UMC Pastor, Democrat candidate Adam Hamilton's 3 controversial Bible takes
3. Bible passages on homosexuality, slavery ‘do not express the heart and character of God’
In the 2014 interview, Hamilton compared the Bible’s condemnation of homosexuality in both the Old and New Testaments with its treatment of slavery.
On one hand, Hamilton, who said in 2019 that Christians can support gay marriage and not be at odds with Scripture, argued “... what Moses and Paul were addressing in their teachings on same-sex intimacy was very different from two human beings entering into a covenant relationship of mutual love.”
Calling the Bible “complex,” he also made a secondary argument in which he appeared to claim that passages on controversial issues are not necessarily God’s views.
“I suggest it is possible to be a faithful Christian who loves God and loves the Scriptures and at the same time to believe that the handful of verses on same-sex intimacy are like the hundreds of passages accepting and regulating slavery or other practices we today believe do not express the heart and character of God,” he said.
Ian M. Giatti is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ian.giatti@christianpost.com.
