@IVMiles Of course it matters. If the pastor doesn’t believe that humans are causing climate change, then what other conspiracy theories do they believe? They can’t be trusted to properly speak to issues of Truth if they deny something so basic and so undeniable.
@GotzaMotza I went to an evangelical protestant bible college where they taught us that the Catholic Church was the “whore of Babylon” and the pope was the antichrist.
@jonharris1989 If you think Keller was bad because he wasn’t “Reformed” enough, just remember that the Orthodox Church considers all Calvinists to be heretics. Keller was probably the only one who wasn’t.
@TPruitt67 What’s to expose? This is a normal secular viewpoint. You’re not actually making an argument for why it’s wicked. You’re assuming it’s self-evident, and it’s not. Not for the secular world, and not for a lot of the Christian world.
@MetzUAC1530 It speaks to both the interpretation and application of the text, so of course it’s relevant. The fact that you make a distinction between “moral” and “civil” laws (a distinction that the Bible itself never makes) is evidence of that.
@MetzUAC1530 The interpretive process also helps us understand how the text applies to modern readers: For example: “You may purchase male and female slaves. These may become your property. You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property” (Lev. 25:44-46).