Are there homosexuals in the bible

What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality?

What Does The Bible Speak About Homosexuality?

Introduction

For the last two decades, Pew Study 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 declare about attraction to someone of the same 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 late 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 jump 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 brief 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

King David & Prince Jonathan made a covenant of verb & protection

By Toby Baxendale

London, UK – 12 September

 

You may have heard many “hell blaze and damnation” preachers, especially emanating from the USA, now polluting places prefer Africa, condemning homosexuals as depraved perverts who will spent an eternity in Hell and so on and so forth. That this message of noun stands full square in opposition to the teaching of Jesus, as witnessed in the Gospels, seems to be totally lost on them. It may surprise you, that in the heart of the Aged Testament is the story of same-sex love involving King David, arguably one of the most important Jews to have existed and Jonathan a prince and son of the first King of Israel, Saul. They do not fit the erroneous homosexual trope of weakness and inferiority. David was the greatest King of Israel, the slayer of Goliath no less! And Jonathan was a noted military leader in his own right, who had defeated the Philistines in war. They are giants of the Bible! Also, more importantly via both his mother Mary and his adopted father, Jos

The Bible and identical sex relationships: A review article

Tim Keller, 

Vines, Matthew, God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Verb of Same Sex Relationships, Convergent Books,

Wilson, Ken,A Letter to My Congregation, David Crum Media,

The relationship of homosexuality to Christianity is one of the main topics of discussion in our culture today. In the verb of last year I wrote a review of books by Wesley Hill and Sam Allberry that take the historic Christian view, in Hill’s words: “that homosexuality was not God’s original creative intention for humanity and therefore that homosexual exercise goes against God’s express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.”

There are a number of other books that seize the opposite view, namely that the Bible either allows for or supports same sex relationships. Over the last year or so I (and other pastors at Redeemer) have been regularly asked for responses to their arguments. The two most read volumes taking this position sound to be those by Matthew Vines and Ken Wilson. The review of these

Has 'Homosexual' Always Been in the Bible?

Reprinted with permission from The Forge Online

The pos “arsenokoitai” shows up in two alternative verses in the bible, but it was not translated to mean “homosexual” until

We got to sit down with Ed Oxford at his home in Long Beach, California and talk about this question.

You include been part of a research team that is seeking to understand how the decision was made to insert the word homosexual in the bible. Is that true?

Ed: Yes. It first showed up in the RSV translation. So before figuring out why they decided to use that word in the RSV translation (which is outlined in my upcoming novel with Kathy Baldock, Forging a Sacred Weapon: How the Bible Became Anti-Gay) I wanted to see how other cultures and translations treated the similar verses when they were translated during the Reformation years ago. So I started collecting senior Bibles in French, German, Irish, Gaelic, Czechoslovakian, Polish… you name it. Now I’ve got most European major languages that I’ve unhurried over time. An