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To: Faith Presses On

“Vines is wholly dependent on scholars and books that are no respecters of biblical authority. He has drawn exclusively from a pool of scholars stalwartly liberal and hostile to evangelical hermeneutics. What Vines has done is put together a piecemeal re-telling of liberal hermeneutics for a lay-level readers.

[...] “Vines’ basic thesis regarding orientation is not derived from the text of Scripture. Rather, the moral force of his argument in favor of legitimizing homosexual desire is used to explain away the text. Which is to say, he’s relying on some other authority for his basic claim—namely, an extra-textual moral authority that neither the history of scriptural interpretation nor church history considers valid.”

- http://www.canonandculture.com/reformation-or-revolution-a-review-of-god-and-the-gay-christian


11 posted on 05/27/2014 2:11:39 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
It's not just a denial of the text of Scripture, but of the interpretation of those texts which has been consistent in the Church on all continents, in all centuries, and in all cultures for 2,000 years.

It therefore necessarily denies that the Holy Spirit is teaching and leading the Church. It's saying Jesus' promises concerning the Spirit and the Church were unreliable.

12 posted on 05/27/2014 2:23:43 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Justice and judment are the foundation of His throne." - Psalm 89:14)
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