(March 14, 2014 at 11:32 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Fucking livestock was also prohibited in the same passage. Homosexuals were to be stoned. Both the human and the animal were to be burnt alive. The ancient Israelites seemed to be aware of both men and women having sex with animals, but not aware of lesbian relations between women.Quote:Leviticus 20:13
King James Version (KJV)
13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
I imagine that sheep or goat fucking was a bigger problem among herders but homosexuality was a normal occurrence among the Greeks. This bullshit has all the earmarks of a little propaganda trying to make the Greeks appear to be on the outs with 'god.' Since the Greeks did not arrive in the region until c 332 BC this gives us a terminus a quo for the earliest advent of this nonsense.
It's in one of Paul's letters (1 or 2 Cor?) that there is a warning that (practising) homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of heaven, but it's in a long list of sins including avarice. Since the sentence is followed by "Such were some of you" it's clear that he thinks there is forgiveness for those who repent. As I mentioned in another thread, some liberal Christians like Bishop Spong think that Paul was repressing homosexual urges in himself.
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