Homosexual Adultery

I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:

the quote above from the Jan 1 1972 watchtower shows that the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger at that time thought that cuckolding was restricted to heterosexual affairs. As good slavebuggers they considered homosexual acts in this context less serious.
They -the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger- are pederast.
All those young boys they cannot physically grab and insanely screw hard they long-distance screw them anyway thru the insanely repulsive JueoHuaVueaH (yhwh) upbringing.
I still have nightmares about my infancy and adolescence, that I never had thank to my brainwashed parents that nearly total-brainwashed me too, they destroyed my life and would have me dead had I needed blood in any emergency.

Hello, the notorious ‘pay attention book’ by the Towers of All Terrors states at page 134:

“The marriage bond is not automatically broken in God’s
eyes by sex relations outside the marriage union; the
innocent mate may forgive. (Hos. 3: 1-3; 1 Cor. 13:4-8)

While elders should be informed one way or the other, it
is up to the innocent mate to decide whether to divorce or
not.
The innocent mate should be informed that resuming
sexual relations with the adulterous mate would indicate
forgiveness and would therefore cancel the Scriptural
ground for divorce. (w81 3/1 pp. 30-1)”

My question: how would elders know if the couple has resumed sex? Where in their bible they are authorized to be privy to what’s going on in other people’s bedrooms?

Cheers

Using Paul’s letter to the Corinthians as way of “proving” that homosexuality is a sin, is at best highly questionable. In reality, the concept of a “homosexual” is quite a modern one, and it would very surprising to find this issue discussed in the scriptures, as surprising as to find a passage addressing the use mobile phones.

So, let’s have a look and analyse this properly.

The passage: In his first epistle to the church at Corinth, Paul lists many activities that will prevent people from inheriting the Kingdom of God (heaven).

The King James Version of the Bible translates verse 9 and 10 as:

“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, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”

So I bothered to have a look at the Greek text and some other translations.

The original Greek text describes the two behaviours I printed in capitals as “malakoi” and “arsenokoitai.” Although these are often translated by modern Bibles as “homosexual,” we can be fairly certain that this is not the meaning that Paul wanted to convey. If he had, he would have used the Greek word “paiderasste.” That was the standard term at the time for male homosexuals. We can conclude that he probably meant something different from persons who engaged in male-male adult sexual behaviours

1) “Malakoi” is translated in both Matthew 11:8 and Luke 7:25 as “soft” (KJV) or as “fine” in references to clothing. It could also mean “loose” or “pliable,” as in the phrase “loose morals,” implying “unethical behaviour.” In the early Christian church, the words were interpreted by some as referring to persons who are pliable, easily influenced, without courage or stability. Non-Biblical writings of the era used the world to refer to lazy men, men who cannot handle hard work, and cowards. John Wesley’s Bible Notes defines “Malakoi” as those “Who live in an easy, indolent way; taking up no cross, enduring no hardship.”.
2) “Arsenokoitai” is made up of two parts: “arsen” means “man” or “male”; “koitai” means “beds.” The Septuagint (an ancient, pre-Christian translation of the Old Testament into Greek) translated the Hebrew “quadesh” in I Kings 14:24, 15:12 and 22:46 as “arsenokoitai.” They were referring to “male temple prostitutes” - people who engaged in ritual sex in Pagan temples. Some leaders in the early Christian church also thought that it meant temple prostitutes. Some authorities believe that it simply means male prostitutes with female customers - a practice which appears to have been a common practice in the Roman empire. One source refers to other writings which contained the word “arsenokoitai:” (Sibylline Oracles 2.70-77, Acts of John; Theophilus of Antioch Ad Autolycum). They suggest that the term refers “to some kind of economic exploitation by means of sex (but no necessarily homosexual sex).” Probably “pimp” or “man living off of the avails of prostitution” would be the closest English translations. It is worth noting that much Greek homosexual erotic literature has survived, none of it contains the word aresenokoitai.”

Strangely, there are also some texts in the Old Testament which may very well refer to Homosexual relationships, and these texts describe them as quite judgement free, even positive:
There are three such relationships mentioned:

Ruth and Naomi
Ruth 1:16-17 and 2:10-11

David and Jonathan
1 Samuel 18:1-4
1 Samuel 18:20-21
1 Samuel 20:41
2 Samuel 1:26

Daniel and Ashpenaz
Daniel 1:9

There are of course those who say that these texts refer to something a-sexual, and this is possible, but so there is other interpretation.

The question of homosexuality is a complicated one, and there are no simplistic answers. As to whether or not a divorce should be granted on the basis on one partner being a homosexual that depends on your view of what marriage is. Certainly I would not recommend marriage to a homosexual, both for his sake and his future wife’s.

The use of Paul’s letter in this way is a good example of what happens if you let your own prejudices giude you in your understanding of the bible.

OMG you’re quoting from an article that was written in 1972? Unlike the holy scripture those magazines are not inspired of god and have probably since been updated.
Any form of sex outside of the marriage arrangement is considered “fornication”, and when a partner commits fornication a divorce can be sought on this account.