Welcome to Think Bivocally, Conversations on Faith and Culture, a podcast from Talbot School

of Theology Biola University. I'm your host, Sean McDow, Professor of Apologetics.

And I'm your co-host, Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics.

Today's conversation you can also find a video of, if you go to the YouTube channel of Biola University, you can see it there as well.

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Is the Gospel Inclusive?

How should Christians think about the myriad of ethical and biblical questions

surrounding the larger LGBTQ conversation? Well today Scott Rayne I'm my coist from

a ThinkBiblicant podcast are going to talk about a more recent book called

The Gospel of Inclusion by Brandon Robertson.

Now the reason we picked this book is not to pick on him but because this book is a good representation

of many of the affirming kinds of arguments that we're going to respond to.

So if somebody wants to pick up a book that makes a case for an

affirming position, he does a nice job doing so. What we want to do is push back

biblically and push back kind of theologically on some of the arguments that he makes.

In fact the subtitle I think will be helpful for our listeners.

It's the Gospel of Inclusion a Christian case for LGBT plus inclusion in the church.

And that subtitle is exactly where I think we want to begin.

So let me ask you, in what sense is the Bible inclusive?

Well, in one sense, it's, when it comes to salvation,

it's inclusive in an absolute sense.

Because nobody, regardless of, you know, sort of where they, regardless of race, gender, class, creed, sexuality, anything is outside the boundaries of the

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