We could debate some of the details but my main point remains and it is this. Some of the guides to sex conduct in the OT we continue to accept [no adultery for example] others we do not [more than one wife allowed, sex during a woman's period is wrong etc]

Given this divide I asked two questions in effect.

a] How do you decide which category a rule/guide goes into?
b] Why are you do sure that faithful gay sex goes in the first and not the second?


Natural or not
Let me tell you some things that are natural. Seducing the pretty wife next door - if I could. Revenging myself on a enemy. Not living more than 70 years. All natural but the first two are wrong and it is OK to live beyond one's natural age.

Lots of unnatural things are right or permissible - loving one's enemy, playing football, wearing glasses [most unnatural - the nose is for breathing not to support glasses!]

You equations NATURAL = GOOD & UNNATURAL = BAD sound plausible but they are incorrect.

As to gays and breeding. Have you not heard that there is a problem of overpopulation? And, of course, not everyone is gay to no doubt humanity will keep going. In the sort of society that the OT was written for, perhaps it was appropriate that people had as many children as they could. The present day situation is the opposite.

Best wishes

Q

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