They built the high places of Baal that are in the valley of Ben-hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I had not commanded them nor had it entered My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. For the devious are an abomination to the Lord ; But He is intimate with the upright.
The perverse in heart are an abomination to the Lord , But the blameless in their walk are His delight. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you. You shall not behave thus toward the Lord your God, for every abominable act which the Lord hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
If we sacrifice what is an abomination to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not then stone us? Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord ; Assuredly, he will not be unpunished. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness. All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man. They were not even ashamed at all; They did not even know how to blush.
You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lord your God. Differing weights and differing measures, Both of them are abominable to the Lord. Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent to you. If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother, it is immorality; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there will be no immorality in your midst.
But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it come under the ban; you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is something banned. For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people. But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where My people are living, so that no swarms of flies will be there, in order that you may know that I, the Lord , am in the midst of the land.
There are six things which the Lord hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him:. The devising of folly is sin, And the scoffer is an abomination to men. He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.
But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you, and they shall be abhorrent to you; you may not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you shall detest. But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you,.
He who turns away his ear from listening to the law, Even his prayer is an abomination. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,. But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed.
Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord ; and because of these detestable things the Lord your God will drive them out before you. Daniel Chapter Parallel Compare. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation. Deuteronomy That would be detestable in the eyes of the LORD. Isaiah Your incense is detestable to me.
New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your worthless assemblies. Leviticus It will not be reckoned to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible. So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry[a] his daughters. Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.
When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.
Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away! Then my life will be spared. By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived. Yes, but it would not have mattered had those angels been male or female.
The punishment would have been the same in either case. The gender of the angels is irrelevant. That is the point. Typical left wing nut crap. You know what? The second you start mocking and calling names is the second I stop trying to have an intelligent and civil debate with someone. The obscurity of this phrase opens the way for a wealth of different translations among which, out of tradition, a single basic line of thought characterizes English translations.
Leviticus LB: Living Bible, : Homosexuality is absolutely forbidden, for it is an enormous sin. Notice the clear, unjustified extension of the verse to include lesbians; lesbian behavior is entirely absent from the whole of Hebrew scriptures.
Again, a clear, unjustified extension of the verse to include lesbians. NET New English Translation, : You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act. It is used with a set of different situations in the King James Bible, all of which are tallied here. First, they add lesbians to the condemned group with utterly no justification for doing so.
These two translations say that it is a sin to be the way God created gays. Depiction of Moloch. Both this verse and the other from Leviticus see below appear in a holiness code that applied to Israel rather than to gentile Christians in an age of grace.
At the time, in order to get a conviction, Jewish law required four male witnesses, so whatever the action condemned in Leviticus was, it was likely a public event there are no instances recorded in the Talmud of anyone being brought before the Sanhedrin and charged with homosexual activity.
Worship of other gods provided a context where sex is very public, and there are 59 other places in the Bible where the worship of other gods is called an abomination in the KJV. How could these two verses not apply to temple prostitution? By analogy many scholars interpret the verses in Leviticus as specifically referring only to sexual activities in a pagan temple ritual. The exact meaning of the original passage in Leviticus is therefore unclear.
Translators face a choice between alternative prohibitions of:. Sin is sin. How do you get the consumption of shellfish is more of a sin than homosexuality? You just may need to re-study your own Bible. As a chaser says they shall be put to death, but it says the same one verse later about executing heteros if a man lies with his wife and mother in law.
If capital crimes are to be given special status, says blasphemy is punsihable by death too. The cherry picking of sins for strong reprimands does not gather the scrutiny it should.
How much and how should I study more? Should no one but clergy discuss theological matters? How very medieval. I found no word that even resembled the word toevah… Perhaps you meant the Greek translation.
Here's an online version where you can see the Hebrew to English Translation. For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions,giving up natural intercourse with women…. Men committed shameless acts with men. Jesus taught us to rebuke others in sin with a compassionate manner. Not by throwing around a judgmental hate card…. Again, I disagree with homosexuality; regardless of what anyone says! God intended it to be man and woman, BUT from what I see; your in no better shape bud..
Dee Kelley, Sodom and Ghomorra were destroyed to the ground because of sexual immorality. The men of the city desired no women, but angels. Jude 1;. The whole chapter 18 of Leviticus is about sexually immoral behavior such as bestiality incest adultery and homosexuality. The chapter must be read in context. Believers are not to engage in things that are detestable in the eyes of Elohim.
Homosexuality is no exception. Chris Larosa, Read Jude 1. The cities were destroyed because of the lust after the strange flesh and sexual perversions. Have you bothered to read them? Not ONE of them, including Jude, refers to homosexuality. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
Facebook Tweet. Tags abomination bible lgbt translation. Bio Latest Posts. And any person who commits toevah within ancient Israel could not join the community in its acts of worship until they had been ritually purified.
Few today would regard shellfood restaurants as abominations; not would most regard eating pork as an unclean act; and I don't know anyone who believes a man has corrupted himself in any way by having sex with his wife during her menstrual cycle. Some may say that homosexuality is different, since the book of Leviticus also calls for the execution of those men who are found to have had sex with other men.
But the Old Testament texts in question sanction the death penalty in all kinds of cases. The text tells us that a child no age specified who repeatedly disobeys his or her parents may be executed.
The act of picking up sticks on the Sabbath was punishable by death. And even having sex with a menstruating woman is worthy of death, according to this ancient body of literature see Leviticus ; Ezekiel , and many other texts to that effect. Who today regards any of these acts as unclean or meriting execution? All of which brings us to a more central question. Why does the book of Leviticus describe sex between two men as "toevah"? Many people offer may answers to that question, and many of those answers have been aired recently on radio and elsewhere.
But one possible explanation I haven't heard outlined should be added to the mix. He argues that the text of Leviticus itself reflects the world in which it was written, and this ancient world was a culture dominated by men which subordinated women. This was a culture in which righteous men prayed daily giving thanks that they were not created female.
Those who wrote this text would have regarded men having sex together as tantamount to one man playing what was considered a culturally inferior role that of a woman during sex.
This would make a man less than a man, since he was making himself comparable to a woman. This would also explain why sex between two lesbians is not condemned in the Old Testament, since all women were thought to be of such inferior status that "neither would be seen as adopting a dominant or a subservient role during sexual encounters".
These are the kinds of issues being debated by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, and their considerations should be included in our continuing public debate about the use of an ancient text in the 21st century. There is much more to be said, of course -- and this post does not consider, for example, the New Testament passages concerning same-sex sexual intercourse.
Nevertheless, if the Bible is going to be drawn into public debates about controversial social and moral issues, we can surely all agree that it is important to try to do justice to what the Bible actually says. Sign in or register to comment. Complain about this comment Comment number 1. A complaint was made join the club. Complain about this comment Comment number 2. Complain about this comment Comment number 3. Wiilliam: You say that if the Bible is to be drawn into debates about controversial social and moral issues, then it is important to do justice to what it says.
What you are saying is that on this issue the morals and customs of the ancient Middle East are not relevant today. The Bible is therefore not the immutable, unerring word of God; it is relative to the time and place. To say that 'abomination' or 'unclean' doesn't mean 'physically disgusting' but that it merely means 'insulting to the macho male sex' is to accept that there is nothing wrong with gay sex in itself but only with its effect on an ancient male ego.
It seems to me, and I refer to the 'Can you love the sinner and hate the sin' thread, that some Christians want to have their biblical cake and eat it. They want to say that it is literally the word of God, while ignoring or playing down some of its more nasty elements. The biblical objection to homosexuality is, in my view, pretty clear.
Saying that gays 'shall surely be put to death' Leviticus is pretty clear. And they still are in some Muslim countries because of similar injunctions in the Koran. If Christians are now going to say: "Oh, the Bible didn't really mean all that and that attitude to gay sex is just a matter of cultural attitudes", then would they please acknowledge the past crimes of religion on this and other issues? Complain about this comment Comment number 4.
Have I committed an abomination? Well frankly I think that's a rather personal question but if you insist on knowing the answer is yes. But if I hadn't, I'd probably have taken a laxative Complain about this comment Comment number 5. Brian, you ask some good questions. I don't think it follows from what I've written that the Bible is irrelevant today; merely that those who appeal to the Bible should be careful about which parts of it they appeal to and what they do with it.
The implications you suggest in respect of the nature of the Bible should also be examined carefully by fundamentalist readers of the Bible. Complain about this comment Comment number 6. Crawley, how fundimentally flawed can a document that purports to be the message of the creator of the universe and everything in it and his message to his creation of how and why it and they were created be, that it is so vague there are countless interpretations of what it says and what it means? Surely if this was such a message of a supreme creator it would be so explicit and unambiguous that there would be no denying its exact meaning and intent.
I therefore propose that the only logical alternative is that it is not such a message at all but an obvious fraud created exclusively by mortal men for their own purposes. Complain about this comment Comment number 7. Mr Aurelius, I don't think your question is directed at me. I am for arguing for any particular theological view on the nature of the Bible or its place in the world -- that is for others to do.
Instead, I am asking questions about how we should read this ancient text. Like every other significant text in the world's literature, the Bible may in interpreted in many ways. The diversity of interpretation does not reduce a text to meaninglessness or pointlessness. How to read and interpret the US Constitution is a question that divides lawyers and politicians today and will continue to stimulate debate. Your other point about whether the Bible is the word of God in the sense of a document in some sense authored by God through the agency of human beings is not an issue I have explored here, but you are right to raise the question.
In fact, I accept that your question takes us deeper into the heart of some recent disputes. Others may wish to respond to this. Complain about this comment Comment number 8. Mark: 'Fraud' might be too strong a word; I prefer 'self-deception'.
Certainly, gay people are bullied and beaten. One was beaten almost to death by three men just before Iris Robinson's Nolan interview. Now, the people who beat him up were actually more lenient with him than the Bible suggests, because they left him alive! This is the connection in Northern Ireland between words and deeds.
We've had it for 30 years of the Troubles. Iris Robinson can say she loves the young man till she is blue in the face, but she cannot escape from the fact that her reference to the Bible about gay sex as an abomination is provocatively 'tending' to legitimise what was done to him, especially since the punishment is stated as death in the same Book from which she quotes.
Either Christians dissociate themselves completely from this biblical reference to putting gays to death, and accept that homosexuality is not an 'abomination', or they must bear some responsibility for the bullying and vicious treatment of gays in NI. The fact of the matter is that fundamentalist Christianity has been a major factor in creating widespread homophobia in the province. Complain about this comment Comment number 9.
Crawley, there is a fundimental difference between the bible and all other documents except its counterparts like the Koran. Other documents like the Constitution of the United States don't purport to be the immutable everlasting unshakable truth handed down by the creator of the universe and man through his chosen individuals. The US constitution is a living document meant to be interpreted the function of the supreme court and periodically amended.
That is its function in democracy. The bible purports to be among Christians and Jews the immutable word of God handed down as the unchangeable law and the justification for rigid theocracy.
It seems to me you either read it that way or you just don't believe in it and you read it like a work of fiction. If you think it is the word of God, you cannot read it selectively and only pick those parts of it you want to believe while ignoring others you don't.
It's not a like a menu in a Chinese restaurant, one from column A, 2 from column B. Complain about this comment Comment number Mr Auelius, You argue that we must read the Bible as the immutable word of God or merely as a work of fiction. That's a curious either-or. The bible also includes law books which reveal aspects of ancient cultures and historical material that scholars of the ancient near east regard as significant.
Many theologians deny that the Bible is the infallible, inerrant word of God; they see these texts as key documents in the emerging story of religious faith. It is possible to approach the bible with a critical-historical eye, without dismissing the collection of books as ancient fiction that is irrelevant to modern times. These books are clearly not irrelevant to modern times given that so many people -- including US presidents and British politicians -- construct social and moral policies on the basis of their reading of the Bible.
Good question Mr. But if it is not the immutable word of God, it seems to me that it becomes a very flimsy basis for any religious dogma which claims infallabilitiy like those of the Christian and Jewish sects do.
As an historical document, perhaps it does have some value and perhaps it does contain some insight into human nature and human behavior but then it must stand up to the scrutiny of modern standards of evaluation and testing.
Since it is a collection, I suppose each part has to be taken as a separate entity. Archeologists do look for artifacts to confirm or refute the stories in the bible.
So far they have come up empty handed on Noah's ark. But by any modern account, the story of Noah makes no logical sense. Recall that I did a mathematical analysis showing that if every molecule of existing H2O on earth were in the form of water, sea level would rise no more than 30 feet and at least some areas, many areas would not have been destroyed by flood.
The theological retort contributed here was that aftewoods, somehow many millions of cubic miles of water mysteriously disappeared off the planet. Into outer space? And nobody noticed a thing! This is the best thing I have read in quite a while. I could not agree more and you have just provided the perfect example.
To MarcusAurelius- if you cannot read the Bible selectively, as you are suggesting, what do you do about that never-ending contradictions. Clearly God did not do an effective job of passing on his words. This is important because you contrast the Bible with the US constitution which you claim is "a living document meant to be interpreted".
Yet when it comes to the contradictions littered throughout the Bible "interpretation" is rife. In fact just as you claim it is the job of the supreme court to interpret the constitution, it is the job of the clergy and other biblical scholars to interpret the Bible due to the almost uncountable amount of contradictions.
Leviticus sheqets, sheh'-kets; from shaqats, shaw-kats'; a primitive root; to be filthy, i. The Puritan; Baw Baw black sheep have you any wool? Haw Haw. Hee Haw. Tee Hee Hee. If the presumed Democratic candidate gets elected President, will America become an Obama-nation?
What I think we have here is a clear cut illegal racist discussion which violates the rights of the Abominable Snowman.
Clearly a violation of EU laws protecting the rights of ethnic and species minorities. I think a major case for the ICC. About 6 dollars 3 pounds sterling in most liquor stores in NJ there are cheaper. It is illegal to use the name Champagne on products made in Switzerland in a town called that name since the 10th century according to European courts as reported by BBC but they have no jurisdiction in the US. Freedom of speech. The French defenders of the Champagne trademark say they don't want to see a product like Champagne brand toilet paper.
Now there's an idea for a novel product. What an abomination! RatzoRizzo Where does it say in the bible that it shoulld be interpreted by Priests? Is god not explicit? Is his meaning not clear? What kind of god can't communicate his immutable laws without ambiguity to his own creation?
If you were really interested in understanding it, you would become fluent in Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic and not risk whatever the consequences of disobeying his laws are by accepting imprecise translations and interpetations by others.
If he wanted you to understand it in English, he would have chosen someone who spoke English to deliver his message. So where does that leave you? No better I'd say than someone who got a third hand rumor. If you truely believe the bible is the word of god, I'd spend the rest of my life if I were you studying those languages so you could get the exact meaning and not inadvertently risk spending all eternity in hell with the evil one.
I on the other hand have accepted that if there is an afterlife and a hell, I am going there. And if I'm going to do the time, I might just as well commit the crime. The way I understand it, you go to the same hell for committing one sin you are not absolved of as committing 10, Why do we commit sin? Because it is fun. Where I come from we have a saying; everything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening. I agree with the post entirely. Puritan gives us definitions of the word from fundamentalist bible dictionaries!
You need to place the word in the context of the passage and cultural background. Will is right to say that this term toevah is found in the "holiness code" of Leviticus and scholars locate its meaning in the context of ritualistic practices. Puritan demonstrates the danger of non-scholars of Hebrew thinking they can define words with off-the-shelf dictionaries. Would that life were so simple in the scholarship of the ancient world! OK, let's say I make it to heaven with the select few and after a few million years I get bored with the neighbors?
So, I've gotten to know everyone and I get tired of them. It isn't like they are going anywhere. At least in Boca Raton Florida they die off and new ones come in but in heaven, you're already dead so that's it, you're stuck with what you've got until more people die.
But by that time human beings might be extinct or have figured out how to live forever. Can I get up and go visit hell just for a vacation? I think I could take the heat for awhile at least. After all, I've always enjoyed a tropical beach. Just as long as there is an air conditioned bar nearby with good Scotch Whiskey MarcusAurelius- why cant you just reply to my post directly.
You ask is his meaning not clear? In my previous post I clearly stated that his meaning is not clear considering the unlimited amount of contradictions contained in the bible. You go round and round in circles in everyone of your posts. Are you for real? Just for that ridiculous statement I will never ever reply to your posts again and I urge everyone else to ignore you. That someone like Marcus is attempting to claim that 66 books written in 3 languages by many different authors over centuries of composition for many different purposes in many different genres of writing including poetry, history, song, eyewitness account, letter and prophecy must be either X or Y is indicative of his lack of thoughtfulness about the subject.
RatzoRizzo Anyone who read even a small percentage of my postings knows I have been an atheist all of my life and have no "spiritual" feelings. As for my morality, I don't have any. I simply try to obey the law and stay out of jail.
It is not me who goes round and round in circles, it is those who believe You just as much as said so. It is those who purport to say it is the true word of god who make those claims. I'm just pointing out how absurd that claim is on the face of it. Iris Robinson was right. Scripture is clear that homosexual behaviour is abominable.
By the way, as regards the eating of certain kinds of seafood there is no need to comment. That was all part of the ceremonial law - conditions for participation in rituals which were specific and exclusive to the Israelite community during a particular time in their history. Let's not stop there though. Equally abominable is every action or attitude which issues from the choice which humankind collectively made to set themselves up as arbiters of their morality, their sexuality, their response to God and to their fellow human-being.
Equally abominable, therefore, is our wanton ravishing of the planet the care of which we were entrusted with. Equally abominable is my singling out any particular human being or group as particularly deserving of God's wrath, and of my abuse and hatred. Equally abominable is it for me to anticipate God's judgement on any particular individual and treat him or her as if their journey were over and the final manifestation of God's judgement were already a foregone conclusion.
Equally abominable is it for me to luxuriate in heterosexual lust. Equally abominable is it for me to fail to show God's love for my fellow human being every time I have an opportunity do do so.
Equally abominable is it for me to allow anger and resentment and hostility to consume me from within and poison my relationships with the people among whom God has placed me. An the list is endless..
Yes, a man or woman "lying with" someone of the same sex note that the Bible does not use the word "know", which it reserves for heterosexual intercourse has committed an "abominable act". But how many of us have not committed an abomination of one kind or another. Let us be less concerned with other people's "abominations", at least until we have begun to deeply engage with God on the question of our own.
John: The Bible is indeed a mixture, but that doesn't alter the fact that much of it is absurd and irrelevant, as Mark us suggests. This is particularly true of its list of ancient taboos, such as the 'abominations' of eating shellfish and gay sex. In reply to Gandalf, these are not abominations Woody Allen said that sex is dirty only when it's done right, and presumably the same applies to eating shellfish. If an adult couple want to have gay sex with each other, that is a good thing, not a bad thing.
And that needs to be said. Some Christians must not be permitted to think that they can control the terms of this debate. There is nothing wrong with gay sex. As for saying that sex is only for procreation, no Christian really believes this. The average number of children produced by a couple in the UK is now barely two.
The average number of sexual acts in an average 'Christian' lifetime is On the other hand, Mark us is displaying his usual Yankee bravado in claiming that he has no morality. He says he simply tries to obey the law and stay out of jail. He doesn't say how he reacts when he thinks the law is wrong, e. Obviously, some laws are right and some are wrong, even for self-styled amoral Mark us.
Such a condition should, however, respond to appropriate therapy. The Bible is nonetheless a source of unending fascination as a collection of accounts of man's search for meaning and transcendence in existence. It is, too, instructional: not only for the insights of great teachers but also for showing over and over again how the pursuit of 'god' can go horribly wrong and lead to the most monstrous evil masquerading as upright and good. This is a lesson our society has been slow to learn and the refusal of church leaders and ministers here to name wicked the bigotry, intolerance, and ignorance which calls itself Christian exhibits a 'niceness' and reticence which the rabbi Jesus would have held in the deepest contempt and scorn.
Christianity is failed at the deepest level, not by those who can blithely condemn 'sin' while ignoring the self-aggrandisement and enrichment of their religious and community leaders, but by those who, seeing what is truly vile and evil, use words like inadvisable, injudicious, and unwise to describe it. In reply to Brian, the Bible may seem to be a list of taboos and a compendium of arcane but irrelevant "wisdom". But that is manifestly not the case. It is very dangerous to dismiss the content of it only on the basis of a cursory reading.
It is crucially important to see how books like Leviticus mesh with the ew Testament. For example, it is clear from the book of Acts, specifically from chapter 10 where Peter's vision of "clean and unclean" animals is recorded, that the regulations regarding certain kinds of food were obsolete and had to be set aside. As regards homosecual activity, by contrast, Paul includes it in a list 1 Corinthians 6 vv of sins which still exclude people from the presence of God. Interestingly, the same list also includes "adulterers But they had become entirely ad ompletely acceptable to God "in the name of "the Lord Jesus Christ".
They had, in other words, been forgiven, ad given a fresh start. We are on very dangerous ground when we say about any of these things: "there is nothing wrong with Adam and Eve took it upon themselves to decide what actions were "to be desired to make one wise", among other appealing charectistics that taking the forbidden fruit offered.
From then on their "progeny" have been defining their morality and their identities in defiance of their Creator, in a "rich variety?? Our only hope is to get back to efore Eve started to listen to the voice of God's and her enemy, and accept God's definition of what is right and wrong, and also his provision rather than our own fig-leaves for our having screwed up. But I must stress that there is nothing special about homosexuality in that respect.
Sorry a few typos from my post needed correcting. Here it is again. It is very dangerous to dismiss the content of Scripture only on the basis of a cursory reading or on the basis of hearsay.
It is crucially important to see how books like Leviticus mesh with the New Testament. As regards homosexual activity, by contrast, Paul includes it in a list 1 Corinthians 6 vv of sins which still exclude people from the presence of God. But they had become entirely and completely acceptable to God "in the name of "the Lord Jesus Christ".
They had, in other words, been forgiven, and given a fresh start. Our only hope is to get back to before Eve started to listen to the voice of God's and her enemy, and accept God's definition of what is right and wrong, and also his provision rather than our own fig-leaves for our having screwed up. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.
They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity.
Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
Well, having had some time to reflect on what I said, the logical conclusion is that if you are a homosexual man and practice homosexuality, and you believe in the bible, you have unquestioningly accepted that you are condemned. Unless there is something very wrong with the translation, it seems pretty explicit to me.
Not any room for interpretation. Of course you are in good company because if you are not Kosher, you are equally condemned. I don't read anything in the bible that says one abomination is any more or less punishable than any other. I think that also goes for all of you who have lusted after your neighbor's wife. It doesn't matter what you did or didn't do, as Jimmy Carter said "I had lust in my heart. I wonder if Mother Theresa was condemned. Funny how so many try to dance around the fact that they can't or won't obey all of the laws spelled out in the bible.
They don't accept that when you are a believer you have bought into the entire package. They rationalize ignoring the laws they don't like. All except for the Catholics who get absolution. Now where does it say that you can commit even one abomination let along countless abominations and be pardoned for it simply by making a periodic visit to a confessional?
It seems to me one amomination is enough to be condemned. After all, wasn't Moses condemned never to enter the land of Israel just for committing the one abomination of getting water out of a rock? This after he had obeyed all of God's commandments to get the people of Israel out of Egypt and to climb Mount Sinai to get the ten commandments, the law god laid down and had him deliver to the Israelites.
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