Dr. Rhyne Putman is the Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture at NOBTS, as well as a published author and well known speaker. Dr. Putman discusses the issue of same sex attraction and how our society views the subject, as how the Church should address it and where we should draw our ultimate authority on such matters.
Dr. Putman begins by presenting the modern secular view on this issue. Society has taken a great shift in its views of sexuality and what is now consider acceptable and normal behavior, with homosexual behavior and practice being at the forefront. A trend that began in the 1960’s of progressive agenda and an idea of sexual liberation has permeated society. Even though those who would identify themselves as being in this category only make up a small percentage of the country’s population, we are inundated with this lifestyle in most all forms of popular entertainment in an attempt to normalize it. One leap in this narrative came with the Supreme Court decision to legalize same sex marriage across the country.
Putman states that while the Church has handled the issue with truth over the last few decades, we have fallen short in doing so with love. What is proposed is the answering of three questions; Who or what has ultimate authority on …show more content…
Putman gives us six specific texts, Genesis 19, Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, and Matthew 19:4, that clearly define the proper sexual roles being that of married man and woman, and that the practicing of same sex is a sin and deviation from this. He stresses that a cornerstone of our own understanding in this issue is that those of the Old and New Testament world did not have any concept of sexual orientation. One’s sexual identity was not an immutable trait, but choices made, and to Jesus, Paul, and the other authors, a sexual sin whose temptation could be
Dr. Putman begins by presenting the modern secular view on this issue. Society has taken a great shift in its views of sexuality and what is now consider acceptable and normal behavior, with homosexual behavior and practice being at the forefront. A trend that began in the 1960’s of progressive agenda and an idea of sexual liberation has permeated society. Even though those who would identify themselves as being in this category only make up a small percentage of the country’s population, we are inundated with this lifestyle in most all forms of popular entertainment in an attempt to normalize it. One leap in this narrative came with the Supreme Court decision to legalize same sex marriage across the country.
Putman states that while the Church has handled the issue with truth over the last few decades, we have fallen short in doing so with love. What is proposed is the answering of three questions; Who or what has ultimate authority on …show more content…
Putman gives us six specific texts, Genesis 19, Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, and Matthew 19:4, that clearly define the proper sexual roles being that of married man and woman, and that the practicing of same sex is a sin and deviation from this. He stresses that a cornerstone of our own understanding in this issue is that those of the Old and New Testament world did not have any concept of sexual orientation. One’s sexual identity was not an immutable trait, but choices made, and to Jesus, Paul, and the other authors, a sexual sin whose temptation could be