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The New Testament (Greek: Καινὴ Διαθήκη, Kainē Diathēkē) is the name given to the second major division of the Christian Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament. The New Testament is sometimes called the Greek New Testament or Greek Scriptures, or the New Covenant.

The original texts were written by various authors after c. AD 45, in Koine Greek, the lingua franca of the eastern part of the Roman Empire.

So we agree that we then can refer to passages in greek and directly translate them into english, without the help or guidence of clergy men.

In 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 we find the “supposed” passage that condemns homosexuality. Let’s take the original greek text and translate it straight to english:

The indispensable oidate themselves wronged my god Kingdom klironomisousin? Not planasthe nor prostitutes nor paynim nor moichoi not soft nor arsenokoitai.

I went on a extensive research spree to clear things up.

planasthe – immoral or evil

klironomisousin – Pornography, not Fornicators

moichoi – No meaning of translations ANYWHERE! **If someone find it, please let me know.

paynim – a heathen; a person who is not a Christian (especially a Muslim)

malakoi – MALE PROSTITUTES

arsenokoitai  – Sodomites – anal intercourse committed by a man with another man or a woman. There are much debate on what arsenokoitai actually means………. here I hope to set it out for you very clearly…..

Petersen has an erroneous conception of meaning and dictionaries when he claims that the English and Greek meanings are incompatible.

No two words have or keep exactly the same area of meaning, so there are no true equivalent synonyms within a language and no exact equivalents between languages. This suggests that arsenokoitai may be translated “homosexuals” even though there may be some imprecision. It may well be that “sodomites” represents better the idea of arsenokoitai since these two terms with their moral and biblical settings represent contexts closer to one another.

He explains, “Some scholars believe Paul was coining a name to refer to customers of ‘the effeminate call boys.’ We might call them ‘dirty old men.’ Others translate the word as ‘sodomites,’ but never explain what that means.”

According to White, in 1958, a translator for the New Amplified Bible set historical precedent by translating this “mysterious” Greek word into English as the word “homosexuals,” even though no such word exists in either Greek or Hebrew. It was that translator, according to White, who “placed the word homosexual in the English-language Bible for the very first time.”

The convincing argument from history that Paul is putting forth, White says, is a condemnation of the “married men who hired hairless young boys (malakois) for sexual pleasure just as they hired smooth-skinned young girls for that purpose.”

In light of this interpretation of the meaning of arsenokoitai, White concludes with an emotional appeal: “Responsible homosexuals would join Paul in condemning anyone who uses children for sex, just as we would join anyone else in condemning the threatened gang rape in Sodom or the behavior of the sex-crazed priests and priestesses in Rome. So…this passage says…nothing about homosexuality as we understand it today.”

There are only 2 other passages that “REFERS” to homosexuality / Sodomites, however it doesn’t condemn them or call it an abomination, and that is Romans 1:26–27 and 1 Timothy 1:8–11.

So, strictly speaking, the New Testament says nothing at all about homosexuality. And No! Neither did Jesus say anything about it either.

Some say there is a gay gene, and some say there is not. Some say they are born this way, and some say that they became that way later in life. It really doesn’t matter, because if you are gay, you are gay.

Sources:

http://www.wondercafe.ca/discussion/religion-and-faith/christianity-whats-point?page=2

http://whdc.biblos.com/1_corinthians/6.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament

http://www.westarinstitute.org/Periodicals/4R_Articles/homosexuality.html

Tags: Gay, Homosexuality, Judeo-Christianity, The Bible