In the case of this gay sex prohibition, a consistent thread in early Judeo-Christian understanding was that semen alone was considered unclean, because sex was ONLY meant to be procreative.Ĭheck out what God does to Onan when he ejaculates outside of a woman in Genesis 38. Rules in the Bible were always tied to some sort of reasoning. The ridiculousness of using Leviticus to condemn ANYTHING is simply in looking at what in the world the Book of Leviticus condemns.
Leviticus 20:13 “Mosaic Punishments for Violating Mosaic Law:” THEN…there’s Leviticus 18:22 “Mosaic Law Prohibitions” and Their sin was not that men wanted to “have sex” with men. They clearly tell us that God despised the greed and wickedness of the people in the cities toward outsiders. They came to rape these angels.Īlso, MULTIPLE parts of the Bible (Luke 10: 10-13 Isaiah 19: 13-14 Jeremiah 23: 14 Ezekiel 16: 49 Zephaniah 2: 8-11) refer to Sodom and Gomorrah. The Sodomite men did not come to Lot’s house to have monogamous, committed, loving relationships with the male angels residing there. Historians and sociologists tell us that gang rape was a very common form of brutal humiliation of the subjects, in the ancient Western world. Many anti-gay Christian ministers use this passage to say that this is an example of God’s wrath against homosexuality.as if the men of Sodom were all gay, and all trying to "be gay with" these male angels. Moments later, the two cities are destroyed by fiery rain. This angers the cities' men, and the men rallied outside of Lot's home, wishing to do "perverse actions" to these male angels.
Once the angels arrive, a kind man named Lot invites these angels into his home and entertains them. Basically, God says that He's going to destroy cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, if two angels cannot find any good people within the towns. Genesis 19: 1-13 “Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction:” Plus, if gay people are not meant to be with their “suitable helper/companions,” are they meant to be alone, without a helper? I believe God would say “no,” according to Genesis 2:18. People who are gay or lesbian maybe surrounded by heterosexual mates who are perfectly “adequate” helpers, but the “suitable helper and companion” that God has made for them is not a person of the opposite sex. Relating this to our own lives, so many of us are surrounded by many “helpers” and “companions,” but, only a few, maybe one, are truly suitable to aid and comfort a person throughout his or her life. Many translations say that God makes Adam a “suitable helper/companion.” While Adam already had all the animals of the world under his dominion, God saw that Adam was alone and he needed a “suitable” helper, who just so happened to be first lady Eve. Are all of those aspects of humanity "unnatural"? When talking about "what's natural," in the beginning, the first humans did not wear prescription glasses to see, use wheelchairs to get around, or attach prosthetic limbs to enhance mobility. While the Bible in Genesis tells us that God made “male and female,” does this really mean that all males and all females need to end up with opposite sex partners? “In the beginning, God made Adam and EVE, not Adam and Steve, nor Eve and Jane.” Anti-gay Christian ministers have used this as a crux to propagate the myth that homosexuality is "unnatural."
Why do I call these passages “ridiculously-used”? Check out these passages :
These texts are typically interpreted as saying: "The Bible clearly states that being gay is a sin." Take note, as you might learn something new about Biblical ambiguities in the Scripture. While I'm not trying to sound like a Biblical scholar or know-it-all, it irks me how blind so many Christians are to the historical context of the stories from the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and Christian Scriptures (New Testament) which are typically used to condemn gay people and the fact of being gay.īelow are the some facts about the Biblical time periods, in which the " Clobber Passages" were written. Reason six: The biblical passages typically used to "condemn" LGB relationships are NOT talking about LGB relationships: Six reasons why the Bible is not against gaysĪn essay in four parts donated by Anthony Ashford Part 1 of 4: Why Christians should