He strings an awful lot of points together into a fairly lengthy loop, to get from his interpretation of what Jesus said about divorce all the way to his eventual conclusion about homosexuality. There's wiggle room at every single one of those joints (both in the ones that have been hammered into shape by generations of theologians, and the ones where he seems to be relying on his own inferential logic) - enough that I doubt it would take much effort to construct a similarly long chain of points that ended up pointing to the opposite conclusion.
I have some experience of what happens when you build your personal theology/worldview on such long chains of deduction, without doing enough cross-checking with other arguments or, indeed, the real world... It's a lot like living at the top of a tower block built out of vertical stacks of identical lego bricks, and little or no cross-bracing. Those little plastic corners can really dig in when you land on top of the rubble... =:o\
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Date: 2011-10-19 02:14 pm (UTC)I have some experience of what happens when you build your personal theology/worldview on such long chains of deduction, without doing enough cross-checking with other arguments or, indeed, the real world... It's a lot like living at the top of a tower block built out of vertical stacks of identical lego bricks, and little or no cross-bracing. Those little plastic corners can really dig in when you land on top of the rubble... =:o\