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Re: Saving the Xtian Church From Itself
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 6 Aug 2003 22:42:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
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“SODOMY” is not a biblical word. Laws against sodomy not only violate the
Constitutional guarantee of separation of church and state; they also use an
incorrect and wrongly translated term for the laws. A “Sodomite” in the Bible
is simply a person who lives in Sodom, which included Lot and his family. The
term “sodomite” in the King James Version of Deuteronomy 23:17 and I Kings
14:24 is an incorrect translation of the Hebrew word for “temple prostitute.”
(See the recent book by Mark D. Jordan: The Invention of Sodomy in Christian
Theology. University of Chicago Press, 1997.)
The average person assumes that the Bible clearly condemns male to male
sexual intercourse as “sodomy” and that the city of Sodom was destroyed
because of homosexuality, which is seen as the worst of all sins in the
Bible. These assumptions are based on no evidence at all in the Bible.
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Interesting, but perhaps you can explain some inconsistencies with that
explanation. Not all Christian religions use the King James version of the
bible - certainly the Catholics don’t (and their views on homosexuality differ
little from most Protestants), and I would imagine that Eastern/Greek/etc
Orthodox don’t, either. For that matter, the King James version of the bible I
would imagine is not used by non-english speaking countries. Thus, the set who
depend on it are english-speaking Protestants. So...how do all the other
Christian religions view homosexuality and why, since they are not depending on
some mistranslation by the council that produced the King James version? Or the
same religions in different, non-english speaking countries?
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) I can't answer you question directly because I have not made an exhaustive survey on the subject from the perspective of non-English Xtian faiths, but I will answer it this way... You can use books like Strong's Concordance to get at a closer (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| Fears of split follow gay bishop vote (URL) The historic vote has sent shock waves through the church and the wider Anglican community, with the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams saying Wednesday that the church faced "difficult days" while (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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