Homosexual Marriage

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Homosexual Marriage

• Deconstructing the Bible
• (Part 1)

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Battle Lines in the American Morality War

• The sanctity of life (abortion)
• The morality of restraint (sexual revolution)
• Dismantling of marriage (divorce rate approaches
  50)

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Same-Sex Marriage Amendments Defeated

• In AZ, CA, FL in Nov 2008 elections
• Legal marriages in MA and CT
• Civil unions recognized in NH, VT, NJ
• Domestic Partners recognized in WA, OR, CA, ME

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Homosexuality Increasingly Accepted

• Evil grows worse and worse, 2
  Timothy 313
• Until finally the Lord destroys it, Genesis
  1516

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Supporters must deconstruct what the Bible
teaches on marriage and homosexuality
To justify homosexual marriage
Our Mutual Joy
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Bible on Homosexuality

• It is sin, Genesis 1820-21
• Abomination and confusion, Leviticus
  1822-23 2013
• Against nature, dishonorable and shameful, Romans
  124-27

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Bible on Homosexuality

• It is fornication
• porneia illicit sexual intercourse in
  general, (Thayer, 532)
• arsenokoites one who lies with a male as
  with a female, sodomite, homosexual, (Thayer,
  75), 1 Cor. 69 (1 Tim. 110)
• Going after strange flesh, Jude 7

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Traits of Fornication are Attributable to
Homosexuality

• It is chosen behavior, 1 Cor. 618
• From lustful heart, Mk. 721 Matt. 528 (Prov.
  624-29)
• It is not love it is loveless, 1 Ths. 46
• Against the body and dishonors the body, 1 Cor.
  613, 15, 18 (1 Ths. 43-5)
• Punished by God, 1 Ths. 46 Rev. 218

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Deconstructing the Bible Transforming
the Sin of Homosexuality
into a VirtueIsa. 520 Prov. 1715
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Assertion The Bible allows homosexual
marriages.

• Must deny the literal, final nature of the Bible
• Biblical literalists will disagree, but the
  Bible is a living document, powerful for more
  than 2,000 years because its truths speak to us
  even as we change through history. In that light,
  Scripture gives us no good reason why gays and
  lesbians should not be (civilly and religiously)
  marriedand a number of excellent reasons why
  they should. (Our Mutual Joy, Lisa Miller,
  Newsweek)

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Bible Answer The Bible rejects homosexual
marriage as sinful.

• Bible condemns homosexuality, 1 Cor. 69-11
• Authors definition of living document is wrong
• The Bible is not changing (evolving) it is
  constant and settled in heaven (Psa. 11989)
• The Bible is powerful and able to change lives,
  Heb. 412-13

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Assertion The Bible allows homosexual
marriages.

• Jesus didnt say not to have same sex marriages
• while the Bible and Jesus say many important
  things about love and family, neither explicitly
  defines marriage as between one man and one
  woman. (Miller)

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Bible Answer The Bible rejects homosexual
marriage as sinful.

• Jesus explicitly identified marriage as a
  relationship between male and female, thus
  excluding same sex marriage, Matt. 194-5
• Citing Moses, Jesus affirmed God-ordained
  marriage between one man and one woman (Gen.
  224)

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Assertion Many marriages in the Bible were far
from the Biblical ideal.

• Must deconstruct the marriage pattern of male and
  female
• In the Old Testament, the concept of family is
  fundamental, but examples of what social
  conservatives would call the traditional family
  are scarcely to be found.

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Assertion Many marriages in the Bible were far
from the Biblical ideal.

• Must deconstruct the marriage pattern of male and
  female
• Marriage was critical to the passing along of
  tradition and history, as well as to maintaining
  the Jews precious and fragile monotheism. But as
  the Barnard University Bible scholar Alan Segal
  puts it, the arrangement was between one man and
  as many women as he could pay for. (Miller)

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Bible Answer The Bible shows troubled marriages
and teaches the divine will for marriage.

• Gods will One man-one woman, Gen. 218-25
• Mans corruption, Gen. 416-19 Jude 7
• Gods law through Moses restrained the unjust
  treatment of wives, Exo. 2110 Deut. 2115-17
  1717 241-4
• Bible does not condone unholy marriages or unholy
  conduct in scriptural marriages, Heb. 134

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Assertion Many marriages in the Bible were far
from the Biblical ideal.

• Must deconstruct the roles within marriage to be
  defined by society and tradition and not by the
  literal word of God
• Would any contemporary heterosexual married
  couplewho likely woke up on their wedding day
  harboring some optimistic and newfangled ideas
  about gender equality and romantic loveturn to
  the Bible as a how-to script? (Miller)

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Assertion Many marriages in the Bible were far
from the Biblical ideal.

• Must deconstruct the roles within marriage to be
  defined by society and tradition and not by the
  literal word of God
• Religious wedding ceremonies have already
  changed to reflect new conceptions of marriage.
  Remember when we used to say man and wife
  instead of husband and wife? Remember when we
  stopped using the word obey?

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Assertion Many marriages in the Bible were far
from the Biblical ideal.

• Must deconstruct the roles within marriage to be
  defined by society and tradition and not by the
  literal word of God
• Even Miss Manners, the voice of tradition and
  reason, approved in 1997 of that change. It
  seems, she wrote, that dropping obey was a
  sensible editing of a service that made
  assumptions about marriage that the society no
  longer holds. (Miller)

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Bible Answer The Bible shows troubled marriages
and teaches the divine will for marriage.

• Headship, Gen. 316 (1 Cor. 113 Eph. 522-25)
  Titus 25
• Arrogance toward God to change roles, Ro. 920-21
• Gods marriage arrangement very good, Gen. 131
• Men have sought out their own inventions, Eccl.
  729
• Gods arrangement works!
• Men have injected confusion, corruption and chaos
  into marriage and the family