Wone wrote:Whatever is an atrocity to God I'm against.
I waited for you to post in this thread and this is all you give me? I am dissapoint
Dennis 37 wrote:I'll start with effeminate which is often highlighted as a type of gay person. The rest you can google yourself, or I'll get back to you tomorrow as it is late here in the east.
Keep in mind this is originally a Greek text. The Greek word translated “effeminate” in verse 9 is quite broad. The word is malakoi, and it literally means “soft.” So Paul is saying “soft people” will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Dale B. Martin, Arsenokoitês and Malakos: Meaning and Consequences (Source: Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture edited by Robert L. Brawley; Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville Kentucky, 1996), page 124. Nissinen also offers “frailty of body or character, illness, sentimentality, or moral weakness” as other possibilities for the meaning of this word in other contexts (page 117).
This common Greek word had different connotations depending on the context in which it was used. In terms of morality, it generally referred to something like laziness, degeneracy, decadence, or lack of courage. (See note 2.) The connotation was of being “soft like a woman” or like the delicate expensive fabrics worn by rich men. In the patriarchal culture of the time, women were thought to be weaker than men, more fearful, more vulnerable, and more vain. Thus, men who ate too much, liked expensive things, were lazy, or liked to dress well were considered “soft like a woman.” Although this type of misogynistic thinking is intolerable in our modern society, it was common in ancient times and explains why the King James Version translated malakoi as “effeminate."
While I will get to the other points tomorrow, the point is that the translators of the Greek to King James version were no more tolerant of gays than the translators of the ancient Hebrew to Leviticus were.
What I do know is in no translation of the four most important books of the bible does Jesus say anything about homosexuality. Nothing.
One should be able to identify a Christian through his compassion and charity, not by what he says.
Oh this is another one of my favorites, the "it wasn't translated right" people. Bending anything and everything to continue to support that tunnel vision.
