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Statement Against Unity Requires Us To Agree To Disagree
This passage records an instance where the Apostle Paul became aware of a man who was guilty of sexual immorality. Paul’s direction to the Corinthian church was to remove that man from the fellowship. Unity among Christians is a very important matter when it comes to the health of the church. In order to be truly healthy, a strong sense of unity also needs to be coupled with a clear understanding of what actions are immoral and a sound practice of addressing immoralities that might appear in the fellowship. In many respects, as an historical account of fallen humanity the Bible contains many accounts of sinfulness and immoralities that had to be addressed among God’s people. Yes, it was critical for the Israelites in the face of many threats from their neighbors who served other gods to maintain a strong internal unity. And also interwoven through all the pages of the Old Testament are the accounts of Joseph’s brothers selling him into slavery, the golden calf, the sin of Achan when Israel was defeated at Ai, King David with Bathsheba, and the list goes on and on of all the sins that had to be dealt with. The same is true of the New Testament. Peter denying Christ, the woman caught in adultery, Ananias and Sapphira . . .
We must certainly work hard to maintain unity with other brothers and sisters in the Lord. And right along with that unity there must be upright, moral living on the part of the members of our fellowship. Without moral living it cannot be a healthy Christian fellowship.
Is there a plausible case somewhere that loving, monogamous same-sex marriage is acceptable to God and is morally upright? If such a case exists, please let us know so that it may be included on these webpages. As far as the record shows, from the very beginning of time same-sex erotic acts were understood to be an abomination in God’s eyes and prohibited without exception (Leviticus 18:22, Romans 1 etc.). How can we be truly confident that we are not going against God’s explicitly stated will if we cannot explain how these biblical passages need to be understood very differently from the way they were read for thousands of years?
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Index Level 4
Introductory Page: Does Unity Require Us To Agree To Disagree?