The ‘Porneia’ Hoax
All Christian sexual rules go back to a weird Greek word. Nobody knows what it means.
When I think back on my childhood in church, I remember pastors thundering out the sacred words of the Bible. “Flee from sexual immorality!”
Well, I didn’t flee. But I did go back to check a few facts, and learn from Bible scholarship that the sexual ‘rules’ of Christianity trace to a single Greek word, porneia, used a handful of times.
The religion translates this word as ‘sexual immorality’. But scholars say that its meaning is actually unclear.
Christianity is often little more than an idea that sex should be regulated.
That’s the ticket to Heaven, and doesn’t the Bible back it up? Christians say so. I look again at 1 Corinthians 6:18: “Flee from sexual immorality.”
What is ‘sexual immorality’, exactly? The concept does seem to change from place to place, and year to year.
Is the Bible providing specifics? Well, not really. In the Old Testament, polygamy is the norm. There’s heroes with prostitutes, and owning sex slaves. Some heroes are sex slaves, like Esther.
