The Bible Says Homosexuals Live an Acceptable Lifestyle

"I do not deny the Bible's credibility but rather the interpretation. The book has been interpreted to justify slavery, suffrage and the Holocaust. To not try to correctly interpret the Bible is simply irresponsible." Interpretation? I read the Bible literally. I, being a Calvinist, understand that there are parts of the Bible in which Jesus speaks in parables, and the papables are not to be taken completely literally, but as for doctrine, it should. If God allowed room for different interpritations He would have to be partial, because everyone would be right; its just a matter of how you interprate the Bible. As for slavery, I don't think the Bible supports or condemns it. I know that Bible commands slaves to obey their masters, but other then that, the Bible does not have much to say without us going into a completely different debate. As for suffrage...so what? So what if people think the Bible supports the right to vote? They could be wrong, but I really dont think God is going to condemn people for think He does or doesn't support voting. The Holocaust? If people think theBible supports the holocaust they are sadly mistaken. I would like very much to know where they find these scriptures, because I would HAPPILY counter them. On occasion in the Old Testament God commanded the Israelites to go destroy this nation or that people, but for one, God is God, and can do what He wants, second, God told the Isaelites to kill CERTAIN people. God did not command Hitler to kill JEWS. I agree, people should try to correctly interprate scripture. "But the banning of homosexuality is[still a sin]? WHY!?!? Simply prejudice. That's why. If you can discount certain books of the Bible because they are vague and questionable you can certainly dismiss the six scriptures out of millions that reference homosexuality vaguely if at all really." Are you saying God is prejudiced? I say homosexuality is a sin because God does. I never said you can discount books of the Bible, but only certain passages. The Covonent of Works was still in affect at the time that playing with pig skin, so peoples actions were very important. After the Covenant of Grace was instituted things changed. Things that used to people unclean were now clean, such as eating certain animals. God directly gives Peter a vision in which God himself declares that no animals are unclean from that point on. Why? Because once unclean, one had to be ritually washed. After Jesus died on the cross and washed us in His blood, we then had the ultimate cleansing. Baptism is a symbol of this. The cleansing of the blood of Christwas and is so powerful and so thorough that we can no longer be made unclean from things like pig skin and mixed cloth. Homosexuality is NOT INCLUDED IN THIS. Just as sins like adultry are not included in this. Things like playing with pig skin are not addressed in the New Testament. Things like homosexuality and adultry are. Matters such as these are addressed very seriously. Im not quite understanding how the verses that you quoted have anything whatsoever to do with homosexuality. Every law stated in those verses is now no longer in effect, due to theblood of Christ (symbolized by baptism). Besides, these are between men AND women, not between men OR between women. "That same code INTENDED FOR ISRAESLI PRIESTS is used to condemn homosexuality." Intended for Israeli Priests? Priests only you mean? I don't think so. What about the verse you quoted where it says a womans hand must be cut off if she touches the genitals of another man? Last I checked, women could not be priests. This goes to show that these laws were intended for the general public. Some were intended for just Priests, but most for the general public. "So if a person gets baptized they are allowed to break the rules of the Bible? Except for a homosexual? This is simply prejudice." I have already addressed this. Some laws were abolished, some were not. Sins like homosexuality and adultry were not. Once again, you are accusing God of being prejudiced. "A Sodomite is not a gay person!!! It is a person from the city of Sodom!" Ummm.......uh......I feel very akward right now....do you know what sodmy is??? Well...ok, I guess I'll give you the dictionary definition. Ooook, here goes.... From the New Lexicon Websters Dictionary...Ahem... "Sodomite---a person who practices sodomy." Lets go to sodomy then... "Sodomy---sexual intercourse between two males, between members of the same sex, or with animals, or unnatural sexual intercourse between a man and a woman." Now that we have gone into graphic detail, I think you see my point. When God condemns sodomy, He comdemns all of the above. No, not just sodomy with animals, but also between men and men, or between women and women. If God intended to say it was just refering to animals, He would say "sodomy with animals." He says sodomy. Therefore we can conclude that sodomy is a sin in Gods eyes. "Strange flesh more than likely means animal flesh. The human body is not strange flesh to another human regardless of sex." Now that we have an understanding of what sodomy is, I think we can agree that God was refering to men seeking sex with men. "There is no word for homosexual in Greek or Hebrew. So the Bible cannot say this. And a Sodomite is not synonous with a homosexual rather a person who lives in the city of Sodom. This is the translation error of 1958 Bible translator." I don't think you can speak condecendingly of the translation "homosexual" in the Bible. After all, neither you or I are scholars in hebrew or greek, so neither of us can say one way or the other. I personally am content letting the scholars in the lanuage make those decisions to some extent. In this case, I don't think you're in a postion to day anything about the translation. In referance to sodomite not being "synonous" with homosexual, you and I both know NOW that it is. Translational error? My Bible was published in 1990 and says homosexual...not sure what you getting at. "Gay marriages are just as loyal adn faithful as heterosexual marriage. How dare you imply that a gay marriage is a marriage involving adultery." They mat be loyal and faithful, but that does not mean they are right. I never said that they involved adultry, but that homosexuality is a sin COMPARABLE to adultry. " I never said that the Bible supports homosexuality. I said that the Bible does not condemmn homosexuality. Very different." Ok, but it DEFINATELY does condemn it. The verse I quoted earlier says it all; 1 Corithians 6:9. "The American Psychological Association and every respectable scientist will concur that homosexuality is natural and not changable." (http://www.family.org...) Read that, and you will see otherwise. People CAN change their sexuality, it just takes work. A LOT of work. (http://www.family.org...) This article might give you something to think about as well. "Homosexuality IS irreversible... I have NEVER seen a case of actual homosexuality reversal. And neither have you." Bold words, given the fact that I just gave you my proof. I have also given you scripural referances where God comdemns it, and God also says that He will not let us be temted beyond what we can bear, and that He will provide a way out of temptation. God Himselfe says homosexuality is reversable. When I give you Biblical defense, all you say is science has proven...bla bla. Science had also proven that sponteneous generation was real. It was even considered a law. That was proven wrong. Science changes, scripture does not. I rely on scriture for these matters. "Science proves otherwise." Science is not reliable. "No. He does not. As I have proven." I have proven otherwise. I have run out of space, so I will contine in the comment section.