Let's not forget there is biblical record showing Joseph (Old Testament) David, Jonathan and plausibly John were queer.
By the way, if you are using Scripture, context matters so rather than presuppose context based on bias, it is generally a good idea to deal with the issue of biblical narratives are not univocal, meaning they cannot be inerrant. And even if they COULD be inerrant, there is no way anybody in our generation could possibly have an inerrant hermeneutic. Romans 1 has absolutely nothing to do with consensual same-sex relationships as we would recognize in our culture.
Judaism has a pretty good idea behind the context of particularly what we would consider the Old Testament. Most (ultra-conservatives excluded) recognized there were up to 8 genders on the Talmud.
Thought nonbinary gender was a modern concept? Think again. The ancient Jewish understanding of gender was far more nuanced than ...
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- Zachar, male.
- Nekevah, female.
- Androgynos, having both male and female characteristics.
- Tumtum, lacking sexual characteristics.
- Aylonit hamah, identified female at birth but later naturally developing male characteristics.
- Aylonit adam, identified female at birth but later developing male characteristics through human intervention.
- Saris hamah, identified male at birth but later naturally developing female characteristics.
- Saris adam, identified male at birth and later developing female characteristics through human intervention.