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Since you seem to reject Scripture and Church teachings as moral authority, it’s pointless to argue further, methinks. Seems to me you are looking for a theological answer but rejecting the foundations (scripture and tradition) of that theology. Can’t help you there, friend.So, you say that the Bible endorses slavery as it existed in the 10-9th century B.C.E., but this doesn’t mean or imply that slavery is okay now. So, why not apply this type of thinking to homosexuality? If you’re going to pick and choose what you believe, why not assess homosexuality on it’s own, away from Biblical condemnation or endorsement.
Again, you’re throwing out the baby with the bathwater and are disregarding completely Scripture as having any moral authority. That’s not what Catholic Moral theology does. Do you expect Catholics to ignore our moral authority on beliefs? If so, think again.
If you don’t like my example of slavery, (I don’t) how about war? Is it just for people to invade another nation (that posed no pressing danger), kill all it’s inhabitants, and then burn the city to the ground? I think it’s pretty clear that this is abhorrent human behavior and ought to be condemned. Yet, God commanded Joshua to invade the city of Jericho and murder everyone inside. Of course, if a city is burned to the ground today, we would call that terrorism and genocide and it would be (justly) condemned. So, we’re applying some outside moral reasoning to scripture.
You miss the point that the Almighty commanded them to do so.
Do we really acquire our morality from scripture? I think that on the contrary, scripture merely a reflection of the morality of that isolated period of time, and our morality has evolved since then. Should scripture dictate our morals today? I don’t think there’s any good reason that it should. Just as we look on the Biblical teachings on Slavery, Women, and war as outdated, barbaric, and not suited for the modern era - I think we need to look critically on the teaching of homosexuality.
A degree in theology isn’t catechism class. It’s about scholarly research that’s done objectively. You don’t read a passage in class and then hear a lecture about how it fits into God’s plan for salvation. On the contrary, you read a passage and ALL you do is discuss theories as to it’s historical context. That’s the whole point of scholarly biblical studies.
Really? That’s not what I’m doing in my Masters studies at our local Seminary. Sure, one can study Scripture as if it were just another set of books. Seems to me to be a waste of time if one considers it merely literature, and perhaps explains your position on the moral authority of the word of God.
Anyway, I think that the text is fascinating (why else would I have majored in it?). However, it’s about as useful for discerning modern morality as Homer’s The Illiad. Looking to a two melinnea text for direction on modern questions of morality is about as useful as reading tea leaves.
Clearly that is not a Christian POV.
Okay, so what are the good reasons why they shouldn’t?
You’ve mentioned saving their eternal soul, so I’d like some evidence for why homosexuality will risk thier eternal soul any more so than heterosexuality.
