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Thursday, July 01, 2004

Argument doesn't work for me ...

Have you read St. Brad of SoCal, patron saint of church planters, recent posting entitled The Whole Homosexuality Issue II? It's an interesting dialog. I posted some follow ups to it and want to post another here ...

I don't buy this argument: "Jesus never even mentioned homosexuality once." therefore if it wasn't a big deal to him then it's not to me. If it was such an important issue Jesus would have said something about it. This is a Trinitarian problem. Jesus did say something about it.

Now certainly part of the issue is one of hermeneutics, where the OT and Paul are given lesser authority than Jesus. The reasoning goes ... it isn't as important whether it was mentioned in the OT or elsewhere by St. Paul. Jesus is preeminent and he didn't mention it. Yet ...

"All Scripture is God breathed ..." It all has it's genesis in God. It exists today at His choosing.

Another problem is: Just because Jesus isn't on record in the Gospels as addressing a particular issue doesn't give us license. That's silly. I don't recall Jesus addressing child internet pornography but I am very sure He doesn't want us anyplace near that stuff.

My main point today is this ...

The UPS man came this week with my amazon.com order: Is God to Blame? "Beyond Pat Answers to The Problem of Suffering." by Gregory A. Boyd. A quote from page 15 "This book offers a very different picture of God. Though it will be new to some, it really is not new at all, for it is rooted in the biblical depictions of Jesus Christ. When someone asked Jesus to show him God the Father, Jesus said, 'Whoever has seen me has seen the Father' (Jn 14:9)"

This got me thinking ... Jesus as part of the Trinity DID speak on this issue. If we believe that God is the ultimate genesis, inspiration, and author, Jesus did speak on homosexuality throughout the testaments. Was it just God the Father or God the Holy Spirit who spoke through the prophets and St. Paul? No!

Leviticus 18:1 The Lord spoke to Moses, ... 18:22 "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a women, that is detestable." Who is the Lord? Was God not then as now the Father, Son and Holy Spirit? Has God changed and only become the Trinity after Jesus? Certainly not.

We believe in a preincarnate Jesus, who has always been, and will always be God. He was there at creation and is as much the author of the entire Bible as He is the red words in my KJV.

Blessed are you Lord Jesus, ruler over all creation and lover of our souls. To you be praise and honor and glory forever more. Amen.

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