The Removal Of Sodomites, (Homosexuals), From The NIV Bible

THE REMOVAL OF SODOMITES FROM THE NIV BIBLE

Author Unknown

It is reported that Dr. Marten H. Woudstra, the now-deceased
Chairman of the NIV Old Testament Committee, once made the
following alarming statement:

"There is nothing in the Old Testament that corresponds to
homosexuality as we understand it today."

It is because of this erroneous mentality, that the
publishers of the NIV have replaced the politically
incorrect word 'sodomites', with less offensive, and more
ambiguous terms. Consider the following comparisons between
the Authorized King James Bible and the NIV which prove this
point.

THE KJV :

Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters
of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

THE NIV :

Deuteronomy 23:17 No Israelite man or woman is to become a
shrine prostitute.

THE KJV :

1 Kings 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land:
and they did according to all the abominations of the
nations which the LORD cast out before the children of
Israel.

THE NIV :

1 Kings 14:24 There were even male shrine prostitutes in
the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices
of the nations the LORD had driven out before the
Israelites.

THE KJV :

1 Kings 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the
land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

THE NIV :

1 Kings 15:12 He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from
the land and got rid of all the idols his fathers had made.

THE KJV :

1 Kings 22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which
remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the
land.

THE NIV :

1 Kings 22:46 He rid the land of the rest of the male
shrine prostitutes who remained there even after the reign
of his father Asa.

THE KJV :

2 Kings 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the
sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the
women wove hangings for the grove.

THE NIV :

2 Kings 23:7 He also tore down the quarters of the male
shrine prostitutes, which were in the temple of the LORD and
where women did weaving for Asherah.