Those Pesky Six Bible Verses about Homosexuality

Tony Jones continues his response to the blogversation about gays and the church

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[RepresentingTruth]

very simple Fornication is a sin. How does one avoid it? Hmmm 1 Cor 7:2 To avoid fornication let every man have his own wife and every woman have her own husband. There you failed

[Jiotimes7]

So Mr. Jones, let me understand, you say there are things in the Bible which were once considered an abomination by the people of God and it isn't so anymore. So what you're stating is that people's opinions and ideas validate Biblical truth and God's law. Paul says the law is spiritual yet we are sold into sin: imperfection. How can an imperfect being validate perfection? It's the other way way. God is the lawgiver and we must follow it not decide if it's good or not. 2 Timothy 3:16-17

[blainer19er]

What about Romans 1:26-27? It doesn't at all appear in the same context as the passages about food regulations and such. Anyhoo, if you want to get into the Biblical meta-narrative, then it goes like this: Everyone is horribly wicked by nature and choice (I myself being suitable for damnation), but God, being rich in mercy and compassion, saved some people from the evil they are and chose. Wether homosexuality falls is "evil" is pseudo-irrelevant when you see the extent of depravity.

[DragoonEnNoir]

@fuzzygoddess

Hi Fuzzy,

Perhaps it might help to discuss where you see errancy. I think you're absolutely correct that if God was real, then there should not be 'errancy' in the word he gives us.

I've found for myself however, that where I at first see errancy, closer inspection reveals that the error was more in my own false assumptions.

So, if you will, please post an instance where you see Biblical errancy (choose only 1 please... just for the sake of clear discussion.)

[CRoadwarrior]

The problem with your line of reasoning is that it is Biblically fallacious. Every word is to be established by two or three witnesses, and we have seven (not 6) verses giving us the problems of homosexuality. The whole inconsistency argument fails because while shellfish may be condemned in the OT, the NT does not repeat the condemnation (1 Tim. 4:3-5). We have homosexuality called wrong in BOTH Testaments. Thus the choosing is not arbitrary as you attempt to argue.

[8DamienKing8]

Who is the buzzard bait that marked d1mf1n's comment as spam... it is a BIBLE VERSE for Pete's sake... oh.,..wait, is it one of the "Pesky Verses?" I"m sorry...As for pesky verse judgment, I may be out of my league

[Jiotimes7]

d1mf1n - Spam?! Relativism is a trend which has sneaked its way into Christian circles and unfortunately Mr. Jones is one of the many proponents of such a gross movement. What is in the Bible is there for a reason and man's own "interpretations" of Scripture are mostly erroneous. Our founding fathers stated that truth is self-evident and Jesus said that the "truth will set you free'. When you read into the text, you're not taking what it says at face value and therefore deny truth.

[jvktalk]

those things that ur saying we dont apply as literally are all in the old testament. 3 of the six verses are in the new testament so should they be interpretted literally?

[fuzzygoddess]

Those like yourself clearly don't know the history of your Bible or faith.You demonstrate an ignorance of what it means to canonize a text. The list is endless, for what the religious do not know as they follow the hope their god not only creates them, but then damns them and then sends himself to change the rule he made himself, regarding their damnation.

The Bible is errant & contradictory. Man made. Thus, god can't have revealed the Bible since he made mistakes even in writing his own book.