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Nabhal    
 

The fourth word is "Nabhal" which Jesus condemned in his sermon on the mount saying that those who used it against another shall be in danger of hellfire. In Greek the word is "Moros" and translates in Aramaic and Greek as sexual wrongdoer, aggressor, renegade and impious. The reference to impiety in Hebrew is always the accusation levelled against homosexual activity. Jesus' pairing of Raca and Nabhal may, as some biblical scholars suggest, have alluded to, respectively, passive and active homosexuality. However there is no other reference whatsoever to Jesus having commented on homosexual sex or the "sin of Sodom" in any of his sermons, parables or conversations with his disciples, listeners or the Roman Government of Judea. If in his time "Sodomy" meant what it later came to mean, the word would surely have been used by him and the act described by it referred to by him. The fact that is was not used by him is clear evidence that during his lifetime the "sin of Sodom" was not considered to be homosexual sex.

     
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