You are quite right that the Bible shows no interest in ‘orientation’ since (expressed in this way) the notion is a social construct from the 19th Century. It proves the point that we are all cherry picking from our own lens.
God created people of all races, creeds, sexual orientations and gender expression. We cannot expect society’s sins to be conquered when we refuse to acknowledge our own transgressions. It defies moral logic and merely satisfies the cultural and moral perspective of conservatives. Thus we end up right where we began: Striving for the ever-evasive balance of love and truth. Our hatred for sin should be a direct result of our love for gospel hope. Mercy is what draws us to repentance; it is the hope of our gospel. In the name of “truth” we seek out sin and we point at it like an over-eager hunting dog, waiting for God to pat us on the back. I have recently been through the most testing experience of my parochial ministry.
Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. But if you do, it’s a sin. Let’s think about sins which pretty much everybody agrees are sins, whether that’s being mean-spirited to your neighbours, swearing at a homeless person or stealing money from your mother’s purse.
The “obvious” is the call to love one another and not judge.
When I see someone quoting the Leviticus clobber text keeping the whole of the OT law, then I will take their argument seriously. And I think some people on this page already are.
Again and again and again. I’ll read further with great interest. My God loves me and my wife, no offense there. It strikes me that the concept of loving the sinner and hating the sin is notionally an excellent ideal, but the problem is you have to be God to do it with any confidence. This Witness flies in the face of the claims of bias. Lust: “…after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.” (James 1:15) Our world is dying because of the idolatry of desire.
I find the fundamentalist version of seeing sin as “something that offends God,” and using it to oppress others, is dangerously problematic. But it goes too far to impose your Creation Story on all others.
purges and forces us to know ourselves and ask for mercy. Dame Julian of Norwich has something quite different to say, from Ian Paul – about sin. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account.
He doesn’t take joy in condemnation (2 Pet. THERE IS THEREFORE NO POINT IN HAVING AN ONGOING TENNIS MATCH ON THE SUBJECT REHEARSING ALL THE OLD ARGUMENTS. Ethics need substantive justifications.
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I’m racking my brain to come up with a “sin” that doesn’t cause harm to self or others. Sin is what separates us from God, and in the case of LGBT Christians why would God withhold His blessing from such a group of believers? Kimberly Knight on her Blog Coming Out Christian writes: Ezekiel claims the real “guilt” of the Sodomites was the fact that, although they had “pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease,” they “did not aid the poor and needy” and were “haughty” (Ezekiel 16:49-50). Is it our job to follow them blindly, even though some were very specific to a time and place, long, long ago in a culture far, far away? Loving our neighbor is way to hard, so let’s bash the gays with “interesting” theology. The Lord said so. Torrents of hate spill into Facebook comments. If your Creation Story just can’t account for the diversity, well, Paul says we can only see in part. And this is one of the reasons that phrase is so attractive to so many Christians – it grants the appearance of generosity without the need to … PB, homosexuality isn’t a sin. After discovering his estranged daughter's link to mysterious murders, a forensic detective with Asperger's syndrome risks everything to solve the case. How does one explain that? “Love the sinner, hate the sin” is a contributing factor in the subtle qualification of the absolute call to love. Anthony, may I then rephrase to you my (so far unanswered) question? And the rhetoric that insists that gayness is sinful? Newsflash: Gay people can be Christians, even Anglicans, with amazing relationships with Jesus. One could easily raise eyebrows at the relationships of David and Jonathon, Ruth and Naomi, and “the disciple whom Jesus loved,” though they aren’t conclusive.
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