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  2. Leviticus 18 - Wikipedia

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    Then God is quoted as listing people with whom sex is forbidden due to family relationships (6–19). In verse 20, God prohibits sexual relations with a neighbor's wife, and in verse 21 God prohibits passing one's children through fire to Moloch. Verse 22 is the famous verse about "lie with a man," discussed below, while in verse 23 God forbids ...

  3. The Bible and homosexuality - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and its traditional interpretations in Judaism and Christianity have historically affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality, [5] [6] favouring exclusively penetrative vaginal intercourse between men and women within the boundaries of marriage over all other forms of human sexual activity, [5] [6] including ...

  4. Homosexuality in the New Testament - Wikipedia

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    The authors of the New Testament had their roots in the Jewish tradition, which is commonly interpreted as prohibiting homosexuality.A more conservative biblical interpretation contends "the most authentic reading of [Romans] 1:26–27 is that which sees it prohibiting homosexual activity in the most general of terms, rather than in respect of more culturally and historically specific forms of ...

  5. Incest in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Ezekiel implies [33] that, in his time, marriage between a man and his stepmother, or his daughter-in-law, or his sister, were frequent. [37] This situation seems to be the target of the Deuteronomic version of the incest prohibition, which only addresses roughly the same three issues [ 1 ] [ 33 ] (though prohibiting the mother-in-law in place ...

  6. List of Christian denominational positions on homosexuality

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    These churches therefore oppose same-sex unions, gay pastors, and would tend to forbid congregants who persist in homosexual practices. Politically, they are likely to support politicians with the same viewpoints. Assemblies of God churches insist that those who engage in homosexual activity should cease such behavior, as with any sin. [126]

  7. Homosexuality in the Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and its traditional interpretations in Judaism and Christianity have historically affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality, [5] [6] favouring exclusively penetrative vaginal intercourse between men and women within the boundaries of marriage over all other forms of human sexual activity, [5] [6] including ...

  8. God-man (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    The first usage of the term "God-man" as a theological concept appears in the writing of the 3rd-century Church Father Origen: [2]. This substance of a soul, then, being intermediate between God and the flesh – it being impossible for the nature of God to intermingle with a body without an intermediate instrument – the God-man is born.

  9. Catholic theology of sexuality - Wikipedia

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    Genesis describes the man’s official companion being made from a bone of his bones and the flesh of his flesh. [ 7 ] In cases in which sexual expression is sought outside marriage , or in which the procreative function of sexual expression within marriage is "deliberately frustrated" (e.g., the use of artificial contraception ), the Catholic ...