[4] He also claims that Paul the Apostle condemned extramarital sex out of apocalyptic fears (he thought that the world was going to end soon)[4] and that Jesus does not say anything about this,[4] except regulating divorce between a man and one of his wives.

Interviewed by Time magazine about this book, he also says that words often translated in the Bible as "sodomy" have often nothing to do with anal intercourse between men,[5] and that according to sola scriptura, the Mormons were right about polygamy.

Trible asserts that patriarchy was not decreed by God but only described by him, it being specific for humans after the fall, and claims that Saint Paul made the same mistake as Coogan in this respect.

[2] The Catholic apologist Robert Sungenis strongly denounced both the book and the author on numerous other grounds.

[6] The book was reviewed by ABC Radio National[7] which claimed that "Michael Coogan is one of the leading Biblical scholars in the US, and in his book God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says, he reveals all, including whether David loved Jonathan in that way.