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Homophobia
There are a few issues facing Christians these days that will test both our trust in Jesus and our confidence in the Bible. I don't particularly like writing about homosexuality, but I'm terrified it's an issue we cannot avoid. It's coming at us from all directions. It's changing long-standing values in government, regulation, education, and even in that which is called church. We have no choice but to deal with this issue in a spirit of love, sympathetic that Biblical love is filtered through the lens of Biblical truth. Treasure has boundaries, and these boundaries are the cause of the present struggle that results in Christians being labeled "homophobic".
The word "homophobia" is derived from the words "homosexual" and "phobia". We recognize what "homosexual" means. The word "phobia" is a transliteration of the Greek noun "phobos" and the Greek verb "phobio", which as Wikipedia rightly states, is translated into English as "fear". "Homophobia" in the strictest s
Bible and Homosexuality: An LGBTQ Positive View
We continue our LGBTQIA+ positive and affirming look at the Bible. In this episode we look at same-sex marriage and gender-neutral pronouns in light of Paul's writings (in Galatians and 1 Corinthians ).
Having authored three of the infamous clobber verses, the apostle Paul is generally considered antagonistic to the LGBTQIA+ society. But in this episode, we see one of the most controversial of the biblical authors in a different light.
We will examine Paul’s clobber verses in a future episode
Poem: Would the Apostle Paul Approve of Gay Marriage?
Would the apostle Paul permit of gay marriage?
I assess you would.
On most topics involving women sex or marriage.
Paul's writings are a bit confusing.
In several instances, his meaning is obscured.
The exact translation of elderly Greek words lost to antiquity.
And in at least one instance, he seems to have made up a word.
Nevertheless:
Paul—who never married—has become the Bible's power on marriage.
And on the topic of marriage.
Paul's clearest easiest to understand guidance is in his first letter to the recent believers in the Greek city of Corinth
“Now to the unmarried Answer Christianity and “Biblical” Hatefulness We Christians are good at a lot of things. Helping others. Dressing up on Sunday. Quoting scripture. Pot luck meals. Taking care of church members. Weddings. Funerals. Worship. But perhaps the thing at which we are the most persistently exceptional is misinterpreting the Bible then running amuck in the world because of it. Honestly, mad skills. And history backs me up on this one. We have used the Bible to support, promote and act upon some pretty un-Christian things: slavery, holocaust, segregation, subjugation of women, apartheid, the Spanish Inquisition (which, no one ever expects), domestic force, all sorts of overuse and the list could go on and on. Oddly, if you question theologians to pick one biblical theme to command them all, most of them would say “love”&#; well, love and grace. Okay, love, grace and forgiveness. Fine. They probably would not specifically assent on a single word, but they would most likely name something that is, in every way, the opposite of the oppression, belittlement, hatred and marginalization represented by the numerous atrocities committed by the Christian Church. More times than not, these .
What is the Queen James Bible?
The Queen James Bible (QJV), also called the “Gay Bible,” is an edit of the biblical text done in the name of preventing “homophobic interpretations.” To accomplish this goal, the publishers printed a Bible in which all negative references to homosexualityhave been removed. The Queen James Bible was published in and is based on the edition of the King James Bible.
The publishers of the Queen James Bible chose the name “Queen James” as an obvious take-off on the “King James” Version, as the Authorized Version of is commonly called. The publishers of the Gay Bible also claim that King James was bisexual, so their choice of title capitalizes on the slang definition of the term queen.
The editors of the Queen James Bible, who chose to be anonymous, claim that there was no reference to homosexuality in any Bible translation prior to the Revised Accepted Version. Then, they assert, “anti-LGBT Bible interpretations” arose, based on a faulty translation in the RSV of eight verses.
The unidentified “scholars”—their scholastic credentials are unknown—who produced the Queen James Bible suggest that all Bible translations of these eig