Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth by Jeffrey Satinover

Author:Jeffrey Satinover [Satinover, Jeffrey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781441212931
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 1996-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

Keep in mind our own street phrase “a monkey on my back,” which refers to addiction. In the context of a discussion of sin, compulsion, and addiction, Paul’s figure of speech—“this body of death”—is especially apt. It refers to the way a death sentence was often carried out under Imperial Rome. A dead body was strapped to the back of the condemned man from which he could not free himself, however he struggled. In time, the putrefaction of the corpse spread and ate away his own tissues as well, slowly killing him.

All Too Natural

Unless we are careful, this line of thinking leads us heedless to a trap—viewing sin as “unnatural.” As we all know, one of the most common epithets hurled at homosexuals and other people who practice sexual behavior other than heterosexual intercourse is that their practices are “unnatural.” Paul’s letter to the Romans makes a similar accusation:

Because of this [“worshiping and serving created things rather than the Creator”], God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Romans 1:26–27

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