Theology That Bites Back
On Revoice and Matthew Lee Anderson: Since I was mentioned….I would like the chance to clear up what I mean by “apostate” as it relates to Matthew Lee Anderson. First, I am not proclaiming that I have knowledge of his eternal destiny. Here’s what I do mean. MLA is:1. So liberal that the thoroughly milquetoast …
“Sin is necessarily parasitic. Sin is bent righteousness. Sin cannot exist in its own name, it cannot stand on its own feet. Goodness, being an attribute of God, simply is. Evil is a knock-off, a corruption, a twisting, and a deviation” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 52).
“A man seeking true glory has his eye fixed on God. A man in pursuit of vainglory is given to the sidelong glance” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 51).
“The striving is always in the direction of Nietzsche’s Ubermensch, and it always seems to wind up as Nietzsche himself did—broken, mad, pathetic. The Ring promises us a king or an emperor with godlike powers, but delivers us Gollum” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 44).
“Sin is a glory failure” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 42).
“The attempts to create a superman have not been few. We see it in the attempt by the antediluvians to breed immortals (Gen. 6), we see it in the ravings of Nietzsche, and we see it with modern unbelievers tinkering around with the human genome. In reply, God says—God has always said—that mankind shall be …
On the Passing of RHE: They tell us that you’re nothing but bluster and bigotry, but this is as biblical, sensitive and nuanced as anything published on the corporate websites . . . Ed Ed, thank you. It was a difficult thing to address. “My prayer is that RHE, perhaps somewhere in the course of …
“God did not create two men, and so homosexuality is excluded. He did not create Adam and three women, and so polygamy is excluded. A helper suitable to Adam was not found among the beasts, and so bestiality is excluded. He did not create two women, which rules out lesbianism. All such images would be …
Rachel Held Evans died last week as the result of a severe allergic reaction to some medications. She was a very popular blogger, she was on a really unfortunate theological trajectory, and she was only 37 when she died. Where I would like to begin is with a prayer that the family and loved ones …
