My Religious Views
Channel: Will Pittenger
Date: 10/02/2020

This is a broad description of my religious views with a lengthy section regarding homosexuality.  Below are the notes mentioned in the video.


Leviticus 18:22
 NET2: You must not have sexual relations with a male as one has sexual relations with a woman.  It is a detestable act. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2018%3A22-net_strongs2__notes%3ALeviticus%2018
 ESV: You shall not lie with a male as with a woman.  It is an abomination. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2018%3A22-esv__notes%3ALeviticus%2018
 HCSB: You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman.  It is detestable. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2018%3A22-hcsb__notes%3ALeviticus%2018
 ISV: You are not to have sexual relations with a male as you would with a woman.  It’s detestable. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2018%3A21-isv__notes%3ALeviticus%2018
 KJV: Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.  https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2018%3A22-kjv__notes%3ALeviticus%2018
 MSG: Don’t have sex with a man as one does with a woman. That is abhorrent. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2018%3A22-msg__notes%3ALeviticus%2018
 NASB: You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female.  It is an abomination. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2018%3A22-nasb__notes%3ALeviticus%2018.

Leviticus 20:13
 NET2: If a man goes to bed with a male as one goes to bed with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination.  They must be put to death.  Their blood guilt is on themselves. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2020%3A13-net_strongs2__notes%3ALeviticus%2020
 ESV: If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.  They shall surely be put to death.  Their blood is upon them. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2020%3A13-esv__notes%3ALeviticus%2020
 HCSB: If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed a detestable thing.  They must be put to death.  Their blood is on their own hands. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2020%3A13-hcsb__notes%3ALeviticus%2020
 ISV: If a man has sexual relations with another male, as he would with a woman, both have committed a repulsive act. They are certainly to be put to death. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2020%3A13-isv__notes%3ALeviticus%2020
 KJV: If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2020%3A13-kjv__notes%3ALeviticus%2020
 MSG: If a man has sex with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is abhorrent.  They must be put to death. They are responsible for their own deaths. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2020%3A13-msg__notes%3ALeviticus%2020
 NASB: If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act.  They shall surely be put to death.  Their bloodguiltiness is upon them. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ALeviticus%2020%3A13-nasb__notes%3ALeviticus%2020
  
I should note that Leviticus only references relationships between males.  Relationships between women isn't explicitly mentioned.  However, Leviticus (and indeed, the rest of the books desribing the law) ignore most ways in which women can sin sexually.  Several books in the New Testament can be seen as prohibiting more same-sex relationships.  However, the terms that existed in when those books were written could be translated in different ways.  The Apostle Paul does mention what I quote of Romans 1:26-27 below from NET2:

 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. https://netbible.org/#!l/bible%3ARomans%201%3A26-net_strongs2__notes%3ARomans%201
 
The website does list the following notes for those verses:
 Note 55 tn Grk “for their females exchanged the natural function for that which is contrary to nature.” The term χρῆσις (chrēsis) has the force of “sexual relations” here (L&N 23.65).
 Note 56 tn Grk “likewise so also the males abandoning the natural function of the female.”
 Note 57 tn Grk “burned with intense desire” (L&N 25.16).
 Note 58 tn Grk “another, men committing…and receiving,” continuing the description of their deeds. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.