"Mars Hill men, you had better wake up. A revolution is taking place. Women in your church are waking up to the biblical truth that they are created as much in the image of God as you are. They are realizing they possess the same gifts of the Spirit as you men. They are arousing to the knowledge that when half the body is suppressed, you have as much of a dysfunctional church as when men act like women. Go ahead, Mars Hill men, and act like men." – Wade Burleson
"These people do not know that while Barak trembled, Deborah saved Israel, that Esther delivered from supreme peril the children of God … Is it not to women that our Lord appeared after His Resurrection? Yes, and the men could then blush for not having sought what the women had found." –Jerome, after criticism for dedicating his books to women Your glamorous blogger with plumbing supply line As many of you know, I follow a blog called New ExChristians.net. Link. Why? The number of people professing no religion is on the rise in the United States. The New Atheism is gaining strength and their leaders, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Bart Ehrman are increasingly taking on Christians for the hypocrisy of their actions as well as their theology. This blog is made up of many, many people who claim to have been committed Christians but have since left the faith. They give a variety of arguments for their loss of faith. Most frequently they cite the insistence on the dubious science of YEC. It is fascinating to read their anti-testimonies in which they recount their years in churches. I think it behooves Continue reading →
We never paid for electricity in our office apartment because the building was illegally hooked up to the power grid and all our power was stolen.” Driscoll "Confessions of a Reformission Rev" Mark Driscoll "Keeping himself up for his woman" joshsabo.blogspot.com As I sit here, contemplating this post, sipping my Earl Grey-hot (inside Trekkie joke), I felt a clarification is in order prior to the post. Both of your humble blog queens have led traditional lives. Although we both hold MBAs, we have stayed home with our children, working on the home front. We are not some feminists producing a screed about Mark Driscoll. We believe that there are significant problems in both his behavior and theology that need to be addressed. Start by looking at the quote at the top of the page. Excessive Focus on Sexual Issues TWW has covered this in detail when this blog first started. You may read our posts by clicking on the Mark Driscoll key word on our list. His treatment of the Song of Solomon has been universally panned by most scholars except for his buddies in his network who benefit from speaking engagements, book endorsements, Continue reading →
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 The first verse of the Bible, inspired by the Creator of the Universe, is truly ALL we need to know about creation. None of us knows EXACTLY how Almighty God brought the heavens and the earth into being, and NO ONE can prove how He did it, even though Ken Ham and his $27 million Creation Museum insist otherwise. Yes, we have the Bible narrative, which describes in the simplest of terms how everything came into existence; however, I contend that insisting the entire creative process took place in SIX literal TWENTY-FOUR HOUR DAYS is promoting an EXTRA-BIBLICAL DOCTRINE. Why is it so crucial to young earthers that the creation account be interpreted so literally, and not symbolically? We have a theory which we’ll share momentarily… Almighty God lives OUTSIDE of time. So what was His rush in creating the heavens and the earth? It just doesn’t make sense that our Lord, who has always existed, would bring everything else into existence in less than one week’s time in human terms. As 2 Peter 3:8 states: “But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with Continue reading →
Have you noticed an interesting phenomenon in God’s wonderful creation? Birds of a feather flock together… That certainly seems to be true of Homo sapiens as well, especially when it comes to those who hold to a Young Earth position. Ken Ham, the YE crowd’s icon, has developed quite a following, as evidenced by the attendance numbers at his Creation Museum. A September 3, 2010, Religion News story indicates the following: “We have consistently surpassed our own forecasts for attendance,” said Mark Looy, a co-founder of the museum and spokesman for the center. Last month (August), theCreation Museum counted more than 1.2 million guests since it opened in 2007, he added.” The $27 million Creation Museum, which opened on May 28, 2007, was funded by donors who made contributions to Ken Ham’s Answers in Genesis (AiG) organization. A July 2006 MSNBC article provides some insight into AiG’s successful fundraising effort. The article states: “Mark Looy, a vice president at Answers in Genesis, said the museum has received at least $21 million in private donations. He said two anonymous donors have given $1 million, and he expects the museum to be debt-free when it opens next May.” In Continue reading →
Legalism and the quiverfull movement
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