I am engaged in some discussions on a thread Facebook. The subject is "scripture." There are two points I would like to make:
First, people are so lazy. They want someone else to spoon feed everything to them. "Where does it say that?" "What are your sources?" "Give us a 'credible source'? (You know when they say that, they are liberal and give no credibility to any source other than from their echo chamber, and they don't do their own thinking, either."
I know the hate is going to fly on this next one, but if you are reading "The Bible" and you aren't studying the actual scriptures, that were written in Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek... and if you are not reading the other 80 or so other writings that were NOT included in the King James... and, if you aren't studying from the thousands of other historical writings of that period so you can understand the topics of the times and what the writers were referring to... AND, if you haven't truly studied Hebrew society of that period. There is no way you are able to know what really was going on.
If you primarily read The Bible, you're missing about 80% of the truth. The Bible is NOT scripture, it is a translation into English, a very poor language to study the subject matter in. As the writers of that time were communicating to their intended audiences, they knew what they were talking about, what was happening in Greece, present day Turkey, and Rome, and often they didn't specifically point out the details, they all knew. As such, (for example) if you don't know what was happening in the Temple of Aphrodite and similar places, Romans 1:26 and 27 doesn't tell you and most people get it wrong because they are filling in the gaps from their lack of knowledge or the bias of some other person.
Further, many concept words like Marriage and Wife, didn't even exist in Hebrew or in that era and culture. When the translators were doing their jobs, they had to come up with words that fit OUR culture. The Hebrews didn't even have marriage as we know it today. Marriage, wife, and a few other words were as close as they could get and still fit the narrative they were tasked with bringing forth... to promote a faith that in the second century strayed far from what actual scripture says.
