Antigone asks the crucial question "which law is greater: the Divine Law or man's?.""
In "Antigone" she is buried alive because of her refusal to obey the law of the State and instead obey the Divine Law which required her to give burial rights to a person who was perhaps unworthy. But still that minimum amount of respect was due.
Her brother Creon says the opposite. Creon demands obedience to the law above all else, right or wrong. He says that "there is nothing worse than disobedience to authority" (An. 671)
Antigone responds that the law of the government is not absolute, and that it can be broken in cases, such as honoring the gods whose rule and authority outweigh Creon's.
Most Christians have heard lot of sermons about how much they should love homosexuals. But the main idea is not so much love as they are being told to obey the State instead of the law of God.
So the question for Christians is to whom are you going to listen? God or the Supreme Court? Or your lying pastors that claim the law of God is ambiguous?
Just to add a drop of clarity let me say that in Hebrew there is no word for the sexual act. In Leviticus we have in two places the laws of עריות--forbidden relationships. Take for example the law not to have sex with one's aunt? How does the Bible put it? Don't uncover her ערוה nakedness. That is the Torah way of saying not to have sex with her. It does not mean not to lift her skirt . And that is the way God puts it in most of the laws there. But when it comes to homosexuals the word ערוה cant be applied because it refers to the female ערוה. So instead it uses a different expression a man that lies with another man gets the death penalty.
In "Antigone" she is buried alive because of her refusal to obey the law of the State and instead obey the Divine Law which required her to give burial rights to a person who was perhaps unworthy. But still that minimum amount of respect was due.
Her brother Creon says the opposite. Creon demands obedience to the law above all else, right or wrong. He says that "there is nothing worse than disobedience to authority" (An. 671)
Antigone responds that the law of the government is not absolute, and that it can be broken in cases, such as honoring the gods whose rule and authority outweigh Creon's.
Most Christians have heard lot of sermons about how much they should love homosexuals. But the main idea is not so much love as they are being told to obey the State instead of the law of God.
So the question for Christians is to whom are you going to listen? God or the Supreme Court? Or your lying pastors that claim the law of God is ambiguous?
Just to add a drop of clarity let me say that in Hebrew there is no word for the sexual act. In Leviticus we have in two places the laws of עריות--forbidden relationships. Take for example the law not to have sex with one's aunt? How does the Bible put it? Don't uncover her ערוה nakedness. That is the Torah way of saying not to have sex with her. It does not mean not to lift her skirt . And that is the way God puts it in most of the laws there. But when it comes to homosexuals the word ערוה cant be applied because it refers to the female ערוה. So instead it uses a different expression a man that lies with another man gets the death penalty.
