re homosexual issues in christianity there s some ambiguity about the meaning of the words in the passage you quote both liberal and conservative sources seem to agree that homosexual is not the general term for homosexuals but is likely to have a meaning like homosexual prostitute from what i understand of my experience in looking up this word and discussing it with a greek literate individual the meaning of the word is rather clear basically it literally means he who beds with a man or he who has sex with a man the burden of proof is on the pro homosexuality side of the argument to show that the word has an idiomatic meaning nor evident from its literal meaning one can speculate all day long that it might mean something else but we need evidence before we create new doctrines and get rid of the historical understanding of the meaning of this word link hudson i ve read enough discussions of this passage in both liberal and conservative sources to be sure that the meaning even the literal meaning is not certain that doesn t mean one can t come to some conclusion nor does it mean that i think there s any doubt about what paul thinks of homosexuality but there are plausible arguments for a couple of different meanings clh
