For many Christians, the Bible — and particularly the Gospel of Jesus — is seen as the inerrant Word of God.

One leftist currently running for U.S. Senate in Kansas, however, calls himself a pastor while openly arguing that the most prominent evangelist of the early Christian church got a lot of it completely wrong.

Breitbart published this about Adam Hamilton:

Hamilton made the comments at an event run by an LGBTQ-affirming Christian group. He spoke during a pastors’ panel hosted by the Reformation Project. The nonprofit was founded in 2013 by Matthew Vines to reform church teaching on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Hamilton traced the questions to congregants who came out to him as gay, saying it left him without a framework for reading scripture.

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“How in fact did God inspire it? How much latitude do we have to push back on it? Where can we say, you know, here I think Paul’s wrong?” Hamilton said, calling it “a really unnerving thought” for a person who read scripture daily.

Hamilton said the tension surfaced in a 2001 sermon series, and that the message that shifted his thinking was one on the violence of God in the Old Testament. He said he came to see those passages as incompatible with the teachings of Jesus and concluded there was “a little more culture in the Bible” than he had allowed.

“That has implications for how I read the passages of scripture that are often applied to same gender relationships,” Hamilton said.

Hamilton returned to the Apostle Paul in a January 2025 sermon on Mary Magdalene, arguing that churches barring women from the pulpit had misread Paul’s letters. He said such churches “turned to Paul who’s trying to address first century Christianity,” rather than following what Jesus did with Mary Magdalene. The outlet Protestia reported the sermon under a headline saying Hamilton had called Paul “wrong” about women and ministry.

Here are some of the responses an associated video attracted on X:

 

A couple of years ago, Religious News Service published an interview with the same pastor, including this excerpt:

RNS: I suspect your chapter on homosexuality will rankle a few feathers, particularly among conservatives. Can you summarize your position and why you believe it is a scriptural one?

AH: I offer two different arguments regarding homosexuality in my book. In the first, I suggest that what Moses and Paul were addressing in their teachings on same-sex intimacy was very different from two human beings entering into a covenant relationship of mutual love.  In the entire Old Testament we find only two expressions of same-sex intimacy: Gang rape and pagan temple prostitution. This is not at all synonymous with two people entering into a lifelong covenant relationship with one another.  In the New Testament, Paul, trained in rabbinic law, seems to draw upon all of these ideas in his words about same-sex intimacy in Romans where he uses the Old Testament terms of clean and unclean and where he speaks of same-sex intimacy in connection with idolatry.

But the second argument I make is that the Bible is complex and, while influenced by God, it is not dictated by God.  It reflects the humanity of the biblical authors and the times in which they lived.  We’ve seen this in its teaching on slavery, on violence, on the status and role of women, and several other topics. Thus, I suggest, it is possible to be a faithful Christian who loves God and loves the scriptures and at the same time to believe that the handful of verses on same-sex intimacy are like the hundreds of passages accepting and regulating slavery or other practices we today believe do not express the heart and character of God.

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