If it is truly the Bible that is causing some to hold these discriminatory beliefs, then perhaps we need to set the Bible aside for awhile. Perhaps we need to not construct a belief system about LGBT folk built on the foundation of a couple verses in scripture. Perhaps that isn’t healthy, fair, just or Christian.
For some, I believe the Bible has become an idol. Some place the Bible above Jesus’ compassion and love, Jesus’ radical inclusivity, and hold steadfast onto what they believe to be the correct interpretation of a small amount of verses that speak about same-sex relations. To those who repeatedly start quoting Leviticus and Romans verses as soon as anyone brings up the topic of homosexuality, I’d suggest perhaps you stick your Bible back up on the shelf for awhile. Perhaps it should collect a little bit of dust. And maybe, just maybe, you need to go out and grab coffee with someone who’s gay. Maybe you need to hear their story, learn about what they’ve been through, how they’ve experienced Christians and the church.
If it is the Bible that is causing us to delay accepting and celebrating LGBT persons as being fully human and fully created in the image of God, just as they are, then perhaps we need to say, “Enough with the Bible already…”
These statement are almost beyond commenting on, or needing commenting on. Seriously, what can be added to what is said?
I mean, really, how arrogant does this man have to be, to say that if the Bible disagrees with him and people of his ilk, then the Bible is the thing that has to be discarded?
And this man is strongly in the emergent slum, a contibutor to the book "An Emergent Manifesto of Hope".
But there are his words, voicing his willingness to thumb his nose at God and say "I know better than You!!!"
Sickening. And indicative of emergents as a whole.
ht Apprising Minsitries
2 comments:
Maybe we should take it as an encouraging sign: first, he stops using the Bible, next maybe he stops calling himself a Christian? One can only hope.
I doubt it though. A heretic is concerned with co-opting a religion, not establishing his own. A heretic who disavows all signs of his previous religion isn't a heretic, he's a nonbeliever.
Were he being honest, he would stop calling himself a Christian. But then, he's not the only one who wants to essential do away with all that makes for Christianity while keep the name "Christian" (usually applied to themselves and those they approve of).
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