Oddball Wrote:Sexual promiscuity is dangerous. The "lifestyle" argument is nonsense.
Shouldn't you read the book before you decide?
Quote:The single definite reference to homosexuality in the Bible is Leviticus 18:22 and refers to ritual sex with a temple prostitute. The word "Abomination" is almost exclusively used in the Bible to refer to ritual or idolotry
Gen 19:1-7
19:1 Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. 2 And he said, "Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." And they said, "No, but we will spend the night in the open square." 3 But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
4 Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. 5 And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally." 6 So Lot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him, 7 and said, "Please, my brethren, do not do so
wickedly!
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Rom 1:26-27
26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
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I realize that folks can offer up other interpretations of these passages, but the straightforward interpretation does not offer any contradictions, and is quite indicting. Regardless, these certainly are definite references to acts of homosexuality.
Quote:Also in Leviticus:
19:28 prohibits tattoos
Actually in context it seems to be tattoos for the dead (as in ancestor worship or other spiritual rites) But I've never been comfortable w/ professing Christians getting tattoos if you want to know the truth.
Quote:19:19 forbids crossbreeding of livestock
Yes, and I've offered this to bioethics researchers and laymen as context for some of the genetics and cloning issues. It could be that we've overstepped the line for centuries.
And how about not having fabric blends? (Lev 19:19)
Quote:-Colossians 2:16-17 "Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is Christ."
Yes, one of my favorite passages. You should see the scowls and animosity that comes out when I suggest that they are WAY overreacting when they want to ban Trick-or-Treat.
I agree that the trappings of the old covenant are no longer necessary, because we're no longer under that covenant. So sacrifices, festivals and choice foods are not essentials.
But, that doesn't get rid of those things which are absolutes. Lying, stealing, murder...they were not a symbolic part of the old covenant. They were areas of absolute. And Rom 1 continues on and explicitly identifies sexual morality as part of the list of absolutes.