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By: Keith SharpeImprint: O-Books
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The place of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people in the Christian churches is a highly controversial issue. The stance of all the mainline churches is that homosexuality is sinful and incompatible with Christianity. In seeking to respond to attacks on their lives, identities and relationships LGBT Christians have moved over recent decades from a defensive position to a more affirmative position which asserts that there is evidence in the Bible and the Jesus tradition of validated homoerotic experience. This book presents a systematic overview of both the defensive and affirmative positions. In part one, The Defensive Testament, each of the so-called 'biblical texts of terror' used to demonise LGBT people is considered in turn and found wanting. None of them has anything to say about consensual same sex love. In part two, The Affirmative Testament, homoerotic elements in various Bible stories including the healing of the centurion's servant, Jesus and the beloved disciple, David and Jonathan, Ruth and Naomi are revealed to make visible the place of LGBT lives in the Biblical tradition. Taken together, these two testaments forcefully champion the equality of LGBT people in the Kingdom of God and represent a formidable challenge to ecclesiastical homophobia.
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| Title of Religion eBook: Gay Gospels, The | |
| Release Date: 07-29-2011 | |
| Publisher: O-Books |
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| SKU | 9781780990637 |
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Gay Gospels, The
Chapter One
The Defensive Testament Chapter D1The Story of Sodom
Sodomites
I invite you to think about the word 'sodomite'. It may have a slightly old fashioned ring but consider how potent the word 'sodomite' still is. To be a sodomite is to be a complete outcast. To be a sodomite is to be the epitome of evil and wickedness, utterly deserving of God's wrathful vengeance, punishment and annihilation. The word even now is virtually unspeakable.
People feel uncomfortable hearing or seeing it.
People believe that 'sodomite' means homosexual.
People believe that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by God because the 'Sodomites' who lived there indulged in homosexual practices. People believe this because it is what the Christian churches have told them.
But there are strong grounds for believing that what the Christian churches have told them is not true.
Abraham's hospitality is rewarded
The story starts in Genesis chapter 18 with God appearing to Abraham mysteriously in the form of three strangers. Abraham's response to the strangers' unexpected arrival is to be extraordinarily welcoming: When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground'. Genesis 18:2.
He then invites them in and tells his wife to give them the very best food in the house. In the Genesis verses we are given a lot of details about just how wonderful this food is. The strangers are not just to be fed but to be offered a royal feast.
Abraham is the very model of humility and hospitality. And be
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