Homosexual Discussion ForumGod and gaysAh, assumptions of personality again. From an admin. Interesting That begs a lot of assumptions on God's part that is not textually supported. If God is omniscient, then wouldn't God know that none of the animals would suffice? If God wanted to test Man, then why do it circumventally like this: why not just tell them like God did with the tree? This interpretation that God was just parading the animals, not for Man to choose, but just to distract them... has no textual support. Let's look at a literal reading of the prooftext offered by yourself (even in your translation). At the [*] is our difficulty. The Hebrew text literally reads "And out" or "So, out" (see the NRSV translation). The NASB leaves that out in its *cough*paraphrase*cough*, sorry, translation Regardless of translation issues, the Hebrew has a vav partical conjunction between 2:18 and 19, (translated as "and" or "so") which links the two passages (KJV: 0519.0). Whatever is occuring in v.19 is linked to v.18. The text clearly says that the animals were brought to the man so that he could find a helper, but no suitable helper was found (v.20). I'm having great difficulty believing that God just paraded the animals in front of Adam, and Adam just assumed they were going to be his partners, but God wasn't really offering them. I'm going to have to back down from this point, and assent to your reading. I actually had to re-read it written about 3 different ways on other websites before I accepted your interpretation. So, thank you for correcting me, and for spurring further reading on my part. However, in my defense, it was worded very badly and left open to interpretations when it just reads "accounts for 21% of homosexuality." I assure you this was not a purposeful obfuscation, but rather an incoherant misunderstanding. Again, I apologize. Again, assumption of intent and personality. From an admin. Twice. Interesting |
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