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Re: pedastry and the New Testament

Posted by CliveStaplesLewis on 2007-04-27 11:42:12, Friday
In reply to Re: pedastry and the New Testament posted by Cat on 2007-04-27 11:03:45, Friday

These words have been read at weddings for centuries (though not recently as much):
Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die - there will I be buried. May the Lod do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you!

This vow of passionate love, recounted from the Old Testament time and again, was not spoken by a man to his wife, nor a wife to her husband. It was spoken by Ruth to Naomi. A woman to another (older) woman. And it was spoken illogically. The best thing for Ruth to do when her husband (Naomi's son) died was to go back to her father's home, since there was nothing a woman could do alone, or even with another woman.

There is also the story of David and Jonathan. I read it again the other day, and it really does strike me as a romantic love story. After all, who upon seeing someone for the first time immidiately strips and gives them everything they hold dear but a person struck with passion? And why did Jonathan's father, the king, accuse Jonathan of sexual shame in regards to David? And why did David, having now ascended the throne himself, throw away tradition and adopt Jonathan's son as his own, instead of killing him as a threat to the throne?

No, I don't think the OT does, actually, condemn homosexuality at all, and it would make sense if Jesus knew what was really condemned and not condemned even when his contemporaries did not understand.

Love in Christ,


CliveStaplesLewis


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