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What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality?
What Does The Bible Tell About Homosexuality?
Introduction
For the last two decades, Pew Research Center has reported that one of the most enduring ethical issues across Christian traditions is sexual diversity. For many Christians, one of the most frequently first-asked questions on this topic is, “What does the Bible say about attraction to someone of the alike sex?”
Although its unlikely that the biblical authors had any notion of sexual orientation (for example, the term homosexual wasn't even coined until the sdelayed 19th century) for many people of faith, the Bible is looked to for timeless guidance on what it means to honor God with our lives; and this most certainly includes our sexuality.
Before we can hop into how it is that Christians can maintain the authority of the Bible and also affirm sexual diversity, it might be helpful if we started with a short but clear overview of some of the assumptions informing many Christian approaches to understanding the Bible.
What is the Bible?
For Christians to whom the Bible is God’s very written word, it is widely understood that God produced its contents through inspired
Is it REALLY ok to be LGBTQ? A gaze behind and beyond the &#;clobber passage&#;
There’s a designate for what’s happening here: proof texting.
Theopodia defines proof texting as &#;the tactic by which a person appeals to a biblical text to prove or justify a theological position without regard for the context of the passage they are citing.&#;
If you hear someone say “the Bible says…” run in the other direction. The Bible says lots of things!
Here a scant things the Bible says:
That the Earth was covered in water when created until God formed ground (Genesis ) but also that the Earth was completely dry until God brought streams up and watered the planet (Genesis ).
That God created animals first and then humans (Genesis 1) but also that God created Adam first, then animals, then Eve (Genesis 2).
That’s right, the Bible contradicts itself in the first two chapters!
“The Bible says” in Exodus and Deuteronomy that if a woman is raped her rapist must either marry her or pay her father (because he’s “damaged” the father’s “property”).
Paul says in 1 Thessalonians that Jesus will return in his hold lifetime ().
So what does the Bible say?
The Bible says a whole lot of things—a
While some branches of Christianity are strongly associated with anti-LGBTQ values, their actual religious leaders might not be, and experts told Newsweek why that might be.
That's the latest news from a recent investigate from the Public Religion Research Institute, which surveyed more than 3, clergy who led congregations from the seven largest Protestant denominations.
The Christian leaders were overwhelmingly in favor of laws that protect lgbtq+, lesbian, bisexual and gender diverse people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations and housing, with 90 percent supporting this across all denominations.
The slight variation in the data came down to the American Baptist Church clergy, who trailed a bit behind in their support at just 80 percent.
Still, the religious leaders were far more likely to support nondiscrimination laws for LGBTQ people than their own churchgoers, who only supported the protective laws at 71 percent.
Region also played a role when it came to the tendency of the Christian leaders to favor protections for the LGBTQ community—only 86 percent of rural clergy supported the laws compared to 93 and 95 percent of suburban and urban religious leader
LGBTQ people raised Christian describe more minority stressors, similar health to those who were not
A new analyze by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law and Utah Articulate University finds that among LGBTQ people who were raised Christian, those who are older, Black, cisgender men, and/or live in the South are more likely to continue to identify as Christian as adults.
LGBTQ people who were never Christian reported coming out to family and friends at younger ages than those who were raised Christian. More people who stayed Christian had a history of conversion therapy than those who left Christianity or who were never Christian.
Using numbers from the nationally typical Generations and TransPop studies, researchers examined Christian religious identification and de-identification among LGBTQ adults and how it correlates with psychological distress in adulthood.
Almost two-thirds of LGBTQ people who were raised Christian no longer identify as Christian. Results show that LGBTQ people who left Christianity were bullied in childhood more frequently than people who stayed Christian. People who identified as Christian as adults reported more internalized homophobia/transpho
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