Consider, for example, the confusion around how ancient people understood the terms natural and unnatural. You’d never know it from current debate, but the Bible says very little about same-sex behavior and arguably nothing at all about committed same-sex relationships, whose prevalence in the ancient world is a subject of historical debate. One of the few, indirect references to same-sex activity in Scripture appears in Romans 1, where the apostle Paul, arguing that both Jews and Gentiles need salvation, alludes to Gentiles who were so “inflamed with lust” that the “women exchanged natural
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