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In my opinion it remains an unaddressed problem. We don’t know who wrote it, and that verse contradicts the words supposedly spoken by Jesus in Matthew 5 so you can take it for what that’s worth. It wasn’t written by Paul, although it is was initially attributed to him. Here is the problem with the book of Hebrews. Yes, I know about the verse from Hebrews but if that verse were true it would contradict Jesus in Matthew 5. Don’t believe me? Read it for yourselves. Then after verse 20 the Jesus character proceeds to imply that just following the law isn’t enough but that he intended to make it even more difficult on his followers. The last time I looked the earth was still here so the law still applies. These are problematic for Christians because it specifically says that “till heaven and earth disappear”. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.” 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. “18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Upon reading the rest of that chapter one will also see these verses, However it is misleading to suggest that the quote from Matthew means what is being implied here although it’s a common interpretation. It’s true that Leviticus actually says that.
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Even if it were actually speaking of homosexual sex acts…who cares? There is no credible evidence that those cities ever existed, so to make the claim that homosexuality was even remotely a cause in their destruction is an empty claim. However that still doesn’t mean anything since the Bible was written by men who knew nothing about gay people. It could be anything named as an abomination in the Bible or something else entirely. However the quote from Ezekiel is missing the next verse “And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.” Now what that abomination was, we aren’t told. Some of this is both true but misleading. So the next time someone says they can’t accept something the Bible calls unnatural, point them to 1 Corinthians 11:14 and ask: Do you feel the same way about long hair in men? That’s a cultural convention in a similar way to norms about hair length. In the ancient world, same-sex relations were widely considered “unnatural” largely due to the fact that same-sex partners violated customary, patriarchal gender norms: Men were passive instead of active, and women were dominant instead of submissive. That’s why most Christians interpret “nature” in 1 Corinthians 11 as referring to cultural conventions of Paul’s day.īut if “nature” really means “custom” in 1 Corinthians 11, might it also mean “custom” in Romans 1? There’s good reason to think so. In fact, the Bible itself speaks highly of long hair in men in the Old Testament (see Numbers 6:5, 2 Samuel 14:26, and 2 Kings 2:23). Paul says in 1 Corinthians 11:14 that for a man to have long hair violates what “nature” teaches and is “a disgrace to him.” But most Christians who oppose same-sex marriage wouldn’t condemn long hair in men.