>>667596
>with one possible exception, that is Romans 1:26, that I also often see interpreted to mean anal sex or oral sex being sinful.
It says men with men, women with women. This really doesn't get any more direct about what it means here.
You're probably seeing people interpreting from some corrupt modern version rather than the Authorized version. And the motive is clear, they want to accomodate modern philosophy about sodomy being normal so they start trying to redefine everything to suit that. It's an attack on as many fronts as possible, all working in favor of sodomites. Hence "sodomite" is regularly removed from places like 1 Kings 15:12 and Deuteronomy 23:17 and regularly inserted by the same people into 1 Cor. 6:9 to "normalize" it. We'll be seeing it more and more in the latter times.
But before the 1960's, before the propoganda, all Bible-believers already knew that it was a crime worthy of being removed from society and that these people are recruiters and they are without a single exception after your children, that's how they propogate. Romans 1:24-2:2 also clearly shows this, note how it says these people are full of murder, deceit, haters of God and so on. It's saying that about every sodomite. They of a reprobate mind. That's what Romans 1:26 is really about.
Also interesting about that verse in particular is the fact it says they do that with is against nature. This is the only time anything is qualified as such. Because unless God gives you up to that, no person ever naturally have the desire to consume fecal matter like the sodomites do. It's not even a temptation. And 1 Corinthians 10:13, a great proof text for this, confirms that none of the saved Corinthians ever had this lust that is against nature and "not common to man." Nor did our Lord according to Hebrews 4:15. All points to the fact that sodomites are uniquely separate and reprobate, that it's no accident God gave them up to it.
Also 2 Peter 2:9 (right after talking about Sodom and Gomorrah) states clearly how "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations." Again, God protecting the non-reprobates from temptations not common to man and that which is "against nature," as Romans 1:26 says. That which we often used to call "the crime against nature" back when people still had an awareness of Scripture.