Does the Bible Condemn Homosexuality? Guest Interview with Jeffrey Siker

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Episode Outline:
0:00 Bart interviews Jeffrey Siker on homosexuality and the Bible
1:05 Jeff Siker’s background, scholarship, and work on homosexuality in religion
5:51 Does the Bible really condemn what we mean by homosexuality today?
10:30 Leviticus and the holiness code: what is actually being prohibited?
19:20 Sodom and Gomorrah: homosexuality or sexual violence and inhospitality?
23:02 Why ancient ideas of sexuality differ from modern ideas of orientation
30:13 Jesus, marriage, and whether he ever directly addresses homosexuality
33:05 Paul’s vice lists: what do malakoi and arsenokoitai mean?
44:32 Romans 1: idolatry, “nature,” and same-sex desire
49:04 Why Paul’s world is not the same as modern understandings of sexuality
54:04 Jeff’s summary of the six key biblical passages
56:10 Faith, scholarship, and why this debate matters in the church today

Episode Description
One of the few ways people today actually appeal to the Old Testament is to condemn same-sex sexual relations (while they ignore much of everything else it says). Such people usually take it as obvious that the New Testament condemns them as well. But DOES the Bible condemn homosexuality? As it turns this a lively debate among biblical scholars, and the dominant view among critical scholars is not at all what you might expect. And their reasons for holding this view is even less widely known. In this episode I interview biblical scholar Jeffrey Siker (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) longtime professor of New Testament (who is also an ordained Presbyterian minister) who explains why in fact the Bible does NOT condemn homosexuality.

In this episode, Bart flips the script and becomes the interviewer, asking Dr Siker about
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