{...}I now understand [Brandon Robertson's] argument. Yes, Canaan and sometimes Egypt--not always--had allowed homosexual sex. But, the God of the Bible isn't the God of the Hittites, and Egyptians.
The Bible's authority is not derived from its inerrancy. It's derived from God and God alone. To interpret the Bible, you need God's help and guidance. As with anything else. It's clear Homosexuality is censured by both Testaments. And even by Jesus, and it's clear through the apostolic succession that was the tradition handed down by Christ to His Saints.
Basically, Christ goes over that through most of the book of John, that the Spirit will interpret and help remind you of the Word entrusted to the saints. What God speaks to you, through the scripture, will be entrusted in your heart, and the Spirit will make a due diligence of reminder. Christians are to have a living God. The Bible is an idol to many Christians, but there is a clear interpretation, that only gets skewed the more you try to legalistically interpret it. Just like the Pharisees were doing.
With that said, Homosexuality is against nature, and is a corruption of the body of man, and that's explicitly taught by Paul, and Moses, and also Jesus Who affirmed Heterosexual Norms and also a Patriarchal structure. As the Lineage of Christ came through a Patriarchal line, not a Matriarchal, as did the line of Kings in succession.
Mark 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
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