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To: txrefugee

RE: Homosexuals and feminists hate the teachings of Paul,

Supporters of gay marriage often argue that homosexuality must not have been a big deal with Jesus since He never said anything about it in the gospels.

Only Paul condemned it... ergo, Paul ADDED his own teachings.


10 posted on 02/24/2014 2:30:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Supporters of gay marriage often argue that homosexuality must not have been a big deal with Jesus since He never said anything about it in the gospels.

Jesus didn't have to; his audience was already steeped in Leviticus 18, and one of the ways they saw themselves as separate from the Gentiles was in their unwillingness to accept homosexual acts. Paul, OTOH, as the presenter of the gospel to those same Gentiles, would have to have confronted the issue directly, which he does, to the two groups whose local cultures would have been most steeped in homosexuality: Rome and Corinth.

15 posted on 02/24/2014 2:35:14 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jesus didn’t have to say anything about homosexuality — because He had already said it — in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

Read Leviticus 18; warning: it is very graphic especially if you read the NIV, NKJV, and the NASB.


39 posted on 02/24/2014 4:06:43 PM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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