An Inconsistent Truth: The New Testament, Early Christianity, and Sexuality

Sexuality has been a difficult topic for Christianity to discuss from the beginning. It is not that it was a taboo subject, for example, in the environment of the early church. On the contrary, it was quite the opposite. Compared to the modern climate of the United States, people in the world of the first Christians were surrounded by many more images, opportunities, and discussions of sexuality than the average person today could imagine. Nevertheless, the early Christian movement seemed uncomfortable discussing the topic and appeared to be of more than one mind on the matter. As we will see,