Corinthians, 6:9-11: gays will burn in hell
Archive: Homophobia
A visit with your typical American Christian family:
Michael turns to St. Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians, 6:9-11, which reads in part in the New International version: ''Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” He interprets the Scripture to mean gays cannot be admitted to heaven.
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2 · Posted by: Richard Evans Lee on March 30, 2005 01:26 PM
Makes me wish I had a copy of the Jerusalem Bible to see how they translated it.
Maybe there were temple prostitutes in Israel back then. Pity ancient Hebrew history isn’t knowable.
3 · Posted by: Tim on April 17, 2005 01:09 PM
If one were to believe the bible, heaven will be a very lonely place as most of society has committed enough sins to deny entry to heaven. Ironically, most of those persons are religious people.
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1 · Posted by: eli sarver on March 29, 2005 06:29 PM
So female prostitutes are OK? I mean, since they single out the male ones, the female ones have to be OK right? Nice double standard.