The following facebook video is a "who's who" of members of the Church who are functionally apostate and non-believers such as Blaire Ostler (or as a friend put it, "it’s a who’s who of insufferable ProgMos, ExMos, and social justice cultists"])
A Message to LGBTQ+ at BYU (*)
Note: this video is, well, "cringe" is the best word to sum it up.
(*) some may wonder why I am calling attention to this--it is to serve as a warning to those who might think such people are true believers and accept their progressive nonsense. They are wolves in (poorly-fitting) sheep clothing and are false teachers trying to spread pernicious evil. Don't take my word for it. See:
BTW, whenever the issue of homosexuality crops up, I always recommend this book:
Robert J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics (Abingdon Press, 2001). Commenting on 1 Cor 6:9-11, we read the following from Gagnon:
A Message to LGBTQ+ at BYU (*)
Note: this video is, well, "cringe" is the best word to sum it up.
(*) some may wonder why I am calling attention to this--it is to serve as a warning to those who might think such people are true believers and accept their progressive nonsense. They are wolves in (poorly-fitting) sheep clothing and are false teachers trying to spread pernicious evil. Don't take my word for it. See:
BTW, whenever the issue of homosexuality crops up, I always recommend this book:
Robert J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics (Abingdon Press, 2001). Commenting on 1 Cor 6:9-11, we read the following from Gagnon:
Paul was clearly concerned that believers might return to former patterns of sinful practices, including same-sex intercourse, practices that could lead to loss of salvation. In Rom 6:19, he writes “just as you (formerly) presented members as slaves to uncleanness and to lawlessness for the purpose of (living in) lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for the purpose of (living in) holiness.” The reference to “uncleanness” identified with “sin” in 6:16-18, 20, 22-23 and shameful practices in 6:21 and leading to “death” according to 6:16, 21, 23, is a clear allusion to the range of sinful behaviors enumerated in 1:24-31, particularly the description of same-sex intercourse in 1:24-27. The entire discussion of 6:1-8:17, including the section of the argument in 6:15-23, is aimed at establishing that gentile believers who return to the pattern of sinful activity that characterized their former pre-Christian existence will not inherit eternal life (8:12-13). There would be no point to the discussion unless there was a realistic possibility in Paul’s mind that gentile Christian could once more succumb to and come under the sway of the same sinful impulse operating in the “flesh” in manifold forms. (Robert A. J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics [Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001], 288; emphasis added)