--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > In a message dated 2/25/06 1:10:06 P.M. Central Standard Time, > > jstein@ writes: > > > > Well, actually the Hebrew Scriptures are exactly, > > precisely that, as far as Judaism is concerned. > > > > Have you really never heard of the Covenant between > > God and His Chosen People? > > > > And as to rabbis being lawyers, have you never > > heard the provisions of the Covenant, especially > > in Leviticus, being referred to as the Law? > > > > Yes Judy, a covenant , however I'm referring to the legalese one > would hear > > in today's laws... the party of the first part shall be referred > to as... > > OK, what you said was that it wasn't a *contract* > between humans and God; but that's what it is, and > rabbis *do* have to interpret it like lawyers. > > As > > for the men of Sodom being homosexual? Read it for yourself > > Genesis 19:3 thru 9 and Judges 19:22. Yes they were at least bi- > > sexual because they demanded to have sex with the "strangers" that > > Lot had brought to his home for safe keeping that evening. The men > > of Sodom tried to break into Lot's home to rape the guests and > > Angels blinded the men of Sodom to make their escape along with > > Lot's family. > > Let me ask it this way: Do you think they wanted to > rape Lot's visitors because they were horny? In > other words, was the point sexual gratification? >
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