Self-Organizing Man

Yesterday, I got a very polite response from an evangelical Christian posting that the "Bible is reasonably clear that homosexuality is wrong."  After four years as a religion major and over three years in seminary, I can assure you that the 20th century English translations are also fairly clear that wearing poly-cotton blends are punishable by death, and slavery and extramarital sex are fine.  (Adultery, taking another man’s wife, is not; but taking an unmarried concubine is just fine.  Actually, taking hundreds of them is fine.)

I would be glad to point you towards Biblical scholarship that would argue a different point of view, but I will not debate this topic myself.  For me the debate is over.  We are beloved children created in the very image of God, not just good, but in the IMAGE of God, God’s self!!!!  There is not more debate about our rightness, our wrongness, our intrinsic moral value, our purity or holiness.  We are God’s children!  End of debate.

If you want to come to my church, I will sit down with you for communion, I will work side by side with you in our three night a week hot meal program for the homeless, I will share a shovel on landscaping the senior residences, I will do Bible Study with you.  But I will not debate my existence nor my right to exist.

Thanks for reading and responding.

(BY the way, have you heard of Evangelicals Reconciled?  It’s a group of evangelical Christians who have done their homework and are not anti-homosexual.  There are plenary inspirationalists (conservative scholars who believe that each Greek or Hebrew word of the bible was inspired directly by God) who do not hold the beliefs you do.  It is worth you doing some research.)