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Or bestiality. Some Christian denominations don't tolerate masturbation. [/quote]
yes, the OT does talk about beastiality as sexual immorality, like it talks about homosexuality.  I don't think beastiality is talked about in the NT, does that mean it's no longer a sin?

Again, just because it is not explicitly talked about by Jesus in the NT, it doesn't mean it's no longer a sin.   It doesn't make it all a free for all so long as you just follow his NT teachings.  He didn't come to negate the OT laws.  He came to fulfill all the Levitical laws that Jews had to follow in order to be "right" with God.[/quote]

Actually, he came to fulfill the prophecies, but he DID negate most of the Old Testament laws. Go to the passage where he's being interrogated at the Temple and they ask him, basically, "are you negating our laws?" His response is incredibly clever: he says that on just two laws (love God, love your neighbor) "hang all the law and the prophets."

Again, we can't insert our assumptions about how God might view homosexuality into a vacuum and call it the truth. This is another reason to let God judge, instead of us calling it "wrong".[/quote]

But some things ARE wrong, and we should at least know what is wrong.  Pedophilia is not mentioned directly in the bible, but we know it is wrong.  Bestiality is wrong.  We wouldn't just let those things go if we knew they were happening.  And it's not a matter of whether the people committing the sin are consenting adults- two heterosexual people having sex before marriage is a sin as well, not because it does any visible harm, but because it does spiritual harm.  So why wouldn't homosexuality, which Paul alludes to specifically, be considered a sin?[/quote]

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