How do you Respond to Ed Oxford's Idea on Homosexuality? | BreakPoint Q&A
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A mother writes in saying, "to my daughter, (Ed Oxford's ideas) is a perfect example of how to have it both ways," looking at the modern issue of homosexuality for Christians. Oxford's idea is that homosexuality was translated as "child-abuser" and other things prior to the 1980s. After the 1980s the translation changed because the issue became more prevalent in culture. A mother writes in to have an understanding of how to respond.
Following that, another listener asks if we should use plural pronouns to define God. John and Shane expound on a recent BreakPoint commentary, providing a foundation to not only refer to God but to also speak confidently in our current cultural moment.
To close, a writer shares an experience she had in a Bible study. The leader mentioned a "mixed-orientation" marriage. The Listener knew the term was problematic, but struggled to identify what it was about the term that made it untrue. John and Shane explore the definition and explain the worldview underpinnings that highlight the image of God and the details surrounding gender and identity terminology that shouldn't be compromised.
-- Resources --
The Moral Vision of the New Testament
Richard B. Hayes | Harperone | 1996
The Bible and Homosexual Practice
Robert A.J. Gagnon | Abingdon Press | 2002
Does the Bible Say Gays are an "Abomination"?
Sean McDowell | Youtube | September 27, 2021
God's not "They": Divine Pronouns Matter
John Stonestreet & Tim Padgett | BreakPoint | October 4, 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Shane Morris, host of the Upstream podcast and one of the writers here at Breakpoint. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm joined today by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the voice of Breakpoint. |
| 0:14.5 | We're here to answer your questions. |
| 0:16.4 | These were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, articles, and the Colson Fellows program. |
| 0:21.6 | If you'd like to send us a question of your own, all you've got to do is email us at |
| 0:24.6 | Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. |
| 0:29.0 | Well, John, how are you? |
| 0:29.7 | I haven't seen you, and it feels like a couple of weeks here. |
| 0:32.2 | We didn't connect when I was in Colorado recently, and then we didn't record a Q&A last week because we doubled up, so it feels |
| 0:38.8 | like it's been forever. What you've been up to? Yeah. What have I been up to? There's a lot going |
| 0:44.6 | on. People often ask us, like, how do you guys have something to talk about all the time? I'm like, |
| 0:48.6 | really? Are you paying attention? The culture is moving pretty fast, So there's a lot happening. Not only that, but the questions we get. Yeah, |
| 0:55.7 | there's just so many. There's great questions. Yeah, this first question is a great one. And it came |
| 1:00.5 | kind of personally. So I wanted to, I had, it came through a Facebook message. And so I responded on a |
| 1:07.3 | personal level, but also thought it was such a great question and needed to kind of, |
| 1:11.7 | we needed to dig a little bit deeper. So I wanted to address it here on the program, too. |
| 1:15.9 | So this mother writes in, my daughter has decided she is a lesbian. Obviously, I'm devastated. |
| 1:21.2 | She said she is still a Christian and has quoted information about homosexuality not being in the |
| 1:25.9 | Bible until the 1980s. I thought that was ridiculous. |
| 1:29.8 | But when I googled it, I think I found where she's getting this information. Ed Oxford has a |
| 1:34.7 | book that was published in the last few years and has written several articles as well. I don't know |
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