Not exact matches
the gay
issue has many facets and can't be dealt with in cut and dried terms and what the
bible has to
say about it, what was going on when it was written, and the translation of certain words, also come into play.
the author doesn't
say that one can't have an opinion on an
issue just because the
bible doesn't have a clear stance on it... he's simply
saying that it doesn't make sense to have such a strong, skewed and one sided stance on an
issue that the
bible isn't clear
about.
«The only
issue is what does the
Bible say about homosexual relationships,» and here's what the
bible says about homosexual relationships: Nothing!
If the
bible is the inerrant Word of God for all time then surely on what seems to be such an important
issue concerning Christianity something would have been
said about homosexuality by its leader.
But if there's nothing
said about it, we have to use the
bible to come to the best conclusion and we can't tell who's right on this
issue.
When we can
say all this
about Paul, the
bible and slavery, why is it that people who adamantly oppose slavery refuse to take this approach on many other
issues where Paul, or the
bible generally, was also speaking to the present context?