Gagnon informs us that most of the homo-sex going on in Israel at the time Leviticus was written around 1450 BC, was cult prostitute sex. Instead of being a negative, that lends weight to their testimony about the context of Lev 18:22. Like John MacArthur, he believes all gay relationships are sinful. Rob Gagnon is not a supporter of gay rights. They're going on guesswork and baseless assumptions instead of facts.ĭr.
Most anti-gay Christians who reject the truth about Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 have not done much study on the topic. If you reject the fact-based biblical cultural historical religious context which even anti-gay leaders concede, I wonder why? What biblical cultural historical religious facts do you possess which cause you to believe the issue 3500 years ago in Israel was homosexuality? In plainer words, the context was NOT gays, was not gay marriage, was not homosexuality. Notice that even someone as fiercely anti-gay as John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church, Sun Valley, CA, admits in writing that Leviticus 18:21-22 is describing temple prostitution. The MacArthur Bible Commentary, by John MacArthur, 2005, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, p. "Judah’s syncretistic worship was reflected in the practice of swearing by the Lord and, at the same time, by Milcom, who may be either the Ammonite deity of 1 Kings 11:5, 33 or Molech, the worship of whom included child sacrifice, astrology and temple prostitution (cf. John MacArthur believes that all gay sexual relationships are sinful yet here is what he says about the context of Leviticus 18:21-22. It is the fact-based result of believing what the Bible says, in context. Did you know that conservative Bible expositor and mega-church pastor John MacArthur believes the context of Leviticus 18:21-22 IS cult temple shrine prostitution? For any thinking Christian, that indicates that our gay Christian belief is not historical revisionism by gays.
Honest Christians must go beyond surface impressions. How do you interpret Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, man should not lay with man? In case that is what you believe, here are some pages which will help you accurately determine context.ġ. This biblically and histor-ically accurate explanation is often dismissed as gays making excuses for our sinful lives. Lev 18:21-22 makes it clear that worshiping false gods is sinful activity. It means that what Moses is describing is the sinfulness of using sex to worship goat idols, Leviticus 17:7 or to worship Ashtoreth, the fertility goddess consort of Molech.
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