Church leader, Steve Chalke, has released his opinion on human sexuality and marriage (here). Chalke is a well known evangelical leader in the UK. While I disagree with his view, what interested me was how he consistently said that his view is Biblical. Just what does he think of the Bible? This is what he said: “The Bible… doesn’t claim to be the word of God; it claims that Jesus is the word of God. It is a book that guides us to Jesus… A Christian’s way to understand the Bible should be to read both Old and New Testament through the lens of Jesus.” It appears that there is a more fundamental difference between Chalke’s view and…