The Traditional Understanding of "Natural" and "Unnatural" Question Title * 1. Is it typical in exegesis for one Greek or Hebrew word in a sentence to have as many as four to five relevant meanings?What examples other than Romans 1:26-27 can be cited? Yes No Perhaps Comments (other examples can be listed here): Question Title * 2. If a word is used twice in a sentence, once with the "un" prefix and once without, do those two words of necessity carry opposite meanings? Yes Not necessarily No It is irrelevant Comments: Question Title * 3. If, per Dr. Brownson, "unnatural" in verse 26 means "excessive" is the following a good translation of that verse?For their women exchanged relations that are deficient for those that are excessive . . .(In this regard reference the antonyms of "excessive.") Yes No Unsure Comments/why or why not? Question Title * 4. Does "unnatural" for females in verse 26 mean "non-procreative heterosexual acts"? Yes No I am not sure Comments: Question Title * 5. The web page associated with these questions states that, "The only opposite of that [heterosexual non-procreative acts] would be procreative same-sex acts." Now, verse 26b reads, "For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature . . ." If "natural" here means "procreative" then could it not be argued that the opposite of "natural" or procreative would be "non-procreative"? I.e. the meaning of "unnatural" would be "non-procreative." This way verse 26b would read, "For their women exchanged procreative relations for those that are non-procreative." After all, verse 26 in the original does not explicitly contain a word for "heterosexual." Wouldn't this prove the above quote from the web page to be wrong? No Yes Not necessarily Maybe, maybe not Comments: Question Title * 6. If the above is correct, then verse 27 would contain the same meanings of natural and unnatural (vis-a-vis. Berkhof). However, what is then wrong (unnatural) in verse 27 is that the men engaged in non-procreative intercourse. Wouldn't that definition or interpretation then prohibit all same-sex erotic activity because it is always and inherently non-procreative? Yes No Not necessarily so Comments (especially to help understand the matter if either the second or third option was selected): Question Title * 7. Are these emails helpful in understanding Dr. Brownson's book? Not at all Maybe Some Yes Very much so Sometimes they are, other times they are not Comments: Done