Scholars on both sides agree Bible is consistent in opposing homosexual practice: Jayne Ozanne disagrees
by Dermot O’Callaghan, Core Issues Trust:
On Friday 13th May 2016 I attended a fringe meeting at the General Synod of the Church of Ireland, organised by Changing Attitude Ireland, at which the speaker was Jayne Ozanne, a patron of Accepting Evangelicals. I wanted to ask her a question, and sent it to her the previous evening:
Dear Jayne,
I hope to be at your talk in Dublin tomorrow and to ask a question. I am writing in advance to give you some time to think about it. A large part of my difference with your position is that you claim that Scripture supports your way of life, but the best scholars (on both sides of the debate) are agreed that it does not – and the only way to justify it is by looking to a different authority as stated by Luke Timothy Johnson below.
I have also appended a number of quotations from other scholars to support my view.
I look forward to meeting you.
With kind regards
Dermot O’Callaghan
[…] On the day, Jayne answered my question, contending that she was right. She talked inter alia of having studied in Stephen Hawking’s department at Cambridge, and said that he had corrected Einstein, who himself had corrected Newton, who had corrected Copernicus etc, each improving on the work of his predecessor. The implication seemed to be that she was correcting the biblical scholars named above who still held the outdated view that the Bible was negative towards same-sex sexual relations.
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