Biblical Subtexts
(A look philosophical into some messages of the Bible)

Part One

Homosexuality

Homosexuality in the Bible has, is and always will be, a much debated about subject. Is it evil? Does it condemn eternal damnation? Is homosexual love what God is against? Here is a subjective philosophy of what those answers are.

Sodom and Gomorrah

The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is most likely the most obvious place to start. This is the story of two angels who descended to Earth and look refuge in the home of a man called Lot. Lot welcomed the angels in with open arms, but the men and boys of the village, Sodom, heard of them and formed a mob. They went to Lot's house demanding that he send the angels out so that the villages might get to "know" them better. Lot would not send the angels and offered his two daughters to the mob in stead, but the mob refused his offer. The angels told Lot to leave the Sodom immediately and not to look back. But Lot's wife looked the wrong way on the way out and God killed her, turning her into a pillar of salt. God also destroyed Sodom, Gomorrah, and some other surrounding towns.

The meaning of this, if taken at face value, is simple enough. "Knowing" the angels meant to have intercourse with them. Now, the question that stands to be answered is this. "Did God destroy the towns because the men wished to have sex with men, or because they wished to rape his angels." According to the texts, the men did not want to be the angels willingly, but they wanted to rape them. Logic also remains to stand that He would have still punished the men, had the angels taken the form of females, rather than males. Raping a divine being would anger the Deity, namely God. This logic points to the fact that the destructions of Sodom, Gomorrah, and ECT had nothing to do with the fact that the men wanted to bed another male, but more the fact that they wanted to rape God's messengers.

Romans 1:26

This passage in Biblical reference states "26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."
At face value, this seemingly states that God punishes homosexuality within itself. This, however, is not the message when one looks beyond the boldface and into the subtexts. In other passages, the Bible also states that He created love, so it seems odd that He would create a form of love that would condemn the person that it fell upon to Hell.
When one reads this passage carefully, and compares it to other Biblical references, you see that this passage is, in fact, condemning homosexual lust, rather than the homosexuality itself.

Part two

Reincarnation

It's a fact that the better portion of Christians feel that the theory of reincarnation is false. In fact, studies have been very close to proving that this is not the case. For a very long time the term "reincarnation" was actually stated in the Bible. The word was removed and replaced, by a European king, with the word "resurrection."
The king, it is thought, did this for political purposes. He thought it more likely that his subjects would disobey him if they thought they had another chance at it. By editing the wording, the king gave off the impression that if they messed up this time, they were going down to the Hot Place. Cases have been sited where the person/persons actually remembered vague parts of his/her past life/lives. Not much else is known on the subject.

Thank you for reading this and I do hope that I have enlightened you, even a bit. There are many more subtexts in the Bible and these are just the couple that I have had time to research so far. I encourage you to find out all you can. Thank you.