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    A Biblical Response to Same-gender Marriage
    A Biblical Response to Same-gender Marriage
    A Biblical Response to Same-gender Marriage
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    A Biblical Response to Same-gender Marriage

    By James D. Quiggle

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    "A Biblical Response to Same-gender Marriage" was written to encourage participation in a discussion of one of the most troubling moral questions of the current generation. "A Biblical Response" will inform and arm Christians with biblical truth and encourage them to take the Gospel of Salvation to everyone, including the sexually immoral. This book is a shorter version of my book "Biblical Homosexuality," with new material focusing on same-gender (same-sex) marriage. I explain what Jesus said in the Gospels about marriage as the union of one man with one woman, and what he said about sexual morality in Revelation. Taking the premise that Jesus is God the Son incarnate, I discuss what God told Israel in Leviticus, and Christians in Romans and 1 Corinthians, about sexual immorality. Discussions of Genesis 2:24 (the basis for Jesus' teaching in the Gospels about marriage) reveal God’s design for marriage and sexuality. Discussions of Leviticus 18–20 show that the prohibitions against sexual morality, including homosexuality, are not based in a prohibition of pagan religion practices ca. 1445 BC, but are applicable in every generation from Moses' time to today. The fallacies of homosexual arguments, such as the “I was created this way,” or the “genetic predisposition” argument are revealed. Homosexual caricatures of the unloving Christian are also discussed and the true character of God's love for sinners, including the homosexual, is revealed. The low cost of the book has been deliberately set to encourage the widest distribution and participation in the religious and cultural discussions of same-gender marriage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames D. Quiggle
    Release dateJul 14, 2015
    ISBN9781310135972
    A Biblical Response to Same-gender Marriage
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    James D. Quiggle

    James D. Quiggle was born in 1952 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. He grew up in Kansas and the Texas Panhandle. In the early 1970s he joined the United States Air Force. At his first permanent assignment in Indian Springs, Nevada in a small Baptist church, the pastor introduced him to Jesus and soon after he was saved. Over the next ten years those he met in churches from the East Coast to the West Coast, mature Christian men, poured themselves into mentoring him. In the 1970s he was gifted with the Scofield Bible Course from Moody Bible Institute. As he completed his studies his spiritual gift of teaching became even more apparent. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Bethany Bible College during the 1980s while still in the Air Force. Between 2006–2008, after his career in the Air Force and with his children grown up, he decided to continue his education. He enrolled in Bethany Divinity College and Seminary and earned a Master of Arts in Religion and a Master of Theological Studies.As an extension of his spiritual gift of teaching, he was prompted by the Holy Spirit to begin writing books. James Quiggle is now a Christian author with over fifty commentaries on Bible books and doctrines. He is an editor for the Evangelical Dispensational Quarterly Journal published by Scofield Biblical Institute and Theological Seminary.He continues to write and has a vibrant teaching ministry through social media.

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      A Biblical Response to Same-gender Marriage - James D. Quiggle

      A Biblical Response

      to

      Same-gender Marriage

      James D. Quiggle

      Copyright James D. Quiggle 2015

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      A Biblical Response to Same-gender Marriage

      Copyright© 2015 by James D. Quiggle. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations with proper attribution, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the Author. Email booksofq@gmail.com with Permissions in the subject line.

      Published by James D. Quiggle, 2015.

      ISBN: 978-1310135972

      Scripture translations may be from:

      The Authorized (King James) Version. (Public Domain.)

      Young’s Literal Testament (YLT), revised ed. 1887. (Public Domain.)

      Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB), Copyright 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, by Holman Bible Publishers. Scripture quotations marked HCSB are been taken from the Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Holman Christian Standard Bible7, Holman CSB®, and HCSB© are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.

      New King James Version (NKJV) ®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      The Holy Bible: New International Version (NIV), Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

      Quotations from the Septuagint are from The Septuagint with Apocrypha: English, by Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton. London: Samuel Bagster & Sons, Ltd., 1851. Downloaded from http://ecmarsh.com, 2010.

      Hebrew transliterations and definitions are from Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1980. (Transliterations are shown without diacritical marks.)

      Greek transliterations and definitions are from The Complete Word Study Dictionary, New Testament, by Spiros Zodhiates. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 1993. (Transliterations are shown without diacritical marks.)

      Contents

      Introduction

      1. What Jesus Said About Marriage

      2. The Bible and Marriage

      Concubinage and Polygyny

      What Marriage Looks Like in the Bible

      It Can Be Wrong When it Feels so Right

      3. The Genesis Testimony

      Genesis 2:24

      Did God Create Homosexuals?

      4. The Leviticus Testimony

      Leviticus 18–20

      Leviticus 18:21; 20:1–5

      Sexual Immorality Versus Other Prohibitions

      Other Laws and Moral Codes

      5. The New Testament Testimony

      Romans 1:26–27

      1 Corinthians 6:9–11

      Revelation 21:8; 22:15

      6. What is Love?

      The Commitment of Love

      Love Toward Sinners

      Love Welcomes Sinners

      7. The Gospel of Salvation is for Everyone

      Other Books By James D. Quiggle

      Introduction

      The world’s objections to the Christians’ biblical view of sexuality are hardly new. YHWH (God’s personal name in the Old Testament) told the Israelites, you will not act like the Egyptians, from whom I delivered you, nor like the Canaanites living in the land which I am giving to you. Instead you will obey my rules and live by my commandments, Leviticus 18:1–5; 20:22–23. The New Testament authors constantly exhorted the newly-saved Gentile Christians to change their sexual behavior from what they used to do to what the Bible required, for example, Acts 15:29; 1 Corinthians 5:1–2, 9–10; 6:13, 18; 1 Peter 2:11; 4:3–4; Jude 7.

      On television and radio, in online and print magazines, on blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and in texts and books, it seems that most of the people of the world—at least in my part of the world, the USA—object to the biblical prohibition to same-sex marriage. This book shares responses I’ve made to some of the objections made by the LGBTQ community to the Christian point of view. Christians are my intended audience.

      Although same-sex attraction is the common term, I prefer and will use the more accurate terms same-gender attraction and same-gender lifestyle when speaking of homosexuality in all its forms and expressions, including that form of same-gender union popularly known as same-sex marriage."

      In various discussions throughout this book I will identify those with saving faith in Jesus Christ as believers, and those without saving faith as unbelievers.

      This book is not about same-gender friendships among heterosexuals. Friendships are not sexual in nature. Friendships share common likes and interests. Friendships are not same-gender attraction, or same-gender lifestyles, or same-gender marriage.

      This book is also not about same genders living together to form a household. That has been a common practice for the duration of recorded history, a response to life’s circumstances taking away a spouse (by death, divorce, captivity, imprisonment, etc.). Same genders creating a household are not a couple, there is no sexual attraction, there is no sexual activity. There is simply friendship sharing resources and parenting responsibilities. The same is true for same gender roommates, such as sharing an apartment, or a room in a school dormitory. There is no sexual attraction, there is no sexual activity. There is simply friendship.

      1. What Jesus Said About Marriage

      Some try to discredit the Christian’s response to same-gender marriage by saying, Jesus didn’t say anything about same-gender attraction or same-gender marriage. He did. In a typically biblical fashion Jesus defined what was right. By defining the right Jesus identified the wrong.

      The notion that because a specific word doesn’t appear in the Bible that particular subject or idea is not in the Bible, is ridiculous. The word abortion is not in the Bible, but the Bible addresses when life begins, that conception creates a person, and that murdering a person is morally wrong and prohibited. The biblical way of addressing issues is not only to prohibit the wrong, but more often to identify what is genuine and true. Bank tellers are taught to recognize genuine currency by sight and touch, so that when a counterfeit bill passes through their fingers they know it is not genuine. Jesus tells us what marriage is, and in so doing teaches us to recognize the counterfeit.

      Jesus described marriage in a conversation with the Pharisees at Matthew 19:4–6 and Mark 10:6–9 (combined below). The Pharisees had asked Jesus (Matthew 19:3; Mark 10:2), Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason? Jesus answered their question using the pronoun them to refer to the nouns they had used, man and wife. Jesus said,

      Have you not read, that God who made them at the beginning of creation, made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh? So then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together let not man separate.

      When Jesus said, have you not read, and at the beginning of creation, he was referring

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