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So You Are Intersex
Can you imagine being on the receiving end of this email: In 2017, a few weeks after I mailed a tube of my saliva to a company that offers genetic testing to provide ancestry breakdowns and insight into
Continue reading...The Relation of the Soul to the Body
I am leaning heavily on the work of J.P. Moreland and Scott B. Rae in their book, Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics (IVP, 2000). They construct a defense of Thomistic Dualism, the view
Continue reading...The Soul and Gender
In his journal article, Four Theses Concerning Human Embodiment, Gregg R. Allison quotes Justin E.H. Smith’s definition of embodiment as “having, being in, or being associated with a body.”
Continue reading...Does God Have Gender?
“The first person of the Godhead chooses to name himself ‘Father’ (and not ‘Mother’) to indicate the respect and honor that is due him, as he anticipates in the created order the role that he
Continue reading...Can Gender Be Separated from Biology?
“I am female,” Jackie Blankenship says. “That’s the only body I know.” That’s her declaration in an online article titled, “I’m intersex — 4 facts you don’t know about me.”
Continue reading...Is Gender Mutable?
When Moses tells God that he cannot go to Pharaoh and tell him to let God’s people go, because, Moses says, “I am slow of speech and tongue,” God says, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who
Continue reading...How Gender Can Go Wrong
She went to get her chromosomes tested. 46,XY karyotype, it turned out, the typical male chromosome. She had no uterus but looked female, with a vagina (albeit one that did not open into a cervix or womb)
Continue reading...Does the Bible Define Gender?
I was asked to teach a course at church on Biblical manhood. What are the characteristics of a godly man? As I examined Scripture it became apparent to me that the characteristics of a godly man weren’t
Continue reading...How Do We Define Gender?
During the confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson as supreme court judge, Senator Marsha Blackurn of Tennessee asked the nominee, “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?”
Continue reading...Psalm 110: A Direct Messianic Prophecy or Indirect?
In the Septuagint and Latin Vulgate, it is Psalm 109 You Are Priest Forever: Psalm 110 And the Melchizedekian Priesthood of Christ, Matthew Emadi, Southern Baptist Journal of Theology (Spring 2019), pp.
Continue reading...Theological Video Conversations with My Son
The Role of Women in Leadership How Christians Should Approach Suffering Did God Cause the Corona Virus How Do We Become Strong Through Weakness What Is the Nature of the Trinity
Continue reading...The Divine Council of God
The Divine Council of Yahweh Job 1:6 Now there came a day when the sons of the elohim/created divine beings/gods came to present themselves before Yahweh. And the Shatan/Satan/adversary also came among
Continue reading...Colossians Commentary with Big Ideas and Preaching/Teaching Notes
As far as we know, Paul never visited Colosse. We infer this from his comments in this letter that he “heard of their faith” (1:4), that their teacher was Epaphras (1:7), and that he had not seen them
Continue reading...Predicate Nominatives in the New Testament and the “Problem” of John 1:1 and Other Passages
A predicate nominative in the New Testament is, by definition, a noun in the nominative case that is linked by a stative or copulative verb to the subject of that verb and thus forms a referential description
Continue reading...John 1:1 and the Jehovah’s Witnesses
The concerned aunt in my church wanted someone to interact with her niece about her niece’s conversion to Jehovah’s Witnesses, and I was the one she wanted to interact with her. I agreed, and what
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