07-27-2022, 07:57 AM
If you take the standard Protestant Bible, it has about 31000 verses. There are 6 or 7 verses out of 31000 (the so called Clobber passages), that seem to discuss aspects of same sex behavior (these verses are almost always misinterpreted) That gives you some idea of how concerned the Biblical writers were about such behavior. You will find way more references and condemnation of other behaviors, and yet these seem to be of no interest to Christians, and certainly don't appear to be part of any modern ethical discussions, at least that I'm aware of. Biblical scholarship has advanced significantly in the last 100 years. Whoever is leading these players and telling them what to think is a disgrace.
If you make a claim that the "Bible is very authoritative to us", then you can't just pick and choose. Either every one of its edicts needs to be followed, or else it needs to be read in a different way. If you choose the former :
a. those players and their pastor don't have a leg to stand on, and
b. none of us would be alive.
And beliefs have real world consequences. They're not ideas that just exist in your mind.
If you make a claim that the "Bible is very authoritative to us", then you can't just pick and choose. Either every one of its edicts needs to be followed, or else it needs to be read in a different way. If you choose the former :
a. those players and their pastor don't have a leg to stand on, and
b. none of us would be alive.
And beliefs have real world consequences. They're not ideas that just exist in your mind.