Jonathan Poletti
1 min readJan 7, 2022

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It seems like intuition should be a major Christian goal. Isn't that 'wisdom' and the 'Holy Spirit'?

Not to push my own hobby horses, but I'd mention Romans 1. Christians like to dive in, grab a few words presumed to be about sex rules, and leave behind the larger, very puzzling story--told in the past tense--about offenders who, oddly enough, can't be identified.

Christians read the whole Bible assuming the context of sex rules and punishments, with God as fixated as they are by themes of gender and power. As the Dead Sea Scrolls dramatically illuminated, what seems more relevant to the earlier Bible readers was the Genesis 6/Watcher storyline.

It remains largely unknown to Christian people!—but scholars have intuited for several decades that Romans 1 is a discussion of the Watcher narrative. The evil offenders are not gay guys or lesbians, but powerful angels. A 2019 paper puts the references together: Brett Provance, “Romans 1:26–27 in Its Rhetorical Tradition."

https://www.academia.edu/41771658/Romans_1_26_27_in_Its_Rhetorical_Tradition

The really bitter pill is that Christians went to war against fellow humans over a book they didn't even understand. Like, at all.

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