Letter: Jesus didn’t endorse gay marriage – Quad City Times

This letter is regarding the Quad-City Times editorial cartoon of June 29, Little known passage from the Bible. The same Jesus who taught the Golden Rule also said, according to Matthew, Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?

Thus Jesus affirmed the biblical teaching that God made two sexes, male and female, and marriage is the one flesh union of one from each sex: A man and a woman. Until a few years ago, there was nothing controversial and certainly nothing hateful about those nearly universally accepted teachings.

What do we make of the fact that Jesus taught both the Golden Rule and marriage as the union of a man and a woman? Did he contradict himself? Was he a hypocrite? Was he too stupid to realize the conflict? Or is it possible to love your neighbor and also accept his teaching on marriage?

If we cannot trust or accept Jesus teaching authority on a subject as important as marriage, why should we care or give any credence to the Golden Rule or love your neighbor?

If we accept the teachings we agree with, while rejecting the teachings that are contrary to cultural trends and public opinion polls, arent we setting ourselves up as the judges of his teaching thereby making ourselves a higher-truth and moral authority than Jesus?

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Letter: Jesus didn't endorse gay marriage - Quad City Times