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My only explanation (and strict enterpratationists will disagree with this as much as you will) is this:
The bible is a book, and you have to remember that it was written by human beings. I beleive God to be present in most of the bible, divinely intervening in human's writing... but i also beleive he to be absent in some of it. Perhaps some things that humans wrote, and were not in accordance with God, were added into the Bible.
Heres an example. Did Moses part the Red sea? Possibly... and i don't beleive it outside of God's power to do so. However, if you trace a line between the section of Egypt he was in, and Israel... the Red sea is pretty far out of the way... why would he go there. However, directly on the path is the Reed sea, nothing but a big swamp and an easily mistakeable word. I have a feeling a false story may have been passed down to try to persuade conversions, and that it could have been an overzealous author that included that and not God.... or maybe not. There could have been some overzealous priests (naww, so such thing!) who finagled anti-gay passages into the Bible, because they knew it would be followed
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