Homosexuality within the Church
If one were to ask your stance on homosexuality within the Christian church andyour reasoning behind your views, how would you answer them? I find that most Christians I have talked with take a rather conservative, traditional view and base their beliefs upon a few key passages in the Bible - I Corinthians 6:9-10; Ephesians 5:3-5; Colossians 3:5-6; Jude 5-7 and about a dozen more. The basic problem with limiting your view to these various scriptures is that homosexuals who claim to be Christians use these same passages in defense. Many claim that these passages have been translated incorrectly from their original texts (Hebrew and An exhaustive study by Pastor Ken Coulter which has been published by Logos Ministries under the title Dispelling the Myth, attempts to prove that throughout the centuries the translations of the original texts have been incorrect. For example, I Corinthians 6:9 is translated in the New King James Version as follows: Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles - that a man each other as such. They claim that homosexuality is an "orientation" and should be treated like ethnicity (neither Greek nor Jew). church's duty to rebuke and discipline the wayward Christian. political statement and a challenge to the denomination to officially change their policy. This is why I feel the problem of homosexuality within the church is an issue of
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