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Contents:

• A GAY VERSN OF THE BIBLE
• AMAZON BANS 'HELLA GAY' VERSN OF THE BIBLE WRTEN BY MAN WHO WAS MAYOR OF HELL
• GAY BIBLE ANGERS CHRISTIANS
• BIBLE VERS ABOUT BEG GAY
• THE QUEEN JAM ‘GAY’ BIBLE

A GAY VERSN OF THE BIBLE

FeatureIs a gay terpretatn of the Bible necsary, or jt provotive? Amerin filmmaker Max Mchell recently announced that his film productn pany, Revisn, will publish “a gay versn of the Bible, which God says is better to be gay than straight.

” It’s to be lled the Prcs Diana Bible—supposedly named bee of her good eds—and Revisn will “adapt and direct the revised Bible as a two-part mi-seri, The Gay Old Ttament and The Gay New Ttament. ” Last year, the Gay Bible was published, and ntas “many heretil thgs about lettg gay people love each other and not mdlsly followg scripture like a lemmg.

AMAZON BANS 'HELLA GAY' VERSN OF THE BIBLE WRTEN BY MAN WHO WAS MAYOR OF HELL

” But for what ’s worth, “stg down and ‘turng the Bible gay’ is a pretty stupid e” of time. Especially sce the “Bible we already have is very pro-gay, ” said Candace Chellew-Hodge Relign Dispatch, spe what anti-gay people say. “There is absolutely no nmnatn for lovg, mted, gay and lbian relatnships wh the pag of the Bible.

” The gay and lbian muny needs to “make peace” wh the Bible we already have, and everyone needs to realize that the real msage of the Bible is that “God lov all—no matter what. The first time the word “homosexual” appeared the Bible was 1946.

Their ncln is that was a other words, the Biblil assertn that homosexualy is a s—the talyst for an entire shift culture, wh polil repercsns, relig implitns, nsequenc for LGBT rights and acceptance, and, ankly, adly rults—was, they allege, a a new film asserts, was “the mise of a sgle word that changed the urse of history. Moreover, there’s g to terms wh the notn that human error uld be rponsible for the stokg of homophobia—a mdset of hatred, opprsn, and relig natnalism that has fed the last 75 years of our anyone has even seen the film, there has been an anized effort to attack and bunk the film’s claims. Porg over thoands of historil documents, centuri of ancient texts, and Bible translatns many languag, the experts the film nclu that two Greek words were mistranslated to mean homosexual.

GAY BIBLE ANGERS CHRISTIANS

12, we spoke wh Rogg about the work she did (along wh scholars and activists Kathy Baldock and Ed Oxford) to meticuloly substantiate the film’s claims, the challenge of gettg through to a Christian muny that ref even to hear the evince, and how a documentary like this uld change the the Thgs the Bible Wants to Execute You ForI grew up the church, but I am still someone who found the ia of “homosexual” beg a mistranslatn the Bible to be shockg. 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.

BIBLE VERS ABOUT BEG GAY

The words "homosexual" and "heterosexual" were first ed as German nouns by Atrian-born Hungarian psychologist, Karoly Maria Benkert, the late 19th century, who wrote unr psdonym K. A gay Christian, as well as a graduate of the Talbot School of Theology, his specialty is the history of the Bible, focg on Bible translatns, wh a foc on the Greek and Hebrew translatns, pecially those that relate to human sexualy. Kathy Baldock is an LGBTQ+ advote and executive director of Canyon Walker Connectns, an anizatn dited to repairg "the divisn that exists between social and Christian nservativ and the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny through tn, trag, and dialogue both secular and relig environments.

"Each had been dited to rearchg the roots of antigay theology, and together have wrten Fg a Sacred Weapon: How the Bible Beme Anti-Gay, and they are also the rearchers behd the documentary, 1946: The Mistranslatn That Shifted Culture. "This is important to know, bee the actual word "homosexual" appears for the first time on Febary 11, 1946 the Revised Standard Versn.

In , their translatn of 1 Corthians 6:9, they substute the word "homosexual" for the the Greek words "malakoi" and "arsenokoai.

THE QUEEN JAM ‘GAY’ BIBLE

' So we went to 1 Corthians to see how they translated arsenokoai (origal Greek word) and stead of homosexuals said, 'Boy molters will not her the kgdom of God. So the tertg thg is, I asked if they ever changed the word arsenokoai to homosexual morn translatns. So my iend found and told me, 'The first time homosexual appears a German translatn is 1983.

'"Although the mistake was rrected om "homosexual" to "sexual perverts" the Revised Standard Versn 1971, the damage had been heavily done, wh the word "homosexual" appearg most translatns of the Bible, mostly 1 Corthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10.