1 Corinthians 5–7: Can You Put an End to Sexual Desire?

1 Corinthians 5–7 shows Paul using a bread metaphor to convey to his readers the importance of removing a man committing incest who is living among them.

Marriage:

Undisputed: celibacy (not being married is the best way to be a Christian)

Pastoral Epistles: women are saved by child bearing

No consistent sexual policy within New Testament or between NT and Hebrew Bible.

The trailer for the documentary 1946: The Mistranslation that shifted Culture pinpointed the first translation of the Bible that translated 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 into containing the word Homosexual. The translation is thought by many people to be fallible, but in terms of its effects, it sparked an uproar throughout the nation.

Prior to 1962, sodomy was a felony in every state in the union, punishable by imprisonment.

It was only in 1971, for example, that Alaska decriminalized oral sex between a married heterosexual couple.

“While homophobia looms large here, the intellectual basis for sodomy laws has been that anal sex (whether between men or between a man and a woman) is non-procreative. The impetus for this procreative focus is a religious one based in natural law: The Catholic Church’s opposition to contraception is grounded in the understanding that all sex should be open to life. But non-procreative sex hasn’t always been viewed with disdain by religious groups.”

New Testament stays silent on the matter of homosexuality but early Christians were worried about how difficult it is to control human sexual conduct.