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Paul and Timothy were Christians and accepted as canon, but never actually met Jesus, the central figure of the New Testament and Christianity. I don't know if all canon matters more to you as a Christian or specifically the teachings attributed to Jesus.
Does the OP mean the OT, NT or what Jesus said?
First, we can begin with Jesus never said anything about it, leaving it then down to the OT and NT.
I think we have to also exclude the OT, since basically no one follows OT behavioral rules
Thus, I think the OPer should clarify he means the Bible - excluding Jesus and the OT.
Is that correct? Or is he also condemning Red Lobster's shrimp special and every BBQ restaurant's pork ribs? The marriage laws of the OT are rather odd too.
I guess what I would say on this matter is that you should learn to read Hebrew and Greek. There aren't very good English cognates for the Hebrew and Greek words in the Bible. Some are much more egregious than others. For example, the word usually translated as "abomination," thuobe, really means something more like "against our custom" or "against the thread of our identity."
Perhaps more importantly, notion that the Bible was written by God, rather than mostly by fallible human beings who are closer to God than others but who still may make errors, is relatively recent. The Jews only came to think this about Torah (and not the rest of the Tanakh) in roughly the fifth century A.D., and Christians only came to think this way much later. I think the most reasonable reading of such passages is that they describe civil laws of that particular time and place, written by people who were divinely inspired, though not necessarily at the time of writing.
RAMOSS said:The Hebrew word is Toe'vah which is more along the lines of 'ritualistically unclean'. Everyone reaches that state in their life. You have to clean yourself in the Mikvah bath, according to orthodox and some conservatives. You had to be 'clean' to enter the temple. A lot of that doesn't matter anymore, since there is no temple.
Let me be more specific with my wording: Paul never met Jesus in his earthly form.Paul did meet Christ, which formed the basis for his claim to Apostleship.
I am Jewish, so the NT is not relevant to me. I have posted the theological reasoning of why there is nothing sinful about CONSENSUAL homosexual behavior and about homosexuality as an orientation many times. I will repost it here:
Yeah, actually it is a big leap. Sexual sins are like one of the biggest no-no's there is, probably because once people start committing them habitually, they usually don't want to stop.
Does the OP mean the OT, NT or what Jesus said?
First, we can begin with Jesus never said anything about it, leaving it then down to the OT and NT.
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