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To: Achilles who wrote (56331)	7/14/1999 11:25:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>ME: The condemnation is indeed included in the OT, but unlike many of the proscriptions listed in the OT, the proscription against homosexuality is almost word for word transferred from the OT to the NT.< >YOU: Word for word? I don't recall any striking similarity of wording. What passages are you referring to?< Well consider the language in which Paul's letters have come to us, and read his comments as touching homosexuality in that language. Then read the relevant texts on homosexuality from the prevalent biblical text used by Jews during the Hellenistic-Jewish period. Then you will see an almost word for word transferal of the condemnation of homosexuality from the Old Testament to the New. >How do you know [homosexuality was rampant amongst pagan leaders of Jesus' era]?< Its called reading. It is quite commonly known that during the age previous, Plato had lauded homosexuality, Nero, at about the time of St. Paul was about to “marry” the boy Sporus, and since 14 of the first 15 Roman emperors were homosexual (or at least bisexual), this little incident was relatively insignificant.