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How Homosexual revisionist reinterpret Sodom in the Bible

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In regard to Genesis 19 , homosexual revisionist interpreters adopt the view that the destruction of Sodom was due to the city’s inhospitality, the violence of the people toward the two visitors sent from God. The cause of destruction was not general wickedness, homosexual rape, or homosexual lust. Homosexual relations became the interpretation as a result of myths popularized in the early Christian church , Boswell claims.  Rather, Genesis 19 condemns inhospitality to strangers or general violence or is an allegory “only tangentially related to sexuality.” He argues that his view is that which modern scholarship increasingly favors, mainly as a result of the influence of Bailey’s work. The men of Sodom merely wanted to “know” the strangers received by Lot, to inspect their passports, as it were. The Terms of the Text At issue is the translation of the Hebrew word yādaʿ, commonly meaning “to know.” In the New International Version text for Genesis 19:5 and 8, the words...

Really bad argument used here by gays seeking to dismiss the Bible

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Objection Stated  Paul is “trapping” the Jews in Romans 1 , and springs the trap in Romans 2 , and hence what is in Romans 1 is really irrelevant to the modern situation. Some revisionists argue that Paul’s entire effort in Romans 1 is in essence disingenuous: He is simply seeking to get his Jewish opponents to agree with him, to “jump on the bandwagon” so to speak, so he can then “spring the trap” on them in chapter two. The hoped for result seems to be that we can dismiss what Paul says in chapter 1 as merely rhetorical. Biblical Response This kind of argument can be very fairly identified as desperate. The consistency of what Paul says in Romans 1 and how he concludes Romans 3 (vv. 10–19), which comes long after the alleged “springing of the trap” in chapter 2, completely refutes this idea. Further, the argument assumes that Paul is speaking only of Gentiles in chapter 1, which is simply untrue. The connection with chapter 2 and the direct application to Jews ...