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To: annalex

annalex, even if your posit is true, the Bible is replete with the condemnation of homosexuality. It is implied or explicit throughout. No amount of interpretation is going to excise the fact that homosexuality is a sin.

From the implicit (God giving a woman, Eve, to a man, Adam, as his helpmeet) to the explicit:

“For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.” (Romans 1)

to the positive (an elder is to be the husband of one WIFE), from Genesis to Revelation is is one man and one woman, a union which is even described as a symbol of Christ and His Church.

So accept the Bible, or don’t. But don’t try to pretend that there is any uncertainty as to what sort of sex is acceptable to God.


104 posted on 08/06/2012 9:49:11 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Persevero
even if your posit is true

All I "posit" is what the Bible said in the original language. Yeah, call me arrogant, I think it is true.

The Church teaches that a man who has sex other than with his wife commits a grave sin. Naturally, homosexual acts are horribly sinful.

Further, the Church teaches that a distinction can be drawn between a man who resists a homosexual tendency and a man who follows up on it and commits homosexual acts; and even worse, makes his affliction a point of public "pride"; yet worse, commits these acts with minors.

I don't think there is anything in the Holy Scripture that teaches different.

I was simply pointing out that the translation you were using was questionable.

107 posted on 08/06/2012 5:26:35 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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