The Prophetic Presbyterian & His Narrow Way

 Josh Buice writes,  In  2024, the SBC spent much time and energy debating the issue only to fail in passing the Law Amendment. This failure comes at a time when there are more than 1,000 churches in the SBC that have female pastors serving on their staff. Not only is this practice in direct opposition to the governing documents of the SBC, but it’s in clear violation of God’s Word on the matter which is abundantly clear ( 1 Tim 2:12–13 ;   1 Tim 3:1–7 ;   Titus 1:6–9 ). By way of reply, the  Church is failing women.   Whether or not it is failing the Word of God depends on the basis of the argument for or against female teaching & governing elders.       Pay attention to the way Buice & Associates argue their position.     It’s riddled with misogyny & exegetical fallacies.       If someone argues from the Bible alone, doing their best to avoid logical, epistemic, & exegetical fallacies opposes th...

 O LORD, hear our prayer…

That which  is contrary God’s commands is sin - but where does the Bible teach that any thought, word, or deed is a sin regardless of the motives of the moral agent or agents involved?     Nowhere.   For example, if the mere act of looking at another person is a sin in Matthew 5:28 - regardless of the motive - is a sin, then lustful intent is inconsequential.    Matthew 5:28 (ESV): But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. The act isn’t a sin apart from the motive.    The text specifically cites lustful intent as the requirement for the act to be immoral in general, & the identity of the target supplies the referent by which the act is considered adulterous.   Thesis   God judges the morality of our thoughts, words, & deeds on the basis of our motives, specifically the quality of our love for Him & others — not external factors like the i...

Exodus 33:7–23 (ESV): Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. 8 Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and each would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent. 9 When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord would speak with Moses. 10 And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at his tent door. 11 Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.  Moses’ Intercession 12 Moses said to the Lord, “See, you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ b...

Exodus 34:6–9 (ESV ) : The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” 8 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. 9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.” 

2 Timothy 3:1–9 (ESV ): But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 6 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. 9 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.  On The Decalogue On the one hand:  I do not believe...

 2 Timothy 3:1–9 (ESV): But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 6 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. 9 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men. 

The GM Skeptic & Bart Ehrman have a few things they would like us to know & understand .  Rather than quote him directly, I will paraphrase Ehrman correctly then respond.  The authors never mention themselves.  This argument lends to either the anonymity or the pseudonymity of the text.  By way of contrast many Christians believe that these texts were written by eyewitnesses possibly the Apostles themselves.    By way of reply: There is no evidence that these texts were ever known by another title.  Moreover, tosay that the authors never mention themselves is incoherent at best.  Matthew wrote in 3rd person.  This is an argument against his authorship.  Any author can write himself into the text of a historical novel.  Matthew writing himself into the text in 3rd person is not a problem.  According to the Pauline corpus, a reliable teacher, especially an Apostle, does not advertise themselves, especi...