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No where in the original languages that the bible was written in is there even a word for sexual orientation much less homosexual. If people were not so ready to just believe the hate that has been perpetuated by so many misinformed preachers of God’s Word, they would at least read the bible for what it really says and in the context it was written in. People can say, ‘oh the bible says this and that’ but unless you yourself have studied it in an unbiased manner you will never know to whom Paul, Moses and other prophets wrote these books too in their time and age. Paul wrote about many abominations found within the Roman society where people had abandoned worship of the one true God for pagan religions where sex was included in the religious rituals. And anywhere were he refers to homosexual sex and hetero-sex as negative things it was mostly in the context of the pagan religion sex rituals where people who where straight had abandoned their heterosexuality to be part of this evil religion that had denied God and his principals to the nth degree. Some people will say well what about levitical law. Same situation…Moses and God established the laws to distinguish the Jews from the pagans that lived all around them. As far as obeying Levitical law..As Christians we break it everyday and thus we must live by Grace and not by the law. No where in the bible are committed same sex relationships put down or condemned. the bible also has accounts of same sex relationships such as David and Johnathan. At a particular point when Johnathan dies, the Bible says the King David said {2 Sam 25-26} Jonathan lies slain upon thy high places, I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me, your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women’. In the society of ancient Israel, it was not considered proper for a man and woman to have a platonic relationship. Men and women rarely spoke to each other in public. A woman’s role was to provide for the needs of her husband – sexually and for bearing children. Men and women did not sit around and chat about the day’s politics as we may today. Thus, David’s only relationship with women would have been sexual in nature, then he must be referring to sexual love here as he speaks of Jonathan. It would not make sense in this verse to compare platonic love for a man with sexual love for a woman; they are two completely different phenomenon

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Name : David, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Baptist, Age : 24, City : Corpus Christi, State : TX, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower class, 

[David]

if you study David and Johnathan’s Relationship you will find more.. First, both David and Jonathan had wives (as was customary then – and is now). David was described as being ruddy, with a fine appearance and handsome features (1 Sam 16:12 and 1 Sam 17:42) so apparently he was quite good-looking. When Jonathan first saw David he was immediately drawn to him. ‘When he [David] had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him away that day, and would not let him return to his father’s house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. Then Jonathan stripped himself of his robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his sword, and even his armor and bow and girdle. {Sam 18:1-4} In this passage it speaks of an ‘immediate bond of love’, their souls being ‘in unison,’ their souls being ‘knit’. In Genesis 2:7, as written in the original Hebrew, it describes how God blew the breath of life into the body of Adam whom God had formed from earth, so that Adam became a living soul. The description in the book Genesis of ‘soul’, represents a combination of the body and the spirit. Using the same verbage in the book of Genesis as in the above passage from 1 Samuel suggests that the two men appear to have loved each other both physically and spiritually. Clothes were such at that time that people did not wear underwear. In removing his robe Jonathan would have stripped himself naked in front of David. That would be considered extremely unusual behavior then (and quite possibly now), which may be another indication that their relationship was more than friendship and quite possibly physical. david

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