Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: bgsuvax!kutz@cis.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth J. Kutz) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Biblical Sexual Morality Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 16:55:07 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh. Lines: 50 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Chuck Hedrick) writes: Tom rightly divides the Word regarding Romans 1 & 2. Paul as clearly and plainly as he could shows his readers that homosexuality (male and female) is sin. Then in Romans 2, Paul condemns those who are self righteous - the "morally good" people on the outside. After condemning the actions of those bad outwardly and those bad inwardly Paul sums it up in Romans 3 - "there is none righteous - no not one". Paul then gives the answer to this human dilemna - Jesus Christ, the only True and Righteous man to walk this earth. Tom then says: > *Is* Homosexuality a sin? There are certainly Biblical injunctions > against it. But we all commit sins. We all do things which we *know* > are wrong. What right have you or I to criticize another's sins when we > commit so may ourselves. How many of us can even truthfully claim to > obey just the 10 commandments faithfully, (let alone the many other > injunctions, [among them homosexuality]). Yet we have singled out this > sin as special. *This* sin is the one over which we divide > congregations. > > Tom Blake > SUNY-Binghamton Tom, I think the reason this sin is singled out as "special" is because those committing it are teaching others (by example) that it is OK to do so. There are certain qualifications to be an elder (or overseer) in a church. Read Titus 1. Listed in there is "blameless, the husband of one wife, just, holy..." That being the case we wouldn't want to ordinate a professing thief (who continues to promote thievery by example) would we? Teaching another to sin is very serious. Jesus said that it would be better if a stone were tied around a person's neck and thrown into the sea than to teach another to sin. So if I enter your congregation teaching it is OK to steal and that continuing thieves should be ordained and I want the job - do you think that would cause division? You see the divider in this case is not those say homosexulaity is wrong. It is those who teach it is right, and want to lead congregations in that same doctrine. -- Kenneth J. Kutz Internet kutz@andy.bgsu.edu Systems Programmer BITNET KUTZ@ANDY University Computer Services UUCP ...!osu-cis!bgsuvax!kutz Bowling Green State Univ. US Mail 238 Math Science, BG OH 43403