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The first time the word “homosexual” appeared the Bible was 1946.
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Realizg that the word homosexual wasn’t the Bible until 1946, that was a click for me. 1946: The Mistranslatn That Shifted Culture is about the first time the word “homosexual” appeared the Bible.
What was disvered, through a seri of letters wrten by the translatn mtee that put the word “homosexual” there, is that was a mistake.
Then was disvered how the word “homosexual” went viral prt the ’70s. What we now see today is the dangers of Christian natnalism, and ’s only you talk more specifilly about the mistranslatn of the word “homosexual” and what happened there? They say refers to nsensual acts, so ’s been amplified as homophobia bee of this my experience, I know there are many Christians who are unmovg their beliefs, who operate om a pot of bld fah.