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Apr 23, 2024 · What is a “clobber verse” or a “clobber passage”? Answer. Progressives, both religious and non-religious, accuse conservative Christians of misusing certain verses in the Bible to attack homosexuals and others in the LGBTIQA+ community. These “clobber verses” or “clobber passages,” wrested from their context, make people feel ...
- The Ordering of Creation in Genesis 1-2: The Genesis creation account should be understood as a metaphor for the creation of the world and of human relationships.
- The Story of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 18-19. As we read about the state of affairs in ancient Sodom and Gomorrah in the book of Genesis, we learn that the people of these cities were proud, selfish, and inhospitable.
- Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13. Both of these condemnations of same-sex sexual behavior in Leviticus are directly preceded by reminders that these rules were meant to keep the Jewish people from being like the surrounding dominant polytheistic cultures.
- Romans 1:26-27. In Romans 1, St. Paul describes the descent of the Roman culture into pagan idolatry. He begins by saying that the Roman people once knew the true and living God, and then turn to pagan idolatry, which lead them down a path of grave immorality.
Sep 12, 2022 · Amy-Jill Levine meets Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2019. (Photo courtesy of Facebook) Editor’s note: Outreach has preserved the author’s traditional Jewish usage of “G-d” out of respect for the Holy Name. In 2017, I wrote an article for the Australian Broadcasting Company entitled “Not Good to be Alone: Rethinking the Bible and ...
Jun 16, 2024 · About the book: As a young Christian man, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic hopes of most young people: to some-day share his life with someone, to build a family of his own, to give and receive love. But when he realized he was gay, those hopes were called into question. The Bible, he’d been taught, condemned gay relationships.
Aug 8, 2021 · Clobbering the clobber passages. There are a number of passages in scripture which appear to address the matter of sexual relationships between people of the same gender. They have often been (mis)used to “clobber” LGBTIQA+ people by Christians. This small handful of scripture passages have exercised an inordinately huge influence on the ...
Jul 7, 2022 · Maybe you encountered an itinerant campus preacher, a less-than-tolerant coworker, or a well-meaning family member concerned for the state of your eternal soul. Perhaps they quoted Bible verses to back up their arguments against being queer or transgender and you didn’t know how to respond. These passages are commonly called clobber verses ...
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Mar 26, 2014 · Rethinking Paul’s Clobber Passages. Rethinking 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 is fairly standard now: women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law also says. If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in ...
