John Fugelsang wipes the floor with religious bigot

Jun 8, 2018 10:58:04 GMT Cody™ said:

These verses say this John Fugelsang doesn’t know what he’s talking about...

Also I like how non-believers try to pretend that if Jesus didn’t say it then it’s not binding. By that logic we’d might aswell throw out 90% of the bible.

Never the less the glaring fact remains that, if one was to read all four gospels thoroughly in search of Jesus’ teachings on homosexuality it would be a futile endeavour, and the old laws were only meant for the ancient Hebrews and so, no, are not binding.. Not only would you come to the end of the gospels without finding anything attributed to Jesus on the subject, you wouldn’t even find a single reference to the issue in any context. You'd have thought if it was really important (compared to the coverage given divorce, say) then it would have come up.

In fact, there are only a handful of references to homosexuality in the entire Bible, but they are found in the Old Testament and Paul’s writings. (To put it in perspective, while there are only seven references to homosexuality, there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of references to economic justice and the laws governing the accumulation and distribution of wealth.) It might be noted that Paul also had some unfortunate thoughts on the place of women and slavery, too.

Jesus’ silence on the subject suggests that an issue which can be controversial and/or fraught with emotion these days was simply not a central issue in his lifetime 2,000 years ago in the land of Palestine. That gives a sense of context and proportion - something regularly lacking among modern-times fundamentalists. The reoccurring obsession with the topic shown by modern, conservative Xians probably tells us more about them that it does about homosexuals, imho.

And Jesus never married.