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2. All Scripture verses, unless otherwise noted, are taken from the authorized
King James Version.
3. See my accompanying chapter in this volume, “Homosexuality in the Old
Testament” (pp. 5-52).
4. Richard B. Hayes, “The Biblical Witness Concerning Homosexuality,” in
Staying the Course: Supporting the Church's Position on Homosexuality
, ed.
Maxie D. Dunnam and H. Newton Malony (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2003), 73,
78. Cf. Hayes, “Awaiting the Redemption of Our Bodies: The Witness of Scripture
Concerning Homosexuality,” in
Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides o f the
Debate,
ed. Jeffrey S. Siker (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1994), 3-17 .
5. Robert A. J. Gagnon, “The Authority of Scripture in the ‘Homosex’ Debate,”
accessed October 13, 2009.
6. Gerhard von Rad,
Genesis: A Commentary
, trans. John H. Marks, OTL
(Philadelphia, PA: Westminster, 1961), 57.
7. Karl Barth’s discussion of this point extends through major portions of his
The Doctrine o f Creation,
vol. 3 of
Church Dogmatics
feds. G. W. Bromiley and T. F.
Torrance; trans. J. W. Edwards et al., 5 vols. in 13; Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1958).
See the helpful summary of his argument in Paul K. Jewett,
Man as Male and Female:
A Study o f Sexual Relationships from a Theological Point o f View
(Grand Rapids,
MI: Eerdmans, 1975), 33-48 .
8. Barth, vol. 3, bk. 2, 236.
9. Samuel H. Dresner, “Homosexuality and the Order of Creation.”
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(1991): 309.
10. Donald J. Wold,
Out o f Order: Homosexuality in the Bible and the Ancient
Near East
(Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1998), 130. So also Robert A. J. Gagnon,
The
Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics
(Nashville, TN: Abingdon,
2001), 136: “All the laws in Lev 18 :6-23 ; 20:2-21 legislate against forms of sexual
behavior that disrupt the created order set into motion by the God of Israel.”
11. For further elaboration of this principle, see Dresner, “Homosexuality and the
Order of Creation,” 309-321 . Dresner, 320, asks the penetrating rhetorical question:
“Once the argument from the order of creation and natural law is abandoned and
heterosexuality within the marital bond as a norm is dismissed, then how can
adultery, pedophilia, incest or bestiality be rejected?” So also Herman C. Waetjen,
“Same-Sex Relations in Antiquity and Sexuality and Sexual Identity in Contemporary
American Society,” in
Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture,
ed.
Robert L. Brawley (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1996), 105: “There can
be no compromise of sexual identity. Created as a male, a man must remain pure and
unblemished in his nature of maleness. To surrender it sexually by assuming the role
of the opposite sex is a desecration of the divine order of creation.” Cf. Deborah F.
Sawyer,
God, Gender and the Bible
(New York: Routledge, 2002), 35: “The classified
list of sleeping partners in Leviticus 18 reinforces the boundaries that arc set up in