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Donna Danna (29 Dec 2024) - To Nansings:  Homosexuality Was a Sin in the Catholic Bible Long Before King James Was Born in 1566

 

    My late youngest brother attended Bob Jones University for a while.  While there he studied the Bible in the original Mazoretic text of the Pentateuch and looked back at the original transcript of the story about Lot and his two daughters.  That version about the men of the city wanting Lot to hand over the two angels to them is not in the original transcripts, nor is it true that Lot offered his daughters to them instead.  Historically a Catholic priest named Damian was the one credited with changing the story.   

 

    Additional evidence that the Sodom & Gomorrah story was changed from the original manuscript lies in Ezekiel 16:48-50 (see below).  Since the translators didn't have computers to cross-check the Bible for any possible related connection to what they were doing, they completely missed Ezekiel's reference to why God punished Sodom.  It, therefore, remains to this day as proof the Sodom & Gomorrah version we have is a gross concoction/misrepresentation of someone's overactive imagination, a need to fit an agenda, or both.  Had they known Ezekiel's reference to the sins of Sodom existed, and would prove their story wrong, they would, no doubt, have removed it, or changed it to match their concocted version.

 

    The real reason why God punished Sodom:  See Ezekiel 16:48-50 "As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.  Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. (Ed., Instead, the city of Sodom was punishing Lot's daughters who helped the poor and needy.)  And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good."  Note, this occurred before the laws of Moses had been given to mankind by God.  Hospitality was considered very important.  Even Abraham found favor with God by showing hospitality to the Trinity that visited him one day.

 

    Also, per the Torah, the Biblical reference to the "corruption of all flesh" meant something else other than angellic sexual relations with mankind.  These words below were based on a talk given by Rabbi Avraham Kahn, the Rosh Yeshiva and Founder of Yeshivas Keser Torah in Toronto. --http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2008/robertep67.htm

 

    As you and I have discussed before, we know angels can't have sex with mankind because Jesus said in Heaven the angels don't give and take in marriage.  The purpose of marriage as defined in the Bible (Malachi 2:15) is to "replenish the Earth" and to create a "godly seed" out of their union.  Angels don't need to replenish anything as God can create them anytime He wants to.  However, God told man to replenish the Earth, and therefore, gave them reproductive capability.

 

    "We know that there are no extraneous words in the Torah.  It, therefore, seems strange that the Torah repeats that G'd saw the Earth was corrupted.  However, the Hebrew word for corruption, "hashchasah," has two meanings:  (1) corruption and (2) destruction.  The Zohar (Noah 61a) explains that the "corruption of all flesh" is really referring to the 

destruction and wasting of the seminal fluids.  This teaches us that the root of the corruption, and the lack of respect for other people, started with the lack of respect for their own ability to reproduce.

 

    In their indulgence of physical self-gratification, they had no interest in having large families, but wanted to minimize the number of children they had (see Midrash Hagadol 10:5).  Rashi (Bereishis 4:19) quotes the Midrash Rabbah (ibid 23:2) who relates how they would marry two wives:  One for childbearing who was despised and would be living on her own as if she was a widow; the other one would be a beautiful woman whom they would marry just for pleasure and enjoyment, and they would, therefore, medically make her barren to preserve her attractive appearance.  This lack of respect for the potential of future life eventually brought about bloodshed as well (see Jerusalem Talmud, Bava Metzia 4:2)."

 

    Regarding "same sex" relations - where the Bible presently says 'man shall not lie with man,' is not what the original manuscripts said.  It actually meant man shall not lie to God Almighty as the heathen do.  The meaning changed over the centuries as you will see below.

 

    For instance, it said:  "Ish (man) shall not lie with Zakar."  Most current translation said Zakar meant a minor who hadn't gone through his bar mitzvah yet -- a pre-12-yr.-old, meaning a man should not molest a child / should not lie with a minor / avoid appearance of evil.  An earlier translation than that said Zakar was a nobleman, mayor, governor, rulers:  Keep your hands off young boys to avoid appearance of evil.  A discontinued version of Strong's & Young's Concordance said Zakar is a young prince.  300 years earlier - Babylonia era - they said "lie" = you shall not lie to the princes who represent the king. 

 

    600 years before that Zakar was a fine, handsome young man.

 

    Then in the Phoenecian era (identical to the time of Leviticus) it says Zakar is the name of God Almighty = Man shall not lie to God Almighty as the heathen do.  What a difference, huh?

 

    Note that St. Jerome who wrote the Bible did not know Hebrew or Aramaic, or Koine Greek which would explain how some of the translation errors occurred. 

 

  Jesus is the only one who can reveal where all the translators goofed over time and what the real stories are.  This He will do during the Millennium when the knowledge of God fills the Earth like the waters of the sea.