Queer Prophets: The Bible's Surprise Ending to the Story of Sexuality and Gender

by Greg Paul

This is the story of a spiritual journey, a theological quest to find better biblical answers (ones that work in real life) to the challenging questions that plague many of us surrounding gender and sexual identity. If God is love, why does he seemingly reject LGTBQ2+ people? How can Christians truly embrace them without abandoning their biblical convictions? How are queer Christians supposed to live? No story ends where it began. If we follow the story instead of treating the Bible as a document recording a set of precepts, we find that the angst, division, and abuse set in motion by the fall in the garden are reconciled and resolved in the city of the new Jerusalem. And just possibly, we may also find that “queer” people have a prophetic function for our age.

142 pages, Paperback

Published October 7, 2020

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[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was really thankful to see this book, since the church's stance on LGBTQ has always bothered me. It doesn't go along with the "love everyone" message. After reading Greg Paul's other books about his experiences living in the streets of Toronto, I have so much respect for him and his search for answers. I was surprised that the answers I was looking for were there all along, and I've read them thousands of times - in Galations, "there is no male and female..." and also in Proverbs, the verse about don't trust in your own understanding; trust in God's message, which of course is love. Really glad to have read this book and found some peace with this subject.