peter lumpkins

reflections on religion & politics, history & theology, lifestyle & culture

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

While I'm surprised *when* this happened, I'm totally unsurprised *that* this happened.

[David L. Allen @DrDavidLAllen]

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[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

@williamwolfe @timkellernyc @between2worlds @jdgreear @NeilShenvi @ThabitiAnyabwil @pastordmack @drmoore @DavidAFrench @Janet_Mefferd I rarely do X anymore. Content just staying in the classroom. Now I make exception. I've criticized most listed. To include @Janet_Mefferd reveals either embarrassing ignorance or contorted mindset. Neither leans nor supports Left. Committed biblical conservative. Correction pls.

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

@TerriGreenUSA Todd "lied" to Tom but he did try to "help" him. @TomBuck @bartbarber #SBCCHAT

There you have it. All's settled. Move along. Nothing else to see.

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

"In itself considered, the atonement of Christ does not deliver any soul from condemnation" - W. B. Johnson (1782-1862), First president of the Southern Baptist Convention

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

Here's the secret to church growth. https://t.co/dCkYvM4NX2

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

Note to self: Were I dependent upon the erratic, and at times, utterly non-sensical yet self-confident declarations about theology, Scripture, or Church history from the vast majority of Twitter users, I think I might kill myself.

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

Predictable trend in downward @SBCCP giving in Georgia. Other states will follow.
https://t.co/mx6BZQoCw7

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

"With an orthodoxy of doctrine there must equally be an orthodoxy of community" - Francis Schaeffer, The Church at the end of the 20th Century

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

@megbasham Interesting. Scientific evidences demonstrate it's almost always wives who take over men's spaces. :)

My oft claim to my wife, "Women are inherently communists!" (FTR, we're working on our 50th year of happy marriage).

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

Told my wife my car had to match our home. She definitely made it work.

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

There was a time terms like "heresy" "heretical" "heretic" were reserved for denial of the Trinity, full deity/humanity of Christ, one saving Gospel, etc. Now they're loosely employed from differences on atonement to whether women should be criminalized & how much for abortion.

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

Positive proof that those with most followers, or considered social media "influencers," or have massive platforms, or seminary presidents & professors, or high-dollar lawyers are those to whom we should ever listen.

Elites have no hold on either truth, wisdom, or common sense.

[Lydia @oceansneverfill]

Coercion is sinful, an abuse of power, but it isn’t rape. Condemn both, but do not conflate them. Calling coercion rape robs women of their moral agency. We actually can resist coercion, rape is forced upon us despite our resistance. David coerced Bathsheba, Amnon raped Tamar

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

@oceansneverfill Very useful, sober-minded distinction. Thank you.

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

@_TheoMed Joshua Berman splits the difference & calls it "adulterous rape"- “Double Meaning in the Parable of the Poor Man’s Ewe (2 Sam 12:1–4),” Journal of Hebrew Scriptures

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

Oh please spare us.

For your information, I just asked my wife if she thought David raped Bathsheba.

Her response?

"Why on earth would I assume that from the information given in the text?"

Just let it go, already.

You can't fry eggs when you have no grease.

[Julie Anne Smith @DefendTheSheep]

Make note of the church leaders who are defending David and refusing to admit he raped Bathsheba. They are outing themselves on their view of women and their understanding of power dynamics. These are red flags. Do not dismiss them.

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

@_TheoMed After reading thru Davidson, however, virtually all his lines of evidence have been thoroughly answered by the overwhelming evidence against it.

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

@_TheoMed A few do exist among scholarly who argue David-raped-Bathsheba view. Perhaps the most exhaustive is 7th Day Adventist OT professor, R. Davidson, who offers 18 lines of evidence Bathsheba was *power-raped*-- “Did King David Rape Bathsheba? A Case Study in Narrative Theology,”

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

@_TheoMed It's difficult not to conclude, based upon the raw, categorical insistence by some, that they *require* the David-was-a-rapist view to bolster the "power dynamic" element in modern sexual assault litigation. But it seems to me, that dynamic stands or falls quite apart from David.

[peter lumpkins @peter_lumpkins]

@macbrunson Spot on!