Taught by Rhiannon Graybill, a Women Gender & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board member at the University of Richmond, this course, similar to others on college campuses across the country, is promoting a positive intersection between queer theory and the Bible.

According to Webster … Queer Theory is “an approach to literary and cultural study that rejects traditional categories of gender and sexuality.”

According to the Bible … “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22). And in the New Testament, Romans 1:24-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, 1 Timothy 1:9-11, etc. add consistency to that viewpoint.

Reconciliation in the Merging of Queer and the Bible

We are all sinners and fall short of the standards set by God (Romans 3:23). If one assumes there are consequences for our bad behavior, we are left with three choices. One can choose to pay the price ourselves, we can allow another to take on the repercussions of our actions, or, we can choose to believe the behavior is not a sin.

The ‘Queer the Bible’ course is based on an attempt to justify homosexuality as a normal behavior that is not in conflict with a Biblical Christian worldview. This has value for those who hold some level of interest in Christian theology but disagree with areas that don’t fit their personal view of what human moral standards should include. Frankly, we all have aspects of our worldview that are contrary to God’s commands. And, for those who believe there is BOTH a nurture and nature component to homosexuality, we are further aggravated by God’s stand on the matter (as presented in Scripture).

To offer a class, by a professor who holds credentials that put them at an elevated status, is the perfect place to gain human wisdom on how to reconcile our internal sin nature with the reality of God’s unchanging truth. However, like so many other aspects of a Biblical Christian worldview (example, “Why did God allow sin and death in the first place?”), our ability to understand an omniscient God (1 Corinthians 13:12) is limited at best ….

Isaiah 55:8 – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.

The Bottom Line

In the end, each of us really has only two choices, to accept God’s grace in providing a payment for our sins through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, or to reject Him in favor of our own sin nature. Sadly, for those teachers who knowingly teach human theology rather than Biblical theology …

James 3:1 – Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

2 Peter 2:1 – But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.