Episode Details

Matthew Vines, author of God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships, joins me to discuss the revised version of this now classic texts. Has Matt has changed his mind on any major issues? What, in the end, would Matt conclude if he determined that the Bible did prohibit same-sex relationships? Listen to find out!

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EPISODE CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:05 What changed in God and the Gay Christian

00:03:28 Endnotes, footnotes, and writing for different audiences

00:05:02 How Matthew Vines’s views have changed

00:05:51 Romans 1 and female same-sex relations

00:07:48 Arsenokoitai, Malakoi, and Paul’s meaning

00:10:22 Same-sex marriage in the biblical world

00:13:45 To whom is the book written?

00:15:06 Expressive individualism and affirming theology

00:19:37 How the American church has changed

00:20:23 Affirming churches without guardrails

00:25:45 Conservative backlash and slippery slopes

00:27:55 Being between Christian and queer spaces

00:29:11 Queer theory, polyamory, and sexual orientation

00:30:55 Transgender Christians and biblical interpretation

00:34:48 Gender dysphoria, transition, and Christian ethics

00:39:08 What if the Bible prohibited same-sex marriage?

00:49:44 Moral intuition, inerrancy, and Jesus

01:00:05 Biblical authority, inspiration, and inerrancy

01:08:21 Where evangelical churches may be headed