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28 Oct, 10 tweets, 6 min read

@DrCEdmondson

"You and I all come to scripture with biased hermeneutics...To deny bias is to say, 'oh, I'm good. I'm acultural. I approach this neutrally, as if the Word was divinely inspired to my brain, which has had no experiences whatsoever.'" @DrCEdmondson

@DrCEdmondson

@DrCEdmondson "Paul is declaring the rock of our salvation physically standing on the rock of paganism...this legalism that props its head up and says, 'well, Christina, I don't want you read any social science books.' You know, 'can you only say words that I'm comfortable with?'"

@DrCEdmondson

@DrCEdmondson "I for one am not gonna trample on the blood of Christ by pretending I can't read books that I get the right to read...I've noticed something about the bias that lives here...something unique about people of color + about women when they read...what they're not supposed to."

@DrCEdmondson

@DrCEdmondson "[R]esist the sin of making a caricature of my neighbor...in order to judge something...you have to draw near enough to understand it...Secure people can speak w a generous orthodoxy instead of a hyper-vigilant legalism demanding prescription where God has given freedom + love."

@DrCEdmondson

@DrCEdmondson "Paul could have said, 'you're doing it wrong, pagans...pagans, I need to show you the right way to think, based on myself.'"

@DrCEdmondson

@DrCEdmondson "Women get to say things to women that men ought not say to women. I mean, they could. But should they? Is it strategic and prophetic and effective, or will you look incredibly biased as you prop up theologies that give you power and tell them to be quiet?"

@DrCEdmondson

@DrCEdmondson "Jesus is not impressed with your 16th-century confessional statements. Jesus is not impressed with what you think you see in the text about your secondary and tertiary issues."

@DrCEdmondson

@DrCEdmondson "Complementarianism and egalitarianism...God don't have to give us clear-cut answers...generous orthodoxy does not need the legalism of always knowing and sounding like we know something 100% assurance when we don't...I believe sometimes God gives us conundrums to humble us."

@DrCEdmondson

@DrCEdmondson "Complementarianism + egalitarianism, oh they matter. Because they have sociopolitical implications about power, about the distribution of power...we don't get to take people's Christian cards because they're okay with women who can say words from the Bible."

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