Jesus on Homosexuality

Flaneur says:  I have no idea if any of this is correct but it's at least a rational place for dialogue to begin, I suppose.  Link below to the author's website, and free E book.

Discovery

For 1,900 years, Christian scholars didn’t know that Jesus’ teachings were based on a well-established group of commandments that didn’t include the prohibition on homosexuality.

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The Justices and Jobs Eliminate the Possibility that Jesus Condemned Homosexuality

For the last 1,900 years, Christianity had been assuming that ancient Jewish law was divided into two categories: morality and ritual. The historical record documents that this simply wasn’t so. Christianity had been interpreting Jesus’ teachings based on an erroneous assumption.

The ancient Jewish didn’t divide the commandments of their law into ‘morality’ and ‘ritual.’ On the contrary! They divided the commandments of their law into ‘Justices’ and ‘Jobs.’ What were Justices and Jobs?

• Justices were all the commandments based on “Love your neighbor as yourself” (such as the prohibitions on murder, rape, and adultery).
• Jobs were all the rest (such as the prohibitions on eating shellfish, homosexuality, and having sex with a wife during her menstrual cycle).

Jesus, Paul, and James all cited the precept, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Now we know that they used this precept the same way as their contemporaries. (They used the precept to designate a well-established group of commandments—the Justices.) This historical discovery completely changes our understanding of the New Testament. Each, in his own particular way, used the precept to teach that the Justices alone are the Christian law.

The implications of this revolutionary historical discovery couldn’t be more profound, especially when it comes to the hot button issue of homosexuality. Surprisingly, the prohibition on homosexuality was a Job (not a Justice). In other words, it turns out that the prohibition on homosexuality wasn’t originally part of Christian law. But then, in the second century, when Gentiles dominated the Faith, they introduced the erroneous assumption regarding the dividing line which caused Christianity to err on this very important matter. (The writings of Justin Martyr document that the erroneous assumption of the "ritual/morality" division was introduced to the Faith as early as the second century.)

Jesus on Homosexuality fully documents Christianity’s 1,900-year-old error. More importantly, it presents the necessary historical writings for the Church to reclaim her roots, should she decide to do so.

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