Tag: Spiritual Abuse

The New Stealth Translation: ESV

Scot McKnight on Jesus and orthodox faith in the 21st century

Source: The New Stealth Translation: ESV

Patriarchy Professor Proves Women Are Spiritual Leaders Over Men – Tim Fall’s blog

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[From the archives.]

Wayne Grudem recently gave an interview (my thanks to Joan for linking to it) in which he argues that women should not lead men, that men are the spiritual leaders over women, and that all of this has been God’s plan since the dawn of creation.

I’m not convinced, despite his list* of reasons why he believes this:

As I explain in detail on pages 30-42 of Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth, I think that at least the following 10 reasons indicate that there was male leadership in marriage before there was sin in the world:

(1) Adam was created first, then Eve (Genesis 2:7, 18-23).

(2) Adam, not Eve, at [sic] a special role in representing the human race (see 1 Corinthians 15:22; also Romans 5:12-21).

(3) Adam named Eve (Genesis 2: 23).

(4) God named the human race “Man,” not “Woman” (Genesis 5:1-2).

(5)…

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Think before you speak.

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I’ve heard this important saying said a slightly different way with the acronym THINK. Is what you’d like to say: Thoughtful, Honest, Intelligent, Necessary, and Kind?

At my former church, Grace Bible Fellowship of Silicon Valley, many church members and pastors/elders used vicious, vile hate speech and were terribly verbally abusive. Many former church members were shocked at how bad and abusive their speech was at GBFSV. It is not like Jesus and they did a great deal of damage.