The Prophetic Presbyterian & His Narrow Way

  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.  ( Genesis 1:27 , ESV) From the pen of Doug Wilson : 11. How did God imprint His image on the human race? He did this by creating us male and female. Any attempts to reconfigure this arrangement are therefore explicit assaults on the image of God. How?    God has no sexual characteristics & no sexual attributes. Other than a functionally polytheistic worldview in which idols & the pseudodeities & their minions who underwrite them, the only road to this conclusion runs through the use / utilization of the human image itself as a sufficient epistemic warrant for human sexual ethics — which Romans 1:18 - 32 specifically condemns.  On this view — that if Doug Wilson & his followers, after indicting humanity for suppressing God’s image & authority & substituting any number of created images (including the human image) as a sufficient epi...

In a discussion on Leviticus & Homosexuality . Doug Wilson appeals to the decretal will of God & calls it Creation Law & attempts to draw a distinction between Creation Law & Redemption Law (Leviticus). 1. This is a Category Error on his part, insofar as the Decretal Will of God    (what Is as to the State of the Created Order) & the Moral Will of God (What Ought To Be) are two separate, yet intersecting domains). 2. Notice how he looks to the Decretal Will of God for Moral Law.     The story of Leviticus occurs after the Fall, so the implication is that Redemptive Law’s proper domain is a Post-Lapsarian world.    One wonders why he doesn’t understand that if the Prelapsarian created order is a species of Law, then it is a species of Redemptive Law?    Think about it —- is there anywhere in the Bible where God’s Law, which comes to us in the form of a suzerain covenant — doesn’t serve a redemptive purpose?  In th...

  1 Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus,   2 and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled—that is, unwashed. 3 Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially. a 4 And on returning from the market, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions for them to observe, including the washing of cups, pitchers, kettles, and couches for dining. b 5 So the Pharisees and scribes questioned Jesus: “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with defiled hands.” 6 Jesus answered them,  “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:  ‘These people honor Me with their lips,  but their hearts are far from Me. 7 They worship Me in vain;  they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ c 8 You have disregarded the commandm...