Quotes about being gay in the bible

One way to argue against these passages is to make what I notify the “shellfish objection.” Keith Sharpe puts it this way: “Until Christian fundamentalists boycott shellfish restaurants, terminate wearing poly-cotton T-shirts, and stone to death their wayward offspring, there is no obligation to heed to their diatribes about homosexuality being a sin” (The Gay Gospels, 21).

In other words, if we can disregard rules favor the ban on eating shellfish in Leviticus 11:12, then we should be allowed to disobey other prohibitions from the Vintage Testament. But this argument confuses the Old Testament’s temporary ceremonial laws with its permanent moral laws.

Here’s an analogy to aide understand this distinction.

I retain two rules my mom gave me when I was young: hold her hand when I cross the street and don’t drink what’s under the sink. Today, I own to follow only the latter rule, since the former is no longer needed to protect me. In fact, it would now do me more harm than good.

Old Testament ritual/ceremonial laws were favor mom’s handholding rule. The reason they forbade the Israelites from using certain fabrics or foods, or interacting with bodily

What the New Testament Says about Homosexuality

The Fourth R Volume 21-3 May-June 2008

Mainline Christian denominations in this country are bitterly divided over the doubt of homosexuality. For this reason it is crucial to ask what clear, if any, the Unused Testament sheds on this controversial issue. Most people apparently assume that the New Testament expresses powerful opposition to homosexuality, but this simply is not the case. The six propositions that follow, considered cumulatively, lead to the conclusion that the Novel Testament does not provide any direct guidance for understanding and making decisions about homosexuality in the modern world.

Proposition 1: Strictly speaking, the Modern Testament says nothing at all about homosexuality.

‍There is not a single Greek word or phrase in the entire New Testament that should be translated into English as “homosexual” or “homosexuality.” In proof, the very notion of “homosexuality”—like that of “heterosexuality,” “bisexuality,” and even “sexual orientation”—is essentially a new concept that would simply have been unintelligible to the New Testament writers. The word “homosexuality” came into use only in the latter part

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Confused how two groups of church-goers can hold such conflicting views about whether it's OK to be gay?

Both sides of the debate about homosexuality in the church, which threatens to split the worldwide Anglican church, contain their views sincerely and after much study. So how can their views be so contradictory?

The Bible makes very rare mentions of homosexuality - lesbianism isn't mentioned at all in the Senior Testament - and as the examples below exhibit, interpretations of the verses that do exist differ hugely.

Following each of the verses below is a brief illustration of what a hardline pro- and anti-gay position might be. (Most Christians contain views somewhere in between these two stances.)

An illustration of the division can be seen by what either side might say about the friendship in the Old Testament between David and Jonathan. One verse reads: "I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; dear and delightful you were to me; your love for me was wonderful, surpassing the love of women."

PRO-GAY A pro-gay position might be that this is a clear indication that King David had a gay relationship, and to pretend otherwise is unsophisticated. What does the New Testament say about homosexuality? Answer The Bible is consistent through both Old and New Testaments in confirming that homosexuality is sin (Genesis 19:1–13; Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 1:10; Jude 1:7). In this matter, the New Testament reinforces what the Old Testament had declared since the Law was given to Moses (Leviticus 20:13). The difference between the Former and New Testaments is that the New Testament offers hope and restoration to those caught up in the sin of homosexualitythrough the redeeming dominance of Jesus. It is the same hope that is offered to anyone who chooses to admit it (John 1:12; 3:16–18). God’s standards of holiness did not change with the coming of Jesus, because God does not modify (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8). The New Testament is a continuing revelation of God’s interaction with humanity. God hated idolatry in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 5:8), and He still hates it in the New (1 John 5:21). What was immoral in the Old Testament is still immoral in the New. The New Testament says that homosexuality is a “shameful lust” (Romans 1:26), a “shameful act,” an abandonment o .