Most christians take for granted there is a sin
of homosexuality
in the bible. They whip out the same out of context
verses to
prove their myth of sin of homosexuality, when
in fact it is
the act of idolatry, using your body which is
the temple of
God against God, to give or receive the seed to
the fertility
gods as Baal-Molech and Venus. With a mixing of
the rites to
Bacchus by Paul in the new Testament.
I am sure some of you are aware
of certain words that help
make this case that there is no sin of homosexuality
in the bible,
but is in fact the sin of idolatry as, Sodomite
(qadesh) which
means a male temple prostitute. Fornication (zanah)
harlot,
go a whoring, whoredom. Fornication (ekporneuo)
to go a whoring.
Abusers of themselves with mankind (arsenokoite)
one who lies
with a male as with a female, sodomite, (qadesh)
male temple
prostitute. Effeminate (malakos) of a male who
submits his body
to unnatural lewdness, of a male prostitute. A
high place (ramah)
a place of illicit worship. Of course none of
these point toward
homosexuality, but toward the fertility rites
of giving or
receiving seed to gods as Baal-Molech to entice
him to have sex
with his wife (Ashtaroth Judges 2:13) to bestow
fertility upon
the land, animals and people. Of course then in
context
Leviticus 18 and 20 are Lev 18:21-24, Lev 20:2-5,
13, 15, 16 as
crime an punishment. Baal-Molech are generally
overlooked in
this context.
(When one tries to point this out
to the average Christian
they just say well it is a list of sexual perversions
you are
told not to do and Molech is just one more thing.
When one
takes into account that women and children were
property then
Leviticus 18 takes on the meaning of property
rights, the rights
of the father or the husband who gains ownership
when he marries
the woman Deu 22:28-30. With also at Lev 18:19,
21-23 are the
warning against spilling the seed (God's property)
in unclean
and idolatrous acts. The Ten Commandments can
be interpreted
in this same way, as property rights of God, Man
and other men,
especially taking in context Exodus 21.)
Most Christians will say homosexuality
is the act of
fornication which seems funny if you point out
that Jesus uses
this as one of the things to which you can put
away a wife in:
Matthew 5:32 "But I say unto you, That whosoever
shall put away
his "wife", saving for the cause of fornication,
causeth her
to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry
her that is
divorced committeth adultery." Now if fornication
was having sex
outside of marriage, instead of the idolatrous
act of having sex
for the purpose of worshiping other gods, then
Jesus would not be
talking about putting away a "wife" for the cause
of fornication.
If it were a "wife" having sex in the modern sense
of the words,
it would be adultery, not fornication, yet both
words are used in
the same context, clearly a "wife" can commit
fornication and the
modern usage of the word is mistranslated.
And of course they always bring up
Sodom and Gomorrah, which
can easily be shown in Judges 19:22, 20:4-5 to
not have anything
to do with homosexuality but of wanting to know
them to see if
they were spies as in: Numbers 21:1-2, 2 Samuel
10:3. And Sodom
was destroyed for Baal worship Jeremiah 23:13-14
and inhospitality.
The Chemarim priests can be linked
to Baal-Molech through:
2 Kings 23:4-5,7, (Hosea 10:5 and Zephaniah 1:4
and the fact that
Chemarim priests are called Sodomites 2 Kings
23:5,7 indirectly
links them back to Sodom's Baal worship). Baal-Molech
can both
be connected to the passing seed through fire
by Lev 18:21 and
2 Kings 17:16-17 (which was probably like a hot
baptism in good
times and actual burning of children in bad times,
as at the
temple at Amman (1400-1250 B.C.) reported by J.B.
Hennessey,
Palestine Exploration Quarterly (1966)) Baal-Molech
can be
connected to temple prostitution through Ezekiel
16:21-25, so
that we now have Chemarim priests connected to
Baal-Molech,
2 Kings 23:4-5,7 passing through fire connected
to Baal and
Molech Lev 18:21 and 2 Kings 17:16-17 and temple
prostitution
in connection with passing through fire referenced
in
Ezekiel 16:21-25.
Ezek 16:
21 That thou hast slain my children, and
delivered them
to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
...
24 That thou hast also built unto thee an
eminent place,
and hast made thee an high place in every street.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Ezek 16:
Verse 24. Thou hast also built unto thee an eminent
place a
stew or brothel, a bordel house. "Thou hast builded
thy
stewes and bordell houses in every place."- Coverdale's
Bible, 1636. Bordel is an Italian word: how it
got so early
into our language I know not. Our modern word
brothel is a
corruption of it. Diodati translates, Tu hai edificato
un
bordello, "Thou hast built a brothel." Houses
of this kind
were of a very ancient date.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Ezekiel 16:15-34
They built temples in honour of their idols, that
others might
be invited to resort thither and join with them
in the worship
of their idols: "After all thy wickedness of this
kind committed
in private, for which, woe, woe, unto thee" (that
comes in a
sad parenthesis, denoting those to be in a woeful
condition who
are going on in sin, and giving them warning in
time, if they
would but take it), "thou hast at length arrived
at such a pitch
of impudence as to proclaim it; thou hast long
had a whore's
heart, but now thou hast come to have a whore's
forehead, and
canst not blush," v. 23-35. Thou hast built there
an eminent
place, a brothel-house (so the margin reads it),
and such their
idol temples were. Thou hast made for thyself
a high place, for
one idol or other, in every street, and at every
head of the way;
and again v. 31. They did all they could to seduce
and debauch
others, and to spread the contagion, by making
the temptations
to idolatry as strong as possibly they could;
and hereby the
ringleaders in idolatry did but make themselves
vile, and even
those that had courted them to it, finding themselves
outdone by
them, began to be surfeited with the abundance
and violence of
their idolatries: Thou hast made thy beauty to
be abhorred, even
by those that had admired it.
Now keeping this in mind that the worship of Baal-Molech
were accompanied by temple prostitution in the
act of prayer
to the fertility gods, to give seed in the prayer,
to be
bestowed with fertility themselves, let's look
at Leviticus 18
and 20 in this light.
Leviticus 20:
2 Again, thou shalt say to the children
of Israel, Whosoever
he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers
that
sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed
unto Molech;
he shall surely be put to death: the people of
the land shall
stone him with stones.
...
5 Then I will set my face against that man,
and against his
family, and will cut him off, and all that go
a whoring after
him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among
their people.
Adam Clarke's Commentary Ezekiel 16:24.
Thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place
a stew or brothel
Leviticus 18:
21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed
pass through the
fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the
name of thy
God: I am the LORD. (perform no idolatry to Molech)
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with
womankind: it
is abomination.(give no seed to male Chemarim
priests to Molech)
23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast
to defile thyself
therewith: neither shall any woman stand before
a beast to lie
down thereto: it is confusion.(give no seed to
beasts to Molech)
24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these
things: for in
all these the nations are defiled which I cast
out before you:
(Give no seed to Molech it does not build the
nation it defiles
the nation, it is idolatry an abomination.)
Lev 20:
3 And I will set my face against that man,
and will cut him
off from among his people; because he hath given
of his seed
unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane
my holy name.
One can see that this is not the act of homosexuality,
the mere
spilling of the seed, it is much worse, it is
idolatry. Using
the temple of God against God to worship Molech,
by giving or
receiving the seed to Molech. It is a mortal sin,
it is treason.
They were receiving in themselves that recompense
of their error
which was meet.
The dots have been connected for Leviticus
18 and 20 and the
picture is not that of homosexuality but of idolatry.
The people
were no more homosexual in the worship of Baal-Molech
than
today's Christians are cannibals for drinking
the blood and
eating the body of Christ. Both are performing
a religious duty,
not an act of cannibalism or homosexuality. One
must separate
the sexual act from the sexual orientation, as
one must separate
the act of drinking the blood and eating the body
of Christ from
cannibalism. The notion that this was an act of
homosexuality
is a cultural accretion built up over the years
and has so
covered the original picture that it can no longer
be seen.
Before we get into the New Testament I should remind
you of
the rights to Bacchus. The festivals began to
be held under
cover of darkness five times a month. All emotional
and sexual
restraints were thrown off, and the only law was,
that all the
laws of ordinary life should be transgressed.
The Bacchic rites,
in which all, helped to encourage or cover up
for other kinds
of crime, such as murder, false witness, and the
forgery of
wills and similar documents. The men, raving,
incoherent,
scarcely in control of their limbs, devoted themselves
to the
initiates, young men under twenty whom they "forcibly
debauched."
In this highly charged, orgiastic atmosphere,
murder was the
natural sequel for any initiate who struggled
against his fate.
One needs to keep this in mind when they enter
the New Testament,
along with the prostitution to Venus and still
Baal.
We now need to place Paul at the scene
as witness to this to
this case. As you know Paul lived in Corinth (Acts
18:1)
Acts 18:11 "And he continued there a year and
six months, teaching
the word of God among them. Corinth was a celebrated
city, its
wealth was so celebrated to be legendary, so were
the vice and
immorality of its inhabitants. The worship of
Venus and other
gods there were attended with great licentiousness.
Paul saw
this around him as he live and breathed Corinth.
Paul knew of
the rites to Bacchus, the prostitution to Venus
and still to
a smaller extent the rites to Baal. Where Paul
said in:
Romans 11:4 "But what saith the answer of God
unto him? I have
reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have
not bowed the
knee to the image of Baal. 5 Even so then at this
present time
also there is a remnant according to the election
of grace."
Understanding this context it make
it very easy to understand
what Paul was writing about in:
1 Corinthians 6:
8 "Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your
brethren.
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit
the kingdom
of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators,
nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves
with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed,
but ye are
sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of
the Lord Jesus,
and by the Spirit of our God.
12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things
are not
expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I
will not be brought
under the power of any.
13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats:
but God shall
destroy both it and them. Now the body is not
for fornication, but
for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will
also raise up
us by his own power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members
of Christ? shall
I then take the members of Christ, and make them
the members of
an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to
an harlot is one
body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one
spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth
is without the
body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth
against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple
of the Holy Ghost
which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye
are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify
God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God's."
Obviously the main theme is that of using your
body which is
the temple of God against God to give and receive
the seed in
the worship of other gods, with a bit of Bacchus
rites thrown in
as well. Now let's review the words used and their
meanings in:
1 Cor 6:
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit
the kingdom
of God? Be not deceived:
neither fornicators (pornos),
( a male prostitute (zanah) go a whoring, (ekporneuo)
to go a whoring)
nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor effeminate (malakos),
(of a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness,
of a male prostitute)
nor abusers of themselves with mankind (arsenokoites),
one who lies with a male as with a female, sodomite,
(qadesh) male temple prostitute.
With this in mind, let's rephrase 1 Cor 6:9:
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit
the kingdom
of God? Be not deceived: neither those that go
a whoring, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those males who
submit their
bodies to unnatural lewdness as a male prostitute,
nor those
that lay with a male temple prostitute as with
a female,
10 Nor those that worship Bacchus shall inherit
the kingdom of God.
Which shows the modern interpretation of homosexuality
is
an incorrect interpretation. When put into context
1 Cor 6:8-20,
to say 1 Cor 6:9 applies to homosexuality instead
of using your
body which is the temple of God against God by
giving or receiving
the seed to other gods, is cultural accretion.
Once we understand this, then the Epistle
of Romans becomes
clear as well. Romans was written in Corinth where
Paul had come
back to Corinth again for a three month stay where
he wrote the
Epistle to the Romans. (Paul wrote Romans because
he wanted to go
to Rome but was bound for Jerusalem, so meanwhile
Paul dictated
the letter to the Romans to Tertius who took credit
for actually
writing Romans (Rom 16:22), to be read in the
Roman church.)
In the knowledge that Romans was written in Corinth
as well as
what Paul had said to the Corinthians, to not
use your body
against God by giving or receiving the seed to
other Gods, the
verses in Romans become clear.
Romans 1:
22 "Professing themselves to be wise, they became
fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible
God into an image
made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and
fourfooted beasts,
and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
through the
lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their
own bodies between
themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and
served the creature more than the Creator, who
is blessed for
ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:
for even
their women did change the natural use into that
which is against
nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural
use of the woman,
burned in their lust one toward another; men with
men working that
which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves
that recompense of
their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do
those things which
are not convenient;"
Both the women and the men both were "receiving
in themselves that
recompense of their error which was meet."
Both the men and the
women were using their bodies which is the temple
of God against
God to give and receive the seed to these false
gods. It is
still unclear why in fact this cultural accretion
has been
heaped upon these verses to coat them with the
accretion of
sin of homosexuality, but the deeper one gets
into it the more
evidence there is that it is the sin is of idolatry
not homosexuality.
One must separate the sexual acts, from the sexual
orientation.
The act of idolatry from the act of the sexual
orientation, to
bring the original meaning back to that of idolatry,
not
of homosexuality. (It would be redundant to go
over
1 Timothy 8-11 because one would find the same
explanation.)
It is my hope the truth can come out so that intersexuals
and
homosexuals can live their lives without this
injustice place
upon them, that because of just who they are,
they are in some
way an abomination. It become abundantly clear
if one keeps
an open mind that the facts lead one to the sin
of idolatry not
to homosexuality in every case.
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