Thursday, July 9, 2015

John Hagee: 'This Supreme Court Has Made America The New Sodom And Gomorrah' | Right Wing Watch

So John, where exactly in the bile does "God Almighty" state that "Same-sex marriage will never be accepted in Heaven as legitimate"?  You see I am having difficulty finding any such passages,,,
"The Supreme Court in Washington has handed down its decision in a 5-4 ruling supporting same-sex marriage," Hagee declared. "But the Supreme Court in Heaven has handed down its unanimous decision in a 3-0 ruling from God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit [that] marriage is exclusively between a man and a woman. Same-sex marriage will never be accepted in Heaven as legitimate, so says God Almighty."
You see, Genesis 1 and 2 basically explains the origin of the world, God's relationship with humanity, and God's special relationship with the nation of Israel.  No mention of homosexuals in that passage.

Genesis 19 and Judges 19 teach that women are  expendable pieces of property. No homo-sex there either, unless you consider (attempted) rape a consensual act.  The again there is this, Ezekiel 16:49-50, the verses that tell you what the Sodom story was all about.

The Holiness Code - Leviticus 18:19-22 and 20:1-18 - its only concern, keeping the Israelites a distinctive and separate people.  The Holiness Code was written for a particular people at a particular time for a particular reason and was never intended to be universally applied across all times and to all people. A bit of butt-sex if read within context, though last I check I ain't Jewish nor am I a temple prostitute.

Ah, Romans 1, now that is a fun passage and last I checked, I'm not a Galli preist.
On Palatine Hill you will find the ruins of a temple dedicated to the "Protectress of Rome." Cybele is her name, also known as Magna Matar. It was here that Galli priests engaged in what many individuals, past and present, would call an unholy worship of Cybele. This is what Paul was writing about in Romans 1:26-27,,, Temple prostitution, Gentile idolatry, and more specifically fertility goddess worship. This cultic activity in Cybele's Temple does not equate to modern homosexuality anymore than rape equates to heterosexuality.
For I Corinthians 6:9 and I Timothy 1:9-10, I'll just leave this here.  As you will see, no ancient manuscript  contains the word homosexual nor do any translations prior to the 20th century.   That has occurred because there is no reliable historic certainty on the word Arsenkoites.  Malakos was a common word used to describe one who was soft in character or effeminate.

That's a simplified version concerning Arsenkoites and Malakos but what it boils down to is the difficulty in translating thewords, "none of which allows the broad imposition of all homosexual behavior to be applied to either or both of these words."

Again no mention of 21st century homosexual partnerships.

Which brings us to Jude 7 which is a bit more complicated as it refers back to not only to Sodom (gang rape) but to Genesis 6:2 - That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose - as well.

In Jude it is the words "ekporneuo" and "going after sarkos heteros" that cause the confusion and connection specifically to Sodom.  Many take the male mob at Lot's door as wanting to have sex with the male angels as "going after different flesh"  (ie. wanting to have gay sex.) When in actuality it concerns angel-human copulation, "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." (cf. 1 Enoch 7:1-2)

A simpler way to think of it, if Jude had intended to reference homosexuality, he would have used "going after same flesh ( sarkos homos). Jude's reference to the men having sex with angels, references the ancient Judaeo-Christian world view that had a documented anxiety about human-on-angel sexuality -  what happened between angels and humans in Gen 6:1-4, the prelude to the Deluge of Noah.

Finally Matthew 19:3-12.  Very simple, Jesus’ appeal to Genesis 2:24 was for the exclusive purpose of arguing against divorce. The question of same-sex marriage doesn’t arise here at all.

So please John, show me where cuz seriously dude I can't find it anywhere!!

John Hagee: 'This Supreme Court Has Made America The New Sodom And Gomorrah' | Right Wing Watch

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