Cooling Twilight

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  • Why Homosexuality Isn’t A Sin

    Why Homosexuality Isn’t A Sin

    Rothko - Pink, Gold, Red

    We all have an innate sense of right and wrong, of good and evil. We all have moral law written on our hearts. We don’t all have perfect knowledge of that moral truth and we all fall far short of living up to moral standards, but in general we recognize the universal and transcendent nature of morality.

    We know what is sin and what isn’t. We have a deep intuitional realization that murder and rape and theft are wrong. We know that when we hurt another person, whether through words or actions, we’ve done something wrong. We don’t need the Bible to tell us that, we don’t need the church to tell us that — we already know it. This is why the Bible isn’t, and doesn’t need to be, an exhaustive rule book. It’s why the Greatest Commandment resonates so deeply within us — not because it’s something we’ve never heard before, but because it’s something we already knew, whether we realized it or not.
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  • A Modest Proposal for the Return of the Biblical Institution of Slavery

    A Modest Proposal for the Return of the Biblical Institution of Slavery

    Slavery and TruthProlegomena
    At the outset we must make clear the standards by which we are to judge the institution of slavery. As Christians, we cannot be subject to whims of the heart or fancies of the intellect. We cannot acquiesce to the norms of modern secular culture, instead we must hold firm to the norma normans, the norming norm, the Bible, the revealed Word of God to mankind.

    We are fallen creatures, living in utter darkness, unable to see the light on our own: “the heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure” (Jer. 17.9). But God, through his grace, provided us with Holy Scripture, which is “God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness” (2 Tim 3.16). It is the inspired, inerrant and infallible Bible that we must cling to as the absolute standard of truth.
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