RE: Sex Outside Matrimony Unsafe.
May 3, 2012 at 1:42 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2012 at 1:54 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
1 Cor 6:18: "Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body."
Romans 1:27: "In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."
These verses don't mention anything about health problems. In 1 Cor the "sin against his own body" was him not respecting the "temple" of the holy spirit which is his body. Apparently the Holy Spirit is stuck in believers body and doesn't particularly enjoy prostitutes for some reason. The Romans passage has been commonly interpreted nowadays to refer to disease. It's actually not though. The "due penalty" is homosexuality itself (not disease) and their "perversion" (a very biased translation of "error" or "sin") was not homosexuality, but worshiping other gods.
Romans 1:27: "In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."
These verses don't mention anything about health problems. In 1 Cor the "sin against his own body" was him not respecting the "temple" of the holy spirit which is his body. Apparently the Holy Spirit is stuck in believers body and doesn't particularly enjoy prostitutes for some reason. The Romans passage has been commonly interpreted nowadays to refer to disease. It's actually not though. The "due penalty" is homosexuality itself (not disease) and their "perversion" (a very biased translation of "error" or "sin") was not homosexuality, but worshiping other gods.
My ignore list
"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).
