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Old 04-27-2007, 08:57 PM
brad2723
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Originally Posted by JamDat View Post
1Cor 7:1 ¶ Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10 ¶ And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

I fail to see anywhere in the New Testament when dealing with marriage (or if you prefer monogamous cohabitation) anything about a man and a man or a woman and a woman.

In verse 7 Paul says that every man has his proper gift of God. Is homosexuality a proper gift of God?
Homosexual and monogamous relationships leading to life-long committed relationships were not in the thoughts and minds of the writers of the Scriptures because marriage was a legal and contractual agreement BETWEEN TWO MEN and with the WOMAN BEING NOTHING MORE THAN PROPERTY. Women had no right to property or even to her children, because she existed only as an adjunct to her husband.

Homosexual covenant relationships are a modern and progressive concept just as mixed marriages are. We do not see an example of mixed marriages in the Bible, except the ones that were denounced, yet most would agree that mixed marriages are not in of themselves unbiblical. So is the case with homosexual covenant relationships.

Just in this last century, marriage was defined as a union between people of the same race. In 1967, for example, sixteen states had anti-miscegenation laws on the books, making marriage between two people of different races a criminal offense. At that time it was considered unnatural for the races to marry, much the same way society views same-sex marriages today.