Glennfs wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:03 am
I wasn't aware that you were such an expert on the bible. I am surprised you didn't quote chapter and verse
Not everybody who doesn't read it devotionally, is unaware of what's in it as a literary text, or the scholarship around it. After all, there are Biblical scholars, like Bart Ehrman, who have written about it.
I obviously don't read the New Testament, devotionally. My personal Bible is only the Masoretic text aka "OT". (They gave it to me on my Bar Mitzvah. My Rabbi signed it.) That said, I HAVE read the New Testament, and have another edition with it, because I do have to research it for scholarly purposes.
Of course, all that aside in turn, we're in a glorious new era where the whole text is online and Internet searchable. So aside from arguments about translations and editions with different versions ... not gonna go there right now ... it's pretty easy for anybody to find out what's in it, what's not, and where.
I CAN tell you this - a little quick googling, and you can easily find out the text has more to say about sanctuary and refuge for foreigners and strangers, or taking care of the poor, than it does about gay people or gay marriage, or abortion. In fact, technically speaking, per se, it says nothing about those last two things. (In the original languages it was written in, there was no word for "gay" or "homosexual" so basically it really says nothing.)