He said He was.
He said He was the God who delivered Israel out of Egypt He said He was the only God Israel knew.
But then if you believe He wasn't God, to re left with the OT GOD who DID tell you that ENGAGING in homosexuality is a death penalty offense
Again I have to remind you to "stay in your lane." You're looking foolish
I am going back to this early post, Carlin.
Jesus did not say anything. People decades after his death alleged , based on what was written in the Hebrew Scriptures, that Jesus had said things similar to what was written in Scriptures.
Someone even attributed to Jesus a saying which was actually coined by Rabi Hillel, 100 years before Jesus was born.
"What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study."
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This is the Christian version of that quote:
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In everything, then, do to others asyou would have them do to you. For thisis the essence of the Law and theProphets. 1"
Which is from Mathew
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Now, to the point of the thread, one man wrote in the Hebrew Scriptures about something that may have happened with King David sleeping with another man. It may have been written in a negative way.
Homosexuality amongst women is not discussed at all, and the same happens in Christianity and Islam, and possibly other cultures.
I do not know who, a Christian, may have written similar things and attributed them to Jesus.
But if one looks at the Ten Commandments, there is no prohibition of homosexuality.
If one looks at the 613 Commandments Judaism has, one will not find one against Homosexuality.
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There were no persecutions of homosexuals before Jesus' time, or after. None which were written about. No Greek, Roman, Assyrian, Babylonian writings on the subject that I am aware of.
It looks, to me, that persecution may have started with what some Christians may have written about homosexuality and accorded those ideas to Jesus which you have posted, as being his thoughts, or laws. And how Christianity may have spread those ideas.
Islam borrows from both, but only from the 7th century on. What was the thinking on homosexuality before that century and Islam?
I do not know of one culture back then which went after those who were not heterosexual.
But today there is an increasing acceptance of Homosexuality in the world, as it should be.
Despite major changes in LGBT rights around the world, acceptance of homosexuality remains sharply divided by country, region and economic development.
www.pewresearch.org
Read the post, read the articles or not, it is up to you and anyone else on this thread.
But to keep attributing homosexuality being forbidden by Jesus.....that is wrong.
How does one explain over 1500 species of animals being observed by humans to have homosexual tendencies? Some Humans are not imitating those animals, that is for sure.
Did god decide to make animals homosexuals but not humans?
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It's no secret that some humans are homosexual, but did you know that the behavior is also very common in the animal kingdom? In fact, studies suggest that around 1,500 animal species are known to practice regular same-sex coupling - from insects and fish to birds and mammals - with the actual number likely being even higher.
"Being homosexual is very common and no problem in the natural world at all. In fact, we see more heterophobia than homophobia in the animal kingdom," Jasper Buikx, biologist at Amsterdam's ARTIS Zoo, told DW in an interview.
Think being gay is unnatural? Then look no further than the animal kingdom, where homosexuality is very common. Studies suggest that around 1,500 animal species practice same-sex coupling, from fish to birds and mammals.
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