What if the word homosexual was never meant to be in the Bible?

That's the question a new documentary called 1946 is asking

and it's part of a long-running effort to misinterpret the Bible to say that it never

condemns sexual relationships between people of the same sex.

There have been a lot of liberal and self-described gay Christians in the past 40 years

who have practiced this kind of biblical revisionism,

and the arguments made in this film

follow the same tired pattern.

So let's see what they get wrong.

The documentary follows its director, Sharon Rocky Roggio, a self-described gay Christian who interviews people

like Ed Oxford and Kathy Baldick, who defend the idea the Bible was misunderstood and thus

mistranslated on homosexuality.

The primary story in the film deals with the 1946 Translation Committee of the revised Standard

Version of the Bible, or RSV, and their decision to include the word homosexual in 1st

Corinthians 6 9 through 10 which says the following. Do you not know that the

unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Do not be deceived.

Neither the immoral nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the

greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers, will inherit the nor the archives and libraries and found a letter from a 21-year-old self-described gay seminary

student David Fearden who wrote to the translation committee for the RSV back in the 1950s

objecting to their use of the word homosexual in their

translation. They also make a big deal about how the word homosexual does not

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