I just read The Role of Women in the Church, another typical male supremacy-endorsing document, and I'm really tired of such things. But because these familiar claims and arguments keep being promoted, there is a need to keep refuting them, beginning here with their Introduction.
"Western culture has undergone a dramatic shift in its view of [...]
Many in the churches today seem to look at this title and say “What’s that?” And then they consult every authority but the Bible for an answer, especially the New Testament.
But it isn’t complicated or hidden. If you know the NT at all, you could define sin as whatever gets between you and God. We [...]
This is no celebration of the approaching “day of the dead” (aka Halloween) to be observed at the end of this month in the US, but it is about great evil nonetheless. I speak of hidden sins, of aiding and abetting, of turning a blind eye to evil being done by professing Christians. I wrote [...]
As you know, pasteurization is the process by which bad things — and good things too— in food (usually liquids, and especially milk and fruit juices) are destroyed. But what I call “pastorization” is pretty much the spiritual equivalent: some good may come of it, but something important in the Body of Christ dies too.
Many [...]
At this blog an old, old list of male supremacist scripture twisting is repeated for the umpteenth time. But my focus this time is not on the list itself but the comments on this particular reincarnation of it.
At comment 10 begins some, shall we say, interesting claims. The first is a classic example of ad [...]
In Jesus’ “sermon on the mount” in Matthew, particularly chapter 6, He speaks of those who have traded the approval of God and His wages for those of mere humans. We normally think first of those who “give to charity” for show, or to reduce their taxes, or like Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11), to [...]
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