In his new book God and the Gay Christian, Matthew Vines seeks to legitimate homosexual practice among evangelicals. I responded to this heretical teaching yesterday in my post about the new Southern Seminary eBook, God and the Gay Christian? I quoted a section from my chapter on the church’s historical teaching, a chapter that has now been posted in full over at the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood.
Today I’d like to think a little more with you about Vines’s use of the term “gay Christian” (I also commend to you this excellent and stirring post
from my SBTS colleague and New Testament expert Jim Hamilton). This is
not a new descriptor, but Vines has infused new meaning into it. Authors
who have previously used it have done so with the understanding that
“gay Christian” is essentially equivalent to “born-again believer who
experiences, to some degree, ongoing same-sex attraction and who
willingly resists gratifying this desire.” Vines, however, uses the term
to essentially mean “born-again believer who experiences same-sex
attraction and indulges this desire in mutual, covenantal relationships
to the glory of God.” There is a vast and unbridgeable gulf between
these two definitions. Continue at Owen Strachan
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