Sean McDowell & Preston Sprinkle On Homosexuality

MCDOWELL : The basis of the affirming position seems to be that biblical writers did not understand sexual orientation or have knowledge of the kinds of consensual, committed, loving same-sex relationships we see today. How do you address this claim? That may be what a great many affirming writers believe, but that’s direct function of Ecclesiastical Tradition & Liturgical Philosophy that has ruled the hearts & minds of people for several centuries.  What the biblical authors believed isn’t really germane to this discussion.    What made it to the page is the determinant of what the Bible teaches, not what the author may or may not have believed. SPRINKLE: It’s a great point to raise, and evangelicals need to understand and consider the argument. My response it twofold: First, we do see examples of adult consensual same sex relations in and around the first century. So those who say that “they didn’t exist” are simply wrong. I show why in my book. True. Second, th...
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Is It True That God Does Not Love Everyone?

From time to time, Hyper-Calvinists & others will point to Romans 9 & Malachi 1:2 - 3 “ Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”  (Romans 9:13, ESV)  & allege that these two texts and similar texts (like Psalm 5:5) teach that God literally hates either all sinners or the Elect but not the Reprobate.

Is that at all true? 

No, it most certainly is not true. How so?

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”  (Matthew 22:34–40, ESV)


God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, justice, holiness, goodness, and truth who summarizes/encapsulates His Moral Law via 2 overarching principles that conduce to infinitely exhaustive, perfect love for God first, then everyone & everything else, & then one’s own self. 


God’s Moral Law commands us to love the same way He Himself loves.   God loves Himself first (because God alone is God); then God loves everyone & everything else next, & then God loves Himself.   


Therefore, God doesn’t hate anyone (as in an absolute privation of love).  Rather, these passages mean that God’s love when set upon those He has redeemed/intends to redeem is so very vast in comparison to His righteousness indignation & wrath that as to the targets of His indignation & wrath, it is as though God truly hates those He wraths, especially those who persist in wickedness like Edom (ie Esau). 


O LORD, Hear our prayer(s)!




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