“for Christians, not every passage in the Bible is equally prescriptive or determinative for a Christian ethical life. Rather, the Old Testament must be read in light of the New, the Mosaic legislation must be read in light of its fulfillment in Christ (Rom 10:4), and so on. The point is simply that one must look for Scripture’s Christological center and read all of its various parts in light of that center. When”
― Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church
― Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church
“we cannot imagine existing in our culture without the haven of an erotic partnership because our capacity to belong together in more chaste ways is so limited.”
― Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church
― Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church
“every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, [which] will “turn the necessity to glorious gain.”
― Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church
― Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church
“those who disagree with us are still making arguments from Scripture, from the wisdom of the tradition, from humble, prayerful struggles to follow Jesus faithfully—loving God and neighbor.”
― Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church
― Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church
“Already in the Old Testament, God’s love for Israel had been compared to the marital bond (Isa 62:5; Jer 2–3; Ezek 16; Hos 1–3), but here that imagery becomes Christologically specific. It is the love of Christ for the church, a love that will culminate in an eschatological wedding feast (Rev 19:7, 9; cf. 21:2), that earthly couples image and in which they participate. The created good of marriage, marked by its openness to children and its faithful union, is taken up into Christian life and made to be an outward and visible sign of the love of God in Christ. In”
― Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church
― Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church
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