General All-Purpose Quick Prayer
Lord, Give me the wit to know what I am doing, Amen
Lord, Give me the wit to know what I am doing, Amen
My favourite translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 is from The Message. Don’t you realize that this is not the way to live? Unjust people who don’t care about God will not be joining in his kingdom. Those who use and abuse each other, use and abuse sex, use and abuse the earth and everything in it, […]
I think my least favourite translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 is the New King James translation: 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 homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit […]
Today The Sun gained a D’oh! Level in hypocrisy to go with the one it has in sexism.
My paper on 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy was discussed on a Facebook group recently. One of the contributors made some interesting points about it, and I want to address them here. I have read your article, and if I could sum up your thesis in one sentence, it would be, “1 Cor. 6:9-10 is […]
I am a Christian fundamentalist. This may come as a surprise to you if you have read anything else on this blog. It will come as a surprise to you if you have ever actually met me in person. It was a bit of a shock to me when I realised, to be honest. I […]
A few weeks ago I was in a Catholic holy shop that sold various things like Bibles, prayer cards, and religious statues and ornaments. I wasn’t buying anything, I was just there with Michael as he was browsing. A week or two after that I was in a comic book store. I didn’t go in […]
There are six passages traditionally used to say you can’t be gay and Christian: Genesis 19, Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13, Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, and 1 Timothy 1:9-10. Genesis 19 is about gang rape. Anyone who says this has anything to say about consensual relationships has bigger problems than Biblical interpretation. Leviticus is part […]
1 December 2012 was my third World AIDS Day in a serodiscordant relationship, and I think it has been my busiest. As I write this, I have just got home from collecting for Positive Life at the Grand Opera House in Belfast, which was a surprisingly extrovert thing for me to be doing. If you […]
This is the text of the talk I gave to the Accepting Sexuality group. Abstract There are two passages from the New Testament that are often quoted as proof that you cannot be gay and Christian: 1 Corinthians 6.9–10 and 1 Timothy 1.9–10. The New International Version of the former says “men who have sex […]