Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: johnw@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Warren) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Biblical Sexual Morality Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 07:59:26 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Space Science Labs Lines: 25 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article bgsuvax!kutz@cis.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth J. Kutz) writes: > >Please note that in Titus it says that the elder is to be the husband >of one *wife*. Romans 1 says homosexuality is wrong. Both were >written by Paul. The issue here is much larger than homosexuality. >Is all Scripture God breathed? I believe it is but... > I just want to clear something up here. It says that the elder is to be a 'one woman man' (Titus 1:6). You can be a man monogamously married to a woman and yet not be the man of commitment which this phrase talks about. You can be an unmarried (or -- *gasp* -- divorced) woman and have the commitment required for an elder. And you can be a homosexual with this type of commitment. At least this verse does not limit the position of elder to married men. > Kenneth J. Kutz John Warren "...What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?" - Dylan [The same word can mean either wife or woman and man or husband. All translations I've seen use husband of one wife in this context. This does not necessarily affect your conclusion, of course. --clh]