Gay marriage is sinful.

Hey I'll be gone for the weekend at a Drill Competition, so if you could please hold off until late Saturday to respond I would be eternally grateful. I do agree with my opponent that we need to focus on the Bible and what was said there, now I know that the Bible does not say here's how to be gay and here's how to live a gay lifestyle. What I am arguing is that the Bible, nor Jesus for that matter, never condemns homosexuality nor gay marriage. Remember this debate is over what the Bible says not what the church has adopted afterwards. Note that even if my opponent finds something to prove that the Bible condemns the act of homosexual intercourse he is still incorrect as this debate is over weather or not Gay Marriage is sinful. Let's move on to the debate. Genesis My opponent completely ignores my argument here. I show that it is not a Biblical reference to a man and female having sex together, but a simple coming of age story. Let's look at the verse once more to emphasize my point. "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." Genesis 2:21-24 The Bible verse states that Women has come from man and that once the man has come of age he is to look for the rib. This does not mean that a man should go and find another female, but it is to find a missing half of the person. As my argument of Plato was completely dropped by my opponent as it showed exactly what I was arguing of the two halves make a whole and the human goes out there to look for the person that most completes him. This is obvious as my coming of age interpertation of the verse. I extend my arguments here as he never really refuted it. He only said that my claims supported his, but yet I was quoting the same verse he did for refrence on which verse I was speaking on. Now to further explain the second part of Genesis that I assaulted. Yes I know that Lot's wife gives birth to Iassic with the help of God, BUT before God helped her she was infertile. God told him to have a child and yet he turned to two other people who would become his wives due to her infertality. My opponent also dropps a key point here that I've made as well. He dropped that I stated that if man and women were ment to reproduce and that was God's will that would mean that those who cannot reproduce would be sinful as it would be against God's will in Pro's own interpertation. Sodom Concession by Pro. He's agreed that this poiint doesn't affect the debate. Leviticus I will make two arguments here, one refuting by with what I said last round and the second is a new argument from Paul. First to continue my assult from last round due to Kedoshim. Now to clear this up this was a Pagen religion of the Canaanites. Now why is this a huge issue you may ask? Throughout the BIble Canaa is give bad name and it is because of the Israelites invasion of the area which was controlled by the Canaanites. (Rendsburg, Gary (2008). "Israel without the Bible". In Frederick E. Greenspahn. The Hebrew Bible: new insights and scholarship. NYU Press) The Canaanites were polytheistic and practiced this religion and the Israelites tried to condemn the religion by outlawing their Priests practices in Leviticus 20:13. My opponent is also incorrect with his interpertation here as he provides no evidence stating that what I claim is flase, but since he didn't you can extend my arguments across the board. I know that we aren't debating about what was on the chalkboard, but this goes to show you that it's rediculous if you are saying that Gay Marriage is sinful without saying that these other things aren't also against God's will. Let's observe these verses in Hebrew. Ve’et zachar lo tishkav mishkevey ishah to’evah hi. Ve’ish asher yishkav et-zachar mishkevey ishah to’evah asu shneyhem mot yumatu dmeyhem bam. Now let's translate to English. 18:22 And as to the masculine, don’t lay on the sex-bed, it is a to’evah. 20:13 And one who lays with the masculine on the sex-bed, the two of them do a to’evah; they shall surely die, their blood is in them. Now in the Bible there are a total of 166 references to to'evah. It means wicked man. This was not referencing gay marriage nor gay sex it was referencing the religious rites of the Canaanite Priests. Biblical Support Once again my opponent is sadly wrong as he is not looking at the entire context of the story in Romans. In the passage Paul is being questioned about Gentile idoltry, once again refering to the Kedoshim, and turning around and after the Jews agrees that the Gentiles are guilty Paul states this. You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.- Romans 2:1 Here we can see that he also attacks the Jews for doing the same thing. It is determined that the Pagans in Rome worshiped the Pagan God of Cyblee, or also known as the Protectoress of Rome. For in Romans 3:23 he sums up his speech stating that all who have worshiped this idol have sinned. Gentile, Pagan, or Jew. for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God- Romans 3:23 Leviticus 18:23-25 refur to Bestiality not gay marriage. let me give you Leviticus 18:23 to show you exactly what I mean by it has nothing to do with Gay Marriage. "'Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion."- Lev 18:23 As you can see this has to do with bestiality not gay marriage. I'll pass the baton back off to my opponent and I ask him once more to please hold off on arguing until late Saturday. Thank you.