The Word "Homosexual" Wasn't In The Bible Until Recently. So What?

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Pr. Jack Shannon discusses a recent popular argument for degeneracy. He responds to a specific argument put forward by Ed Oxford which can be found in the show notes. Summary of Pr. Shannon's response: 1. Proper biblical exegesis is done by consulting the primary sources, the Greek and Hebrew. Oxford doesn’t do this. 2. The Greek and Hebrew are unambiguous about the unlawfulness of homosexuality. 3. Paul could have used a word which meant pederasty, but he didn’t. 4. Later translations, like the Spanish translation of the 16th century, translates this word as lying with males. 5. Even if Oxford is right about his claims, by his own admission, two other verses still prohibit homosexual activity. 6. Jesus shows us that the creational order is the standard of sexual arrangements – heterosexual marriage. 7. Not mentioned until now, but an appeal to natural law would be fitting here, too. Thomistic arguments would also supplement how to understand these passages. That apart from divine revelation, natural revelation would also teach us that homosexual activity is unlawful, given what the telos is of reproductive organs, etc. But I understand that natural law has fallen out of favor in modern secular academia, so I don’t expect it to have much weight with the kinds of people putting forward these arguments. I only offer it as a supplement to divine revelation, and realize it’s outside the immediate purview of the Oxford article.

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