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Chapter 1
God, the Gospel, and the Gay Challenge: A Response to Matthew Vines
(R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)
The issue of homosexuality is pressuring the church to reconsider its age-long, unanimous understanding of the biblical teaching on sexual morality and the meaning of marriage, and in the balance is the church’s understanding of the gospel and the Bible itself. Matthew Vines’ God and the Gay Christian – in which the professed evangelical author affirms both the full authority of Scripture and the propriety of “committed, monogamous, same-sex relationships” – illustrates well that the question has pressed further than previous generations could have imagined. It’s a staggering claim that attempts to overthrow 2,000 years of unanimous Christian teaching, but this is where the question has now come, and the church must expect to face it.
Vine’s book focuses on six biblical passages that most prominently seem to condemn homosexual practice: Gen.19:5; Lev.18:22; Lev.20:13; Rom.1:26-27; 1Cor.6:9; and 1Tim.1:10. But his argument is not simply that these passages have …
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God And The Gay Christian: A Response To Matthew Vines