“For most of human history, after all, families across the Western world were defined in largely biblical terms: one man, one woman, with children conceived through sex and sanctified by marriage. Everyone else was just a bastard.”
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“I.V.G. could allow individuals like our fictional Anna and Nicole to manufacture their own eggs and sperm... enabling more than two people to create a child together. And in the process, our basic notion of families is liable to get upended as well.”
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“If the techniques of I.V.G. prove feasible, therefore... A single woman, for example, might mix her egg with sperm fashioned from the genetic material of her two best male friends; the resulting child would have three genetic parents.”
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“Or, she might mate her egg with a carefully selected donor sperm, using genetic testing to eliminate any risk of the cystic fibrosis that runs in her own family.”
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“Stem cells derived from the resulting embryo could then yield a next generation egg to be paired with her best friends’ similarly well-conceived sperm, yielding a child with four parents. And so on. The implications are enormous.”
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“Because once we no longer need the traditional family structure to create children, our need for that traditional family is likely to fade as well.”
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“If the revolution of I.V.F. was to liberate reproduction from sex, then the even bigger revolution of I.V.G. is to dismantle completely the reproductive structure of heterosexuality.”
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“I.V.G. alone, of course, can’t create that world. And it will take a long time to dismantle norms of marriage and parenting that have been around for millenniums.”
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“But the history of assisted reproduction is powerful and clear: Once we create new technologies for conception, we embrace them.”
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I teach the doctrine and SBC portion of our new members class at our church. And one of the things I try to emphasize is that Baptist churches are autonomous. The SBC exercises zero control over our congregation. None.
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An SBC church could call a flamingo to be its pastor, and there would be absolutely nothing that the SBC could do to counteract that. The SBC has no authority or power to do anything about who a congregation calls as pastor. None.
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Some Thoughts on the #AsburyRevival
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My prayer: "Pass me not, O gentle Savior. Hear my humble cry. While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by. Savior, Savior, Hear my humble cry. While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by."
No. All sinners (gay, straight, or otherwise) are justified by faith alone in Christ alone. The invitation is open to all.
But if the faith that saved you didn’t change you, then it didn’t really save you.
“No one who is born of God practices sin…” -1 John 3:9
“For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.”
-Ephesians 5:5
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals…will inherit the kingdom of God.”
“A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.”
-Deuteronomy 22:5
“You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.”
Leviticus 18:22
“The men of Sodom… called to Lot and said to him, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them’…
Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven.”
“Let me say it loud and clear. Get back in the closet… We look at our sin through the crosshairs of an instrument of execution, not a selfie at the Revoice conference.”
-Rosaria Butterfield
To understand why Rosaria would give this exhortation, you have to come to terms with what "coming out of the closet" actually means in common parlance. Here's one example of how the term is commonly defined...
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"Coming out refers to the process that people who are LGBTQ go through as they work to accept their sexual orientation or gender identity and share that identity openly with other people."
The Bible teaches that all people are made in God's very own image and therefore have inestimable value worth.
"And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."
-Genesis 1:27
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The Bible also teaches that God's image bearers come in two distinct genres--male and female. Genesis 1 teaches that "male" and "female" do not refer to so-called "gender identities" but to the human body's organization for reproduction.
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Some bodies are organized for reproduction as fathers (male bodies), and others are organized for reproduction as mothers (female bodies).
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