The Kings Instructions Advent 2021 There are ways that a person's prejudices are exposed, that they twist things around to make them fit their agenda. They even do this with the words of Jesus. The Progress Flag 3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any …
Continue reading Jesus, marriage and divorce, part 1 — Matthew 19:3-6
God never speaks words of condemnation Well... ...almost never There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 ESVUK There are many words of condemnation in the Bible. There is even a whole chapter in Matthew's Gospel (Chapter 23) where Jesus has a right go at the Scribes and …
I fought the law... In the last 2 blogs I've looked at what Jesus said about homosexuality and whether the sin of Sodom was homosexuality or something else. Now I'm now looking at the Jewish law. Under the constraints I've put myself under this is harder. These are among my constraints: So history must be …
What did Jesus say? Not quite WWJD, bur close. This is what is often quoted as evidence that Jesus thought that homosexuality was wrong: Matthew 19:4-5: (ESV) He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother …
Theology changes its mind, but so does science. About a month ago I wrote in the blog "What is Theology for" that we should be looking at how we interpret the Bible in the light of what science is telling us. First let me say this. What science says isn't fixed. It changes. Often. Sometimes …
There is talk in the church about how we should treat homosexuals, again. Or maybe it has never gone away. The traditional stance was that any homosexual activity is always wrong, and for a long time society said the same thing. But society is changing. These days psychologists and sociologists say that homosexual behaviour is …
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