Re: Introduce yourself
Uhhh, hello again karla?
@Toxic: The one where god is all "and you will sleep as man and woman" and people take that to mean he was specifically banning men sleeping with other men.
You mean Leviticus 18:6 - "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female. It is an abomination." ?
Cuz if so, have I got some words for that.
*EDIT* This also actually involves incubus' point of "9 “These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat. 10 But anything in the seas or the rivers that has not fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you. 11 You shall regard them as detestable; you shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses. 12 Everything in the waters that has not fins and scales is detestable to you."
Which is also Leviticus.
IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT: Leviticus is a holiness code. Meaning, it is something to be expected of the priests of Israel. No one else. Jesus and Paul both attested that Leviticus is not for Christian followers. The holiness code was for behaviors that Jewish people thought wrong in a certain context. And this also plays into the usage of the word "abomination," because they didn't use it how we use it today. To them, it just meant they thought it was offensive in a certain context. It wasn't a law, it wasn't to be upheld the same way.
So everything in Leviticus, including getting round haircuts, eating shellfish, playing with pig's flesh (football), and getting your fortunes told are a) not applicable to regular Christian followers, B) only held to Priests of Israel, and even then C) was not taken as a decree of law.
They didn't like the spilling or wasting of seed back then because in their understanding, semen was the entire being and women were only placeholders, so to speak. It's christianity, don't expect them to have decent views on women. So spilling seed was killing to them, and they were not a populated people. Almost every issuance of homosexuality in the bible is not the same as it's understood today. Even, and especially, in the classic case of Sodom.
