Did jimmy carter say gay people should never be condemned
Last week, Dr. Albert Mohler interviewed former President Jimmy Carter about Carter’s fresh book The Lessons from Life Bible. This really is an interview, not a debate (though Dr. Mohler’s registers disagreement with him on some points during the conversation). You can browse the transcript of the interview here, download the audio here, or eavesdrop below.
[audio:http://albertmohler.com/media/audio/totl/Podcast/Thinking_In_Public_Jimmy_Carter.mp3]Here’s President Carter’s answer to Dr. Mohler’s ask about the inspiration of scripture:
I assume Christ died for our sins on the cross. I believe He was resurrected and that we are promised, if we acquire faith in Christ through the grace of God, that we will inherit eternal life. I believe that God loved the planet so much that He gave His only begotten Son. I believe those things, but I know that there are some things as a scientist—my background is in nuclear physics—there’re some things that weren’t understood by the writers of the Bible. I just ignored those discrepancies as insignificant.
President Carter’s answer to Dr. Mohler’s question about homosexuality was also
The Bible Meets the Up-to-date Age: A Conversation with Former President Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
Thinking in Public
March 20, 2012
Mohler: This is Thinking in Public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. I am Albert Mohler, your host and President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. In the history of our nation, only 43 men own served as President of the United States. The 39th president was Jimmy Carter. Any opportunity to discuss anything with a former president of the United States, represents a historic opportunity. I am very thankful for that opportunity today and of the conversation that follows.
Jimmy Carter served as the thirty-ninth president of the United States. In 2002, he won the Nobel Peace Prize, the only US president to own received that prize after leaving office. He’s the author of many books, including the most recent, The Lessons from Being Bible. And it’s the Bible we’re going to talk about.
President Carter, welcome to Thinking in Public.
Carter: Well it’s a pleasure to be with you. Thank you, Dr. Mohler.
Mohler
A quote attributed to former President Jimmy Carter regarding Jesus and homosexuality has spread on social media.
The Claim
A upload from @ColoradoIndepe1 shows a photo of Carter, the 39th president of the United States, alongside a quote regarding homosexuality.
This reads: "Homosexuality was well acknowledged in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a pos about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things—he never said that gay people should be condemned."
It then read underneath: "This is what a real Christian sounds like."
It has been liked more than 32,000 times at the second of writing and garnered more than 7,000 retweets.
Alongside the image containing the quote, the poster wrote: "Jimmy Carter was, and is, a badass."
Other people have also posted the quote in recent days and received thousands of interactions.
The Facts
In an interview with HuffPost in 2012, Carter was interviewed about "the hardest questions presented in the bible" by the outlet's then Senior Religion Editor Paul Brandeis Raushenbush.
This coincided with the discharge of Carter's novel NIV, Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Cart REV. PAUL BRANDEIS RAUSHENBUSH, HOST: I’m Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, host of The State of Belief. Welcome to this special episode when we remember and honor the life, faith and service of President Jimmy Carter. As the nature comes to terms with the loss of James Earl Carter, 39th President of the United States, I remember him fondly, the times I was privileged to interview him. A fellow Baptist, Jimmy Carter was forthright about the role his evangelical faith played in his values and his politics. And that played out not just in words, but in the lifetime of public service he dedicated himself to after leaving the White Residence service that continued all the way into his late 90s. I recall interviewing him about his experience of the Camp David Accords. And when he was there, he set up a distinct place for the Muslims from Egypt and the Jews from Israel to pray in their retain way in the midst of heavy, heavy negotiations for the Camp David Peace Accords, which still hold today. He was also someone who took really seriously the separation of church and mention and how it was important that even though he was a person of great faith, h Sometimes you have to spend money to retain money, and people who live a budget-conscious, frugal lifestyle have perfectly mastered how to do it. In a Reddit post, member jul_on_ice posed the question: "What’s one small upgrade (under $50) that saved you more money than you expected?" They continued, "Talking about small wins that compounded over time over one thing that made a drastic difference. Frugality is often about not spending but sometimes investments can pay off. Maybe something that made labor easier. Made life beat. Made you more cozy. Or something bought once that replaced lots of things you once had to spend on." Fellow frugal people had lots of money saving hacks to share. These are 35 things that frugal people spent less than $50 on that have saved them lots of money. "Vacuum sealer. I’m single and most shopping/recipes are four or five meals for me. Often I would have food waste because I no longer wanted the food after the third meal. Now I cook, have the leftovers I want, and vacuum seal the rest in portions. Keeps the sustenance fresh a
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