“First, the way in which the woman was created indicates that she is the man’s divinely designed complement.”
― What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?
― What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?
“To be perfectly blunt, sin is being redefined within the evangelical tradition. What was sinful a generation ago is no longer sinful today. When confronted with this reality, evangelicals will more or less trivialize their heritage by saying, “Those behaviors were not really sinful, but a mere religious and social quirkiness of our forebears.”…Contemporary society is more permissive than that of the past, and the evangelical community is being affected by that permissiveness…. [T]here is less and less continuity with the past.58”
― The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism
― The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism
“Second, the nature of the one-flesh union presupposes two persons of the opposite sex.”
― What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?
― What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?
“No man of God need be astonished at slander, as though some strange thing had happened unto him, for the best servants of God have been subject to that trial.”
― Eccentric Preachers
― Eccentric Preachers
“We want to listen patiently to new views so that we are not close-minded traditionalists. Yet it is right to be chary of a view that resonates with our culture and goes contrary to what most Christians have believed throughout history. History isn’t the final authority. Traditions can be wrong. Everything must be judged by Scripture, yet the burden of proof is surely on those who argue contrary to the view that Christians have espoused throughout history.”
― Women, Slaves, and the Gender Debate: A Complementarian Response to the Redemptive-Movement Hermeneutic
― Women, Slaves, and the Gender Debate: A Complementarian Response to the Redemptive-Movement Hermeneutic
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