What bi le verses condemn being gay

William O. Walker Jr. I learned in Bible School that the toughest, cleverest, most illustrious warrior of the Bible was David. Remember him? Continue reading. Stephen J. Patterson People today widely believe that the Bible condemns being gay. They get this idea from, well, reading the Bible.

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Translations of Lev. As it is apparent, there is something happening in the various translations of Lev. In order to understand this verse we must confer with scholars and their commentaries. Milgron finds that the word used for male and female words in the verse features a singular version for the male and a plural word for female.

Same-sex marriage: What does the Bible really have to say?

In his list of wrongdoers, he includes two Greek words that connect to some forms of same-sex behavior. But even in sexual contexts, malakos was most frequently used to describe men who were seen as lacking self-control in their love for women. Explore book. Those contexts indicate that the word likely relates to sexual or economic exploitation.

The Bible on Homosexual Behavior

Yunuen Trujillo, Esq. Harold W. As Amy-Jill Levine does, Professor Attridge looks carefully at each of the verses on homosexuality in the New Testament which come only in the Epistles, not from Jesus in the Gospels and asks what each one meant which is often unclear or ill-defined when they were written.