[CS-FSLUG] God Didn't Say That

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:54:09PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Thursday 06 January 2005 23:27, Frank Bax wrote:
> > I find it curious that not a single reply to this message actually
> > quoted the Bible.
> 
> Hardly necessary on a Christian list, it's not as if we don't all have 
> at least three different versions to hand, but since you asked:
> 
>    "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"
> 
> Carefully stepping past what the gay sites, and only the gay sites 
> (including homosexuality-condoning churches) want you to believe, 
> "effeminate" unquestionably refers to the feminine side of a male 
> homosexual relationship, and the "abusers" phrase unquestionably refers 
> to the masculine side of a male homosexual relationship.

Unquestionably?  Couldn't "effeminate" refer to transvestites?
"Mankind" is not normally read is being equivalent to "men," at least in
English.  I know there are those on the list who speak Greek.  Can some
light be shed on this?

> 
> Homosexual activist GD Comstock is quoted as saying of this passage and 
> a handful of others: "Those passages will be brought up and used 
> against us again and again until Christians demand their removal from 
> the biblical canon or, at the very least, formally discredit their 
> authority to prescribe behavior". From the horse's mouth.
> 
> Now, do you require me to quote the other passages and dig out a tonne 
> of Koine Greek and Hebrew, or are you prepared to accept that the 
> homosexual sites are shamelessly (how else?) using Scripture as a drunk 
> uses a lamp-post?

I do so require.  Not because I think that homosexual behavior is a sin,
but because I'm constitutionaly uncomfortable with ANYTHING being
"unquestionable."

Aaron Lehmann