RLG203H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: James Henley Thornwell
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Does the bible come down on homosexuality. So god created man in his own image, in the image of god he created them; male and female he created them. Problems not with just trying to get at what text means but what about when you see contradictions. Why do you have thousands of priests and ministers giving sermons every sunday explaining what the text means, the texts are long and aren"t easy and need their help to understand them. Augustus didn"t look at text and say it was created in 6 days, willing to admit that with any images there were multiple levels of meaning and to make it much more complex than it looks. Didn"t devote a lot of their time trying to figure out literal meaning because spiritual meaning was more important. Was responding to northern abolitionists who were trying to get rid of slavery: they said slavery was evil and this was a direct challenge.
