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What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality?
What Does The Bible Tell About Homosexuality?
Introduction
For the last two decades, Pew Research Center has reported that one of the most enduring ethical issues across Christian traditions is sexual diversity. For many Christians, one of the most frequently first-asked questions on this topic is, “What does the Bible say about attraction to someone of the matching sex?”
Although its unlikely that the biblical authors had any notion of sexual orientation (for example, the term homosexual wasn't even coined until the adv 19th century) for many people of faith, the Bible is looked to for timeless guidance on what it means to honor God with our lives; and this most certainly includes our sexuality.
Before we can leap into how it is that Christians can maintain the authority of the Bible and also affirm sexual diversity, it might be helpful if we started with a short but clear overview of some of the assumptions informing many Christian approaches to understanding the Bible.
What is the Bible?
For Christians to whom the Bible
REBUTTING a Pro-Gay Documentary About the Bible
What if the pos homosexual was never meant to be in the Bible? That&#;s the interrogate a new documentary called is asking, and it&#;s part of a long-running effort to misinterpret the Bible to say that it never condemns sexual relationships between people of the alike sex. There own been a lot of liberal and self-described gay Christians in the past 40 years who have practiced this kind of Biblical revisionism, and the arguments made in this film pursue the same drained pattern. Let&#;s watch what they acquire wrong.
The documentary follows its director, Sharon &#;Rocky&#; Roggio, a self-described gay Christian who interviews people like Ed Oxford and Kathy Baldock who defend the idea the Bible was misunderstood and thus mistranslated on homosexuality. The first story in the film deals with the Translation Committee of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, or RSV, and their decision to add the word gay in First Corinthians , which says the following, &#;Do you not grasp that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of
Was it a mistranslation to insert the word homosexual to the Bible in ?
Answer
Terms such as homosexualdid not appear in English Bibles until the twentieth century. Those who claim Scripture fails to condemn same-sex intercourse record this with emphasis. Some, such as the creators of the film The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture, point to as the year the word homosexualwas first used; those translations eventually became the Revised Standard Version. A form of this criticism suggests Christians came to condemn same-sex intercourse only afterwords favor homosexualwere published in Bibles. The implication is that modern translators inappropriately inserted the concept: that prior to no one mind Scripture criticized homosexual sex.
Such arguments are deeply flawed. The ask of which wordcirculated in the ancient world is distinct from whether ancient people understood the actionsin question. Language and history both provide consistent, strong evidence that Scripture was always understood as condemning physical acts linked with the modern term homosex
This article is part of the What Did Jesus Teach? series.
Silence Equals Support?
In a article for Slate online, Will Oremus asked a provocative question: Was Jesus a homophobe?1
The article was occasioned by a story about a queer teenager in Ohio who was suing his elevated school after school officials prohibited him from wearing a T-shirt that said, “Jesus Is Not a Homophobe.”
Oremus was less concerned about the legal issues of the story than he was about the accuracy of the declaration on the shirt. Oremus suggests that Jesus’s views on homosexuality were more inclusive than Paul’s. He writes,
While it’s reasonable to assume that Jesus and his fellow Jews in first-century Palestine would hold disapproved of gay sex, there is no document of his ever having mentioned homosexuality, let alone expressed particular revulsion about it. . . . Never in the Bible does Jesus himself provide an explicit prohibition of homosexuality.
Oremus seems to offer that since Jesus never explicitly mentioned homosexuality, he must not have been very concerned about it.
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