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NASB | Romans 1:27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 1:27 and in the same way also the men turned away from the natural function of the woman and were consumed with their desire toward one another, men with men committing shameful acts and in return receiving in their own bodies the inevitable and appropriate penalty for their wrongdoing. |
Subject: Homesexuality? Wrong? |
Bible Note: The Torah is composed of the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). It contains numerous laws which make up the Mosaic code. Rabbi Simlai wrote in the Talmud (Jewish traditional commentary about the Hebrew Scriptures) that God gave 613 commandments to Moses. One list finds 3 commandments in Genesis, 111 in Exodus, 247 in Leviticus, 52 in Numbers and 200 in Deuteronomy. These included 365 prohibitions -- a number equal to the nominal number of days in the year. Also included 248 positive commandments which Rabbi Simlai said corresponded "to the number of organs and limbs in the human body." Hundreds of these dealt with animal sacrifices and other topics that are not currently practiced. That leaves about 300 commandments that can be practiced today. The Holiness Code in the Torah permits: slavery (Leviticus 25:44) The code requires: a child to be killed if he/she curses their parent (Leviticus 20:9) all persons guilty of adultery to be killed (20:10) the daughter of a priest who engages in prostitution to be burned alive until dead (21:9) the bride of a priest to be a virgin (21:13) ritual killing of animals, using cattle, sheep and goats (22:19) observation of 7 feasts: Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of Firstfruits, Feast of Pentecost, Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles (23) a person who takes the Lord's name in vain is to be killed (24:16) The code prohibits: heterosexual intercourse when a woman has her period (Leviticus 18:19), harvesting the corners of a field (19:9), eating fruit from a young tree (19:23), cross-breeding livestock (19:19), sowing a field with mixed seed (19:19), shaving or getting a hair cut (19:27), tattoos (19:28), even a mildly disabled person from becoming a priest (21:18), charging of interest on a loan (25:37), collecting firewood on Saturday to prevent your family from freezing, wearing of clothes made from a blend of textile materials; today this might be cotton and polyester, and eating of non-kosher foods (e.g. shrimp). Christians are free to wear tattoos, eat shrimp, pork or rare meat, wear polyester-cotton blends, seed their lawns with a grass mixture, and get their hair cut. But homosexuality is somehow taboo. We have been unable to find any logical explanation that would justify conservative Christians concentrating so much on these two laws against homosexuality while abandoning most of the rest. |