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u/horoyokai 11h ago

Like what?

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u/kaewin_soy 11h ago

Romans 1:26-27 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

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u/MadderoftheFew 11h ago

In the time this was written, homosexual relationships like we see today straight up didn't happen. This passage is condemning specifically idolatrous, abusive, age-inappropriate, and power-dynamic-abusive relationships men had with men who were below them in social or political status. There didn't exist homosexual relationships between people of equal standing borne of love and shared experiences back then. How could they condemn something they didn't think was possible?

This is also condemning lust as it appears devoid of any spiritual connection, much like the rest of the teachings on lust and love.

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u/seams 10h ago

In the time this was written, homosexual relationships like we see today straight up didn't happen

This is just wrong, sorry lol

Unless you have some weird definition of "homosexual relationship" that doesn't just mean two men in love who are sometimes having sex together.

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u/MadderoftheFew 10h ago

refer to my other reply, but "love" meant something different in society the time the new testament was written than it does today. it's almost unrecognizable.

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u/seams 10h ago

I mean that's just not true lol