{"id":3026,"date":"2015-08-30T11:14:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T18:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2024-07-28T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T15:45:21","slug":"effeminate-and-abusers-of-themselves-with-mankind-doesnt-refer-to-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2015\/08\/30\/effeminate-and-abusers-of-themselves-with-mankind-doesnt-refer-to-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEffeminate\u201d and \u201cabusers of themselves with mankind\u201d doesn\u2019t refer to homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week, I\u2019m teaching the Gospel Doctrine lesson on 1 Corinthians 1\u20136. While I was preparing my lesson, I came across 1 Corinthians 6:9, a popular scripture among Christians who oppose homosexuality (or more specifically, anything that isn\u2019t heteronormative):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Specifically, those who use this scripture to justify their opposition to homosexuality, point out the mention of \u201ceffeminate\u201d and \u201cabusers of themselves with mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem with this interpretation is that it\u2019s inaccurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we translate as \u201ceffeminate\u201d was in the Greek version malakoi<\/em>. This word is more accurately translated as softness or moral weakness. Likewise, what we translate as \u201cabusers of themselves with mankind\u201d is arsenokoitai<\/em> in the Greek, which more accurately describes something like shrine prostitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well, some Bible scholars claim that these terms refer to men who are sexually penetrated. This was seen as problematic in Paul\u2019s time because it was seen as less masculine to be penetrated. Men who are doing the penetrating, rather than being penetrated, were still seen as masculine, even if they were penetrating another man, because it was the penetrating that was masculine. Men who were penetrated were seen as feminine or subordinate (like a slave).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is one of the problems with using modern cultural paradigms to understand ancient ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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