Comments on: In which I have my mind and experience broadened https://anitamathias.com/2011/08/15/in-which-i-have-my-mind-and-experience-broadened/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:17:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2011/08/15/in-which-i-have-my-mind-and-experience-broadened/#comment-16581 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:47:34 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/08/15/in-which-i-have-my-mind-and-experience-broadened/#comment-16581 Thanks, Erika!

]]> By: Erika Baker https://anitamathias.com/2011/08/15/in-which-i-have-my-mind-and-experience-broadened/#comment-16580 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:55:21 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/08/15/in-which-i-have-my-mind-and-experience-broadened/#comment-16580 What a lovely story, Anita, thank you for being brave enough to post it!

Marcy, if you really want to find out more, there is a lot of good pro-gay writing out there, not all from the sector that is often dismissed as liberal=not accepting the authority of Scripture.

There's Reluctant Journey, which you can read free online: http://www.reluctantjourney.talktalk.net/contents.htm

There's Accepting Evangelicals: http://www.acceptingevangelicals.org/stories/

At the very complex end of biblical hermeneutics, there is Tobias Haller “Reasonable and Holy”.

You do not have to discard Paul or any other writer in order to come to a different view.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2011/08/15/in-which-i-have-my-mind-and-experience-broadened/#comment-16579 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:44:35 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/08/15/in-which-i-have-my-mind-and-experience-broadened/#comment-16579 Hi Marcy,
I am increasingly finding it more useful to see and think through Christ's eyes rather than through the prism of “the Bible” which is often Paul For instance, “the Bible” i.e. Paul says lots of unfriendly things about women, which I can't imagine Jesus saying!

]]> By: Marcy https://anitamathias.com/2011/08/15/in-which-i-have-my-mind-and-experience-broadened/#comment-16578 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:53:38 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/08/15/in-which-i-have-my-mind-and-experience-broadened/#comment-16578 I like this.

Every so often I feel stymied in my attempts to think through homosexuality and God… ultimately, I try to remember that there are all sorts of sins, all sorts of deeply ingrained personality / character /self traits…

(So far, I feel more persuaded by the logic, arguments, and evidence offered by the Bible-says-no crowd, even though part of me would like to find the Bible-says-yes logic, arguments, and evidence more compelling.)

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