Truth
The only sense in which homosexuality can rightly be said to be a “defining issue” for the Church today is that it crucially tests the ability of Christians to eschew fundamentalist fanaticism and to hold the divine Word of truth in humility.
Roy Clements
This is one (good) answer to the question I’ve been wondering about for a long time now – how did it come to be that our attitude towards homosexuality became the defining issue that establishes someone’s orthodoxy? There is nothing in the Bible to justify elevating this one part of sexual ethics above everything else, so it obviously comes from elsewhere. And the interesting point Roy Clements is making here is that it illustrates the progression from “I believe this to be true” to “I know the Truth” to “therefore I must be obeyed”. This is a very dangerous series of steps, and if the fall of Modernism has taught us nothing else, it must surely teach that claims to absolute truth must never be taken at face value. We need not treat truth as entirely relative to learn the lesson that knowledge and wisdom are always partial and biased.
pax et bonum
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