tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post5201236883507141904..comments2024-03-22T16:09:48.895-04:00Comments on Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Denny Burk's excellent JETS article "On the Ethics of Sexual Attraction (Same-Sex and otherwise)"James Swanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16136781934797867593noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-5870144527334295452015-05-06T12:14:09.246-04:002015-05-06T12:14:09.246-04:00Piper continues:
"The issue becomes: What do...Piper continues:<br /><br />"The issue becomes: What do we do with the disordering effects of sin in our lives? I say our lives. And you will see why in a minute — John Piper’s life. The Bible says that if we embrace the disordering as good and normal and live our lives in accord with the disordered inclinations, then we will be living and affirming a parable of rebellion against God. And the Bible says those who live out that kind of rebellion do not enter the kingdom of heaven (1 Corinthians 6:9).<br /><br />Now that has nothing — get this — nothing to do with the peculiar nature of sexual disorder or same-sex desires. Nothing. This is true for all our disordering of all our lives rooted in sin. That is why 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 lists homosexual practice along with others. So here is the list:<br /><br />Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral [that is fornication, because it is distinguished from the next two], nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9–10)<br />In other words, if you embrace and live out as normal and good any of these, you perish, because you are living a parable of rebellion."<br /><br />http://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/what-to-say-to-a-pastor-who-wants-to-officiate-a-gay-weddingKenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824685809003307918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-13735001313290819872015-05-06T12:12:00.702-04:002015-05-06T12:12:00.702-04:00Homosexuality and Transgenderism is a disorder in ...Homosexuality and Transgenderism is a disorder in the soul; and a rebellion against the way God created the person. <br /><br />John Piper has a good word on this:<br /><br />"The emotional and physical sensations that we call same-sex attraction are disordered emotions and disordered sensations. And that disordering of the soul’s emotions and the body’s sensations are rooted in the fall of humanity into sin and, more specifically, they are rooted in the sin that is understood as exchanging God’s glory for images (Romans 1:23). So the exchange of woman as the glory of man for another man is a parable of the exchange of God for images like ourselves.<br /><br />A person who experiences this disorder — this disordering of the emotions of the soul and the sensations of the body — may or may not himself exchange God for images. He may be a Christian. But the disordering he is experiencing is rooted in that original sin and in that ongoing human bent of soul that we all have, all of us."<br /><br />http://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/what-to-say-to-a-pastor-who-wants-to-officiate-a-gay-wedding<br />Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824685809003307918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-36070341084066559622015-05-05T23:09:45.444-04:002015-05-05T23:09:45.444-04:00True, it would have been brave in 1975, . . .
I...True, it would have been brave in 1975, . . . <br /><br />I heard the clip of the interview where Diane Sawyer was shocked that he was Republican in his voting, apparently putting financial and military defense issues before social issues.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824685809003307918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-38595687390284646762015-05-05T16:06:16.362-04:002015-05-05T16:06:16.362-04:00A bit off topic but....
Anyone on our side write ...A bit off topic but....<br /><br />Anyone on our side write recently on Bruce Jenner? I had thought of writing something, but it seemed too relevant. <br /><br />I watched some of his interview, and I found it absurd how he was put forth as being "brave." There's really not much bravery in what he revealed in this day and age. Had he made his revelations in 1975, that would've been a bit more brave.James Swanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16136781934797867593noreply@blogger.com