(December 2, 2012 at 9:31 am)Daniel Wrote:(December 2, 2012 at 9:24 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: No. I figured you were misspelling latter. Anyway. All those definitions for "porne" are for female prostitution.Exactly, because male prostitution wasn't anywhere near as common - just like it isn't today. Why would you reference male prostitutes specifically? That's what doesn't make sense about the argument that the reading is "male prostitute" rather than homosexual. That's what most scholars conclude when confronted with that text.
What makes you think he was trying to condemn homosexuality in the first place? Where does that come from? True homosexual relationships as we think of them today seemed to have also been rare. Pedestry and dominate/passive relationships were more common.
The meaning of "arsenokoitai" isn't clear. It could mean "male prostitute" or "pedestry" or maybe homosexual.
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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).
