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Documentary Explores the Bible's Take on Homosexuality
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Nearly 10 months into Barack Obama’s presidency, the issue of gay marriage continues to mobilize people around the country. Alongside calls for equality, protestors attend rallies with signs touting God’s rejection of homosexuality. Scenes like this sparked first-time filmmaker Ky Dickens to hit the road to better understand what the Bible really says about being gay. The result is Fish Out of Water, the documentary centerpiece of this year’s Reeling Film Festival. She tells us about her journey making the documentary.
Screening:
Fish Out of Water is the centerpiece of the Reeling Film Festival
Screens Sunday, Nov. 8 at 5 p.m.
Music Box Theatre on Southport
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EastCoastCommentator // Friday, November 06, 2009 @ 8:38 PM
This must be a short film. The Bible is clear on the subject. The Old and New Testament both call it sin. See 1 Corinthians 6:8-10
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Anthony Venn-Brown, Sydney // Friday, November 06, 2009 @ 9:10 PM
thanks eastcoastcommentor....its so clear that the word homosexual didn't appear in that passage till 1946.
......and you can read 10 different versions that translate the word differently.
There is no verse that says homosexuality is sin at all.
http://thegreatheresy.wordpress.com/
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gr8hands, Hyde Park // Monday, November 09, 2009 @ 5:14 PM
EastCostCommentator, you need to re-read the bible -- and point out where jesus said ANYthing about homosexuality. Here's a clue: he didn't. Not anywhere.
In fact, he gave a same-sex couple his blessing (raising the centurion's lover from the dead).
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fl4sh, chicago // Monday, November 09, 2009 @ 7:26 PM
Hey EastCoastCommentator ~ Perhaps before posting your thoughts on the film, you should actually SEE the film since "clarity" on this subject is exactly the topic at hand. Many theologians have been interviewed at length in the film about a variety of passages in the Bible, including Corinthians 6:8-10. The film is an hour long. That's not much of a commitment of time for allowing yourself to reconsider both judgment and hate, neither of which seem very Godly.
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wellnow, South Carolina // Tuesday, November 10, 2009 @ 5:56 AM
The Bible is also clear about eating pork, women praying with their hands covered, slaves obeying their masters and not planting two different types of crops in the same field -- oh my! (oh, and that children who talk back to their parents being stoned... DSS anyone?)
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good morning, here // Tuesday, November 10, 2009 @ 8:11 AM
There are a few comments here that are a little deceptive. First, the word homosexual did not exist until relatively recently. Considering that the Bible was not written in English, as the bible translations are updated to be understandable to present day people, it is not unusual or suspect that a new word would be included if it was a more accurate way for people to understand the meaning of the original passage. This is why people think there is wiggle room on this issue. They disagree with the way that scholars have interpreted the passages. However, this does not mean that because the word didn't exist before a certain time that it is not an accurate word for the translation. The person who wrote about the Centurion needs to reread that passage, instead of getting all of the information about the Bible from the glb review. It may or may not be true that the centurion was gay, although I am not convinced by this argument, however, the Centurion was commended for his faith because he believed that Jesus could heal his servant without being there. He believed that Jesus could send word and his servant would be healed. Nowhere in this passage is there a blessing for homosexual relationships. Those who are looking for meaning in the Bible should focus on what follows in Corinthians, which is a message of hope for not only homosexuals, but everyone else that falls short of God's standard, which is everyone of us. To quote,"Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality,
10Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.
11And such some of you were [once]. But you were washed clean (purified by a complete atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin), and you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed), and you were justified [pronounced righteous, by trusting] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God." This is from the amplified translation, a very good one indeed.
The Bible clearly states that everyone has sinned and falls short of the glory of God. We all have behavior that we enjoy and engage in that is not Biblical, the issue is whether or not you feel that God has authority over your life, and whether or not you trust that the Bible is his inerrant word. If you do not believe these things, you shouldn't worry about what it says or what others believe about it, and if you do believe these things you should be more worried about setting yourself right with him, than using it to justify your own choices. As a Christian I am called to love my neighbors, and I do. This means that I do not see myself as any better, or needing Christ any less because I am not homosexual. Jesus provided the way for everybody.
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good morning, here // Tuesday, November 10, 2009 @ 8:32 AM
I need to add that what I am saying here, is that we all can find ourselves in Paul's list. That's the point. Unless we turn from the things we once did and admit that God's way is better than our way we are lost. This means everyone of us.
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