They are not, they only mentioned men but it applies to women, too. As I said, they didn’t need everything said literally to understand it back then.

Other than God’s opinion on it, I simply don’t have an opinion on it. Someone asked the question, I answered the question biblically.

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Interpretation of Leviticus 18:22
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The readers of the original Hebrew text at the time weren’t as literal as we are today. They would have understood it as homosexuality in general.

Whether I think it is wrong or not does not matter. Yahweh’s opinion (which, I believe, is the only definition of truth that we have) is the ONLY thing that matters. Jesus also tells us that gluttony (over indulgence, especially in food) is a sin. I love to eat nothing but carbs and sugar. It doesn’t matter that I love this food, He doesn’t love it, so I have to figure something else out.

The loving that Jesus speaks of is, essentially, the willingness to take a bullet for someone, not to be intimate with someone.

‭Leviticus 18:6-23 ESV‬
[6] “None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord. [7] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. [8] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness. [9] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home. [10] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness. [11] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister. [12] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s relative. [13] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s relative. [14] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. [15] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness. [16] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness. [17] You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity. [18] And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive. [19] “You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. [20] And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her. [21] You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. [22] You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. [23] And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.

1 John 1:9 – If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Proverbs 28:13 – Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Matthew 3:2 – “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

These verses, and many more, explain that in order for God to forgive our sins, we have to recognize that we are sinning, confess that we have sinned, ask God to forgive us of our sin (which doesn’t mean ask for forgiveness just to do it again. The Old Testament speaks of wearing sackcloth and ashes when asking for forgiveness which implies actually being distraught that you have sinned), and actually labor at not doing that sin again. None of these things you can truly do if you don’t start with the first step, recognizing what is sin.

Humans have a moral code and animals do not.
https://www.gotquestions.org/homosexual-animals.html

As I said to Damon, our culture seems to think that what we do and feel, good or bad, makes up our entire personhood. From what I understand of the Bible, not only did God create mankind and said it was “good”, but also gave mankind personality and said it was “good”. After God created what He called “good”, Lucifer corrupted it with sin. The sin that the devil introduced is what God rejects, not the person themselves. We have to separate the sin from the person in order to walk the path He wants us to walk.