Equality

The challenge with responding to this Article is that any objection opens the door for those who put this Statement together to question your salvation.  The problem with this Article is less with what is said and more with what the group who put the Statement together believes this means. The … Read more about Response to Article 14 of the Nashville Statement

  This Article definetly highlights the intense hatred and rejection of science that too many in the Evangelical world hold. This Article was written to simply say: Penis means God made you to be male Vagina means God made you to be female If only biology was that … Read more about Response to Article 13 of the Nashville Statement

I really want to agree with what this Article sounds like it’s trying to say. Unfortunately this entire Statement that was meant to condemn women and homosexuals is continuing to oppress in this Article. This is where they are convinced they are delivering Good News but what they actually deliver … Read more about Response to Article 12 of the Nashville Statement

This Article becomes easier to address than some of the others because they finally come out and say what they were working towards all along. If being homosexual is not an issue of immorality then this Articles is utterly irrelevant except as hate speech and making sure they know what they … Read more about Response to Article 10 of the Nashville Statement

This is a difficult Article to argue wth because on its face it seems to be saying something Biblically sound. Whether you are heterosexual or homosexual in your attraction there are guidelines for holiness that are presented to you in Scripture.  In fact, in Biblical times sex was the action … Read more about Response to Article 9 of the Nashville Statement

In this Article it is acknowledged that sometimes issues related to gender and biology are real and have a physical component.  It is then declared that in those cases you have to go with what others can see and confirm about you rather than what may or may not be real. Plato taught about the … Read more about Response to Article 6 of the Nashville Statement

Several months ago I read about a woman who had never had a period and despite being married and sexually active for several years she had been unable to get pregnant. She was finally sent to a specialist who ran genetic tests and turns out she had a rare condition where two pieces of genetic code … Read more about Response to Article 5 of the Nashville Statement

This Article is specifically arguing that hierarchy in the home, church, and community is by God's design. There is so much to say in response to this argument.  To begin let me remind you that in Article 3 they laid the groundwork for the "differences" they are addressing here and stated, as … Read more about Response to Article 4 of the Nashville Statement

One of the foundational positions that Christian Patriarchy is built upon is the idea that men and women are equal in worth and dignity but "distinct in role and function." Here are some of the ways this looks: Male and female are both created in the image of God. Only men are allowed to … Read more about Response to Article 3 of the Nashville Statement

Sexual immorality is an interesting thing to talk about because most Christians have Puritan ideas about sexual immortality and want to quote random out of context Bible verses at people doing things they disagree with. At the same time they have declared the Torah and it's laws "done away with" for … Read more about Response to Article 2 of the Nashville Statement

  Marriage is good. In Ephesians 5 Paul affirms that the mystery of marriage is that it is a picture to the world of the relationship between Messiah and the Bride, Christ and the Church. In the story of Creation God created the human and so that the human would not be alone, God … Read more about Response to Article 1 of the Nashville Statement