[CS-FSLUG] God Didn't Say That

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:40:51AM -0500, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> 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."

I mistyped here.  The sentence should have read "Not because I DON'T
think homosexual behavior is a sin..."

Aaron Lehmann