Friday, January 09, 2004
The Religion Report: 7 January��2004� - Summer series 3: Homosexuality and the churches
"Marcus Borg: Well the bible from that point of view is a divine product, it comes from God, as no other book does. And therefore it tells us how God sees things. And the bible in several places clearly says that homosexual behaviour is wrong, and if we want to set that aside wer'e taking a kind of cafeteria approach to Christianity, where you choose the things you like and reject the things that you don't like. But that would be inconsistent with seeing the bible as the revealed will of God. So what's at stake is: can we trust the bible or not? Both the Old Testament and the New Testament clearly state homosexual behaviour is wrong, they're basically silent on lesbians, by the way, but then it is a book written by men for men in a way.
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I do think that the manifest inclusiveness of Jesus means that he would have accepted homosexuals, I’m confident of that as a scholar who has spent 40 years studying the historical Jesus."
Point 1. Almost whenever the Bible says man, you can put woman. Like, the Bible never says, if memory serves, that women can't kill each other, just men. It's sort of implied.
Point 2. Jesus didn't accept prostitution. He accepted prostitutes, and told them to stop. Of couse He would accept homosexuals. But he wouldn't allow them to continue, any more than he allowed the prostitutes to continue. Bad argument.
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I do think that the manifest inclusiveness of Jesus means that he would have accepted homosexuals, I’m confident of that as a scholar who has spent 40 years studying the historical Jesus."
Point 1. Almost whenever the Bible says man, you can put woman. Like, the Bible never says, if memory serves, that women can't kill each other, just men. It's sort of implied.
Point 2. Jesus didn't accept prostitution. He accepted prostitutes, and told them to stop. Of couse He would accept homosexuals. But he wouldn't allow them to continue, any more than he allowed the prostitutes to continue. Bad argument.