Tom, you have quoted one of the numerous modern conservative translations that are the ones leaving the older, traditional translation of the KJV, ERV, ASV and YLT, by changing "effeminate" and "abusers of themselves with mankind" into "men who practice homosexuality". Using the older 1828 Webster's English dictionary, which is the closest to the definitions of the KJV, ERV, ASV and YLT; you do not come up with homosexual. When checking "effeminate", "abusers" in 1 Cor. 6:9, and "delile In 1 Tim. 1:10 you learn what the older translations understood in the verse and "effeminate" means just that, NOT sexual acts; and "abusers" clearly refers to "sodomites" that are clearly defined by Webster:
ABU'SER, n. s as z. One who abuses, in speech or behavior; one that deceives;
a ravisher;
a sodomite. 1 Cor 6.
RAV'ISHER, n.
1. One that takes by violence.
2. One that forces a woman to his carnal embrace.
3. One that transports with delight.
DEFILE, v.t. 5. To corrupt chastity; to debauch; to violate; to tarnish the purity of character by lewdness.
Schechem defiled Dinah. Gen 34.
The 1828 Webster's Dictionary clearly makes arsenokoites/abusers to be "sodomites" and that person is described as an abuser, a deceiver, a ravisher, one that takes by violence or rapes. The word "sodomite" is NOT a synonym for "homosexual", as much as ignorant fundamentalists wish to make it so. Loving homosexual relationships are more than about sex, and the long term relationships that last even after sex has died away show that to be the case.
I find those claiming to be conservatives, are too much ruled by their political social activism by reading "homosexuals' into 1 Cor. 6:9 and 1 Tim. 1:10. They also, like the 1977 NASB in Ex. 21:22 which read "miscarriage", was changed in the 1995 NASB to "gives birth prematurely", which leaves the historic understanding as a "miscarriage", which is the common sense translation.
I believe it is the churches claiming to be holding to the fundamentals of the faith, who left the traditional and historic translations of 1 Cor. 6:9; 1 Tim. 1:10 and Ex. 21:22 to be the ones who may be more at fault for the downfall of the west; rather than the liberals. If the so-called conservatives had held to the traditional understanding of these verses, then they church would have credibility to challenge same-sex marriage legalization in civil law as well as church law.
I'm more concerned about the so-called conservative church's departure from Biblical standards than I am about the sin of San Francisco, New Orleans, NYC or even the corruption in Washington, DC.
More serious than sexual perversions and changes in Ex. 21:22; I find is the departure of the church from Biblical standards about women's role and the Presbyterian John Knox wrote clearly about it:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/9660/9660-h/9660-h.htmThat booklet by Knox is titled:
The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women, by John Knox, 1558.That is what has destroyed the biblical family unit, not same-sex marriage. It has infected the churches as well. The rule of/by women is clearly a sign of God's judgment on his people, Isa. 3:12.
I know this will find much agreement in the conservative churches of today.
