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Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

[BONUS] The Bible and LGBTQ Relationships (with Colby Martin)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Christian, Talbot, Church, Culture, Biola, Think Biblically, Christianity, Sean Mcdowell, Scott Rae, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, Sean talks with progressive Christian pastor Colby Martin about Scripture and same-sex unions. They discuss what the Bible says and how Christians can best love their LGBTQ neighbors. This episode was first recorded on Sean's YouTube channel and is longer than typical interviews here. But if you enjoy our regular interviews, you will love this one too. Colby Martin is the author of two books (“UnClobber: Rethinking our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality” and "Th...

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0:00.0

Welcome, Think, Bivocally Podcast, listeners.

0:03.7

Today we've got a fascinating bonus episode for you.

0:06.8

A conversation I had recently with a progressive Christian pastor

0:10.8

by the name of Colby Martin down in San Diego. He is progressive

0:15.6

Christian again and has written a number of books. We had a conversation a number

0:19.9

of months ago about the differences between progressive Christianity

0:23.2

and evangelical Christianity. But in this conversation you're about to hear

0:27.2

we talk about the Bible and LGBTQ relationships and as you can imagine we come

0:32.4

from a very different perspective and come to very different

0:35.4

conclusions about what it means to be faithful to the scriptures, faithful to Jesus, in terms

0:41.7

of our sexuality.

0:43.0

So hang in there with us, we share some stories and intros,

0:46.1

but as we get into this podcast, which

0:48.0

is longer than our typical one,

0:49.9

almost three times as long as our typical episode as we get going into it I think

0:54.7

you're gonna really enjoy the exchange so enjoy this interaction and bonus

0:59.6

episode of the Think biblical podcast today we going to jump in and have not a formal debate, that's for sure,

1:07.0

but we're going to have a substantive conversation.

1:09.0

If you follow the channel, you know that one of the big things I aim for is charity to have

1:13.6

conversation with people who see the world differently. It's possible today in

1:18.5

our cancel culture, but second also clarity is very important. So our hope today is that you can see what positions we hold

1:26.9

Why we hold them the evidence for maybe some of the evidence against it and then ultimately you can make up your own mind.

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