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How Do Some Churches Square Their Acceptance of Homosexuality with the Bible?
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Darkforbid
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And why should they
Well, collecting wood on Saturday was also deserving of capital punishment.
ciao
- viole
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Darkforbid
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There is a big difference between ignoring scripture and squaring with scripture
Darkforbid
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Have they squared ignoring the Sabbath?
Sure.
They first moved it to Sunday.
Then they listened to Jesus, "The Sabbath is made for man, not man for the Sabbath."
One of Jesus's big messages was "Don't take Scripture to seriously."
Tom
They seem to have squared not executing people working the Sabbath. They appear to have squared accepting eating shrimps, too, among other things.
ciao
- viole
Darkforbid
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Yep, isn't heal advice always changing
yes, you guys change a lot. There are already plenty of places where you ignore scriptures. This begs the question why this latest one is so special for you.
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- viole
Galateasdream
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Without reading all the posts (sorry), my take is that different churches accepted homosexuality and/or homosexual sex acts in differing ways:
a) Some found ways to interpret the scriptures (usually by understanding the injunctions as against specific forms of homosexual sex, like temple prostitution) in ways that allowed homosex under certain contexts (like a monogamous marriage).
b) Some saw such injunctions as being wholly cultural and since culture changed it was now permissible (somewhat akin to how a lot of churches shifted their view on women wearing head coverings).
c) Some read scripture as having a built-in hierarchy with Jesus being the chief arbiter - so subjugating things like the Mosaic or Pauline injunctions under Christ's silence or law of love.
d) Some don't hold to biblical inerrancy and so can simply say that on that issue the various biblical authors got it wrong, no doubt because they were a product of their generation and culture. They might also see it in terms of progressive revelation and see the outworking of the Holy Spirit in the Christian shift in attitude over time.
e) Some may have found other ways, like through an act of special revelation that is held to supersede scripture or something.
a) Some found ways to interpret the scriptures (usually by understanding the injunctions as against specific forms of homosexual sex, like temple prostitution) in ways that allowed homosex under certain contexts (like a monogamous marriage).
b) Some saw such injunctions as being wholly cultural and since culture changed it was now permissible (somewhat akin to how a lot of churches shifted their view on women wearing head coverings).
c) Some read scripture as having a built-in hierarchy with Jesus being the chief arbiter - so subjugating things like the Mosaic or Pauline injunctions under Christ's silence or law of love.
d) Some don't hold to biblical inerrancy and so can simply say that on that issue the various biblical authors got it wrong, no doubt because they were a product of their generation and culture. They might also see it in terms of progressive revelation and see the outworking of the Holy Spirit in the Christian shift in attitude over time.
e) Some may have found other ways, like through an act of special revelation that is held to supersede scripture or something.
It annoys certain Mormons when I say this.
But I expect them to be leading the way towards Christian marriage equality in the near future.
This is for two basic reasons.
1) They are very family oriented.
Homophobia both disrupts existing families and also precludes the establishment of new ones. Homophobia is not family friendly.
2) They have an established tradition of changing the official church stance on social issues. LDS used be dominated by racist polygamists. But that was then, and this is now.
So, I expect the LDS to become an institutional supporter of marriage equality sooner than most denominations that size.
Tom
GardenLady
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Why are so many Christians so very focused on this particular issue? There are far more young hetero couples having premarital sex than there are gay couples. There are probably more hetero spouses committed adultery than there are gay couples. There are so many involved in the other deadly sins. And yet, some Christians are all about gays. Why focus on this?
GoodbyeDave
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How do churches come to reject Biblical teaching on homosexuality? The same way in which they reject the death penalty for blasphemy (Lev. 24.16) and adultery (Lev. 20.10), or Paul's endorsement of slavery. It's called progress.