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The Queen James Bible, the Gay Bible

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English: Title page of The Holy Bible, King James version, 1772. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Queen James Bible , also known as the Gay Bible, is a new assault on biblical orthodoxy and sexual purity.  This is to be expected in a world of moral relativism.  In it, the 1769 King James  Bible  has been reproduced with only a very few select verses altered--the ones that relate to homosexuality.  Those verses are listed below and analyzed.  I hope you will see that the Queen James Bible is a perversion of the original text and is the result of obvious prejudices against the original Hebrew and Greek texts in order to make homosexual practices appear acceptable. The interlinear citations are taken from two sources.  An interlinear is a listing of the original languages that is reproduced from the most ancient and best manuscripts with English translations under it.  This way, the reader can see for himself what the original says. Hebrew Interlinear Quotations are from van der

The word "homosexual" didn't appear in English Bibles until 1946

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English: First page of the Gospel of Saint John, from the 1526 Peter Schoeffer printing of William Tyndale's English translation of the Bible. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The homosexual community has raised the argument that the word homosexual never occurred in the  Bible  until 1946, thereby trying to demonstrate that homosexuality is not wrong; that instead,  Christians  have translated the Bible to make it suit their needs.  Consider this quote from a pro-homosexual website. "The word "homosexual" did not appear in any translation of the Christian Bible until 1946. There are words in Greek for same-sex sexual activities, yet they never appear in the original text of the New Testament ." (http://www.pflagupstatesc.org/statistics.htm) But, we have to acknowledge that you don't translate a word from Hebrew and Greek into the English if there is no English equivalent.  So, using the term "homosexual" in the English Bible could not have oc

BBC marks anniversary of King James Bible by claiming King David was gay

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Image via Wikipedia BBC Radio 4 has marked the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible by claiming that King David, the Jewish king of the Old Testament who slew the giant Philistine Goliath, was in the Bible’s “only gay relationship.” On a literary program, one of a series on the historic Bible translation , aired on Sunday, January 9th, playwright Howard Brenton claimed that David had been in love with Jonathan, the son of King Saul . Brenton said, “To a secular reader the story of David and Jonathan’s love is obviously homosexual, the only gay relationship in the Bible.” Brenton acknowledged that the idea is “controversial.”  The King James Bible, approved by King James I of England in 1611, is renowned even among non-Christians for the beauty of its 17th century English translation; it was the first Bible to be published in the English language . The King James was prepared by a team of 47 of the best Bible scholars of the day and remains one of the mos