Indianapolis' blasphemous billboards...

This is a picture of the best-known among a chain of billboards that recently popped up around Indianapolis, all blasphemously claiming Jesus' approval of sodomy. Far and away the best recent treatment of sodomy and the Bible is Robert Gagnon's, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics. Every Christian leader involved in the controversy over sodomy at the center of Western culture (and how could a faithful man not be involved?) should buy and read this book. Dr. Gagnon's doctrine of Scripture is defective, but don't let that stop you from buying and reading his book and other excellent resources.

But back to the billboards. In this article from his web site, Dr. Gagnon surgically dissects this particular billboard's blasphemy, leaving it a stone-cold corpse.

Comments

[David L.]

Tim,

Thanks for all the links/resources. I'll be looking into them.

By the way, I love the graffito on the billboard. Somebody behaved manly to climb up there & paint it on. Good for him.

[Kamilla]

Hi Tim,

I second your recommendation of Dr. Gagnon's work. Another man doing excellent work in a related area is E. Michael Jones. His "Horror: a biography" is accessible on the popular level and his "Libido Dominandi" is an extensive treatment of what happens when sex is severed from the moral order. Jones is a Roman Catholic.

What have I missed in Gagnon's work - what is defective about his view of Scripture?

Kamilla

[Tim Bayly]

Kamilla, I've been a subscriber to E. Michael Jones' monthly, "Culture Wars," (I much preferred the earlier name, "Fidelity") for twenty-three years, now, and recently recommended his "Libido Dominandi" to a mother seeking to help her son escape the horror genre and all the wickedness it has brought into his life. Thanks for bringing Jones into this discussion.

As for Gagnon's view of Scripture, I hope you won't mind my declining your invitation to be more specific. I'd simply reiterate my earlier warning. His book is superb. But there are certain habits of thought and ways of speaking that a man whose context for ministry is mainline liberalism will inevitably reflect, particularly with respect to the Word of God Written.

[Michael McMillan]

The God-fearing centurion a homosexual? To fabricate that and then brazenly say Jesus approved of something they made up in the first place? Talk about grasping at straws!

I think this sort of audacious blasphemy is why the Bible singles out sodomy as especially evil and a sure sign of open rebellion against a holy God (Romans 1).

Do we see billboards advocating adultery because David was an adulterer, or ones advocating murder because Paul was a murderer? Anything wicked can be given God's seal of approval with this logic. But most things aren't, because it is clear they are evil. I haven't even heard of the abortionists claiming Jesus was pro-abortion on a billboard. However, sodomy is allowed to gain respectability and claim God is on their side.

"...but such *were* some of you..."

> Dr. Gagnon surgically dissects this particular billboard's blasphemy

Yes, that was good. Would Jesus affirm bondage, mutilation and rape? Their argument is ridiculous.

Some people just need to make up their own religion from scratch, instead of trying to overhaul Christianity. The wishful-thinking lengths the sodomites go to creating defenses to justify themselves out of thin air is only rivaled by the religious feminists.

--Michael

[Michael McMillan]

I went to the web site, and there is a whole series of those horrid billboards.

"Would Jesus discriminate?" What about the sheep and the goats?

--Michael

[David Talcott]

I always knew there was a role for "Taggers for Jesus"...I just could never figure out what it would be. :)

[Martin James]

1,2,3,4,5,6,7... all good _______ go to heaven?

Revelation 21:8

[Barbara Lehr]

I'm quite behind, and perhaps all have seen this essay already, but it is an excellent logical and rational position paper against most "gay rights" thinking and activism, written not by a believer in Jesus Christ, but by a sodomite.

http://theroadtoemmaus.org/RdLb/22SxSo/PnSx/HSx/McKellarJ%20HOPE02.htm