21. You shall not take a false [oath]
in the name of the LORD your God.
The third commandment is: “You shall not
take a false [oath] in the name of the LORD your God.” The word oath
is not in the Aramaic text. I translate this verse to say: “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God with
deceit.” This verse is better understood by the way the New Living Translation translates this verse as:
“Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God. The LORD will not let you go unpunished if you misuse His name.”
(Ex. 20:7 NLT). If Christians deliberately misrepresent God by giving false interpretations of Scripture contrary
to what God intended, they are taking the LORD’s name with deceit. There are too many Christians being deceived and
deceiving. Every believer needs to be “rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Ti 2:15 KJV). We as Christians need
to make sure and watch that we always speak truth. On the study about homosexuality, there is some deliberate forgery of God’s
word. This pamphlet is designed to end the ignorances of lovers of truth from Christian deceivers on whether a person can
be gay and Christian. There are a lot of Christians that know you can be gay and Christian but they conceal the truth because
they are afraid to go against created social norms. Some want to oppress and control others. These “power” Christians
want someone to pick on. Some Christians are miserable and want to make someone else’s life miserable so they use oppressive
and blasphemous interpretations of Scripture. Additionally, there are a lot of Christians that are not exercising self-control.
These Christians have undergone some evil, and so they recompense evil with their interpretations of Scripture, falsely attributing
their hatred with God. It is a good thing that the LORD will not let these false brethren go unpunished. Moreover, it
is an old religious practice to exclude others because of a person’s ignorance, hatred or attitude of superiority. In
Bible times, those that were hated and oppressed were orphans, widows, women and foreigners to name a few. Now it is the homosexual
peoples turn to be outcasts.
Presently, most New Testaments are translated from the Greek Text which has Greek words that are translated as homosexuals
that don’t mean homosexuals. Hate filled scholars have put their prejudice in our Bible. In the Today’s English
Version (TEV), the translators translated the
words ma-la-koi and ar-se-no-koi-tai as "homosexual perverts.” Even if these scholars believe these words
refer to homosexuals, they deliberately add the word perverts, because of their own prejudice. In Jude 7 it says: “Even
as Sodom and Gomorrha...giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh...,”: The actual
Greek says that the people went after other flesh, which is referring to the foreigners. Some translators translate
the underlined portion as the people committing perversion (TEV) and practiced unnatural vice (New American
Bible [Catholic]). Remember, people pick and choose verses out of the Bible to justify their own prejudices. In the (NIV),
the translators deliberately add the word “sinful” in their translation of Romans 1:24: “Therefore
God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with
one another.” The word sinful is not in the Greek text, nor in any other English Bible. In the Living
Bible, it states: “Homosexuality is absolutely forbidden, for it is an enormous sin.” (Leviticus
18:22 THE LIVING BIBLE TYNDALE first printing 1987). The Hebrew word to-e-vah is
translated enormous sin (Living) and abomination (KJV), but has the primary meaning of “a despising”
or “an abhorrence.” Also, for the New Living Translation, it translates Leviticus 18:22 as: “Do
not practice homosexuality; it is a detestable sin.”
When one consults the Greek-English Lexicons on what are the definitions of some Greek words, one also finds some deception
here. Scholars are deleting definitions for the Greek words. For the word ma-la-kos, Strong
has this word meaning only “soft,” and “effeminate.” But Liddell and Scott have this word meaning
someone that is morally weak, lacking in self-control, and indulgent.” Vine has the word ma-la-kos denoting homosexuality and also “someone that is addicted to sins of the flesh, voluptuous.”
I believe Strong deliberately left out the definition for ma-la-kos as an indulgent person for his own advantage; to make people not question if the word ma-la-kos carries the definition of homosexual. For Strong’s definition for the word to-e-vah, he adds a definition to this word as: Prop. something disgusting (mor); knowing full well that this
word doesn’t mean this, nor can he find this word to carry that definition anywhere in the Bible in context.
There are many more examples I could give, but this should suffice you to see that their is some deliberate forgery
of what the Hebrew and Greek actually says.- There is a lot of ignorance on the subject of homosexuality, but a lot of scholars
know you can be gay and Christian, but they want to oppress. They use the Bible for power and try to use religion to control
society according to their beliefs. Also, there are some hate filled and oppressive verses in the Bible about women, which
is not what the Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek says.
22. FINAL NOTE:
I have finished
the whole Aramaic New Testament plus I finished twenty books of the Aramaic Old Testament. This written work is
not to be assumed that this is all to be known about homosexuality in the Bible or gay people in the Bible. This is just
all I have discovered thus far, being a Westerner. This is just the beginning of the long task ahead. Presently, I'm starting
school, so I will have to put a temporary hold on finishing the rest of the Aramaic OT.
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