[Gamecock]

Hear Rob Bell support same-sex marriage, say Evangelicals need to 'repent'
Rob Bell And The Progressive Emergent Church Embrace Sodomite Marriage

[trebb]

I partially agree with him - you can read it literately in order to get to the correct literalness - context is everything.

I've had folks tell me it's a sin to smoke and/or not eat right because the Bible tells us the body is our temple - they totally ignore that that phrase is about sexual impurity and has nothing to do with step aerobics and salads.

[faucetman]

I’ll go with Franklin Graham on this one....

“... prompting evangelist Franklin Graham, among many others, to brand him a heretic...”

[ealgeone]

Wow....the dude has lost it.

[dragonblustar]

Why doesn’t Bell just come out and admit he’s an atheist?

[ravenwolf]

“This is why lots of people want nothing to do with the Christian faith. They see it as an endless list of absurdities and inconsistencies and they say, ‘Why would I ever want to be part of that?’ ”

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Well naturally they do, what did he suppose?

[mad_as_he$$]

Properly understood, Bell argued, the Bible was written “to unite, not to be weaponized to further your side over and against another’s.”

If only more people tried that approach.

[xzins]

In my opinion, it’s very easy to stray from a straight up point in the bible by being a slave to a method of understanding culture, history, grammar, life of the writer, etc.

Those things are important but not as important as simple reading comprehension.

The old adage is helpful: “When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense;”