I feel the need to repeat some statements about sin. Even among believers, a common claim is that if something is ingrained or natural, it can’t be sin. But we live in corrupt flesh, in a corrupt world, being hounded by forces of evil. Put a free will into a package like that, and you [...]

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 [...]

I know I said I wouldn’t blog as often anymore, but this is just too good to pass up. A male supremacist (MS) site lists Seven Common Fallacies of Biblical Interpretation, not realizing male supremacism commits every one of them in their arguments!
Let’s break it down…

1. Preunderstanding fallacy: Believing you can interpret with complete objectivity, [...]

I saw a link today to this article and just had to comment. Here’s an excerpt:
Without Nathan, one is left to wonder if David would have ever repented and asked God for the restoration of the joy of his salvation.
The kind of truth Nathan supplied David is in short supply for far too many ministers. [...]

Read these few passages on how the community of believers in the Jesus who rose from the dead are to arrange themselves:

1 Cor. 12:4-6 There are various gifts but the same Spirit; there are various services but the same Master; there are various actions but the same God works in all of them. To each [...]

That phrase has come to be understood as meaning we’ve caught someone in a lie or crime. But there is literal meaning as well:
Come out of her, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the fierce anger of the LORD. —Jer. 51:45
Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ” ‘Come out of [...]