Who Said That?
“Ruth turns to Naomi and says `I shall not leave thee.' She makes her statement to this woman…that sounds somewhat, somewhere in between poetry, intimacy, and borders on lesbianism. People don’t even know how to explain what Ruth said to Naomi. It makes them uncomfortable. They’re afraid to talk about it. They don’t want to teach on it. Same thing with David and Jonathan…where there were same-sex relationships getting too close, people don’t even know what to say.”
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Looks like T. D. Jakes continues to "reposition" himself. This is quotation from Jakes during an undated sermon which can be found on YouTube.
Can't people of the same sex be intimate friends without being homosexuals? For Pete's sake . . .
Reader Comments (23)
Does he read the same Bible as we do? What am I saying!, he dosn't even believe in the triune God. I guess he worships a faulse god.
and very heartsick.
Interesting point. But that also seems to imply that we need to be known for what we are “for.” And since this all seems to presume the doctrines of being relevant on the world’s terms one way or another, I am not so sure that we have a stake in either interest. Is the answer to being a hard moralist really to be a soft one, or is it, speaking of salt (and light), holding out the gospel? It seems to me we run the risk of becoming captive to the world when we start entertaining notions of being “known for” something, which usually seems to mean either the gospel AND fill-in-the-blank or eventually just fill-in-the-blank.
Speaking of being irrelevant, maybe I should take a guess...Jakes sounds good.
Jerry Springer?
That exegesis con't be the result of any serious theologian.
The Book of Ruth mirrors the love that Christ has for His Church -- a much more glorious message (since it is the Gospel) than trying to eisegete perversion into the text.
And as for Gene Robinson or Peter Gomes, they'd be expressing the same lousy exegesis (or rather, their own isogesis) in much more high-falutin' language.