Oh no, a biblical history post.

I got into a discussion on another blog that I follow irregularly and thought this of note.  The question being debated here is to whether homosexuals are born that way or whether it’s a choice.  My take on it is (obviously) that it really doesn’t matter WHAT it is.  I personally believe it can be either, and as such is a null answer to a null question.  People choose to be who they are based on a preference that is pre-programmed.  My wife and I love chocolate but have a son who can’t stand it and doesn’t eat it.  This is a choice he makes based on his tastes.  (Though we *HAVE* considered counseling for what we consider to be his fatal flaw.(Kidding))

Thank you Miss Britt for providing the fodder for my latest work of mediocrity.

The conversation on Nature vs. Nurture has turned, as many of these conversations do, into a debate as to the validity of the bible.   I’ve paraphrased my response here because truthfully I believe it’s a discussion in and of itself.

At this point it’s very important to remember that the monks who translated what we now call “The Bible” from Latin to English had about a 2nd grade education in Latin.

*LOTS* of room for error here.  Remember the bible also wasn’t translated to English until the late 1300′s. As late as the early 1500′s the Roman Catholic church was still burning people at the stake for the crime of possessing an English bible or saying the lord’s prayer in english.  (It is interesting to note that in 1517 Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 Theses of Contention (a list of 95 issues of heretical theology and crimes of the Roman Catholic Church) into the church door at Wittenberg.

In the 1490’s an Oxford professor, Thomas Linacre, decided to learn Greek. After reading the Gospels in Greek, and comparing it to the Latin, he wrote in his diary, “Either this (the original Greek) is not the Gospel… or we are not Christians.” The Latin had become so corrupt that it no longer even preserved the message of the Gospel… yet the Church still threatened to kill anyone who read the scripture in any language other than Latin… though Latin was not an original language of the scriptures.

Sorry, didn’t meant to go off on a tangent like that.  Biblical history is kind of a hobby of mine.

My point is this the bible has been translated through at least 5 languages and re-written dozens of times in the period from 1st century AD until today.

It is also important to remember that these re-writes were done by imperfect men, each and every one of them with their own agenda.

Stepping down off my soap-box now.