Sentences with phrase «testament sexual ethics»
You say, we have all these teachings and society has moved away from these teachings in all kinds of ways; and this creates this incredible tension between New Testament sexual ethics and the way we all live now.
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On sexual ethics in the New Testament see William Graham Cole, Sex and Love in the Bible (New York: Association Press, 1959; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1960).
«Scripture's male - female prerequisite for marriage and its attendant rejection of homosexual behavior is pervasive throughout both Testaments of Scripture (i.e. it is everywhere presumed in sexual discussions even when not explicitly mentioned); it is absolute (i.e. no exceptions are ever given, unlike even incest and polyamory); it is strongly proscribed (i.e. every mention of it in Scripture indicates that it is regarded as a foundational violation of sexual ethics); and it is countercultural (i.e. we know of no other culture in the ancient Near East or Greco - Roman Mediterranean basin more consistently and strongly opposed to homosexual practice).
Since the nineteenth century, the sexual ethics of «the family pew» have been conceptualized in Old Testament terms without much reference to modifications introduced by Jesus» law of love.