Is the Bible really homophobic?

So starting today I am introdcing a new feature to this website… guest blogging, hopefully more of this to come. My good friend “Xander Coomber”, that’s his real name, not an alias asked if he could contribute to this website and here is his first post… his thoughts in light of last week’s Gay Debate.

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Tuesday 27th January saw this debate take place, organised by the LGCM (Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement) at St. Nicholas in Brighton. Throughout the course of the night the different view points on homosexual sex were debated, having reflected upon the debate I would like to make a few observations.

Firstly, Clive Gardner, speaking on behalf of the LGCM was arguing from silence. He was not trying to say that the Bible condones gay sex, rather he was trying to say that the Bible never actually condemns it, which is inevitably going to be a weak argument. I believe that with an issue as serious as this, one that we’re told has eternal consequences (1 Cor 6:9-10), that not being able to prove convincingly that the Bible doesn’t condemn homosexual sex is very dangerous.

Secondly, after the debate I chatted to Clive about celibacy outside of marriage or a civil partnership. His response was to say that he would not confront a couple in his church that were sleeping together before marriage/civil partnership, because given our culture it’s an unrealistic to ask people to be celibate. But the Bible wouldn’t agree with this position, rather we are shown that in intercourse and marriage a man and a woman become ‘one flesh’ (Gen 2:24). Clive told me that he would however confront incest, or underage sex because these acts are illegal. Surely we cannot say that God’s standards for holiness change with our culture or are dependant on the laws of the land. The culture in Corinth said that sexual impurity was great, but God, through the Apostle Paul told them otherwise. To say that sex outside of marriage is acceptable because the culture says it’s acceptable is a typical post-modern perspective and goes against what the Bible says, it is to say that the perfection we see in Eden and God’s order within creation is no longer relevant to us now.

So I would like to ask Mr. Gardner in response, if creation is how God intended this world to be then why did He create Adam and Eve, and not Adam and Steve? Why did God create His perfect world with females as the males’ companion? (Gen 2:18-24) If God had meant for Adam and Steve, then why would He not have made it this way? So why Adam and Eve, and not Adam and Steve?