What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? by Kevin DeYoung

Author:Kevin DeYoung
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crossway

If the ancient world not only had a category for committed same-sex relationships but also some understanding of homosexual orientation (to use our phrase), there is no reason to think the New Testament’s prohibitions against same-sex behavior were only for pederasty and exploitation.

Hubbard is not the only scholar to see the full range of homosexual expression in the ancient world. William Loader, who has written eight significant books on sexuality in Judaism and early Christianity and is himself a strong proponent of same-sex marriage, points to examples of same-sex adult partnerships in the ancient world.7

Even more telling, Bernadette Brooten, who has written the most important book on lesbianism in antiquity and is herself a lesbian, has criticized many of the revisionist arguments regarding exploitation, pederasty, and orientation. In criticizing the orientation argument, she writes:

Paul could have believed that tribades [the active female partners in a female homosexual bond], the ancient kinaidoi [the passive male partners in a male homosexual bond] and other sexually unorthodox persons were born that way and yet still condemn them as unnatural and shameful. . . . I believe that Paul used the word “exchanged” to indicate that people knew the natural sexual order of the universe and left it behind. . . . I see Paul as condemning all forms of homoeroticism as the unnatural acts of people who had turned away from God.8

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