Pastor Brandon Robertson is a noted author, activist, and public theologian working at the intersections of spirituality, sexuality, and social renewal. He is known as the TikTok Pastor, and has garnered over 200,000 followers and 5 million views.
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00:00:37.700Being a mackerel-snapping papist, I rarely have the opportunity to encounter the woke Protestant pastors who sometimes make the rounds on social media.
00:00:48.180Being an adult man, I very rarely see anything on TikTok.
00:00:51.940I really only see it when my producers bring these videos to me.
00:01:15.360Brandon Robertson, who is a noted author, activist, and public theologian, as opposed to those private theologians, working at the intersections of spirituality, sexuality, and social renewal.
00:01:49.200Do you know that Jesus helped his friend come out?
00:01:51.400So it's been like a year since I made this video where I used the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead as a metaphor for Jesus calling LGBT people out of the closet.
00:02:01.360And it's been one of my most new videos ever since.
00:02:04.460Christians, of course, lost their minds saying, look at you taking that passage out of context.
00:03:20.580And what Christ does is he frees us from our sin, which is death, and gives us life everlasting by embracing all sorts of disordered sexual behaviors.
00:03:28.800One is going in entirely the opposite direction and pursuing what Christians have always considered to be sin.
00:03:37.540Because leftism is a false religion, and it apes all of the language of Christianity, and it apes even many of the rituals of Christianity, but it just distorts, perverts, and ultimately even inverts.
00:04:03.340This ancient book does not have anything to say about modern medical procedures like abortion.
00:04:08.720It doesn't condemn it, nor does it endorse it.
00:04:11.080But what the Bible does do is give us principles, morals, overarching themes that we should apply to our thought around these conversations.
00:04:19.060For instance, the Bible says every human being is made in the image and likeness of God, and therefore is worthy of dignity, equality, respect, and autonomy over our lives and over our bodies.
00:04:30.680And that same dignity of God and autonomy should be extended to women to make choices about their bodies, their lives, and what they do.
00:04:39.440Likewise, the Bible is not a medical text, so it doesn't tell us when life begins or when personhood begins.
00:04:44.960Those are questions for science, not for scripture.
00:04:46.900He knows that his argument is quite weak here, so he's not trying to twist scripture to defend his infanticide.
00:04:54.940What he's saying is, listen, man, we just don't know.
00:05:00.880The Bible's just kind of, it leaves this issue alone.
00:05:03.800But the Bible obviously doesn't leave this issue alone because the Bible tells us quite clearly in the Ten Commandments that thou shalt not commit murder.
00:05:12.820We know that God loves the little children.
00:05:15.940We know that Christ says whoever scandalizes a child, it would be better to have a millstone tied around his neck.
00:05:21.300There's a hubris that comes along with these modern libs who think that everyone who ever came before them was a total dummy, and they didn't know anything about anything.
00:05:32.240There were people who attempted to kill babies in the womb to end pregnancies long before Pastor Brandon ever came around.
00:05:39.040And the church addressed this question from the very earliest centuries, and the church said, you can't do it.
00:05:45.660And the church has been consistent on this point for 2,000 years.
00:05:50.580And we see the reasoning for that in the Bible, and we can see the reasoning for that in the natural law and the objective moral order.
00:05:57.220And we see it consistently for 2 millennia, no matter what Pastor Brandon says in the year of our Lord, 2023.
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00:07:06.860Despite your name calling, I'll answer your question.
00:07:09.720There is not a single condemnation in all of the Bible of premarital sex.
00:07:16.440There is a mistranslation in the New Testament of the Greek word porneia into the old English word fornication,
00:07:23.040which does in fact mean premarital sex.
00:07:25.480But if you look up the Greek word porneia, it does not neatly translate to fornication.