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Article: Open-door policy: homosexuality and the message of Isaiah: Isaiah overturned a biblical directive. Does that example illumine today's debate on homosexuality?(christians faith)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- May 2, 2006
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IF THOSE IN the church who are in favor of changing long-held attitudes and ordinances relating to homosexuals were merely cultural relativists with no regard for the Bible or tradition, the debate would be easier. The same would be true, of course, if those wishing to retain those attitudes and ordinances were merely diehard homophobes who used the Bible selectively to their own ends. But neither is the case. Though there may be some people who more or less fit those categories, the hard truth is that Christians of good will--more, Christians of good faith--for whom the Bible remains the source and norm of faith and life sincerely disagree about whether or how biblical ...