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I am sure, from this short exchange, that you are sincere in your beliefs. I do not share them. I have read the New Testament. I do not believe it is translated correctly, as I have said. I do not think that Paul should be viewed as God but as a man who was trying to live by principles he had accepted to be true but struggled with.

I believe that God is Love and that God loves everyone totally and completely. That does not mean that I think that God is not sad when we hurt ourselves or others - but that God loves us with a love that is beyond our ability to understand or even imagine.

My prayer for you is that you allow more love into your life and your heart - as you love God more and more fully and you love others - I pray that your heart and mind will open to even more love and your interest in condemnation and attack will begin to wane and fall away. And I pray that you find true peace of mind through forgiveness of yourself and others.

Um, do you read Greek? I do. There are disagreements amongst the translations to be sure, but NOT on the core issues that we are discussing. And the surviving Greek texts are early, and complete (in other words, absolutely no evidence of interpolations, so don't bother with that gambit).

The Gospels have as strong or stronger a provenance as ANY texts of that age. And Paul's letters are contemporaneous with the Gospels.

Your reading of Paul sounds suspiciously like a lead-in the "Paul was Gay" argument that I have heard from so many revisionist Episcopalians. Unfortunately, there is not much evidence for this view (other than the self-deluding hopes of the people setting it forth).