attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill(-full), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand(-ing), view, (deal) wise(-ly, man).
nor the "desire"
2532 chemdah khem-daw' feminine of 2531; delight:--desire, goodly, pleasant, precious. see HEBREW for 02531
"of women"
802 'ishshah ish-shaw' feminine of 376 or 582; irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582):--(adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English. see HEBREW for 0376 see HEBREW for 0582 see HEBREW for 0582
for he shall "magnify" himself above all.
1431 gadal gaw-dal' a primitive root; properly, to twist (compare 1434), i.e. to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride):--advance, boast, bring up, exceed, excellent, be(-come, do, give, make, wax), great(-er, come to...estate, + things), grow(up),increase, lift up, magnify(-ifical), be much set by, nourish (up), pass, promote, proudly (spoken), tower. see HEBREW for 01434
I do find it interesting that Strong's notes on the root for "regard" included wording such as:
separate mentally (or distinguish), and discern. (conceivably lending support to the notion that he could be homosexual; it's certainly the "in thing" in these latter days.)
But FAR more likely, I think he'll be so full of himself (PROUD) that he won't "regard" ANYTHING else to be WORTHY of his attention, OR desire.
Pride, after all, was the cause of Satan's fall from his lofty position in Heaven as the covering cherub. (Eze 28:11-19)
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