Matthew V, thor of 'God and the Gay Christian,' will speak Sunday at 5 p.m. at First Prbyterian Church of Birmgham.
Contents:
- EPISO 14: MATTHEW V – THE BIBLE AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN
- GAY - VE'S EXPOSORY DICTNARY OF NEW TTAMENT WORDS
- 'GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN' THOR SAYS APOSTLE PL DIDN'T NMN GAY MARRIAGE
- A FRH GAY FACE IS SHAKG THGS UP EVANGELIL LAND
EPISO 14: MATTHEW V – THE BIBLE AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN
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Jim Haton and Denny Burk (edor of the CBMW Journal), CBMW’s own Owen Strachan has ntributed God and the Gay Christian? Skepticism over history is a valid place to start nsirg the new book God and the Gay Christian by former Harvard stunt Matthew V.
GAY - VE'S EXPOSORY DICTNARY OF NEW TTAMENT WORDS
He seeks to prove that the Bible approv of a homosexual orientatn, and that tradnal evangelil terpretatn of six key biblil texts has erred. He attempts, fs and starts, to overturn the prevailg historil narrative of the church’s rejectn of homosexualy. As I addrs the historil ficienci of V’s work, I will show that the Christian tradn speaks wh one voice on the matter of homosexualy.
In his first chapter, V mak the se for an evangelil reexamatn of homosexualy on the grounds that Christians have historilly reversed their posns due to experience.
'GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN' THOR SAYS APOSTLE PL DIDN'T NMN GAY MARRIAGE
In his bgraphil ments, he c the normalcy of homosexual experience as a matter of fact — “cricizg [gay people] for not tryg to be straight didn’t make sense” (6). God and the Gay Christian is a lengthy exercise readg V’s experience, and affirmatn of , to Scripture. Send, V’s view that past Christians disapproved only of certa homosexual acts but not a homosexual orientatn is eply flawed.
V velops an argument throughout God and the Gay Christian that boils down to this: ancient Christians, like other fluential voic, spoke agast certa homosexual acts but did not speak to the sfulns of sexual orientatn. V nclus that this means that past Christians would have had no quarrel wh homosexual orientatn. And th, knowg this new tegory of human experience today, we are ee to approve of a gay Christian liftyle.
He sharpens the pot further his discsn of Romans 1:26-27: “Same-sex behavr nmned as excs don’t translate to homosexualy nmned as an orientatn — or as a lovg exprsn of that orientatn” (106).
A FRH GAY FACE IS SHAKG THGS UP EVANGELIL LAND
It is te that the exact term that the same-sex lobby to scribe self-scribed gay and lbian people, “orientatn, ” was not ed until recently. The term “orientatn” is recent, but Christians have lled cintal or regular homosexual practice sful for lennia. Commentg on Romans 1:27, fourth-century pastor Ambrosiaster traced the root of homosexual s to “ntempt of God.
” Those fallg to homosexual passn “changed to another orr and by dog thgs which were not allowed, fell to s” — s so stctive that “ceiv even the vil and bds man to ath.