Paul was using an argument of nature. Homosexual sex
Posted on: January 10, 2025 at 11:55:32 CT
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happens in nature. We don’t know what exactly Paul meant. Is hetero oral sex, hand jobs, etc contrary to nature? Maybe your wife giving you a blow job means you’re gonna burn in Catholic purgatory for a while.
Maybe Paul is talking about straight dudes, who turn from what is natural for them and bang gay dudes.
Paul isn’t consistent in his use of “contrary to nature”. He uses it in Romans 11:24 in describing Gentiles becoming part of Abraham’s children. So it’s hard to know exactly what Paul means by contrary to nature. Only if you throw a biased lens it can you say it is clear and that is forcing the text to say what you can’t know it does.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10, no one knows what arsenokotai actually means. He could be speaking to the Greek pederasts, which was a common occurrence for Greek men of status to take a young boy for not just tutoring, but sex. Luther translated it to boy molestors in the first German Bible. There wouldn’t be much point in Paul speaking against homosexuality to the Greeks because it was already frowned upon. But pederasty wasn’t.