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To Answer That Interesting Question, We Must Understand What Sin Is
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I have heard the argument before that type of homosex referred to in Paul's Letters refer not to modern day stable and loving gay relationships but to cultic temple worship and prostitution.
Yet, according to the writing of Plato, which comes from the same general time period, stable, loving and long term gay relationships existed at the time. According to your point of view, did Paul simply not address those types of gay relationships? Was he ignorant of them or do you think he condoned them through his silence? Do you acknowledge the possibility that, given the fact that stable and loving gay relationships existed and were known about at the time, Paul was referring to all sorts of gay relationships -whether they be temple sex, long term love or any kind in between?
- Pete September 10, 2008 2:25PM
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