Homosexual Discussion ForumDoes America need a TV network pushing the homosexual agendaThat chapter does use graphic sexual imagery; but, all of it applies to Jerusalem as a metaphor for the nation of Israel. The only place in the whole Bible where literal sexual activity by the men of Sodom is mentioned is in the short Epistle of Jude verse 7. But, that is not same sex activity. The KJV uses the words "strange flesh" for the kind of fornication that the men of Sodom and Gomorrah committed. The word translated as "fornication" in the KJV and "sexual immorality" in Modern English translations is "porneia" which refers to the activity of female prostitution with male persons." "Fornication" is actually from a latin "euphemism" for "prostitution" because the place that the female prostitutes of Rome took their male customers was down in the underground catacombs [the basements of tall buildings] and the vaulted arches holding up the floors and the buildings in the basements were called in the singular a "fornix." "Strange" is "heteras" which is the opposite of "homo." And "flesh" is "sarx" which is the Greek Translation of "basar" the Hebrew word (meaning "shame") which is a euphemism for genitals or sexual gender. So, the men of Sodom had sex with women who were prostitutes, according to the Hebrew author of Jude. [Jude is the English translation of Judah.] If a Bible Student has had formal course in proper translation of the Bible as literature, he has studied "Biblical Hermeneutics," he will also know that Greek was not the first language learned by the writers of the New Testament books (except for Luke a Macedonian Greek), it was Hebrew and/or Aramaic. So, many times, if you translated the Greek text to Hebrew and then properly translate/interpret it into English, you will have a better understanding of what was meant in the first place. [/b] |
🌈Pride🌈 goeth before Destruction
When 🌈Pride🌈 cometh, then cometh Shame