Among Christians, beliefs and biblical interpretations vary. Differences in biblical interpretations can cause confusion and disagreements. A big issue that involves varying biblical interpretations is homosexuality. The issue comes from confusion about what the Bible says about homosexuality. Homosexuality in the Bible has been a topic with lots of puzzlement and unanswered questions for hundred of years. One of the biggest question about homosexuality in the Bible is how people should be interpreting it. There are points of views about finding out the true meaning of what the Bible says about homsexuality: 1) that everyone knows what the Bible/God said and the meaning of what he said can not be changed 2) we know what the Bible/God says but when looked at in context the meaning is very different from what people believe.
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In Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality the author, Jack Rogers, Professor of Theology Emeritus at San Francisco Theological Seminary, argues that when people oppose homosexuality in the modern world their reasons can be categorized into one of three points of view. He goes on to explain these three points of view saying, “1) The Bible records God’s judgement against the sin of homosexuality from its first mention in the Scripture. 2) People who are homosexual are somehow inferior in moral character and incapable of rising to the level of full heterosexual ‘Christian civilization’. And 3) People who are homosexual are willfully sinful” (Rogers 33). Decades ago many people thought that being homosexual was a mental illness and that homosexuals were
In Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality the author, Jack Rogers, Professor of Theology Emeritus at San Francisco Theological Seminary, argues that when people oppose homosexuality in the modern world their reasons can be categorized into one of three points of view. He goes on to explain these three points of view saying, “1) The Bible records God’s judgement against the sin of homosexuality from its first mention in the Scripture. 2) People who are homosexual are somehow inferior in moral character and incapable of rising to the level of full heterosexual ‘Christian civilization’. And 3) People who are homosexual are willfully sinful” (Rogers 33). Decades ago many people thought that being homosexual was a mental illness and that homosexuals were