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Originally posted by Reza
Leviticus is in the Old Testament. those rules don't apply to us anymore (according to the Bible). People who Quote anything from the old testament and apply it to today's lifestyles are very misinformed.
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Originally posted by fabbriche
That was the Old Law. And Jesus Christ already fulfilled the Old Laws by His passion and death on the cross. It means no more sacrifice, no more food laws, no more stoning. no more killing, etc. There is no more long list of dos and donts. just a new law based on the principle of love.. If someone went by the Old Testament, he wouldn't be a Christian. He would be Jewish.
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Originally posted by Dollas n Diamonds
lemme address this in cliff notes
-Context
-Leviticus is largely cultural laws
-"Abomination" ment loosely 'culturally frowned upon"
- They were currently at war and outnumbered
- any seed not used to make a baby would be a waste
- as well as possibly been considered murder since they didnt know biology
- the justice for murder under the law was murder
this too
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While there are many Christians I've encountered who support following of the OT (the passage to the effect of "I [Jesus] have not come to abolish those laws"), you are correct. Even so, the NT is still homophobic, God just had a light era, and decided not to explicitly say to execute us any more:
"26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions.
For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27
and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32
Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them." (Romans 1:26-32)
"Whether ye know not, that
wicked men shall not wield the kingdom of God? Do not ye err; neither lechers, neither men that serve maumets [neither men serving to idols], neither adulterers,
neither lechers against kind, neither they that do lechery with men" (Corinthians 6:9-10)
We're just shameful and going to Hell (and
deserve death)
The NT has a couple of other minor anti-Gay references, and contains passages used to support the "marriage is between a man and a woman" sentiment. If a celeb came out and said homosexuality is a dishonor, unnatural and shameful, they would be deemed a homophobe, and rightfully so.
The God of the Bible is still homophobic.
... and will continue to be so unless we get a "Newer Testament, The Re-Up: Romans Reloaded"
with unambiguous denouncement of Christian attitudes to homosexuals