From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 12:06:37 EDT
In a message dated 7/14/03 4:28:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
gwcollins@algol.co.uk writes:
> I've been trying not to get drawn into this one.
> But I'd like to suggest here that (a) is likely to be
> correct, as Paul goes on later to compare the Jews:
> "What shall we say then? Are we any better? Not at all!
> Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin."
>
> Also I would venture to suggest that Paul, as a Pharisee,
> would have been well acquainted with the Pentateuch,
> and would likely have had its prohibitions in mind when
> taking his stance against homosexuality; e.g. "Do not lie
> with a man as one lies with a woman. That is detestable."
> And so IMO he is condemning the homosexual act outright
> and not just a particular circumstance.
>
> Just my thoughts.
>
> /Gary
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That is a superb argument, Gary, I don't know how you can disconnect the
Torah from arguments pro con homosexuality, but your suggestion that there is no
dislocation and that Paul would surely have taken the Torah into account will
be ignored precisely because it's probably the soundest argument.
rich
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