[Wallace T.]

The Pauline epistles condemn homosexuality (e.g., Romans 1), but the Westboro Baptist Church belief that sodomites should be executed by the civil authorities is a doctrine not carried over into the New Testament from the Old. Dispensationalists, a camp that includes independent fundamental Baptists as well as others (many Southern Baptists, most independent Bible churches, many charismatics and pentecostals) believe in Biblical inerrancy but also believe that the moral law of the Old Testament was applicable only to the Jewish people. If the moral law is reaffirmed in the New Testament, for example, nine of the ten commandments (the exception being the Sabbath), then it is applicable to believers under the New Covenant.

[af_vet_1981]

The Pauline epistles condemn homosexuality (e.g., Romans 1), but the Westboro Baptist Church belief that sodomites should be executed by the civil authorities is a doctrine not carried over into the New Testament from the Old. Dispensationalists, a camp that includes independent fundamental Baptists as well as others (many Southern Baptists, most independent Bible churches, many charismatics and pentecostals) believe in Biblical inerrancy but also believe that the moral law of the Old Testament was applicable only to the Jewish people.

nothing in the NT I recall forbidding marrying your siblings or close relatives; just not your father's wife (stepmother I think). No, I don't think that view is sound. The OT and NT are whole counsel of God and All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for re proof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. Paul, no doubt, was referring to the OT here, your later KJV notwithstanding.