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15.10.2024 No second Galileo case: Why the Bible says nothing about homosexuality
Galileo Galilei was condemned by the church in the 17th century because his doctrine of the Copernican society view (the earth as a planet revolving around the sun) allegedly contradicted the Bible. In 1992, Pope John Paul II rehabilitated Galileo, stating that the problem was not science, but the understanding of the Bible. The case should not be repeated when it comes to knowledge about human sexuality, especially homosexuality. It can be shown that the Old and Fresh Testaments do not recognise this concept and therefore do not condemn it. Nevertheless, the Bible provides important impulses for today’s debates. In any case, the Bible does not stand in the way of a new version of church teaching on the subject of homosexuality. The event is creature organised in cooperation with the Heinrich-Pesch-Haus, Catholic Academy Rhine-Neckar. Venue: Heinrich-Pesch-Haus, Catholic Academy Rhine-Neckar, Frankenthaler Str. 229, 67059 Ludwigshafen
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What do theistic evolutionists and church-attending homosexual activists have in common? Both think Galileo makes their case.
Theistic evolutionists contain long loved the story of Galileo – how he corrected the Church, and was persecuted for it, when he proved that the Earth went around the Sun, and not, as the Church said, the other way around. The moral of this story, they suggest, is that just appreciate Galileo corrected the Church in his time, the Church today needs to reinterpret it’s understanding of Genesis 1 and 2 in light of what Science has discovered about our origins.
Church-going gay activists are taking up Galileo as their champion, too, to argue that the Church needs to re-examine its stance against homosexuality and gay marriage. In his book God and the Gay Christian, Matthew Vine writes:
…remember that Christians in Galileo’s day….did not change their minds about the solar system because they lost respect for their forebears or for the authority of Scripture. They change their consciousness because they were confronted with evidence their predecessors had never considered…. Does new information we own Image from worldatlas.com. Back when Christianity spread over the western planet, religious leaders proclaimed the Bible to be the provider of wisdom on every topic, and themselves to be the sole explainers of its wisdom. God wanted to guide his children through every issue or question they might encounter in life, and all of life’s answers were contained in the Bible. It was just a question of discovery the right scripture and then conveying it the right way. Astronomy For 1500 years (give or take), Christendom asserted that the Earth is at the center of God’s creations and everything else orbits around it. The geocentric system, formalized and advanced by Ptolemy in the 2nd century, had Christianity’s seal of approval. Obviously, the workings of the heavens were within religious region. After all, God resided in heaven and the Bible described the association of the heavens and the soil. Not in so many words, of course. Neither Jesus nor any of the Old Testament prophets actually said anything about planets and orbits, but the principle was inferred from a number of verses in the Bible. “You fixed the soil on its foundations” (Psalm 104:5). “God made the orb immobi by Stephen E. Pitts “What happens when a gay person falls in love?” This is a doubt that has weighed heavily on me for well over 30 years. As people visited me in my analyze and “came out,” it began to dawn on me that the simplistic answers that evangelical churches had proposed when confronted with such questions were no longer viable. Answers such as: “That kind of love is doomed since same-sex attraction is pathological,” or “Such love would have to be suppressed since it is prohibited by the Bible.” At best, this caring of approach makes God’s intention for sex a rather arbitrary matter, i.e., falling in cherish and marriage is strictly for heterosexuals and that is just the way it is. At worst, it is cruel in its denial of the same kind of commitment to a faithful “until death do us part” kind of association that heterosexuals enjoy. Christians certainly start with scripture as a guide. The literature of the Covenant Church expresses this as “we assume that the Bible is the only perfect rule for faith doctrine and conduct” (Preamble to the Constitution and Bylaws) and that the Bible is an “altar” on which w Happy Pride Month! At Galileo, we believe in envisioning and creating a better world. We are committed to being innovators who seek knowledge, direct with courage, and build space for continuous study and reflection. This Pride Month, to commemorate the amazing contributions of and thank the injustices faced by the LGBTQIA2S+ community across the country and the world, we’ll be celebrating several courageous innovators who blazed trails and set up their own path to making our world better:
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