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Volume 4 · Honest HereticsLesson 46About 22 minutes

When Jesus Was Silent: Homosexuality

What did Jesus say about homosexuality?

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The center · Matthew 22:39
39A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

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Few questions divide Christians today as sharply as this one. It has split denominations, emptied pews and broken up family dinners. On both sides, people quote Jesus. This lesson asks one narrow question: what did he actually say? The answer is short. In the four Gospels, he says nothing about same-sex relationships. This is the first of two silent rooms in the series.

You're not imagining it: both sides claim Jesus on this, and neither has a saying of his to quote. A preacher says Jesus condemned it; a protest sign says Jesus was fine with it. The measure in this series applies to both. What you have here is accuracy, and it wins nobody the argument. If you were hurt in church because of who you are, this lesson names that harm.

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A silent room
The Gospels record nothing Jesus said about same-sex relationships; no one can claim him for either side, and every Christian position on it rests on other texts and reasoning.

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