{"id":2689,"date":"2008-12-07T18:57:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T23:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/12\/07\/even-the-devil-quoted-scripture\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T18:57:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T23:57:43","slug":"even-the-devil-quoted-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/12\/even-the-devil-quoted-scripture\/","title":{"rendered":"Even the Devil quoted scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Newsweek does scriptural exegesis<\/a> you know it is going to be a laugh riot. This time it is to lambaste religious conservatives for using scripture to defend marriage.<\/p>\n

You can just about guess the approach they will take. Yes they went the polygamy route. As if the Old Testament had glowing support of polygamy, when in actuality scripture showed how it always lead to problems. Yes the stories of Jacob’s wives and how Solomon’s wives lead him to sin are endorsement of a scriptural view of polygamy.<\/p>\n

They even go on to say that Jesus never defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n

Matthew 19:3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?" He answered, "Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, `For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder." They said to him, "Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?" He said to them, "For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery." The disciples said to him, "If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry." <\/p>\n

I guess referring to Adam and Eve as the original intent of marriage is too hard to grasp or that male and female are always the related terms. Funny how in all of salvation history there are zero examples of homosexual relationships portrayed positively. Rather strange if homosexual acts are part of God’s plan.<\/p>\n

But Sola Scriptura used by secular reporters will go just as stray as when used by Protestants. They can cherry pick verses or just give different interpretations to verses harder to ignore and say such nonsense as:<\/p>\n

… condemnation of men who "were inflamed with lust for one another" (which he calls "a perversion") is really a critique of the worst kind of wickedness: self-delusion, violence, promiscuity and debauchery.<\/p>\n

This from a person they call a "progressive theologian." Of course a progressive theologian is one that explains away scripture instead of explaining it.<\/p>\n

Though the whole article with their use of scripture and quoting only those who agree with their premise means zero to Catholics anyway. It is scripture and apostolic tradition as interpreted by the magisterium that is the key to Catholics anyway, or at least for Catholics that understand the nature of the Church. Opposition to homosexual acts and same-sex marriage is something that can be learned from the natural law<\/a> without resorting to scripture.<\/p>\n

But this type of article from Newsweek Religion Editor Lisa Miller is nothing new, just more of the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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