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Cataloging theological mischief-makers, sharing interesting Christian things. https://t.co/nxQ3RdFVcN @protestianet @coconservative7






Back when Allberry was a writer and eventually an editor at @TGC, he used his status to soften the churches' resistance as I show below. Will they recant from using and endorsing him, participating in the queering of the American church? He denied personal attraction to gay sex was wrong & was OK with being gay while teaching that "David was a pretty boy." 1. OK with personal attraction to sex w/ men: "So, I would be uncomfortable with saying same-sex attraction is sin." Interview on White Horse Inn, Sept. 2015 "I think if you say to someone that their same-sex attraction itself is sin you are effectively saying you need to repent of being fallen. And I am not quite sure what that means or what that looks like." Sam Allberry, "Is Same-Sex Attraction A Sin?" @ Moor's ERLC website 2. OK with being gay: Questioner: “If you could be shown the roots of your same-sex attraction …and you could be brought to complete heterosexuality, would you be open to that?” Allberry: "Would I be open to it? I mean yes and no actually. There are times I would think, “Actually I would like to be a husband to a wife and a father to a kid”…But in another sense, I really don’t mind..."---2017 interview at Lansdowne church While working at Living Out (which he founded), they published an article stating this: "Godliness is not heterosexuality – in fact, we would say that we are perhaps more godly due to our homosexuality than anything else.” 3. OK with breaking gender stereotypes: “in contemporary language, David was a ‘pretty boy’ [1 Samuel 16:12] and he was someone who spent an inordinate amount of time playing the harp and writing poems about his feelings.” He based this absurdity on a double error. He wrongly assumed that music and poetry are not manly pursuits and misapplied the Old Testament Hebrew word." “He knew what it was like, if I could put it this way, to have body image issues because we are told in Isaiah 53 that people turn their faces away from him…there was no greater dysphoria than when He who knew no sin became sin for us. That is the ultimate experience of being in the wrong flesh." Allberry: "Am I saying that transgendered people are all futile in their thinking, foolish in their hearts, and darkened in their minds? No. I am saying that is true of all of us, without exception. Paul is making those comments to the human race…None of us, not a single one of us, is qualified to determine our own identity. And whatever identity we come up for ourselves will not be a good fit."--“How Can I Know My Gender?”














