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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. thanks for your reply, but many people point to stuff written by Paul in the new testament.

I believe that he was referring to exploitative sex between powerful men and powerless males/boys and he wasn't talking about the sex in a monogamous relationship that men can have in today's society[/quote]

What about the text makes you believe that?

And why would Paul need to issue that kind of reminder?  Ostensibly early Christians would have known that raping people was wrong, wouldn’t they?  They would have known that rape and adultery are wrong because that is very well established.

In context this type of waving the text away does not make sense.[/quote]

It's not the text that makes me think that. It's my understanding of society in that era

There were not open, normal monogamous homosexual relationships that Paul could have seen. Whenever he heard of male male sex, it was something more depraved[/quote]

Why would you listen to anything Paul wrote if you think he was only coming up with everything he wrote based on his own experience?

Supposedly Paul has a relationship with God, was inspired by God, and was listening to God when he wrote.  If you don’t believe this, I don’t understand what your authority would be.  It seems like a slippery slope to just throw away anything in the New Testament that does not mesh with modern social mores.

We live in the modern world.  There’s no knife to your neck if you want to do your own thing and ignore the Bible.  But I don’t understand this washing out the Bible and saying “oh Paul was a product of his time.”  Why bother with the Bible at all then?  And if so what authority do you follow?[/quote]

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