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To: BenKenobi
They should lay the whole verse out there, for context. My New King James uses a footnote "catamites". According to dictionary.com, that means "a boy or youth having a sexual relationship with a man".

That's a little different than straight man-on-man sex. It's worse.

The whole verse, New King James, is:

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,[a] nor sodomites,

So it distinguishes between pederasts and homosexuals (I don't know why), but they're in the same boat. And verse 10 says that thieves and drunkards and the greedy and the extortioners and such are in the same boat. They're all condemned, unless they straighten up.

In general, if you're a lowlife, you better straighten up.

6 posted on 01/05/2012 7:54:19 PM PST by FlyVet
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I’ll admit I’m a drunkards at times... So in God’s Eyes I’m the same as a homosexual? Damn, that’s harsh.


8 posted on 01/05/2012 8:11:37 PM PST by RC51
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To: FlyVet

No, sir.

A catamite is a young boy raped anally by an adult homosexual. That is why the Greek word also means ‘soft ones’. It was common practice back then.

A sodomite is the adult male homosexual rapist. Pitchers and catchers, sodomites and catamites. Always paired together.


19 posted on 01/05/2012 9:59:29 PM PST by BenKenobi
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To: FlyVet
The whole verse, New King James, is: Do you not know ..., nor homosexuals,

Where did the term Homosexual come from in the bible since that term did not come into actual practice until last century?

If I am going to be expected to believe the word of Jesus Christ as related to his disciples, I don't want those words to be re-interpreted over and over again by any Christian religion so as to suit their purposes.

I'm just saying that if I am expected to follow the teachings of the bible, the bible should be the actual teachings of Christ, not the constant re-writing and re-interpretation that seems to be going on constantly withing certain religious communities.

50 posted on 01/06/2012 2:28:12 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Naugahyde is no longer available due to the Naugas being hunted to extinction.....)
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