Impossible question

Sir, Your correspondent Serena Lancaster (21 February) asks of me the impossible in as much that no one can know what more Our Lord Jesus

Christ had to teach the disciples, and mere speculation is most unwise.

But taking into account that Jesus “abolished” some parts of Old Testament law - eg the death penalty for adultery (John 8:11) and food laws (Mark 7:19) but said nothing to accept homosexual practice or abolish its prohibition (Leviticus 18:22), and this against the situation of the condemnation of homosexual practice by the Jewish rabbis surely suggests he accepted samegender sexual activity as wrong, being inconsistent with the will of the Father. And I know of no biblical example of godly people living in homosexual relationship.

Am I prepared to be disturbed by the Holy Spirit, asks your correspondent? The desire to defend the Holy Bible as I see its authority and reliability constantly undermined, even destroyed, (especially by those who claim discipleship) I believe comes from the Holy Spirit.

How timely and true the words of the Primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, the Most Rev Nicholas Okoh, that the primary problem in the homosexual debate is “...people’s refusal to accept the Scripture for what it is, authority for life and practice following God”.

And this, surely, leads us to seek a truly loving response to Christians with same-sex attraction that does not encourage or endorse them in ways contrary to those God has revealed through Scripture?

Alan Minchin,

Stratford upon Avon