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[–]EternalSunset 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

This seems like just excessive rationalization too me. It pretty clearly just says kill men who have sex with other man.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"If a man lies with a male as with a woman," not, "If a man lies with a male." You've been trained to read it a certain way. The original Hebrew is even clearer: ואיש אשר ישכב את זכר משכבי אשה, "And a man who will lie a woman's lyings with a male..." As a matter of fact the entire Protestant Bible only has one instance of what I consider to be an actual condemnation of homosexuals, which is Romans 1:26-27. However even in a translation it's clear that the style of writing in all of 1:19-2:11 is nothing like Paul's, and as far as we can tell Marcion's shorter version of this epistle only had verse 2:2 of this section. That means it was almost certainly written by someone else, most likely Polycarp or Irenaeus along with their fake letters to Timothy and Titus. Even if Paul wrote it this is in a personal letter to the Roman Christians, not a revelation from God.

Many people just accept what their pastor or ministry website says as fact, and they themselves probably take what megachurch cabal mouthpieces such as John MacArthur say as fact. There is undoubtedly an agenda going on with the SBC and most megachurches, who only preach about modern-day culture wars to make themselves more popular and get more money and power. They want to turn Christianity into a business, and if possible a state. They have severely corrupted it in the process and no one notices. What's going on now is nearly identical to 1st century Judaism and the Pharisees, I can't believe I didn't see the parallels before. "God's name is slandered in the nations because of you." If you read any one of the four gospel accounts you'll realize there are some serious problems with modern Christendom, which is probably why it largely avoids studying them.