@RealtyNerd@JonnyRoot_ I think it would be beneficial for you to read what those in the PC say of their own religion because it's the basis of the critiques against it, not fabrications or misrepresentations.
@RealtyNerd@JonnyRoot_ If you're trying to pull an objective interpretation from a text, insulated from your culture and preconceived ideas, that's exegesis. Everything else is eisegesis. You're talking to someone who exegetes Greek btw. I'm not new to this.
@RealtyNerd@JonnyRoot_ Even in this comment you segment "conservatives" from progressives. It's political to you, not spiritual. Meanwhile Christians in China are like "I'm an American conservative, I guess".
@RealtyNerd@JonnyRoot_ Does WB? Idk. But erasing 'the wrath of God' from hymns, refuting Christ's own words about the existence of Hell making him a liar, back-patting fellow Christians whose lifestyles violate the clear moral law of God all show that "there is no fear of God before their eyes."
@RealtyNerd@JonnyRoot_ It's kind of weird that you're focused on one Bible scholar as if he has the market cornered in biblical scholarship. The conversation is about the Progressive Church which in many instances, ignores the entire premise of the gospel.
@RealtyNerd@JonnyRoot_ I think you're very much wrong that he focused on justice over holiness. I believe he used justice to focus on holiness. How could a holy God not? Christ doesn't accept you as you are. No, he calls you to repentance. Paul tells you to put to death the old man.
@RealtyNerd@JonnyRoot_ But I get it, orthopraxy over orthodoxy. But what was the purpose of Christ eating with "sinners" and tax collectors? The sick need a doctor, right? "I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance." "Go and sin no more. "
@kraywhiseheart@newvangelicals So... you think there's an active plot to kill all trans people in the US happening right now? Won't gender ideology just give rise to more trans? Isn't it more logical that it's the ideology they're after?
@ds_hoffman@newvangelicals Meanwhile people are actively trying to have perfectly healthy limbs amputated because they're transabled. But nobody "affirms" that because the mental illness is too obvious. Affirming an identity that is imaginary is so lazy and definitely not loving.
@newvangelicals I'm disappointed at the lack of intellectual honesty. If I say I'm something I'm not, I exist, but the reality I'm trying to get affirmation of does not. But you already knew that.