This is a rebuttal to a paper by a Mr. Arp on women in the church, prompted by comments in the previous article An Inconvenient Scripture. I examine this because it is typical of the male supremacist view.
The paper begins with the setting of a precedent that he will use later: since God gave “the [...]
1 Timothy 2 has long been one of the most difficult passages (ref. quote below, plus other male supremacist and egalitarian sources) of scripture, not only because of some difficult (to our ears) grammar and rare Greek words, but also because of presuppositions brought to the text. I’ve covered this before but today I want [...]
Sounds like a ridiculous question, doesn’t it? But to read many conversations in online Christian boards and blogs, one would think it’s a serious fact.
The best way to neutralize a Christian’s witness is to play the “nice” card and ask loaded questions. That is, you hit them with things like these:
“Nobody is saved by doctrine”
“You [...]
As we look back on history we can see a familiar sequence in the rise and fall of nations, repeated without any lessons learned. Many things have been tried and found lacking. Why is it that in the course of time, seemingly regardless of the efforts of one generation to pass on their values to [...]
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