The Ink is Dry

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The book in your hands is for people seeking to understand what the Bible says to Christians of every generation and cultural placement about marriage family and sexual responsibility.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This book is not a political appeal to bind Christian morality through law. It is an appeal instead for Christians to live the distinctive life to which God has called us in Christ Jesus.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Paul's rhetorical question in 1 Corinthians 5:12 still rings in our ears: While we are not responsible for what outsiders to the faith may do with their lives do we not have a duty to those people who are members of our congregations of believers?</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The ink is dry on the critical issue of what Christians are to regard as marriage. The ink is dry on the fidelity Christian husbands and wives are expected to exhibit toward each other. Equally the ink is dry on the present-day disputes around same-sex behaviors. With love and respect for those in our culture who adopt and live to other standards the norm for Christian behavior is fixed within a tradition that is more than 3000 years old.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>While denouncing homophobia and verbal or physical abuse against the LGBTQ+ community Shelly makes a cogent case from Scripture history and reason for Christians to honor God's design for sex and marriage.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rubel Shelly educated at Harding School of Theology (MA MTh / NT Theology) and Vanderbilt University (MA PhD / philosophy) has devoted his adult life to local church ministry and university instruction. He is the author of a resource volume to this book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Male and Female God Created Them: A Biblical Review of LGBTQ+ Claims</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (2023) also published by College Press.</span></p>