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A Secret Same-Sex Marriage in Scripture?
So even if the centurion and his servant did have a sexual relationship, it does not follow that Jesus’ miracle affirmed every aspect of that relationship. In proof, the word “relationship” is really a euphemism, because this would be a case of an older man purchasing a younger male for sexual purposes, or what we would call a “sex slave.” I doubt that the revisionist critic would illustrate this episode by saying, “Jesus restores a master-slave relationship by a miracle of healing and then holds up a sex-trafficker as an example of faith for all to follow.”
The authors of this article admit that this relationship may seem “repugnant,” but they explain it away by saying that marriage in the equal time period was also basically a kind of slavery, so what’s the big deal? They record, “In that culture, if you were a gay man who wanted a male ‘spouse,’ you achieved this, like your heterosexual counterparts, through a commercial transaction—purchasing someone to verb that purpose. A servant purchased to serve this purpose was often called a p Answer Legal proceedings and legislative action in a number of countries have given civil recognition to same-sex marriage relationships, and the question of same-sex marriage continues to be widely debated. As we confront this and other issues, we encourage all to bear in mind our Heavenly Father’s purposes in creating the earth and providing for our mortal birth and experience here as His children. “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.” “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”Marriage between a man and a woman was instituted by God and is central to His plan for His children and for the well-being of society. Strong families, guided by a loving mother and father, serve as the fundamental institution for nurturing children, instilling faith, and transmitting to future generations the moral strengths and values that are crucial to This article is part of the What Did Jesus Teach? series. In a article for Slate online, Will Oremus asked a provocative question: Was Jesus a homophobe?1 The article was occasioned by a story about a gay teenager in Ohio who was suing his tall school after school officials prohibited him from wearing a T-shirt that said, “Jesus Is Not a Homophobe.” Oremus was less concerned about the legal issues of the story than he was about the accuracy of the statement on the shirt. Oremus suggests that Jesus’s views on homosexuality were more inclusive than Paul’s. He writes, While it’s reasonable to assume that Jesus and his fellow Jews in first-century Palestine would contain disapproved of gay sex, there is no verb of his ever having mentioned homosexuality, let alone expressed particular revulsion about it. . . . Never in the Bible does Jesus himself give an explicit prohibition of homosexuality. Oremus seems to propose that since Jesus never explicitly mentioned homosexuality, he must not have been very concerned about it. There are at least two reas
What does the Bible exclaim about gay marriage?
The Bible says nothing about gay marriage directly, but it does set down the foundational principles of what constitutes marriagein God’s eyes. Every reference to marriage in the Bible indicates a union of male and female. The first description of marriage coincides with the creation of Eve in Genesis 2. According to that passage, marriage takes place when “a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh” (Genesis ).
In passages that contain instructions regarding marriage, such as 1 Corinthians –16 and Ephesians –33, the Bible clearly identifies marriage as being between a gentleman and a woman. Biblically speaking, marriage is the union of a bloke and a woman in a lifetime commitment. Primary purposes of marriage are to illustrate the relationship between Christ and the church (see Ephesians –33) and to build a family and provide a stable, secure environment for that family to develop. As families prosper, so does society at adj, and stable families contribute to stable soci
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