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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up with the King James Version.  I really don't see what the RSV has to do with any of this.  It was supposed to translate the KJV into readable understandable language, not translate the original texts written in Greek.  And of course if you're going to say some translations got some passages wrong, then many others can be wrong too.  Slippery slope.
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Well, even the KJV did not specifically castigate homosexuality.  From the author's comment in the article posted in the OP:

[url]https://www.forgeonline.org/blog/2019/3/8/what-about-romans-124-27[/url]
[quote][b]WHAT WAS USED BEFORE HOMOSEXUAL SHOWED UP IN THE RSV VERSION?[/b]

King James Version triumphed the land and they used the phrase, [b]“Abusers of themselves with mankind”[/b] for arsenokoitai. If you asked people during that time no one really wanted to tackle it. So that’s why I’m collecting Bibles, Biblical commentaries and lexicons, in order to show how theologians dealt with these passages. [/quote]

So, the original KJV from the 17th century did not use the term homosexual or any reference to homosexuality.  That was done in later incarnations of the KJV which did not evolve until after the mid-20th century.  The current anti-homosexuality platform has been a reinterpretation of the Bible over the last 70 or so years.  Prior to that, even the earlier translations of the various versions of the Bible did not include a proscription for homosexuality.

I still contend that the current anti-homosexuality stance of the church is a modern reinterpretation.[/quote]

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