Current Events > Homosexuality Being a Sin In the Bible Revealed to Be Mistranslation

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i don't think this makes as much of a difference as they think it does. it doesn't strike me as notable that the word "homosexual" didn't appear in the bible until 1946, because homosexual is a relatively modern medical term, and the ancient Greeks (and i presume other contemporary cultures) had radically different views about sexuality than we have today. it was very common, for instance, for grown men to have sex with boys younger than them for pleasure, and only sleep with their wives for mating purposes, yet this was never labeled as "homosexual" in their time.

Imagine an Omnipotent, All Knowing, All Powerful being that uses one of the most unreliable way to communicate to human, a fucking book that can be translated a bajillion ways.

There's another part in the bible that makes it pointless to care about sin.

"Judge not."
Those 2 words right there say it's not our place to judge the lives of others. Even if being gay is a sin, it's not my place to say anything. We're supposed to love them as a brother regardless.

Loving someone as your brother does not mean saying nothing as you watch them sin. If you love someone you would encourage them to live a godly life. Compassion has been entirely twisted when it becomes "let everyone do whatever they want because Jesus, right?" No, Jesus condemned living a sinful lifestyle and worked with sinners so they would no longer sin. He didn't just say "do whatever you want lmao"

I'm not saying that either. I'm saying they shouldn't be judged or condemned for how they live, not by us anyway. Even if they're living a lifestyle we disagree with they should still have our love and support. Not the hate and condemnation they're currently getting.

Create thousands of languages
Communicate your gospel through one language

What could possibly go wrong

I agree that there is massive blurring of the line between condemning someone's actions and condemning the person themselves that humans tend to fail at.

Boy, it's almost like it's all made up, huh?

Most current Christians, perhaps. But future people are going to look at this and come to the conclusion that the Bible simply cannot be relied upon.

Number of religious people whose views this will change: 0

The only times the Mosaic Covenant is trumped is when Jesus contradicts it, which he doesn't, except from the whole not killing them.

So I can go to Hell for eating at Red Lobster?

Not necessarily

I think God spoke to / speaks to us in a language and vibe we understand, and those that existed so many millenia go naturally misunderstood it as flawed human beings and tried to convey their word as everyone else's word, forming religions. Which is why a lot of religions have overlaps, of both things that can be true and things that can be false.

Which is why religion as a blind faith following is dumb.

I don't really get the point of criticizing one mistranslation in 1 Corinthians as a scapegoat for Chrisyian bigotry when there is a significant amount of explicit homophobia in the Bible. Leviticus pretty explicitly states that the Israelites should behead men who have sex with each other, Romans discusses how God turned away from some people who had turned to "shameless" same-sex relations, and the story of Lot has a bunch of men in Sodom trying to rape some guys that are Lot's guests, and Lot offers them his two virgin daughters instead (lmfao Bible). Two angels rescue Lot and blind the Sodomites and the story is used to contextualize why God dropped a 25 kill streak on Sodom and Gomorrah. There's more too that I don't remember off hand.