Blog posts in English

Chris Nash author of blogposts

From this page you can access the English version of the posts that I add to my blog (in Spanish) on Christianity and homosexuality.

Here they are in chronological order (most recent first):

Number
and date		Title
and description
#06 Two gay young men with a worried look, in front of an open Bible.
10/05/2025		What the Bible says about homo­sexual­ity and how to inter­pret it
I give a sum­mary of the few clear refer­ences to homo­sexu­al­ity in the Bible. They are all nega­tive, but their appli­ca­bil­ity to modern-day gay couples is doubtful.
#05 The Roman Forum
14/04/2025
 		The issues with Romans 1 and its ap­par­ent­ly clear con­dem­na­tion of homo­sexuality
Romans 1:26‑27 seems to con­demn homo­sexua­lity clearly and cate­go­ri­cally. But there are un­cer­tain­ties and dif­fi­cul­ties for under­stand­ing the text and see­ing if it’s appli­cable to modern-day gay couples.
#04British policemen patrolling on foot
17/03/2025
 
 		The socio­cul­tural set­ting is key for making sense of refer­ences to homo­sexual­ity in the New Testa­ment
I explain how hugely import­ant the socio­cul­tural con­text can be through modern-day examples of things that in one set­ting can be very good, but in another, very bad. Con­text can change every­thing, turn­ing black into white and white into black.
#03A man left reeling after a slap in the face
10/03/2025
 
 
 		Bibles with “homo­sexuals” give us a bad trans­la­tion of the Greek original
I analyse the Greek terms arseno­koites and mala­kos in 1 Corin­thians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10 and explain why experts say it’s wrong to trans­late them as “homo­sexuals”. I end by briefly explain­ing why some go fur­ther and reject the idea of apply­ing these pas­sages to modern-day gay couples.
#02An open Bible
17/02/2025
 
 		We can’t take as abso­lutes what indi­vi­dual Bible verses say
Through different examples I explain how we qualify and only select­ively apply what we read in the Bible. Jesus and Paul did the same. Should we also do that with the indi­vi­dual verses that appear to condemn same-sex sexual relation­ships?
#01A man entering unfamiliar territory (a desert valley).
11/02/2025		Unfamiliar territory
My first blog post😊. I’m entering unfamiliar territory! For me it’s this blog and website. For many Christians it will be its subject matter: Christianity and… homo­sexua­lity.