Rev. Joshua
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"clear teaching"?Originally posted by JamesJ:
Those other verses don't support your position, especially in the light of the clear teaching in the scriptures already recorded in this thread.
Three passages from the epistles, two of which are paranetic laundry lists which have questionable correlation to commited, monogamous relationships and one of which is a generic statement against licentiousness that is not even focused on homosexuality. That's hardly a preponderance of biblical evidence.
Weighed against the clear and repeated examples of Jesus in choosing the spirit over the letter of the Law, and the general principles which He outlined for interpreting the Law, I think these texts are the ones that come up lacking.
Of course, that's the nature of biblical interpretation - prayerfully weighing various texts against each other and coming to the best conclusion we can. I might be wrong. You might be wrong. I'm almost definitely wrong about something, as are you. I trust in the mercy of God to be larger than my ignorance.
Joshua