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Homosexuality, Marriage, and the Church
and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the
things concerning himself” (Luke 24:27,
e s v ) .
Later that night in the
upper room, Jesus pointed out “that everything written about me in
the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”
Then He opened their minds to understand the scriptures” (Luke
24:44-45,
e s v ) .
Paul expresses this same principle in 1 Corinthians 2:13: “These
things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but
which the Holy Spirit teaches,
comparing spiritual things with spiri
tual
”
(n k j v ,
emphasis added). This does not mean the indiscriminate
stringing together of passages in “proof text” fashion without regard
for the context of each text. But since the Scriptures ultimately have a
single divine Author, it is crucial to gather all that is written on a par
ticular topic in order to be able to consider all the contours of the topic.
Part of the analogy or harmony of Scripture is the principle of
the consistency of Scripture. Jesus succinctly stated this principle:
“The Scripture cannot be broken” (John 10:35,
e s v ) .
Since Scripture
has a single divine Author, the various parts of Scripture are consis
tent with each other. Thus Scripture cannot be set against Scripture.
All the doctrines of the Bible will cohere
Scripture catltiot
with each other, and interpretations of in-
be Set against
dividual passages will harmonize with the
Scripture
.
totality of what Scripture teaches on a giv-
en subject. We have already seen how the
New Testament writers linked together several Old Testament cita
tions as having equal and harmonious bearing upon the topic they
were explaining. While the different Bible writers may provide differ
ent emphases regarding the same event or topic, this will be without
contradiction or misinterpretation.
In contrast to this principle of the unity/harmony/consistency of
Scripture, some proponents of the homosexual lifestyle and gay mar
riage claim that various individual passages of Scripture are contra
dicted by overarching principles, and these
contradictory
passages