People On Social Media Point Out That The Bible Was Translated Wrong And Didn’t Say Anything About Homosexuality

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The Old Testament was written mostly in Hebrew, a few small sections were written in Aramaic. The New Testament was written Greek. There are over 5,000 handwritten copies of the Bible, in its entirety or just sections. They agree 98% of the time.

IIRC, the reason the greek word here is important is because, up until the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, it was the oldest 'copy' of the masoretic texts. From a historian's perspective, there were some unfortunate traditions of ritually destroying scriptural texts- to the point that prior to the Qumran cave finds, the septuagint was a few thousand years prior to the Aleppo Codex. not sure why 'old' matters here, considering that from the same historian's perspective, the jewish scribes had a few other traditions that were positively lovely, (namely ritually destroying any copy that had a mistake in it and starting over.) but that's why they care about what the greek translations had to say. Of course, the dead sea scrolls have changed this-they're more or less contemporary to the Septuagint.

That, Aragorn, is Christian.

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The god that I am talking about would be the baby murdering, mass-murdering, eternally soul condemning depiction of jealousy, fear and power personified that serves as the very core and basis of the nonsense that you superimpose upon the fact because you're too much of a coward to address the truth, which is that neither that god nor the one that you imagine has any basis and nor does the original, which you are in denial of, inspire your actions and ideals. You're just living in a communally vicarious daydream, as far as can be from your true self. As far as can be from truth.

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How do you love and follow something that you can not and have not possibly confirmed, let alone understand? You follow your ideals. Which seem to amount to much higher morals than the god mentioned in the bible. So, you rebel against that god, because you're better than the more bitter tribal hatred and the highest ideals of primitive inbreds. End of story. Why bullshit? Isn't that sinful?

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That’s basically how I feel. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, but *sigh* isn’t the whole point of the LGBTQ movement to understand that we are all different? Do you really have to meddle with our religion?

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There is no right to a**l sex.

I'm Jewish Orthodox, and now I'm really curious. Which rules was she referring to? Or was she putting all the rules under an umbrella of 'survival tips'? Because I think a lot of rules aren't for survival, there's also basic moral rules, like 'don't kill' or 'don't steal' etc. So I'm wondering which rules she was thinking of. Would you be able to ask her?

What bugs me is how people reconcile the idea of an all-powerful and all-knowing deity with the deeply flawed and ridiculous mess that is the Bible. If God didn't want the Bible to be misinterpreted then surely it is within His power to make it so. Otherwise He must have wanted it this way, which is even ore disturbing when you think about it.

......... which promiscuous heterosexuals also get.

So your Orthodox friend says things that are part of Conservative and Reform ideology that Orthodox would consider Heresy. Are you sure she is Orthodox?

I think your plus key is broken.

12 years and 1 day would be 13 years of age by their reckoning. Many cultures (not my culture) consider 13 adulthood. This comment will disappear soon because BP readers tend to downvote hard facts which they're not comfortable with.

Alexandru Bucur lol