by Rhiannon02 on Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:21 am
Oh you have got to be kidding me, this again?! Didn't we just go through this in the other forum? Fred75, do you just argue this point in a particular thread until you're totally smacked down and then just start a new thread to have the argument again? When are you going to learn, you will lose every time.
In the meantime, since I don't feel like repeating the same argument I beat you with last time, I'll give you something new to think about.
There was plenty of homosexuality among the Christian heroes of the Bible.
For instance - remember David? As in, King David, the one who killed Goliath? He was in a loving, homosexual relationship with King Saul's son Jonathan. Read the Book of Samuel. There are specific references to their hugging and kissing, and the language used to describe the relationship between the two men is the same words and emphasis used to be describe loving heterosexual relationships in the Hebrew Testament. At their first meeting (at which Jonathan stripping naked is described), they make a covenant of their love together. After Jonathan dies, David marries women, but he states specifically that his love for Jonathan "passes the love of women". It was frequently said that Jonathan "delighted much in David" in passages in which they confessed their love for each other. Read that S***, buddy, and David was the most righteous King thus far. Mmhmm.
You could even find an argument that it runs in the family, if you were to go back to the Book of Ruth. Take a closer look (or a first look, if you've never actually read the Bible, as I've found many Christians actually haven't) at the relationship between Ruth and her step-mother Naomi. I think you'll find some lesbian undertones running through that.
Or, my personal favorite, the story of Elisha the prophet and how he brought a dead man back to life. 2 Kings, Chapter 4. "When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the LORD. Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy's body grew warm. Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes."
Now, in case you weren't aware, in the bible, referencing a sneeze is often actually a reference to orgasm and ejaculation, as the Hebrew words for these two acts are very similar. Especially considering that, is it just me, or did the book of 2 Kings just describe Elisha the prophet F****** a dead man back to life?
I submit that this is both disturbing and awesome! lol
Some even argue that the disciple John being described in the bible as "The Disciple Jesus Loved" or "Jesus' Beloved Disciple" actually meant a lot more than just that they were bestest buds 4ever....
So, suck on that, douche.
Rhi