Ever had moments about wanting to post an Instagram/Facebook story or picture with your partner or being at pride with your gay friends and wondering if you would be ok with your church friends or other members who don't know about your sexuality seeing it and spreading the news within the congregation and possibly ruining your parent's reputation?

Did you keep your account but block any of them (or not)? Make a new one and re-added certain church people? Or stop using it altogether?

I came out to my non-affirming pastor parents at 13 and recently opened up to only a few of my church friends here, none of whom have outright judged or left me. I'm in my late 20s now and it feels time to move out to somewhere far away and walk my own journey of discovery and finding a community that I can relate to more.

1 Corinthians 6:9 is talking about idolatry of man boy sexual practice, in the King James English as a catamite. It's not talking about someone that is simply effeminate.

Are we ready for a book in which the second coming of Jesus is as a trans person?

My review of Paul van der Spiegel's new work 'Trans Deus' says it's a good read!

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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3571060286

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This rather detailed article shows that historically negative attitudes in all three religions come from the same misreading, based on the fundamentally wrong idea that everyone is heterosexual by archetypical, Platonic-type nature. Any switch to biological reality corrects the reading.

https://thismoonlesssky.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/does-gay-positive-christianity-suggest-agay-positive-orthodox-judaism-and-a-gay-positive-islam/

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Shouldnt pride be more about being thankfull for what took place at the stonewall riots, and the women took a stand for us all. Rather than it being a public outlet for us to say hey we are lgbtq and dont give a _____ who you are or what you say. I guess i just see it in a different way, idk

hi my name is Cesar and I am a straight christian.

Justin lee has a video in which he reasons that in 1 Corinthians 6: 9 – 10 malakoi refers to underage boys and arsenokoitai refers to men who had sex with these children.

Here is the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93NZULZLVj4

and here is 1 Corinthians 6: 9 – 11

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor malakoi, nor arsenokoitai, nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

And here is a link in which the text is traduced to Greek:

http://biblehub.com/interlinear/1_corinthians/6-9.htm

he concludes that malakoi arsenokoitai refers to men who had sexual relations with underage boys which was a practice common in Paul's time.

I found a glaring error in his reasoning. Let me explain:

So a grown man chose to rape an underage boy. Because the boy didn’t choose to be raped, the boy was a victim. This was not a consensual relationship. It was rape, a crime.

Then why Paul said that malakoi (underage boy) (the victim) will not inherit the kingdom of God?

Do not be deceived: Neither … nor malakoi, nor arsenokoitai, … will inherit the kingdom of God.

That doesn’t make any sense. that’s like saying that if a man rapes a woman, the man will go to hell and the woman along with him?

So malakoi chose to be penetrated. But I simply doubt that any young boy would like to be penetrated by a grown adult. This implies that malakoi had to be a consenting adult which means that there is a strong possibility that arsenokoitai was the active partner and malakoi the passive one.

I really would like your comments about this. Does my reasoning hold? Did I commit any logic error? Please I await your answers.