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a post in another thread it was mentioned that god considers gay sex a sin. Nothing new. Everyone knows it, but it got me wondering why. What is so wrong about an act, which only brings pleasure and hurts no one, that god considers it a sin? So much so, in fact, that if one engages in homosexual sex god will bar such an unrepentant or ignorant sinner from Heaven.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (ESV)
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous[a] will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
While, as I understand it, it's no sin to have a homosexual attachment to someone, as long as it isn't lustful I guess, it does imply that once pee pees touch or hoo-has meet it's all over. Think of it. Let the sexual organs of two homosexuals get as close as possible while still leaving breathing space between them and you're home free. BUT let the two touch for just a fraction of a second and god will have picked up on it and punched your ticket to hell.
I know the Bible doesn't explain why god detests homosexual sex in particular---although "denial" does come to mind---but shouldn't there be an obvious reason for it? Or does it all come down to invoking the old "God Works In Mysterious Ways" rationalization?
In any case, let's hear it people! The Reason God Detests Homosexual Sex Is BECAUSE:____________________________________________ .
(And "because It's icky" is not an acceptable answer.)
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It has to do with the cause affect between behavior and the creation of social diseases. In modern times, we have all types social mops to prevent and clean up disease. Back when the bible was written, they did not have these things, since they did not have modern science Rather they had to figure out how to deal with the natural cause and affects, between certain forms of behavior, and the creation of disease.
Maybe modern culture could run an experiment for one year to simulate the bible times. We take away all modern prosthetic mops, created by science and medicine, that are used to mop up, after behavior that causes disease.
With all the mops gone, let everyone do their thing and we will monitor disease and attrition rates, to determine which types behavior have the least problems, and which types of behavior have the most problems. This brings us back to bible times and the choices that had to be made to prevent cultures from being wiped out by deadly social diseases. The least problems will be male and female married couples. They will become immune to each other even under less than clean conditions.
In modern times, we can use science to cheat natural cause and affect. This creates a false sense of natural. For example, if you ate rocks this would cause all types of medical problems. On the other hand, say we had medical treatments, in place, for tooth repair and well as all the internal medicine procedures needed to eat rocks. This could become a new fad. It could also sold as natural, since chickens eat rocks.
The medical illusion will convince many this is natural, for a price. To see through the illusion, you need to get rid of the prosthesis, and let nature run its course.
In the bible, lesbian behavior is not given the same treatment as gay behavior, since this does not form as much disease. Natural cause and affect between disease and behavior was the bible standard. The king with many wives, would not sin, if his wives found affection with each other; disease was controlled.
The atheist POV, makes use of the medical and science illusions, which once in place, can compensate for the natural cause and affect. If humans can create good enough mops, is dirtying the floor, as bad as it used to be in the bible? The answer has to do whether natural is important, or whether artificial is good enough.