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For The Bible Tells Me So...
Feb. 12th, 2007 10:20 pm"When people ask questions about homosexuality, almost always they follow with, 'and what does the Bible really say about it?'"
"When the term 'abomination' is used in the Hebrew Bible, it is always used to address a ritual wrong – it never is used to refer to something innately immoral. Eating pork was not innately immoral for a Jew, but it was an abomination because it was a violation of a ritual requirement."
"There's nothing wrong with a fifth grade understanding of God, as long as you're in the fifth grade."
"I have a soft spot in my heart for literalists because I used to be one. However, when someone says to me 'this is what the Bible says,' my response to them is, 'No, that's what the Bible reads.' It is the struggle to understand context and language and culture and customs that helps us to understand the reading, or what it is saying."
- Reverend Dr. Laurence Keene, Disciples of Christ ("For The Bible Tells Me So")
"When the term 'abomination' is used in the Hebrew Bible, it is always used to address a ritual wrong – it never is used to refer to something innately immoral. Eating pork was not innately immoral for a Jew, but it was an abomination because it was a violation of a ritual requirement."
"There's nothing wrong with a fifth grade understanding of God, as long as you're in the fifth grade."
"I have a soft spot in my heart for literalists because I used to be one. However, when someone says to me 'this is what the Bible says,' my response to them is, 'No, that's what the Bible reads.' It is the struggle to understand context and language and culture and customs that helps us to understand the reading, or what it is saying."
- Reverend Dr. Laurence Keene, Disciples of Christ ("For The Bible Tells Me So")
