RE: Church stance on gay marriage "for good of society", says Bishop Michael Nazi
April 25, 2012 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2012 at 5:36 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(April 25, 2012 at 5:26 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: ...
Christians could state that this could apply to homosexual relationships of today, as it doesn't really matter if one of the participants is of young age-it's still a male, and sex is still homosexual.
Sure, they could say anything they want. They could say that the verse condemns bunk beds if they felt like it. It doesn't mean that it's the correct interpretation of the implications of the verse. You seem to be assuming that the Bible would be condemning pedestry in this verse because it involves two people of the same gender. I could think of a variety of more plausible answers, such as you know, one of the people happens to be a child! The problem when you say that the Bible would have condemned consensual relationships between two adults of the same gender if it was a common thing going on back then, is that you're not saying that based on anything the Bible actually says, but your own modern values and biases which may not in fact be biblical.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
