justa berean

”The new guard of baby boomer aged leaders within the Reformed traditions (predominantly) embrace an authoritarian outlook and seem to look to the writings of Robert Louis Dabney (presbyterian minister/seminiary teacher and Confederate, author of “Defense of Virginia and the South”) as some kind of prophetic literature tantamount to the Bible. Dabney argued and defended slavery as well as opposed both minority and women’s suffrage and public education.”

Not all. I’m a babyboomer and I never went in that direction. The first thing the Lord did in my life was set me free and I felt it in every fiber of my being. I never again wanted to be entangled in a yoke of worldly bondage. Remember that most or many of the egalitarian equality thinkers are also babyboomers. Maybe we are just a prolific noisy group. 🙂

”Ken Giles (”The Trinity and Subordinationism,” “Jesus and the Father” and articles on CBE) explains that the slavery issues support the ontological subordination of women throught the heresy of the subordinationism of Christ within the Trinity.”

I’ve both of Giles books. Jesus and the Father is an easier read. Giles was predated by Jewel. Jewel’s book “Man as Male and Female” was the first book God brought to me about equality at a time when I thought I might be the lone prophet in a wicked world. Giles nails it and screws it in solid IMO.

Before I was aware of Giles there was some professor teaching about inherent design to the tune that one can NOT say that woman must take a submissive role as a life calling because she is woman. To say that says that a woman is inferior in her inherent being. This was when the gender hierarchalists were teaching that woman is equal to man, but it is woman’s inherent design to be submissive to men. The professor essentially taught that submission by inherent design cancelled out any concept of equality.

Good thoughts UnderMuchGrace. Maybe I’ll have to find Mark Nolls book. 🙂