Mobey, Craig Fredrick  <br/><br/>
A biblical model for counselling same-gender couples who want to dissolve their relationship 

 - Johannesburg South Africa  South African Theological Seminary  February 2019 
 - 168 pages  PDF  A4  Abstract, TOC 
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<br/><br/> It is indisputable that persons in same gender relationships are not immune to the pain of rejection, isolation and ridicule. God loves all persons and they deserve to be treated with  respect,  love,  compassion,  empathy  and  understanding  by  all  believers. Notwithstanding the aforementioned, from conservative biblical standpoint, same-gender relationships are inconsistent with the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the time-transcendent  Word  of  God. The  postmodern  epistemological  discourse  on  the knowability  of  truth  rejects  the  singularity  of  the  same in  favour  of  social constructionism.  Social  constructionism being inherently inconsistent nonetheless advances unorthodox and/or flawed hermeneutical and idiosyncratic constructs in its defensibility of same-gender relationships. Upon this unstable bed rock, bolstered by psychosocial and historical factors, there has been a significant change in the attitude of  society and some churches  toward  accepting  same-gender  relationships  as biblically normative; a viewpoint which this thesis articulates. With the immutability of God as a fundamental point of departure, agrammatical-historical analysis of key Scriptures confirms traditional relationships and culminates in a biblical model for counselling same-gender couples who want to dissolve their relationship