The most “accurate” word-for-word translation of that verse would say “a man shall not lie with another man it is forbidden.” We do read Hebrew and we still don’t know shit. They don’t read Hebrew and they don’t know shit.Īnd now here’s something you probably won’t hear from any of those Fine Christian Folks ™ anytime soon, either: You guys know that verse in Leviticus that homophobes like to trot out? Well, I’m here to tell you: Hey, your friendly neighborhood Jew here!
You’re all valid, and frankly, if there is a ‘loving God,’ then that God will be happy to see you happy. So why every Joe on the streets thinks they can take one or two verses, completely out of context and probably mis-translated several times to boot, and use it to spout propaganda and hatred for an entire group of people will forever be beyond me. I have a hard time knowing what my grandpa is talking about, when he starts going on about the technology or practices of his youth, and that was only about 80 years ago, in the same country and in the same language as me. The bible is one long-ass game of telephone, whispered around the world in dozens if not hundreds of languages, for thousands of years. This mistranslation crept into the Greek Septuagint version and was uncovered by modern scholars with access to old Hebrew manuscripts.”
Could that simple fact of geology have had anything to do with those famous walls tumbling down? Then I discovered that Moses and the tribes of Israel never crossed the Red Sea but escaped from Pharaoh and his chariots across the Sea of Reeds, an uncertain designation which might be one of several Egyptian lakes or a marshy section of the Nile Delta. “ In researching the world’s oldest city, for instance, I learned that Joshua’s Jericho is one of the oldest human settlements. Hell, in Kenneth Davis’s Don’t Know Much About The Bible, there’s a passage that absolutely blows my mind and proves just how much we can misinterpret with simple translation mistakes: It’s content taken out of context and misinterpreted over hundreds of years of translations, re-translations, and mis-translations. The bible doesn’t condemn homosexuality anyway.
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