Greg Anderson

Hi Cheryl,
Good to have you back!  You’ve written thoughtful stuff on asking the right questions.  Well, there’s bad news and good news.  The bad news is this:  No matter how many questions we ask about the origins of Paul’s purported new law (1 Tim. 2:12), complementarianism will always have an answer.

Dr. Wayne Grudem’s book Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth is usually the source book for many of these answers.  Dr. Grudem says “It’s a matter of obedience to the Bible.” (50), and “The Bible has to say something only once for it to be true and God’s word for us” ( 362).  If an eminent complementarian scholar says it, then it must be true, and no Christian in his or her right mind wants to go against the Bible.  Most are content to have a priestly class over them to tell them what the Bible means–no work required that way, and best of all, no personal accountability.

The good news is that through the efforts of free and open blogs such as yours, more and more Christians are not taking what they’ve been taught through tradition as some sort of Protestant Papal Encyclical on gender roles.  We are succeeding, we are helping to free brothers and sisters from mind tyranny, one human being at a time.