John MacArthur, reading from 1 Corinthians 6:9-10: “Neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
Slide: THERE ARE 45,000 EVANGELICAL CHURCHES IN THE UNITED STATES
Slide: THEY STILL BELIEVE BEING LGBTQ+ IS A SIN
Ed Oxford: I went into this research wanting the answer, no matter what it revealed. If God said, You are such a horrible abomination that I needed to rid this planet of myself, I was willing to do that, because I love God that much. But when I dug in, that’s not what I found.
Slide: WAS THERE A MISTAKE?
Kathy Baldock: We didn’t know what we would find when we dug into the RSV notes.
Male voice: There was a letter written by at 21-year-old seminary student to the translation team saying, Hey, I think you chose the wrong word when you put the word homosexual in here.
Kathy Baldock: He says,
I write this after many months of serious thought and hard work to point out that which to me is a serious weakness in translation. Misinformed and misguided people may use the RSV translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 as a sacred weapon.
He wrote the letter as David S.
Ed Oxford: We found him, and he’s still alive.
David S.: So I wrote a letter, and to my amazement I got a reply back about three weeks later. [It said,] I received your letter, and there may be something to what you say.
Ed Oxford: The domino had already fallen. And that word [homosexual] followed through to all of the other mainline translations that we have today. I started weeping because I was thinking about all the damage that had been done over the last sixty years…
Tom Brokaw: The lifestyle of some male homosexuals triggered an epidemic…
Male voice: The Bible condemns homosexuality as a sin.
Ed Oxford: Why did they put the word homosexual into the Bible? What were they thinking?
Kathy Baldock: The church is doubling down on this issue because they’ve so politicized it.
Slide, against the backdrop of singing, Then sings my soul, My Savior God to Thee: EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY THE CREATOR OF “FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO”
Female voice: We’re going to do the work to make this thing right.
Slide: FEATURING ORIGINAL MUSIC BY GRAMMY NOMINATED ARTIST MARY LAMBERT
This shows that there was a mistake, and it’s an honest mistake, and we have an opportunity to change it.
A new trailer was released around the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023. The above text, however, accurately represents the content of the earlier trailer.
The Claim about Homosexuality in the Film 1946 Is Irrelevant ~ Alan Shlemon
Does 1 Corinthians 6:9 Really Condemn Homosexual Sex? (also available here) ~ David Closson and Jaelyn Morgan
Robert Gagnon: “Is LGBTQ Pressure Beginning to Crack the Evangelical House?”
“1 Cor 6:9 Is Not Limited to Pederasts” ~ Rick Corder, citing Dr. Robert Gagnon