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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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