Worse, it is a literal reading of selected scriptures. What some would purport to be a “literal” reading of the most restrictive passage is contradicted within the very same letter of Paul!

lol. Thank you for the concern DoctorDJ. I don’t believe Mr. Stone comes to Washington state. Counting my blessings.

Thanks for illustrating (once again) why closed-minded, fundamentalist, evangelical Christian dogma is fading into irrelevance.

Can’t happen soon enough!

(I thought you had joined Perry Stone’s church!) https://youtu.be/XHCziK_pqNI?t=25

” Well when events change, I change my mind. What do you do?” – Paul Samuelson, attributed to John Maynard Keynes

The mark of an honest seeker of Truth, not coercing the evidence to make it say what they already know it has to say.

“What seems plain is that Christians are supposed to get along and love one another”

Non Christians too. Get along with Christians and non Christians alike, even to the extent of loving those who would see us dead.

There are a lot of those if one is Trans or Intersex, and they aren’t retiscent about acting on their bloodthirsty desires.

No one said it was going to be easy. Just that we’re called on to do it.

Like so many other problems, it comes from a literal reading of the scriptures. Instead of dismissing this restriction as a product of the social mores of the day, it is made into a rigid commandment. Unfortunately, many people want black and white thinking like that because it does not require as much thinking, i.e. “just following orders.”

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Except that they taught (preached) in home based churches, especially during the early period. Beth Moore’s twitter posts have been a true blessing to thousands of people.

Uhm, then you’d still never know about the Resurrection, Paula. Jesus first appeared to Mary Magdalene and told her to go to the disciples. I’m thinking that had he really wanted to make it clear that it was only men who could proclaim the good news, he could have worked it out so that some guy saw him first. But no, it was a woman.

I’d also point out that “soundness of the Bible” really means NOTHING when the Bible is used to oppress people. There were many scholars, such as R.L. Dabney, who were superstars of the Southern Baptists in the Civil War period, but who believed the Bible absolutely taught chattel ownership of Africans. We fought a war over that and slavery is illegal (for the most part, with the exception of the imposed slavery of prison work) in the USA under the 13th Amendment. It’s still in the Bible, but it’s illegal today.

If we can change our minds on that, we can certainly change our minds on whether Roman family codes should be how we treat women. And, in point of fact, the law *has* changed that. Women are no longer property of fathers, husbands, brothers or sons.

Jesus did not live among us so people like John MacArthur and you can use the Bible as a tool to oppress half humanity. It’s nonsense like this that makes it for sure that the only time I’ll appear outside of a church is when I’m protesting child sexual abuse or some other outrage covered up by the Evangelical Industrial Complex.