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WHY ‘GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN’ IS WRONG ABOUT THE BIBLE AND SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS

Read God, the Gospel, and the Gay Challenge -- A Rponse to Matthew V by Al Mohler and more articl about Polil and Social Issu and Christian Life on * god and the gay christian video *

In March 2012, Matthew V posted a vio on YouTube suggtg that "beg gay is not a s, " and that the Bible "do not nmn, lovg, mted same-sex relatnships.

So V sought to arm himself wh biblil scholarship on the affirmatn of same-sex relatnships and strove to nvce his fay and church that they were wrong—that homosexualy is not a s. V's new book, God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships, expounds further on the arguments ma his vio. His aim is not to prent new rmatn, but to synthize gay-affirmg arguments and make them accsible for a broar and younger dience.

GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN : THE BIBLIL SE SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS

Sam Allberry reviews Matthew V’s ‘God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships’ (Convergent, 2014). * god and the gay christian video *

God and the Gay Christian begs wh an emotnal appeal om Matthew 7:18, "A good tree nnot bear bad u.

GOD, THE GOSPEL, AND THE GAY CHALLENGE -- A RPONSE TO MATTHEW V

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" V stat that universal nmnatn of same-sex relatnships has been damagg and stctive for those who intify as gay Christians, producg bad u (prsn and suici, for stance). Cg 1 Timothy 4:3, V even argu that those who forbid gay marriage are false teachers who promote hostily toward God's creatn. Six biblil passag directly addrs homosexualy, and V sists that none addrs same-sex orientatn as we know today.

Pl Romans 1:26-27 is not referrg to monogamo, gay relatnships, but stead to ltful excs and the breakg of ctomary genr rol. The tone of God and the Gay Christian is que different. Unlike others who advote rpectful dialogue on this divisive issue, V charg that those who do not affirm same-sex relatnships are sng by distortg the image of God and are sentially rponsible for the suicis of many gay Christians.

From this perspective, he says, one n still affirm gay relatnships. One of the ma weakns of God and the Gay Christian is that V's methodology of biblil terpretatn clash wh the high view of the Bible he claims to hold. Like V, I also me out as a gay man while I was a stunt.

GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN

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Intertgly, a chapla gave me a book om a gay-affirmg thor, John Boswell, claimg that homosexualy is not a s.

CHRISTIAN NATN SERI: A CHRISTIAN SE FOR GAY MARRIAGE

When I started wrg my new book, God and the Gay Christian, I was well aware that Christians who oppose same-sex marriage the church have long ed the Bible to fend their pot of view. As a gay Christian om an evangelil church Kansas, that stat quo has had a damagg impact on my life, which is one reason I'm settg out to change the flty perspective. Here are 10 reasons why God accepts gay Christians. * god and the gay christian video *

Like V, I was lookg for biblil jtifitn and wanted to prove that the Bible bls gay relatnships. Years later I found out that the gay-affirmg chapla also regnized his error. In God and the Gay Christian, V reli heavily upon other thors, many of whom also began wh a strong gay-affirmg bias.

John Boswell was an openly gay historian.

“WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER PRAYERS TO TAKE AWAY GAY FEELGS?”

Michael Carn, a ge gay Catholic who dabbl astrology, has wrten on the "homo-erotics of atonement" and ntributed to the Queer Bible Commentary, which draws upon "femist, queer, nstctnist, utopian theori, the social scienc and historil-cril disurs. " Dale Mart, an openly gay man, believ neher that J' rurrectn is a historil fact, nor that the historil J believed he was dive. The view of same-sex orientatn exprsed God and the Gay Christian mirrors V's own gay-male experienc.

But acrdg to the latt rearch, do not reprent the broar gay and lbian muny.

10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS

God and the Gay Christian clus a good amount of historil background rmatn. V exhorts gay-affirmg Christians to help her a morn reformatn by "speakg the tth, " which for him starts wh personal life stori. I pletely agree wh V that many gays, lbians, and other same-sex attracted people have stggled to rencile their fah and sexualy whout much help om the church.

Some church are unwillg to talk about homosexualy, aaid that will open up a n of worms.

Other church only talk about the immoraly of , while neglectg to discs how the transformative msage of the gospel is also for gays and lbians. We are not ready to addrs the issue of homosexualy (or even sexualy general) if we have not first reemed biblil sglens. V lims the power of God by actually believg that there is no possibily for gays and lbians to marry someone of the oppose sex.

HOW CAN OUR CHURCH REACH OUT TO THE GAY COMMUNY?

We have failed to offer Christ to the gay and lbian muny. Christopher Yuan () is -thor, wh his mother, of Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God, A Broken Mother's Search for Hope (WaterBrook Prs). 213 pag; 22 cmReterpretatns of key Bible texts related to sexual orientatn, wrten by a Harvard stunt, prent an accsible se for a morn Christian nservative acceptance of sexual diversy"First tra paperback edn" issued 2015Inclus biblgraphil referenc (pag 181-213)The Chg Library/Women & Genr Studi py was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Rearch Collectn of Gay Lerature and Culture.

While Christians other movements and other natns face siar qutns, the qutn of homosexualy now prents evangelils the Uned Stat wh a cisn that nnot be avoid. “The qutn of whether gay Christians should be married wh the church. Into this ntext now  God and the Gay Christian, a book by Matthew V.

THE GOSPEL FOR A GAY FRIEND

Jt a uple of years ago V ma wav wh the vio of a lecture which he attempted to argue that beg a gay Christian a mted same-sex relatnship (and eventual marriage) is patible wh biblil Christiany. There are a great host of people, nsired to be wh the larger evangelil movement, who are sperately seekg a way to make peace wh the moral revolutn and endorse the acceptance of openly-gay dividuals and upl wh the life of the church.

In God and the Gay Christian V argu that “Christians who affirm the full thory of Scripture n also affirm mted, monogamo same-sex relatnships. He intifi himself as both gay and Christian and claims to hold to a “high view” of the Bible.

The most important sectns of V’s book al wh the Bible self and wh what he intifi as the six passag the Bible that “have stood the way of untls gay people who long for acceptance om their Christian parents, iends, and church” (11). But is his experience of what he lls a gay sexual orientatn that driv every word of this book. It is this experiential issue that driv him to relativize text after text and to argue that the Bible really don’t speak directly to his sexual inty at all, sce the spired human thors of Scripture were ignorant of the morn gay experience.

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