Romans 1:25-27
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
It was talking about changing truth to a lie you are correct, But vs. 26 has that key phrase " for this cause" or b/c they changed the truth into a lie God gave "them to vile Affections, for even women did change the Natural use into that which is against Nature" and likewise the men
Hi. Actually I was addressing Inglesdva's comment and did not at all suggest that Exodus said anything about truth or lies. Its a passage about the altar that says "Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon." (KJV Exodus 20:26). I was saying that could relate to what Ingledsva said, her explanation for the passage in Romans; because she says its a passage against temple prostitution. To me this has a lot of support.
A lot of people today and in the past have or had sexual requirements in their worship, whereas I think Jews were and are forbidden to require sex in relation to their liturgies. Eli's sons Hophni and Phineas I think broke this law in requiring the female temple servants to have sex. (1 Samuel 2:22) Anyway I think every one of the laws is important, so it doesn't surprise me for Paul to refer to this particular one; though I am not able to read Greek like Ingledsva. I think this law means you cannot require sex as part of worship. So from that I was thinking it strengthened Ingledsva's arguments but was just checking to see if she agreed about it.
As for me I think that the NT letters that often are considered to be about homosexuality usually are actually not talking about it. Many passages both NT and OT that I used to think were about it actually were about other things, but not necessarily all; so that causes me to stop and rethink all of them. I think that Ingledsva may have a point on this one at least.
Two books that I find influential on this subject:
The New Testament and Homosexuality by Robbin Scroggs and
And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original Meaning by Joel M. Hoffman. I think that Robbin Scroggs book is short and could use more material but is helpful. Mr. Hoffman's book is very general and just talks about the troubles with translating from the Biblical languages into English and the various problems it introduces.
