Homosexuality in the Bible

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This paper examines the origins of homosexuality in ancient Biblical texts, beginning with its original reference in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the book of Genesis. The paper discusses the comparison between the Old and New Testaments, showing how the rise of the Roman world affected the writings of the New Testament. It focuses, in particular, on the writings of the apostle, Paul, who held strong views on the subject.

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"In contrast, Victor Paul Furnish provides another angle to this topic, for he propounds that Paul the Apostle, in relation to the traditions by which he was influenced during his life, "saw the wickedness of homosexual practice (as a) perversion of the natural order" and adds that Paul "doubtless regarded such behavior as a matter of deliberate choice born of an insatiable sexual appetite" (156). In any case, it is abundantly clear that Paul, like his fellow Christians, condemned the practice of homosexuality, due mostly to the fact that it went against current moral precepts and guaranteed that those who practiced this sexual act would never enter into the kingdom of God as a disciple of the teachings of Jesus Christ."

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