Sorry, it's been a few weeks since my last post.  But, I have been busy with work and private research.  I have, however made a discovery that no one is talking about.  Oh, there are various articles about homosexual being in the bible and the Greek word arsenkoitai, and the argument rages on of who is right and who is wrong.

Let's take a moment to look at some facts that have been published, first arsenkoitai does not mean homosexual because when Paul first used the phrase it was in ancient Greek and barrowed two words that would translate at best "boy molester."  As I continued to research and dig another kept popping up in it's place, whoremonger. Uht Oh!  Now, monger means purveyor or a person who buys, sells or trades goods and that would lead to prostitution which the now infamous word arsenkoitai would come in, basically what Paul was eluding to is forced prostitution (slavery), or masters abusing their young male slaves, you get the idea.  Also, the idea of sodomites has been written about and tossed around along with our misinterpreted word.  Well, sodomite refers to any one to commits sodomy (there is a whole history that revolves around Sodom and Gomorrah...ANYONE, male or female, not exactly an argument for homosexual.

Now, Paul.  Paul lived somewhere between 5 and 65AD, the word homosexual was not even a word and nothing close to it, I have done some digging and cross-referencing with 5 different bibles (one from 1925, one from 1901 (based on the 1611 king James Bible), 1967 KJ Bible and two NIV (1988 and 2024) plus Strong's Concordance with Greek and Hebrew/Aramaic translation and multiple online sources.  The first occurrence of the  word homosexual  was in 1868.  Time out,  Yep, that's right one thousand eight hundred and three years after the death of the apostle Paul.  This is the part no one has mentioned, perhaps to keep the flames of dissent burning.  So what happened in 1868? Well let me tell ya, There was an Austrian named Karl Marie-Kertbeny who wrote a letter, at first a private correspondence, to Karl Heinrich Ulrich to argue against an anti-sodomy law, and used the term homosexual.  The first appearance of the word or term homosexual which is a Greek and Latin hybrid of 'homos' meaning same and 'homo' meaning man.

In 1886, Richard VonKraft Ebing a psychiatrist, used the term 'homosexual' in his book Psychopathia Sexualis.

It is interesting to see that the evangelicals that use the passages (not scriptrure, that's another separate post), that are the well known "clobber" passages to reach into the mind of Paul to see what he intended.  There are other phrases that are used in older versions such as manstealers (kidnappers), sodomites (as previously mentioned), and others depending on which version and translation of the bible you read.