This is all hyperbole. He paints us all with one stroke - there are loving, non extreme LBGTQ people out there and he scares a room full of conservatives into believing what he believes in or else the world will turn to hell. If you want to get educated on human sexuality, get to know someone different than you. Put yourself in their shoes. Don’t listen to a straight man who thinks he knows better than God himself.
How bout “ - there are loving, non extreme mormons/muslims/etc out there”. Yes, there are many seemingly well-meaning people who desire themselves or other gods over what Christianity believes to be true. Is “this is all hyperbole” a hyperbole? 😉
For the first 1,600 years of the church, nearly all Christians believed that the earth stood still at the center of the universe. But the invention of the telescope led Christians to reconsider their interpretation of the Bible. Psalm 93:1 says, "The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved." Joshua 10:13 says the sun "stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day." Ecclesiastes 1:5 says, "The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises." Galileo argued that the biblical authors used figurative language when describing the heavens, so the text "would be accommodated to the understanding of every man."Despite the weight of tradition, the telescope presented Christians with new information that required them to reconsider some of their beliefs-and their interpretation of Scripture. Christians today are in a similar position because of new information that we have about sexual orientation. In the ancient world, same-sex attraction and behavior were widely considered to be vices of excess that might tempt anyone-like gluttony or drunkenness. Same-sex attraction was not understood as the sexual orientation of a small minority of people.
This is all hyperbole. He paints us all with one stroke - there are loving, non extreme LBGTQ people out there and he scares a room full of conservatives into believing what he believes in or else the world will turn to hell. If you want to get educated on human sexuality, get to know someone different than you. Put yourself in their shoes. Don’t listen to a straight man who thinks he knows better than God himself.
How bout “ - there are loving, non extreme mormons/muslims/etc out there”. Yes, there are many seemingly well-meaning people who desire themselves or other gods over what Christianity believes to be true. Is “this is all hyperbole” a hyperbole? 😉
Amen!
For the first 1,600 years of the church, nearly all Christians believed that the earth stood still at the center of the universe. But the invention of the telescope led Christians to reconsider their interpretation of the Bible.
Psalm 93:1 says, "The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved." Joshua 10:13 says the sun "stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day." Ecclesiastes 1:5 says, "The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises."
Galileo argued that the biblical authors used figurative language when describing the heavens, so the text "would be accommodated to the understanding of every man."Despite the weight of tradition, the telescope presented Christians with new information that required them to reconsider some of their beliefs-and their interpretation of Scripture.
Christians today are in a similar position because of new information that we have about sexual orientation.
In the ancient world, same-sex attraction and behavior were widely considered to be vices of excess that might tempt anyone-like gluttony or drunkenness. Same-sex attraction was not understood as the sexual orientation of a small minority of people.