I think one word means “soft men” and the 2nd means “liers with males.”
But, I can’t type Greek (I have the symbols, but i don’t know which keys are which.)
The 1st word looks like “u-a-lambda-a-k-o-i”
2nd: “a-p-o-e-v-o-k-o-i-t-a-i”
(I need a keyboard template for Greek symbols)
Westcott and Hort if you’re wondering.
Well, in that polygamy was allowed in Judaism at the time (and sort of still is), and lacking any authoritative statement by Jesus against it, it’s not too far a stretch to say he would have approved of plural marriages.
As for a gay wedding, though, I don’t see how it could have happened. You can’t have a wedding without a ketubah, and the traditional ketubah was written specifically with a man and woman in mind. With two men, for example, which one pledges to support, feed, and clothe the other? You know:
I guess the traditions will just have to be changed. (Horrors!)
Also, keep in mind, when asking your question, you’re asking what someone 2000 years ago in a djfferent culture with a different set of values would do. There are going to be issues that were controversial then but that today, we take for granted. There are also going to be issues that today are controversial that they would have taken for granted. Look at how much attitudes have changed in the US since the 1950s, and that’s just fifty years within the same culture.
They’re also asking what an incarnation of God would do. Presumably God hasn’t changed much in the past 2000 years.
Well, exactly, and they have been. But the question is what Jesus would have done, and Jesus lived back before any of those traditions got changed.
But correctness doesn’t depend on tradition. If Jesus was God, wouldn’t he have known the correct way to behave in regards to the wedding? ‘What would Jesus do’ is a cliche, but an important one.
There was a book by Michael Vesey published in England that argued just that. Unfortunately, my ex back in England has it, and I cannot remember the title for the life of me. (Couldn’t find it on the Net either. Time to surrender my researcher’s license.)
I have to say that, having done quite a lot of work with the early English translations of the Bible myself, the methodology Vesey used was very convincing. IANA scholar of ancient Greek, but he did seem to have a very good grasp of translation and textual criticism.
You can use the symbol tag. That is write
(symbol)Greek stuff(/symbol)
using square brackets instead of round ones and it comes out as
[symbol]Greek stuff[/symbol]
It’s the two I gave, although I used Roman-alphabet transliteration:
Giving them in Greek, using the symbol font (which I’ve experienced problems with in the past, so I hope this works):
[symbol]malakoV[/symbol]
and [symbol]arshnokaitoV[/symbol]
(Note that I gave the plural in -oi ([symbol]-oi[/symbol]) rather than the singular in -os ([symbol] -ov[/symbol]).)
Please! He’d turn the water into white wine spritzers.
Poly, yes. Those are they.
(I’m practicing my Greek symbol fonts now. Writing down which letters do what.)
If the gay wedding was done in Jesus’ time (2000 some odd years ago) then he would not attend. He may go to a sinner’s house but he will not stand by and allow them to sin. Homosexuality was a big no-no at that time.
If the gay wedding was held in this time, he may. He would have to answer the question “is not homosexuality a sin and why was it a sin before and not now” Its one of those logical traps that only the son of God can answer.
Well, if you believe Jesus is God, and that there’s an objectively correct pattern of behavior that God would follow, then the question is just another “Is homosexuality/homosexual weddings morally rightl or not” question, which is probably something that can be debated until the end of time.
If however, you look at Jesus as an actual Palestinian Jewish peasant become itenerant teacher/wonder worker living two millenia ago, who, like all of us, had his attitudes and values shaped by his experiences and by the society in which he grew up, the question “Would Jesus attend a gay wedding” can be answered with somewhat more certainty based on the opinions and values that Jesus was probably exposed to throughout his life.
I think Jesus would have attended then and now.
He hung out with all kinds of people so I don’t see why he would be different then than now.
I believe Jesus is love so he would surely show his love.
I am not sure about approval though.
Well my take on the subject would be that first off, the evolution of the question has become what Jesus would have thought or done at a gay wedding (the question was whether he would go) and not what you run-of-the-mill Christian would do. Jesus was very adamant about not judging or thinking oneself to be better than others, and he would tell his followers this I am sure. But his advice certainly does not apply to Himself. He is appointed to be the judge of everyone and as God really and truly is better than all others.
Secondly, not once did he approve of sinful behavior in others. He came to “save the sick and not the healthy” because they needed the saving. More often than not his meeting with sinners went something like “Have no fear, these people are not in a position to judge and I will always love you. Now that you know this and have acknowledge in your heart that you know who I am (and I know this cuz I am God) go and sin no more” [Note: I have not done an exhaustive word study of the “go and sin no more” and He might really have said “go and sin some more I don’t care” which would make my point moot.]
I imagine he would be cordial and what not to all attending, would pray for them and might even be asked to read from the Holy Scriptures. Perhaps: “It is written ‘Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD’” “How so rabbi?” “Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom-both young and old-surrounded the house. They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.” “ “Oh, I see, so what….gulp….what happened to these men?” “Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah-from the LORD out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities-and also the vegetation in the land. “ “Oh….You come to the help of those who gladly do right, who remember your ways. But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we be saved?” And then I believe he would tell them.
Just my take on it.
Than again, the participants might tell Him that homosexuality was not a sin. In which case He either would say “Ummm…yes it is.” Or he would say “True, I never said in my time it was” and then he would squat down and write in the sand the people’s names and beside them their laundry list of sins and then there would be shame and off-their-pedestals knocking aplenty. And then it would be back to “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”
Maybe. But that goes against what He Himself implied that the sin of Sodom was when he sent the disciples out on their preaching mission.
The point some of us are trying to make is pretty solidly expressed in John 3:17 – He saved His attitude, not for the folks who were considered sinners in His day, but for the “righteous” folks who were judging them.
I’d love to see what He’d have to say at a meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention – or the Catholic Episcopal Conference, or the Lambeth Conference, or the General Assembly of the Presbyterians, etc., for that matter.
He may just turn those tables over with their once saved always saved tapes on it.
Then again he may just hang around and point out things to get the people to thinking.
Not sure what he would do at a baptist convention.
I am not sure what I would do at baptist convention.
i just thought of a question:
What car will Jesus be driving to this gay wedding? 
runs away ducking