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Fake Arguments against Romans 1:26–27 Perhaps no New Testament text has suffered more assaults than has Romans 1. Central to the revisionist approach to Romans 1 is the focus on new ways of understanding the meaning of nature (physis) in verses 26–27. The verses read (niv), Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. The words for “natural relations” represent more literally “natural use” (physikēn chrēsin). Unnatural relations, then, are “against nature” (para physin). The word for “nature” occurs once as a noun (in v. 26) and twice as an adjective (in vv. 26 and 27). “Against Nature”—Views of Interpretation Perverts and Inverts Some interpreters limit the term natural to “what is natural for...

Defining the Issue Some people will say the Bible prohibits homosexual sex that is promiscuous, adulterous, or exploitative of other people, but claim the Bible is either silent or affirming of monogamous, loving homosexual relationships. A community of gay Christians has emerged who contend that it is acceptable to live within the moral constraints of a monogamous relationship or same-sex marriage. Such arguments claim the Bible has been badly misunderstood to prohibit all homosexual intercourse. Does the Bible prohibit homosexual sex, even in the context of a loving, committed relationship? Biblical Ethical Principles The Bible teaches that God designed sex to be experienced within the covenant of a heterosexual and monogamous marriage (Genesis 1:26–28; 2:24–25). Christian sexual ethics is narrow and not expansive, advocating a restrained vision of sexual ethics that embraces limits imposed by Scripture.  The Christian view is readily distinguished from the culture’s unrestrained...