In this episode, the guys talk about the role of feminism in the modern church and how it relates to our understanding of the Bible. They also talk about why it's important to have conversations about the Bible and its implications.
00:00:01.000Who is the true son of Abraham or who are the true sons of Abraham?
00:00:07.000One guess would be that you had the liberalizing of all the Protestant mainline churches when a lot of really wealthy people, I've done some deep research into this.
00:00:20.000For example, the Rockefellers put a lot of money into buying and funding seminaries.
00:00:24.000And they would actually decide who would be kind of the chair of this and that, the dean and so forth.
00:00:29.000And they specifically, through people like Fosdick and others, wanted to liberalize Protestantism to be a tool of social gospel.
00:00:40.000That worked for them, not for the people that are in it.
00:00:45.000Well, it worked to liberalize the mainline Protestant denominations very well, particularly Presbyterians and mainline Methodists and Lutherans.
00:00:55.000And then I think what happened was that those groups kind of quit caring about this kind of biblical theology because they become basically social justice warrior organizations.
00:01:04.000All the churches are with the feminism and the Skittles gay stuff.
00:01:45.000So I think that they kind of quit caring about biblical theology.
00:01:48.000So the only people left to care about biblical theology were people who were going into evangelical Baptist seminaries, Dallas Theological Seminary, places like that, which were longtime havens of dispensational type ideology.
00:02:00.000And the conservative Presbyterians or Lutherans were just such a minority throughout the decades of the last century that it just, I guess, became dominant that all those universities and seminaries that were evangelical were just bought off or propagandized.
00:02:20.000So if you guys have anybody out there who's been through, you know, kind of growing up evangelical, being a part of the church, how they would explain those verses.
00:02:28.000And I haven't really found anybody that gives me a good explanation.
00:02:31.000People tend to pivot to other things where they're strong.
00:03:26.000I don't think God has called us to just have a completely uninformed faith.
00:03:30.000There is some element of faith not really being, I don't know how to articulate it the right way, but I don't think God minds you proving him out.
00:03:53.000And we do need to correct some of these issues so that people are not led astray.
00:03:58.000And I think having conversations like this, Jay, we're going to have to do this again.
00:04:01.000I think we're a little over time right now, but I didn't even get to like feminism in the Protestant church and some of the just a quick story on that.
00:04:10.000The reason that I know this exists is not because I'm in up-to-date on feminism and all the effects on society.
00:04:16.000It's that when I talked to the church that I worked with that was big, kind of a charismatic church, they said that the consultants came in and told them they needed to redesign their bathrooms because people make a decision on where to go to church based on how nice the restrooms are.