Most people are turned off by even the smallest amount
of uncleanness or odor when looking at homes to purchase.
Note also that, while the word «abomination» has been used with reference to hom ose xuality, the biblical interpretation of the word «abomination» relates to any act
of uncleanness as set out in the Holiness Code, such as eating shellfish, trimming your hair, touching the skin of a dead pig (should we stone the entire NFL?)
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust
of uncleanness and despise authority.
The priests have once more gained the upper hand; it is only what the priests do in the sanctuary that really matters; nothing in the world outside has changed; people go on getting sick and dying and fighting with drugs and alcohol possession and being shunned for various forms
of uncleanness.
Note also that, while the word «abomination» has been used with reference to homosexuality, the biblical interpretation of the word «abomination» relates to any act
of uncleanness as set out in the Holiness Code, such as eating shellfish, trimming your hair, touching the skin of a dead pig (should we stone the entire NFL?)
Not exact matches
20 For the invisible things
of him since the creation
of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory
of the incorruptible God for the likeness
of an image
of corruptible man, and
of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts
of their hearts unto
uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth
of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.
The holiness
of Jesus overwhelmed and defeated the impurity and
uncleanness of leprosy.
Jesus compares the hypocritical Pharisees and scribes to «whitewashed tombs» (KJV «whited sepulchres»), outwardly beautiful, but within «full
of dead men's bones and all
uncleanness.»
«When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some
uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill
of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out
of his house.
Is it not normal, then, that he should be smitten and that he should bear upon himself this
uncleanness, the mark
of his sin, the sign
of his violence?
Noddings finds the Judeo - Christian tradition especially culpable in women's denigration: there is the Adam and Eve story, with Eve held responsible for accepting the serpent's temptation and leading man to sin; the Old Testament «
uncleanness» references and practices; the long history
of burning witches; even the veneration
of the Virgin Mary.
Therefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness, in the lusts
of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.»
In the rabbis» interpretations, «
uncleanness» could denote an act
of adultery (cf. Matt.
The most negative statement by Paul regarding same - sex acts occurs in Romans 1:24 - 27 where, in the context
of a larger argument on the need
of all people for the gospel
of Jesus Christ, certain homosexual behavior is given as an example
of the «
uncleanness»
of idolatrous Gentiles.
Therefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness, in the lusts
of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth
of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever.
Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness through the lusts
of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
«Now the works
of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts
of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like;
of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom
of God.»
Galatians 5:19 - 21 (KJV) Now the works
of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:
of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom
of God.
3 But fornication, and all
uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving
of thanks.
Wherefore, God gave them up in the lusts
of their hearts unto
uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored amoung themselves: for that they exchanged the truth
of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever.
It was more like the ritual bath which converts to Judaism had to take before they could be admitted into the holy people, as a sign that they were purified from the «
uncleanness»
of heathen ways.
For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full
of dead men's bones an all
uncleanness.
As scapegoat, Jesus bears our sins and
uncleannesses out
of the camp in a final Yom Kippur.
Okay, regarding Romans 1, you must have a position similar to L. William Countryman, who thinks Paul is using the language
of ritual
uncleanness in those verses, not the language
of sin.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness through the lusts
of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Then many
of them don't work, its so bad, all this
uncleanness floating around, making new diseases constantly.
For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full
of dead men's bones and all
uncleanness.
If the law
of the Sabbath stood in the way
of human service, it was to be suspended; he ate with publicans and sinners to win them to the Kingdom even at the cost
of ceremonial
uncleanness.
19 «The priest shall have her take an oath and shall say to the woman, «If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone astray into
uncleanness, being under the authority
of your husband, be immune to this water
of bitterness that brings a curse; 20if you, however, have gone astray, being under the authority
of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you» 21 (then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath
of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), «the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people by the LORD»S making your thigh waste away and your abdomen swell; 22and this water that brings a curse shall go into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh waste away.»
In other words, this means that the reason these Gentiles are futile in their minds, have their understanding darkened, have blindness
of their heart, and are past feeling, is because they gave themselves over to lewdness,
uncleanness, and greediness.
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest
of the Gentiles walk, in the futility
of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life
of God, because
of the ignorance that is in them, because
of the blindness
of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all
uncleanness with greediness (Ephesians 4:17 - 19).
Similarly, all
of Israel's sin and
uncleanness «registered» on the sanctuary.
Though written from the bias
of a patriarchal society, this passage clearly sanctions acts
of divorce, leaving the question
of grounds to the elusive justification that the wife possesses «some
uncleanness» or that «she find no favor in his eyes.»
This blood atones for the sin and
uncleanness of the people (Lev.
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some
uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill
of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out
of his house [Deut.
11 - 16Torah relating to ceremonial
uncleanness and purification; and to the special rites for the Day
of Atonement (16).
(24) Wherefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness through the lusts
of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (25) Who changed the truth
of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.