So, taking all this into consideration, what do you think might be behind god's reason for hating homosexual acts so much, considering them to be abominations and vile affections?
It's based on three (of many) things
1. It's cultural
2. It's contextual
3. It's content
It's cultural.
I remember going to confession a couple of years ago. I sat with the priest for I think two and a half hours or so talking about scripture. He is from Gana and he was talking about how people would come down to the water because they believed certain spirits "lived" in the water. That's where they got life from.
In many cultures, as he continued, it is not like the U.S.,, parents "set their child up" for marriage. Sometimes at infancy. It is
always between male and female. Not the same sex. The point was to continue on the family line.
In my and many families around the world, it is also to continue on the family name to the first male of the male/female family.
When you read the Bible, every story that involved a married person, that person was always married to a person of his or her opposite sex. No matter how many concubines they had, their wife or husband was always married to the opposite gender
never the same gender. It is all cultural.
The Church continues on this tradition (putting details and paganism claims aside for now; that's not my point) of male and female as well as the role of the male in Christ's Church. Christ is married to a female (The Church), not a male. and so on and so forth.
It is contextual
All the verses against homosexuality in the Bible are seen in context not in content.
1.
Leviticus 18:22: " Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."
When a man and a woman lie together (say in a marriage), by god/scripture that is seen as holy. Anything outside of this union is not holy. Hence the scripture above.
If anyone sleeps with another man as he would with a woman (like a marriage), it is wrong. In this context, homosexuality (the sex between same gender individuals) is wrong.
2.
10. Romans 1:26-27: "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: 27 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."
Here it is point out that same-sex is not natural. Women and men (GBLTQIAS-whatever/humans) were all at that time going against their own nature as above and in Sadaam, and other places where they committed such sins.
3,
1 Corinthians 7:2 - Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Another contextual scripture. Scripture is saying that man should be with his
wife. No where does it approve man should be with his
husband. Doing so, especially after marriage, is an abomination. Why? Because consummating one's love involves sexual activity. Sexual activity between two men or two women
according to the Bible without regards of how the relations betwen the two are, is wrong.
4. and so on and so forth
It's by content
The only couple of verses that are not based on context is that of marriage. Marriage is always between a man and a woman. No biblical scripture shows otherwise because marriage is also for procreation. When you tie the knot, it isn't just sexual contact, they mean
natural intercourse.
List of marriage verses
I do not agree with any of this. However, I can't change the Bible or any other book just because I disagree with it's morals. Especially when it is not my faith to begin with.