What in the lgbt+ is 1Cor6:9 about

What is 1 Corinthians 6:9 really about?

Arsenokotai (ie homosexuality in Scripture)

So...I’m a biblical languages expert who pores over the Hebrew, Greek, and even occasionally Luther’s German text. 

Unfortunately the whole “it’s about pedophiles not homosexuality” is bad scholarship and fake news. 

This argument has cropped up a lot in super progressive circles and it’s just not accurate. 

Arsenokoitai is a hybrid word for man bedding. Man in the sense of male and bedding in the sense of banging. 

It’s also not even used in the verse most frequently quoted. (Leviticus 18:22)

Leviticus was originally in Hebrew and it breaks the elements up instead of using a single word. It reads trans literally as V’et-zakar Lo tis-kab v’et mishkabe ishah towabah hi. 

Or “with a male (negative) you lie down in the act of lying down sexually as with a wife an abomination that (is).”

All standard words for male, same word used to distinguish between male and female animals. 

There was a Greek translation done years later called the septuigint. It also doesn’t use the word arsenokotai. 

Because the Hebrew doesn’t smush it together, neither does the Greek, which reads 

“Kai meta arsenos ou koimAthAsA koitAn gunaikos bdelugma gar estin” which means 

“And with a male (not) you shall sleep sexually as with a woman, detestable that is.”

Post script note

It’s important to note that Scripture doesn’t buy into the worldview of orientation. The sin is same sex sexual activity. 

For all of human history until a pervy German doctor, “being straight” and “being gay” weren’t a thing. Honestly the clue that sexual identity is a whack idea is pretty obvious when the list keeps expanding and even contradicting itself.

- Lindsay Arrington 

Also, if anyone would care for it, here is a compilation of every verse in the Bible that talks about the topic of homosexuality:

“Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter; and they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them." But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him, and said, "Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭19:4-7‬ ‭‬‬

“You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.

‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭18:22

“If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.”

‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭20:13‬ 

“Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭1:24-32‬ ‭‬‬

“Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.”

‭‭Jude‬ ‭1:5-7‬ ‭

“But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.”

‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭1:8-11‬ ‬‬

“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.”

‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭6:9-10‬