Your Take: Rebuttals to rethinking the Bible on homosexuality

Your Take: Rebuttals to rethinking the Bible on homosexuality

The Bible obviously condemns homosexuality – and, by expansion, same-sex wedding – right?

an invitees “My personal capture” upload we went recently from an university psychology professor having a background in religion (he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, including) questioned that main-stream wisdom.

The professor, Daniel A. Helminiak, contends that enemies of same-sex marriage have allocated modern-day, ethics-laden definitions to biblical passages on homosexuality to make it feel like the Bible unequivocally condemns it. In fact, Helminiak proposes, the first definitions of these passages about gays are at minimum ambiguous.

The portion has produced an avalanche of feedback: 10,000 myspace percentage, 6,000 statements, 200 tweets and multiple content. Providing the other side its express, discover a rebuttal roundup of critical responses from across the websites:

Kevin DeYoung, an old-fashioned Christian blogger, phone calls Helminiak’s section “amazing for such as so many worst arguments in very little space.” DeYoung, exactly who causes a Reformed chapel in Michigan, challenges Helminiak’s argument that the biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah doesn’t condemn homosexuality per se.

“Jude 7 shows that Sodom and Gomorrah plus the nearby metropolitan areas ‘indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire,’ ” DeYoung writes. Continue reading “Your Take: Rebuttals to rethinking the Bible on homosexuality”