1946 The Explosive Documentary That Is Under Attack: The Word ‘Homosexual’ Is in the Bible by Mistake

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The word homosexual was inserted based on a conspiracy, and it changed the history of the way we treat LGBTQ+ folk.😏

A link to this movie was in a Facebook post by one of my family members this morning. It was of course, affirmed by several other family members and people I know, people near my age that I went to school with, that are reasonably intelligent and well educated. They are in general good folk, but it never ceases to amaze me how people can be so easily led by their own biases to ignore plain (theological) evidence/truth. It’s like that line from a few good men where Nicholson tells Cruise, “you can’t handle the truth”.
 
STR has an article and a podcast episode on this film:

The Claim about Homosexuality in the Film 1946 Is Irrelevant

A new film claims Christian opposition to homosexuality is based on a 1946 mistranslation of a Greek word in the RSV Bible. Here’s why their argument doesn’t change the Christian understanding of sexuality.
www.str.org www.str.org

Is a Mistranslation Responsible for Christian Opposition to Homosexuality?

Greg talks to Frank Turek about the upcoming CrossExamined Instructor Academy, then he chats with Alan about a new film that claims Christian opposition to homosexuality is based on a mistranslation of a Greek word in 1946.
www.str.org www.str.org
 
How sad how some theologians and Christians, in general, can disregard the clear teaching of scripture whether certain words are mentioned in the Bible or not. The principles are, and that is what counts.
 
Shooting from the hip here...

I was reading the STR article which states that the English translation of arsenokoitai, is at the center of this film's thesis...

Now, I'm no Greek nor linguistic scholar but as soon as I saw the word, I picked up on the second part, koitai, which translated, means laying or bed.  Koitai seems to resemble our English word, coitus.

Again, I am not a linguistic scholar by any stretch but I've listened to enough teaching to pick up on Greek's influence on our own language. Is there anyone who is more linguistically qualified who would like to speak to this correlation I've noticed?
 
Sorry for the ignorance:

Is STR the Stand To Reason website and broadcast?
 
abcaines said:
Is there anyone who is more linguistically qualified who would like to speak to this correlation I've noticed?
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It's definitely a loanword from Latin. I can't find an etymology that traces it farther back from that, so I can't say whether Latin got coire from the Greek koite or they both have a common ancestor. I'd say they're clearly related.
 
I started a thread about this argument in June:

Twitter, homosexuality, social constructivism, and KJV-onlyism

Every year around this time, I see canards like these pop up on Twitter, as regular as clockwork: There are two assertions made in this tweet, so let's get the second one out of the way first. The Hebrew word zakar means "male," not specifically "young boys." God created mankind "male [zakar]...
www.fundamentalforums.org

The documentary and STR article are earlier than that, though I was unaware of them at the time. Obviously, I haven't changed my mind since.
 
abcaines said:
Shooting from the hip here...

I was reading the STR article which states that the English translation of arsenokoitai, is at the center of this film's thesis...

Now, I'm no Greek nor linguistic scholar but as soon as I saw the word, I picked up on the second part, koitai, which translated, means laying or bed.  Koitai seems to resemble our English word, coitus.

Again, I am not a linguistic scholar by any stretch but I've listened to enough teaching to pick up on Greek's influence on our own language. Is there anyone who is more linguistically qualified who would like to speak to this correlation I've noticed?
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I've had some...and I stress SOME training in these languages. But, I believe the more appropriate may be FSSL, ALAY, or possibly even Scott. They could probably shed some insight on this.
 
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