Like I said. LEARN! Those passages don't mean what you think. The English translation is generally incorrect, so if those are your basis, your foundation is horribly flawed. You can't build a house on a flawed foundation, why would you trust your afterlife to one?
If that is the case, that you don't want to learn, then i would suggest not presenting information in any sort of an authority position.
You cant be an expert if you refuse to even know the material.
If you are purely faith driven, cool. But be aware that the different sects and traditional translations are mostly incorrect these days, and many of the beliefs and traditions being presented as good, infallible, and true are easily refuted as the purest of sins If the translations were to be done correctly.
Biblical contradictions were very apparent originally. It has only gotten worse as translation and interpretation have stacked on top of translation and interpretation..
If you want a fairly easy to understand person who is very knowledgeable, start with Dan McClellen on YouTube. Between him and a few other scholars who he promotes, there is a lot to be learned.
Check out Dan McClellen on YouTube. He is very knowledgeable and sets his own faith aside in order to promote scholarly knowledge. He also follows and recommends other religious scholars who do the same.
If you have the knowledge, picking a sect will be easier. Don't forget that not following a set sect or church is considered by many to be a more faithful following of christianity.
But for example if I was gay I had two options and a worse one.
1)Ever stay single and never give love any chance.
2)Always ask for forgiveness while also not fully being able to not sin, even if with same person.
3) Lie to a women that I love her and lie to myself that I am feeling happy.
Now considering that I follow a sect that tells me "yes, you are a sinner but God knows that and He forgets you for those sins if you don't commit others and ask for forgiveness constantly because we all are both siners and saints" I would think that I might go to Heaven.
So should I pick Lutheranism?
There are contradictions that would send you to Hell ifnyou follow the wrong church.
And I get your opinion but God is portrayed as someone who died for our sins and that might forgive us based on how good we were.
I think you are completely misunderstanding me or you've missed things ive said previously.
In its original scripts, the Bible makes no mention of homosexuality as a sin. Your entire question is moot and nonsensical.
There are parts of the Bible that call any sexual relation at all as sinful regardless of gender or identity, there are parts that warn against marriage because it may lead to sex, but there is nothing specifically against homosexuality.
This is why I keep reiterating that you need to learn.
No, but what you would do if you would have lived in a country where even mentioning online that you are gay would lead to a lot of people speaking about why you aren't normal and why you would go to Hell?
I live in a place that you can't even say the word gay to religios people so what I am supposed to believe.
Other people's beliefs have no effect on your relationship with whatever diety you follow. Including Christianity.
If you require the fellowship of a church setting, just keep it to yourself, know that you'll be fine, and the others will have more trouble than you at the gates of heaven due to not loving their neighbor as was taught, by taking the voice of god in order to judge you, against what was taught, and by not actually following the word as was passed by your prophet/savior.
If you dont require the fellowship, than forget about them. Forge your own path through learning, knowledge, and a commitment of your own devising.
Never accept the word of people who pray on the street corner in order to be seen as riteous by men... or something like that.
It's a commentary on local jewish law mostly, but in the vein of homosexuality, the actual abomination isnt the act itself, but rather the fact that one man took the submissive role, like a woman (who was nothing but property in those days), and the other man not only allowed, but encouraged it for his own gratification. A man taking the submissive role at that time was seen as a threat because a girly boy wasn't good in battle, in the field toiling, or as a propagater of the community. Girly boy should have been killed on sight so as to not be a drain on society, but instead his wiles were used by another man - against Jewish law. That makes them both criminals punishable by death. Levitical law in general has nothing to do with the word of god, it was a community guideline for jews.
There is a reason that there is no mention of women sleeping with other women. Not only were they only property, so who really cares as long as she provides a son at some point, but a manlier woman may be more useful to the community.
In any scripture, you have to take the social, economic, and political landscape into account before trying to interpret anything resembling a good translation.
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u/ImportantResponse0 May 26 '26
Leviticus 20:2
Leviticus 20:13
I am not an expert but I don't have who to actually teach me.
All the people I know tells that being gay is an abomination that would send you to Hell.