Does the Bible support same-sex marriage? This is a very volatile question, and it's one that I

address in a fourth-coming book titled, Does the Bible Support Same-sex Marriage? 21 conversations

from a historically Christian view. What I want to do in this podcast episode is give a quick

overview of the book, explain why I wrote it, talk about the first two foundational chapters of

the book, and then in the next episode, we're going to get into some of the specific arguments

for same-sex marriage and offer a response to some of the top ones that I've received.

Okay, so why did I write this book? I have been, as many of you know, engaging the LGBTQ

conversation for about a decade now. I've written a few books on the topic, and I've done a lot

of speaking at churches and conferences and different venues on the topic, and naturally,

whenever I speak, a lot of questions come up. And one of the things that I absolutely love,

and I almost require it when I go speak places, I love the Q and A times question and answer

as I prefer Q and R question and response. I can't promise you that I'm going to give kind of some

black and white answer to all the questions that will answer them perfectly, but I will respond

to people's questions, and in almost every venue that I speak at, I always say I would, you know,

one of the things I really want to see after my talk is I want to have Q and A, so I want to hear what

people are, I want to hear what people are hearing, I want to hear the pushbacks, I want to respond

to those pushbacks, I want to offer clarifications, and I want to learn from hard questions that maybe

I don't have an answer to at that moment. So over the last decade or so, I've sort of compiled

a mental list of all of the kind of top arguments for same-sex marriage. So when I go, I give a talk,

I typically lay out what I think is a historically Christian view of marriage, and then oftentimes,

I'll focus more on kind of past, you know, pastoral questions related to same-sex sexuality,

your genders for your trans identities in the church. Again, naturally, many questions arise

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