Conservatives Are Stuck With What They Read

“Often a liberal is far more honest in handling the text than is an evangelical. This is because the evangelical is stuck with the results of his exegesis. The liberal can say that the apostle Paul taught the headship of the man in marriage, and wasn’t that silly? The evangelical, trying to keep up with crurent trends, and also trying to keep the Bible, has to try to make paul into a contemporary sensitive male, which is frankly not very easy. In the same way, a disinterested observer is often more honest in telling us what the Westminster Confession says, for example, than a fellow who has sworn to uphold it, but doesn’t want to” (Mother Kirk, p. 200).