Did Christian homophobia come from a mistranslation of the Bible?
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Anonymous
Since you won't list the points you disagree with? You won't accept that I will provide the citations? Why not? |
Anonymous
+1 What are the specific points that PP disagrees with? |
Anonymous
It’s not my personal disagreement. It’s the well known fact that claims must be supported and the information cited and annotated. Look at wikipedia and note how even that website sources and links information. If a claim or statistic or piece of data is unsourced on wikipedia, (citation needed) appears in brackets to let the reader know there is no source provided. Everything needs an author, a source, citation, and annotation. Wikipedia even provides those things, while your link doesn’t even provide an author. |
Anonymous
I would like to know the author of this link and where they found their information? You can provide it here, no one is stopping you from providing it. Please proceed. |
Anonymous
You keep repeating yourself, so I will also. Provide the points you disagree with, and I will provide all the citations therein. Maybe you can't because you know those points are true, and you are trying a desperate ad-hominem defense? Prove me wrong by accepting the challenge. You'll get all the citations you need, done properly, and will have the chance to challenge them with your own. That's how it works when you are being honest. |
Anonymous
That’s why other scholars criticize and critique their work. That’s why there are established standards for scholarship and criteria needed to be considered serious and reputable. |
Anonymous
Who is the author of the link you provided? Start there. |
Anonymous
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It’s not merely the passages that are explicitly stating that men having relations with other men (or as some might argue—other boys) us a sin.
The other challenge for proponents of the idea that the practice of gay relationships is “sinful” and that God does not bless “gay marriage” is that marriage itself is Biblically described as an institution designed by God to join a man and a woman (male and female) together with him in the covenant of marriage. So I can get behind “acceptance” that gayness maybe isn’t a sin in the eyes of God due to some mistranslation or differing interpretations ….. But it’s a bit more than a stretch to say that God intended to include same sex couples under the “marriage covenant” since that’s a completely different definition. You can point to any mention in the Bible of marriage that doesn’t specify man and woman, make and female, or husband and wife. Those words have actual meaning—despite what the current trends attempting to redefine them would suggest. |
Anonymous
The first post, https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Biblical_scientific_errors, has citations for every single claim. It even contains mathmatical proof therein. The second one https://thirdmill.org/answers/answer.asp/file/39817 as an example: One such example is that of Acts 5, where Luke writes of the Pharisee Gamaliel's speech (vv. 34-39). This speech would have taken place around AD 35-40, yet it refers to Theudas' revolt of AD 46-47 as a past event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theudas#:~:text=Theudas%20(%2F%CB%88%CE%B8ju%CB%90d,in%20a%20short%2Dlived%20revolt.
Josephus good enough a source for you? Unless you think Josephus was a forgery, which is fine with me, but opens a lot of other discussions. Maybe these are better historical inaccuracy links for you: https://religions.wiki/index.php/The_Bible_is_not_a_reliable_historical_source https://biblefails.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/scientific-and-historical-inaccuracies-in-the-bible/ I have many more if you need them. The third one: https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/biblical-contradictions/ is self citing as it is simply textual criticism of a single book. There you go! |
Anonymous
So you don’t know the author of the page? |
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https://biblefails.wordpress.com/about/
Who is the author of this source? They don’t provide any information about their education or scholarship, and they don’t have a name? |
Anonymous
As long as it’s also applied equally to the militant atheists who hate people of faith, and to the members of the LGBTVQIA+ community who revel in the desecration and sexualization of religion (Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and other similar groups). As long as those people are also called “haters” and “bigots”, I can accept it. But we all know they won’t be, don’t we? Of course. Such derision is a one-way street. And that’s fine. Hell has unlimited room. As they will one day come to find. |
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Anonymous
Lust is a sin, regardless of the sex of the subject of the attraction. Sex between men, between women, or between people and animals, are all explicitly defined as sin in the Book of Leviticus. This really isn’t subject to argument or interpretation. You can choose to agree or not, but the text itself is perfectly unambiguous. |
Anonymous
Which page you are talking about? I have listed multiple. What issue do you take with what has been cited? You wanted citations, you got them. So until you provide equally cited contradictions, you can't even dispute, let alone settle, the points made, and they will stand. Why can't you just have your book as a wonderful metaphor for your life? Why do you have to make it literal? Don't you wonder what shrimp tastes like? I am certain you have never eaten it, since it is explicitly forbidden, just like gay sex. |