Homosexuality in the bible wikipedia
What Does the Bible State about Homosexuality?
Few subjects are more controversial today in the church than this: What does the Bible say about homosexuality?
If one regards the Bible as God-breathed and authoritative, then one must respect whatever the Lord says about every topic.
What we utter and think about the LGBQT+ community should be derived from Scripture, including the ways in which we are to cure one another.
Homosexuality in the Bible: Table of Contents
Bible Verses about Homosexuality
Christians must always start with the Bible in order to hear God’s Word on any subject. His orders are not optional, and he states clearly, “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22).
Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are hostile to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion >On 30th July, BBC Radio 4 in their religious programme Beyond Belief explored the relation between homosexuality and the Bible. 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 accept on a single phrase, 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, t .
Often at the heart of all religious views on homosexuality is the perception of scripture. Gay people are no different, with many developing their have readings of the Bible and creating gay-affirming theologies.
Taking part in the debate hosted by Ernie Rea are:
– Rabbi Dr. Alan Unterman, Minister of a Manchester synagogue and lecturer in Compared Religion at the University of Manchester.
– The Revd Colin Coward, director of Changing Attitude and psychotherapist.
– Dr. Janet Soskice, University Reader in Philosophical Theology at Jesus College, Cambridge with a special interest in Religion and Gender.
The contributors first highlighted the truth that although there are strongly worded and often quoted passages in the Bible proscribing certain sexual acts and promoting others, it does not characterize a homosexual identity. This is what leads to the Catholic Church’s doctrine of love to the sinner and hate of the sin and also, more generally to the proscription of any sexual acts outside of matrimony.
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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 2012 and is based on the 1769 edition of the King James Bible.
The publishers of the Queen James Bible chose the identify “Queen James” as an obvious take-off on the “King James” Version, as the Authorized Version of 1611 is commonly called. The publishers of the Gay Bible also claim that King James was bisexual, so their option of title capitalizes on the slang meaning 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 1946 Revised Usual 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 trans