Faith Communities often fail to follow Jesus when they put God in a box of their own creation by misinterpreting what they read in the Bible into saying things that are a distortion of the original meanings. Examples of this are interpretations of the “abominations” in the Bible that were part of a holiness code created to help the Hebrews grow into a unique nation. Abominations included eating shrimp or pork, eating rabbit, wearing two different kinds of cloth at the same time, planting two different kinds of seed in the same ground, and men wasting their semen (seed) by not planting it in a woman. Men’s semen was known (believed) to be all of nascent human life and women had nothing to do with it other than being an incubator. Therefore any other use of semen was an “abomination” because it did not lead to procreation and the growth of a new nation. Abominations were not moral sins but violations of a severe code of conduct defining expectations of normal and usual daily life to promote the emerging nation.
Well meaning people have misinterpreted this to mean that loving and committed homosexual relationships are a sin. The Apostle Paul and writers of the Bible were unaware that homosexuality has been scientifically demonstrated to be natural and normal for many species, including humans, and is part of the genetic code that makes up many individuals. Loving and committed are clearly adjectives that fit the teachings and life of Jesus. Jesus teachings and life are all about loving and committed relationships (including homosexuality).
Some early church fathers correctly taught that as knowledge (scientific and scholarly) grows, scripture needs to be reinterpreted based on the new knowledge and not the other way around (imposing beliefs over knowledge). Therefore…
Paul H. Dorn
Longmont
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