can we only use Jesus' words and not the rest of the Bible? Does Jesus teach against homosexuality?

My friend claims that he isn't against it and she doesn't consider Paul's letters authoritative.

So your friend is part of a minority movement of individuals who say such interesting things.

Can we only use Jesus' words and not the rest of the Bible? No.

And the reason why is because Jesus' words will push you to the rest of the Bible.

Jesus says things like, I've come to fulfill the Scriptures.

Jesus says things like, the whole of the Scriptures were written about me.

Jesus says things like, the Scripture cannot be broken.

So if you get Jesus and you trust His words, His words tell you about the rest of the Bible.

That's kind of a big deal.

Then you have Jesus who commissions Peter, right?

He commissions Peter and the other disciples.

Now she might say, well, he didn't do Paul.

But Peter says that Paul is an apostle.

Paul's writing Scripture. Peter does this.

Peter, who Jesus approves of.

He writes that Paul's writings are Scripture.

So what this means is that once you get Jesus in as your sort of central doctrinal anchor,

he pulls in the rest of the Scripture, old and New Testament.

And he says, all of this is true.

You can't pretend to only listen to Jesus because Jesus, if you only listen to him,

would make you listen to the rest of the Bible too, that's the inevitable result of that.

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