John vs. Joan recap

Mike Durning
Before the upgrade to SI 3.0, an important Filing was posted regarding Gender Re-assignment Surgeries and Christian Ethics. It was by Dr. Russell Moore. There were two replies – mine, and another by Alex Guggenheim.

The “problem” he was responding to was how we would respond to a new convert who confesses that he/she was at some point in the past surgically altered to the opposite gender.

In my opinion, the generally reliable and admirable Dr. Moore oversimplified the physical, mental, theological, and ethical matters involved in such surgeries.

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Creation Question: Day 6

Alex Guggenheim
On day 6 of creation as recorded in Genesis 1 it presents both male and female being created:
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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Question on Romans 8:17b

Jim

Text: “… if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.” (Romans 8:17)

Greek: “ει δε τεκνα και κληρονομοι κληρονομοι μεν θεου συγκληρονομοι δε χριστου ειπερ συμπασχομεν ινα και συνδοξασθωμεν”

My question is about this phrase, “if indeed we suffer with Him” … “ειπερ συμπασχομεν” and specifically with this conjuction, “ειπερ”

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Relationship or Religion

Gabe Franklin
It seems that, as of late, I have come heard a lot of people stressing that Christianity is a relationship and not a religion. I understand what they are saying, but I feel that, in an effort to criticize “dead religion” they have gone to far.

I believe that it is important to stress that Christianity is a religion. Fundamentalism was based on doctrine, and religion is about doctrine. When people stress that Christianity is not a religion, I believe that it opens people up to being swayed by the postmodern teachings of the emergent church which de-emphasizes doctrine.

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God's Word/attribute of timeliness

Mark Henninger
How much of the time does God’s Word deny God’s attributes?

Wiping out heathen nations in OT times, God may have seemed not to have the attribute of love. Was God’s attribute of love then or ever denied by Scripture? Are any of God’s attributes ever denied by an accurate Bible?

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Exodus 32:32-33

stridge
What do most of you think the “book” in these verses means?

Is it The Lamb’s Book Of Life or a list of people that once favored God but had gone away from Him ,and now face earthly death? .

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What commission ?

Marty H
I was reading in a thread and saw where Jim had made the following post -

◦Each believer will give an account for his faithfulness and obedience in all things (the Great Commission included!).

Its easy enough to understand that not many of you see things quite like I do. And thats fine. But I don’t see things as I do just to have something to disagree on. I see what I see because with my limited understanding, Thats what I see the Bible saying.

Mat 28:16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.

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A Call for Pastor Theologians

ssutter
I want to draw attention to one of Sweeney’s theses in particular (see the previous post): #5, namely, that “theology can and should be done primarily in the church, by pastors, for the sake of the people of God” (p. 199). Sweeney writes:

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