"Cut and paste" Christianity

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To lie with a man as you lie with a woman is simply a reference to having sex with someone of the same sex. Everyone is trying to bring the bible up to date by interpreting things in it that did not really apply at the time that it was written. All that does is add more confusion to a book that is rife with contradiction and subject to human interpretations from different time periods whose mindset was completely different from ours today.

Actually... the 'as you lie with a woman' is what makes the sentence ridiculous in itself. If they just said: if a man lieth with a man, he has committed an act against nature... then it would be saying that having sex with someone of the same sex is a crime against nature. However, you absolutely cannot lie with a man as you would a woman: it is simply not possible.

I understand the authors original intent... however: a literal interpretation would have to conclude what I just 'concluded'. Not saying that interpretation is right or wrong... but it is yet another interpretation of the bible. No more moronic than any of the others

Edit: deleted a y off of man Otherwise that could look weird