Three Reasons It Doesn’t Matter What We Think About Homosexuality
It’s much-needed, and has been for a very long time. I want to call the conversation “long overdue,” but that would be an absurd understatement, like saying a baby in the 403rd trimester is “a little late.”
What disturbs me, though, is the dire warnings of impending doom proceeding from Albert Mohler, editor of the aforementioned “God and the Gay Christian?” and author of its lead essay, and countless others like him. To hear them tell it, the truth of the gospel and everything that is right, noble, good, lovely, pure and otherwise awesome about the Christian faith will literally crumble to pieces before our eyes if we dare come to the collective conclusion that it’s OK for gay people to be gay.
Seems like a bit much to ascribe such weighty and apocalyptic consequences to a theological matter mentioned barely a handful of times in all of scripture, but that’s their prerogative.
For my part, I don’t think the sky is falling. Actually, though I do believe this dialogue is important, mainly because it will almost certainly lead to greater understanding and open-mindedness among the body of believers, I actually don’t think our opinion on the wrongness or rightness of same-sex behavior matters very much in the grand scheme of things. And here are three biblical reasons why.
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