If you believe the Bible teaches male leadership in the home and church, you shouldn’t abandon that just because misogynists twist it.
We seem to be at an inflection point on this. Some of us wish to stay “narrow“ complementarian without elevating it to primary status or being a jerk about it. But others seem ready to abandon the whole enterprise because of still others who take the strictest line on it.
Many of us had godly men and women who taught and modeled this, not the divisive voices on Twitter. So we are going to be much more reluctant to believe the narrative that it was a nefarious, unbiblical project all along.
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The problems with Buice’s original tweet weren’t limited to this issue. But let’s talk about this list of quotes. All they show is the doctrine of appropriation. These sources would all affirm inseparable operations as well. So yes it’s the wrath of the Triune God.
Reformation and post-Reformation Reformed sources were much more careful and nuanced on the atonement and its trinitarian dimensions than a lot of contemporary “Reformed“ preaching and teaching.