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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]when you say "modern construct," how are you defining "modern."   Sodomy came to mean as early as the 13th century what it means now, unnatural sexual acts including homosexual acts.  It doesn't mean lack of hospitality or failure to be nice to the poor.[/quote]

[b]it could mean rape and not include homosexual acts[/b][/quote]

Well, o.k., but the New International Version clearly says send out the men "so we can have sex with them." If you want to interpret that as rape, fine. It seems clear to me the gravamen of the offense is men having sex with men.

BTW, you can look the NIV up in Wikipedia and see it was written by scholars to translate the best existing manuscripts into English as those words are commonly understood today.  I understand much in the the Bible is unpalatable to us today in light of our modern sensibilities, but why not just leave it at that instead of trying to pretend the words mean something different than what they clearly say?  [/quote]

Why not just leave it at the original text or the German translation.. which is rape.

Why do you want to follow a translation that is other than what god intended. [/quote]

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