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To: RetiredNow who wrote (219319)	2/16/2005 1:10:06 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574889

>The Bible says that for man to lay with man is an abomination. I'm not really that up on religion, but didn't St. Paul say that the Old Testament's laws were nullified by the New? -Z

To: RetiredNow who wrote (219319)	2/16/2005 1:44:30 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574889

Christians and their self-serving interpretations The Bible says that for man to lay with man is an abomination. That's not an interpretation, it's a translation. Modern justifiers of a new mores are doing all the loose interpretations around here. And the Old Testament told the Jews not to eat pork......for health reasons. However, there are Jews today who eat pork because the health reasons no longer exist. Back then, there were sometimes solid reasons to listen to what the bible had to say on certain subjects..........esp. if a subject was not in the best interest of the general population. When the two biblical books were written, man had only recently discovered agricultural. For the first time in history, he was able to sustain the population and no longer had to lead a nomadic existence. However, it was not a done deal......if the crops failed, the population suffered and declined. In the ME, the climate was more favorable back then than it is now........they would get more rainfall......but rain still was not plentiful like it is in the UK or Ireland. So when the rains failed, the population declined. The last thing the ancients needed were men sleeping with men. Men needed to reproduce as many people as possible. Agriculture required large families to make it work. Procreation was a much bigger issue then than it is now. There are any number of things in the old and new testaments that don't make sense to us but made perfectly good sense to the ancients. The bible was a guide for living back then, not now. And you will note, that the teachings of Jesus are not tainted with the biases and so many of the restrictions found in the rest of the two books. So you can tell me all you want that the bible says it is an abomination for a man to lay with man. Well, let the bible explain to me why homosexuality exists in nature. When it comes up with a decent explanation, I will listen to some of its other decrees re. the subject. Dang! We were given brains to learn and to grow and to survive. After 2000 years, I have got to believe that our body of knowledge is considerably more sophisticated and spot on than it was back then. In any case, I choose to believe that God has a purpose for everything He puts on this planet. Given that by definition, he is a superior being, I have chosen not to try to outthink his reasons for doing so. ted