<p><strong>The qutn: Is the Bible anti-gay?</strong> Is there jtifitn scripture for the row that is spltg the Anglin Communn apart?</p>
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IS THE BIBLE ANTI-GAY?
The Bible vers aren't about nmng homosexuals, gays, lbians, or transgenr people. Rather, read God's lovg warng and grace for those who have strayed om His will for sex * anti gay in the bible *
Pope Francis was recently asked about his views on homosexualy. Persons wh homosexual tennci are children of God. Crimalisg people wh homosexual tennci is an jtice.
This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progrsive lear when to, among other thgs, gay Catholics. As a biblil scholar, I would suggt that church lears who e their cultur and theology to exclu homosexuals don’t read Scripture refully. Those who would exclu homosexuals om God’s kgdom choose to ignore J, turng stead to the Old Ttament – most particularly to Genis 19, the stctn of the ci of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Their terpretatn of the story is that is about homosexualy. Levic 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexualy” as we now unrstand – as the rg, lovg and sexual relatnship between people of the same sex.
IS GOD ANTI-GAY?
* anti gay in the bible *
Christians – no matter which church they belong to – should follow Pl and extend to the heterosexual-homosexual distctn. This is squarely le wh the church’s official posn on homosexualy, which is that is “patible wh scripture”.
IS GOD ANTI-GAY? (QUTNS CHRISTIANS ASK) KDLE EDN
Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practise homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God.
The excerpt om Corthians, above, lists alongsi homosexuals, adulterers, the greedy and dnkards to jt name a few. The Bible is plited when to the issue of homosexualy, as is on many other issu.
At the heart of the claim that the Bible is clear "that homosexualy is forbidn by God" is poor biblil scholarship and a cultural bias read to the Bible. What Do The Bible Say About Homosexualy? Although s unlikely that the biblil thors had any notn of sexual orientatn (for example, the term homosexual wasn't even ed until the late 19th century) for many people of fah, the Bible is looked to for timels guidance on what means to honor God wh our liv; and this most certaly clus our sexualy.