RE: Is it possible to be a gay Christian?
July 28, 2014 at 4:39 am
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2014 at 4:40 am by Purplundy.)
Christian doctrine, you said? Well, then…
As far as the New Testament writers were concerned, gay people didn't exist. There wasn't a marginalized group of monogamous homosexual couples for them to angrily shake incomplete Bibles at.
The words so impeccably interpreted by the diligent translators of the King James Bible (JK, they got Jesus' name wrong) as 'homosexual people' are malakoi or arsenokotai. Among the various translations for them, a prominent one is male prostitutes or old slaveholding pedophiles.
And, in case you'd like to read more into the topic, here's my source.
As far as the New Testament writers were concerned, gay people didn't exist. There wasn't a marginalized group of monogamous homosexual couples for them to angrily shake incomplete Bibles at.
The words so impeccably interpreted by the diligent translators of the King James Bible (JK, they got Jesus' name wrong) as 'homosexual people' are malakoi or arsenokotai. Among the various translations for them, a prominent one is male prostitutes or old slaveholding pedophiles.
And, in case you'd like to read more into the topic, here's my source.
