Kay

Mark wrote: “Sorry one last point for Kay,
I in no way am intereseted in keeping my authority and i find it hard to see this in anything Piper has said. We hold to this view because we believe in the authority of the bible, and believe this is what the bible teaches. It has nothing to do with wanting authority.”

Mark,
I am mainly interested in how we, as individual believers and the Church as a whole, determines who has this ‘authority”?

How do we tell who is relegated this ‘authority’?

There are people with both ovarian and testicular tissue and others with ambiguous outer organs.

What is the Church supposed to do with a true hermaphrodite, or a woman born with testes?

Is the Church to begin medically testing everyone who teaches Sunday School or preaches like they do in International Athletics?

Cheryl, et. al,
Has anyone else, besides me, wondered about this? I felt so sad for Caster Semenya, the South African runner. I certainly wouldn’t want my reproductive organs photographed and talked about on the national news.