Reply #22: I thought it was addressed in the NT [View All]

[Meshuga]

I am no expert of Christian scripture (quite the contrary) but I thought that homosexuality was addressed in the New Testament and that the NT is at used to explain that homosexuality is a bad thing. According to the King James translation, the new testament goes further than the Hebrew Bible by including "effeminates" as being a bad thing:

I Corinthians 6 : 9-10: "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."

Lesbians also seem to be addressed besides male homosexuality:

Romans 1:26-27: "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."

As far as the Jewish scripture, the written Torah does not address lesbianism as a prohibition but it is pretty explicit about homosexual acts between males being against Jewish law. Orthodox Jews, for example, don't see a problem with the homosexual nature but with the law being broken by a homosexual act (like the law being broken when a Jew does not observe the Sabbath or mixes dairy with meat). To them, a homosexual who does not act on his tendencies is a more righteous person for being able to not break Jewish law, given his homosexual nature.

From my perception, the "New Convenant" frees people from Jewish Law (which was meant to be only followed by Jews anyway) but that does not mean that The New Convenant does not adhere to some values from the old convenant and to new interpretations of those old values. For example, at that point when Christianity broke from Judaism lesbian sex was not addressed in Jewish scripture but it is something frowned upon in Romans 1:26-27.