Easy argument winner.
What about the loving Jesus talking and warning people about Hell? And to stop doing their evil deeds and repent otherwise they too would end up in Hell?
Seems if we have to throw away the verses about homosexuality, we have to throw away everything Scripture says about people going to Hell.
And then you might as well not even use the Bible anymore because you’ve defeated its purpose.
Good point. Throwing away hell may be next if the church wants to make everything easy for Christians — maybe that will attract a bigger congregation. People want things easy — user friendly this and that — but morality isn’t easy. So does the church buckle in to the people’s need for “easy?” Make one time sins not sins anymore? Give everybody what they want? Hopefully not.
Yep. Ultimately it is an argument against sin and judgment altogeather. If you can discard homosexuality as a sin then you can rationalize any other biblical sin using pretty much the same arguments. Taken to its logical conclusion it is a universalist philosophy.
The argument that discarding autonomous Church auathority for a Protestant hermaneutic is what leads to this type of pseudo-exegetical approach is silly. Following the generally accepted hermaneutics of any first year textbooks from a conservative seminary would blow all the gay "arguments from scripture" away in 30 seconds. And this type of interpretation used by the gays (eisegesis) is nothing new. Origen was usining it 1900 years ago as he happily allegorized his way to wherever he had already decided he wanted to end up. That was long before there were any Protestants.