This MEARID Month, I want to share my own spiritual journey with this subject. I have taught my kind of discrimination in an evangelical seminary, and one night we looked at a video with white evangelists who were gay-known Christians. They heard any evangelical Christians I know. They say their personal faith, how they accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior – and that they are gay. My understanding of time is a combination cannot. I have taught that you need one or the other. And yet, they are here. It may not be in line with my first beliefs, but I feel like I cannot judge the faith of others. I have to take them in their word, even if I don’t understand it.
A few years ago, while taught the same kind of both Christian seminary, I noticed a significant transition. There is a level of conversation openness that I haven’t witnessed. A student shared his mother married his fellow woman. As a Christian, he does not personally agree with it, but he went to marriage because he loved his mother. Another student says that a childhood friend he grew up in the church that came out as a lesbian – and that did not change their 20-year friendship. A third student recalls how his pastor in a 200-member church is proud to claim that he does not know a gay person. The student shot back, “What is talking about you?”
These conversations don’t mind in my first classes. Something clearly changed. I think about why Christians are always on the wrong side of every major social issue – and why, when the world is coming? At first, I thought this pattern was a system error. Then I see it’s not a bug – it’s a part.
The more I study hermeneutics, the theory of translation, the more source of problem with the problem has been done. We are taught that faith that every Bible word, in the original language, inspired by God and is not wrong. Inerercy of letter of information and opposition – and the canonization of Scripture – the process in which God’s writings are and authority in Canon in Scripture – a disruption. We should have debated how to translate and correct the scriptures.
Because of our fallen human nature, we must expect people to use every moment and every way to prevent others, including Bible use. I became more doubtful to people who were more dogmatic when they said the Bible says it or taught or taught a Bible passage. Due to the history of the wrong interpretations, the more I expect more humility.
The first Christian objections were preferred by a flat land that read the sentences like Isaiah 40:22. Copernican Cosmology opposes the use of texts that demonstrate that proves an immobile soil (Psalm 104: 5; Joshua 10:13). Anesthesia of childbirth opposed to God’s curse to Eve to give birth “to the pain” (Genesis 3:16). The Bible seems to have much to say about what you are wearing, especially if you are a woman – like pants (Deuteronomy 22:28), no jewelry (1 Timothy 1930). Sometimes these positions have major implications for society, such as restrictions against alcohol or abortion.
There are Bible passages used in the support of the intervention, the crusades, the rights of kings, doctrine of discovering and American prompetalism. The Bible passages are used to support antisemitism and discrimination against the Native American and Chinese, and to justify Japanese slaves, slavery, segregation, and apartheid. Many German Christians support the German Christian, who agrees with himself at the Nazi party.
Therefore, if anyone says the Bible opposes all things Lgbtq +, I doubt – especially confederacy, nuclear weapons, and nuclear weapons, and opposing many things that are accepted today. I do not believe that Jesus will be in heaven gates, expressed George Wallace’s statement today, segregation forever, “allowing only the straight men and women in heaven.
If I reviewed 2,000 years of Christian interpretation, the clear pattern I saw was that if the Bible was used by the Jews, girls, women, individual individuals, the indigenous women, in the end understood the wrong interpretation. This bird month, I encourage readers to meditate, join, encouragement if possible, and stand for unity in LGBTQ + communities. Ask yourself: How do my position and actions regarding LGBTQ + issues reflect the great commandment – to love God with all my heart, Soul, and mind, and to love my neighbor as myself?
Ed Gaskin is the Executive Director of the Great Turbulent Hall Main Streets and Founder of Sunday celebrations
