tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2689819623168641362.post4364905192046396225..comments2022-04-11T12:21:32.337-07:00Comments on I Am Unwritten: What the Bible Has to Say About Homosexuality♥ Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663603869482323413noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2689819623168641362.post-33735215641551181372013-01-30T10:35:01.398-08:002013-01-30T10:35:01.398-08:00Also (having spent the last month reading the enti...Also (having spent the last month reading the entire New Testament for class):<br />Basically all of Paul's letters state that Christians don't need to follow the laws set down in the Old Testament because Jesus replaced the "Don't" laws with two "Do"s: Love God and Love each other. He writes that by following the two a person follows the heart of the however many laws of before (And let it be noted that Paul had been a Pharisee prior to conversion, a group known for their obsession with the law and the minutiae surrounding it). There was even a meeting in Jerusalem concerning Gentiles (non-Jews, also known as most modern Christians) being converted and what of the Jewish laws they had to follow (they REALLY didn't want to have to be circumcised). They decided that, in order for them not to disgust their Jewish brothers, the Gentile Christians couldn't eat certain foods or engage in "sexual immorality" which, to me, means rape or adultery.<br />The arguments against homosexuality in the early first century were based around the notion, common at the time, that homosexuality was an expression of an overabundance of lust. We know now that it can also involve actual love, thus invalidating Paul's occasional comment on it's wrongness.<br />There's also possible argument from the fact that God made man and woman. God made man and woman so humans could populate the Earth. Been there, done that, we don't get married with the express intention of having children anymore.Randomsquirrel42https://www.blogger.com/profile/16105602329672324068noreply@blogger.com