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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...