By Steve Wells
What does the Bible quite say approximately Homosexuality? It relies who you ask. during this accomplished booklet, Steve Wells offers the scriptural arguments that conservatives use to sentence homosexuality, in addition to the liberal interpretations that declare that the Bible approves of homosexuality.
Topics comprise:
- The particular verses
- Gay Bible stories
- Possibly homosexual Bible stories
- Lesbians, Eunuchs
- Paul's thorn
- Was Jesus gay?
- What approximately Yahweh?
- Between the lines
- Biblical marriage
- Because the bible tells me so.
With an afterword by means of Dave Muscato.
“Steve Wells presents another crucial software for the secular debater. With an interesting wit and fresh irreverence, Strange Flesh disarms the main ubiquitous weapon within the arsenal opposed to LGBT rights.” --Noah Lugeons, host of the Scathing Atheist podcast.
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1 Then, in the next verse, he decides to drown everything on earth. So the sons of God/daughters of men thing must have had something to do with the flood. I suppose it bothered God to see his sons messing around with women. You’d think he could control them better than that. But since the sex in this strange episode was clearly heterosexual, we’ll move on to the rest of the story. After the flood subsided, Noah sacrificed some animals for God, planted a vineyard, got drunk, and lay naked in his tent.
And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. 18:33 But God’s two friends (they’re called angels now) keep going to Sodom. Lot invites them in and and tells them to wash their feet while he prepares a meal for them. There came two angels to Sodom at even … and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways.
And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. ” Genesis 18:29-31 BACK “Know refers to sexual relations (v. ” Note for Genesis 19:5 in the New Oxford Annotated Bible, 23 OT. BACK Although Lot claimed that his daughters were virgins, that seems unlikely since they were married.