ContradictionsReading order 425Bible context 2 min read
How should homosexuals be treated?
The texts prescribe death in one passage and report removal in another, but they do not clearly identify identical conduct or state that removal was the only punishment.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Foundational
- A central claim about origins, salvation, divine justice, or religious authority.
Removing people called sodomites does not securely identify their conduct or exclude execution under the separate sexual law.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Leviticus orders death for male intercourse described in its rule
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 20:13
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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Asa removes people called sodomites from the land
And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father. And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 Kings 15:11-12
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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