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The development of church legislation regarding same-sex relationships and masturbation is a path from brief biblical prohibitions to a detailed system of Byzantine canons and subsequent integration into
Recently, one of the hierarchs of the Orthodox Church raised a number of questions about the attitude of Orthodox Christianity towards homosexual relationships. He suggested reflecting on what
Let’s begin with mythology, which originally formed the worldview of ancient humans. Myths were a pre-scientific form of knowledge; other “forms” simply did not exist at that time.
This ancient settlement, 14 kilometres northeast of the Dead Sea, dates from the Chalcolithic period (around 4300-3600 BC) but its heyday came somewhat later, in the Bronze Age.
Does the Bible condemn homosexuality? To begin with, homosexuality is not mentioned in the Bible at all. The Bible has no knowledge of sexual orientation in general. Sexual