We are not referring to a Bible with different color coded Scriptures. But a new Bible version claims to be authored by God and Jesus Christ. It is called the Queen James Bible as a derision of the KJV and begins with the topic of homosexuality in the Bible. Then it lists the changes from the King James and why. One might first think this is a joke but it is not.

They write of it, “No Bible is perfect, including this one. We wanted to make a book filled with the word of God that nobody could use to incorrectly condemn God’s LGBT children, and we succeeded.”

We are told “The Queen James Bible is based on The King James Bible, edited to prevent homophobic misinterpretation.” the publisher of the book on Amazon is listed as “Queen James.” Anonymous editors don’t carry much weight of trustworthiness when it comes to the Scripture being translated. The publishers are not known either.

Passages are defined in Lev. 18:22-25; 20:13 for the nation Israel whom God separated to be holy and follow His ways.

Their argument is flawed. The word homosexual[ity] is not used because it is a modern term, but it is clear that there are passages about homosexuality. i.e. 1 Timothy 1:9-10 which describes a man who has intercourse with another man. 1 Timothy 1:10 for fornicators, for sodomites, pornos: 1) a man who prostitutes his body to another’s lust for hire 2) a male prostitute 3) a man who indulges in unlawful sexual intercourse, a fornicator Likewise, arsenokoites means “a male homosexual, pederast, a sodomite. one who lies with a male as with a female, a sodomite: abuser of (that defile self) with mankind.”  We also find these terms in classical Greek literature (Aristotle) applied to those attracted to the same sex.

This word was not used until Paul penned it. When Paul wrote his letters there was no Greek word that corresponded with our current English word “homosexual.” He combined two words: arsenos (male) and koitain (sleep with, lie in bed, to have sexual relations with, ie., intercourse).

Unanimously all Greek dictionaries, have understood these words (arsenokoitai) to be referring to homosexuality. Malakoi refers to persons who are soft, effeminate, especially of catamites, men and boys who allow themselves to be misused homosexually.” Thayer’s Greek lexicon- malakos-1) soft to the touch 2) metaphorically, in a bad sense: effeminate: 1) used of a catamite 2) used of a boy kept for homosexual relations with a man 3) used of a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness 4) used of a male prostitute.

Homosexual behavior is described in the Old Testament an in the New Testament passage such as Rom.1:26-27.

NKJV Rom. 1:26-27 “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

The matter is being true to what the Greek or Hebrew words and concepts are. The words Paul uses here - malakoi (“male prostitute”) and arsenokoitai (“homosexual offenders”) have been translated in different ways. [Nor effeminate] malakoi (NT:3120)The word is applied in the classic writers to the Cinaedi, the Pathics, or Catamites; those who are given up to wantonness and sensual pleasures, or who are kept to be prostituted to others. Diog. Laer. 7:5, 4. Xenoph. Mem. 3:7. 1. Ovid Fast. 4:342. (from Barnes' Notes) All Greek scholars agree.

“The Queen James Bible resolves any homophobic interpretations of the Bible, but the Bible is still filled with inequality and even contradiction that we have not addressed,” the web site notes. “No Bible is perfect, including this one. We wanted to make a book filled with the word of God that nobody could use to incorrectly condemn God’s LGBT children, and we succeeded.”

Among the verses that they change are: Genesis 19:5. Originally reading, “And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them,” they amended it to, “And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may rape and humiliate them.”

They say We side with most Bible scholars who understand the story of Sodom and Gomorra to be about bullying strangers. Strangers were not well-treated or well-regarded at the time of Bible (hence so much of the Word urging the love and acceptance of others).