Taking the Bible Seriously-Amy-Jill Levine

“To bash a gay person, psychologically or physically, or to suggest that a gay person is going to hell, is not the role of the person who, at least in my view, takes the Bible seriously. The role of the one who takes the text seriously is to love. The decision of who gets into heaven or not is, according to the New Testament, that of Jesus (see Matthew 25) not that of the individual believer.” Amy-Jill Levine, Ph.D University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Vanderbilt University Divinity School