Saturday, March 27, 2021

Response to a Pro-GLBTQ+ Meme

 Colby Townsend (someone who larps as a biblical scholar as well as a sincere person) responded to a meme on homosexuality and the language of "abomination" as follows which was shared with me:




For those who want an interaction with such revisionism vis-a-vis the bible and homosexuality and related topics, see the following from an actual expert:


Robert A.J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics


Gagnon has a number of useful videos on this issue, such as:


The Bible and Homosexuality: Interpreting the Scriptures | Dr. Robert Gagnon




The following debate with another bleeding heart liberal like Townsend is also enlightening:

Homosexuality and the Church Debate: Dr. Robert Gagnon vs. Dr. Daniel Kirk




My interactions with Colby (fortunately) have been limited. He is an uber regressive leftist. Note the following from the Millennial Mormons facebook page where Colby reveals himself to be a nut who thinks there are multiple genders:



To understand the absurdity of non-binary pronouns and other things, see the Non Sequitur show's episode on this topic:




Why is this so serious? To quote from Gagnon on 1 Cor 6:9-11, a text Colby and his ilk disdain:

 

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)