Can you suggest reliable, sound Bible commentaries which are not anti-gay?

by Cyril
(Switzerland)

Rick Brentlinger Answers -

Most modern Bible commentaries tend to be anti-gay when dealing with the clobber passages and marriage. Those which are not anti-gay usually tend to be theologically liberal.

The twelve volume set, Expositor's Bible Commentary, from Zondervan, is a good, conservative evangelical commentary. While it provides little insight on the clobber passages, it has good information on much of the rest of scripture.

Gay Christians must be wise as serpents, harmless as doves. We learn to use available resources and filter out anti-gay opinions from the truthful content.

Much as a cow must learn to ignore brambles and weeds to focus on clover and grass, so gay Christians, learn to recognize truth and error as we read Bible commentaries. Knowing what the Bible says helps us differentiate truth from error in Bible commentaries.

There are some relatively good evangelical commentaries on the whole Bible which are not as anti-gay as modern commentaries. The good, solid, theologically conservative Bible commentaries tend to be older (written several hundred years ago), but thankfully available online FOR FREE.

I recommend and use online resources like

Blue Letter Bible, a very helpful website and
Studylight.org to study the Hebrew and Greek words of the Biblical text.

Those Links also offer many helpful online Bible study resources including commentaries by:

Matthew Henry
John Gill
Adam Clarke
John Wesley
John Darby
John Lightfoot
Albert Barne's New Testament Notes
C.I. Scofield's Notes
A.T. Robertson's Word Pictures in the Greek New Testament and more.

My eDisciples page also provides helpful links to many Bible study web resources to encourage believing Bible study.

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