That the Judaizer controversy in the first century is actually a distinct kind of argument, a distinct kind of battle. But that battle is all about how binding is the Old Testament? And so, it’s actually that battle we want to focus on, not what’s the role of faith and works, it’s what are the works of the law? What is the role of the law? What are we actually talking about here when we talk about the Old Testament, and what’s its relationship to Christianity today? Because that was a really important thing early Christians had to figure out. And right away, you’re going to get two wrong answers, just to highlight kind of where we’re going to go. One wrong answer is what I’ve already mentioned, the Judaizers, you have to keep the entire old law.
The other wrong answer is at the other extreme. Marcion, and what’s called the Marcionites. And they said, “Yeah, the Old Testament is evil. In fact, it’s a different God who made the Old Testament than the New Testament. The Old Testament is evil, it’s all just dead works, and it’s made by an evil God. And the New Testament is here to liberate us from the Old Testament.” And Christians responded to both of those and said, “That’s not it. That’s not the right relationship between the New Testament and the Old Testament. That’s not the right relationship between the law and the gospel.” So, with that said, let’s go back to Vines because he’s going to continue this argument by pointing out these other areas that we just don’t listen to Leviticus, and he is going to give some particular instances. So, while it is true that Leviticus prohibits male same-sex relations, it also prohibits a vast array of other behaviors, activities, and foods that Christians have never regarded as being prohibited for them. For example, chapter 11 of Leviticus forbids the eating of pork, shrimp and lobster, which the church does not consider to be a sin. Chapter 19 forbids planting two kinds of seed in the same field, wearing clothing woven of two types of material, and cutting the hair at the sides of one’s head. Christians have never regarded any of these things to be sinful behaviors because Christ’s death on the cross liberated Christians from what Paul called the yoke of slavery. We are not subject to the old law. TL;DR, Being part of the LGBTQ+ community is NOT sin. Fools just can't accept that fact Jesus didn't disapproved of gay sex. there is no record of his ever having mentioned homosexuality, let alone expressed particular revulsion about it.
