Christianity And Homosexuality Flashcards
There’s no possibility of life arising from the sexual union of same-sex couples, so it’s contrary to natural law and’s seem to undermine the traditional idea of Christian marriage as being between a man and a woman for the purpose of bringing ? ? into the world.
New life.
Same-sex marriage’s haven’t been permitted in many Churches and so any kind of homosexual sex’s taken place outside marriage - which is ?
Sinful.
There are specific scriptural sources that imply a divine command against sex acts between men: “do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable” (Leviticus ?:?) and it’s punishable by death (Leviticus 20:13).
18:22.
St Paul writes, in Romans 1:21-31, of people giving themselves over to “? ?”, the product of a “? ?” and writes that “men who have sex with men” will not inherit the Kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).
Shameful lusts.
Depraved mind.
God commands that homosexual acts are wrong and taking part in them are ?
Sins.
Many of the homosexual acts described in the Bible are between men who’re either married and adulterous or prostitutes. There’s also an absence of any reference to ? ? in the Bible.
Lesbian relationships.
The biblical texts may tell us more about the culture that the authors lived in than ? ?
Divine will.
? ? writes that while Christians are happy to follow the law set out in Leviticus, they reject the passage later on that advocates beheading as a punishment.
Gareth Moore.
More argues that we’re ignoring the laws that we find inconvenient while pursuing those that attack minorities that we don’t like. ? is being used inconsistently to reinforce ?
Scripture.
Prejudices.
? ? notes that Paul’s notion that homosexual acts are against nature, as they’re impure acts, seems to contradict the general rejection of the ? view of impurity found elsewhere in the New Testament.
Peter Vardy.
Jewish.
