Mutual Submission, Part 3

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. In Part 1 of the series, I centered in on the phrase hypotassomenoi allēlois (“be submitting yourselves to one another”) in Ephesians 5:21. I shared the following footnote: This explanation may be confusing, so I’m going to boil …

Mutual Submission, Part 2

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. NOTE: For a much longer version of this post, see Part 1. There is a certain type of critic who thinks that long-form writing—what I do on this blog—is not legitimate. It is too long to …

Mutual Submission, Part 1

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. NOTE: For a much shorter version of this post, see part 2. In “Everyone’s a Genius,” I engaged in a metaphysicial discussion of Full Metal Patriarch’s epistemology that he demonstrated in his article “A Dalrock Update.” Commenter …

Everyone’s a Genius

On the internet—and perhaps in meatspace too—everyone is a genius. Consider this non-Christian’s claim (with almost a million views): Had this one taken about 15 seconds to Google check his own claim, he might have found the “Five Suns” creation myth of the Aztecs: Bloodthirsty? Brutal? It turns out that …

Justification By Faith, Part 7

Living vs Dead Consider this quotation: Does this contradict Galatians 2:16? Of course not. James 2:14-26 is summarized in the tautology: if you don’t live your faith, your faith is not living, but dead The difference between living and dead faith is the nature of that faith, not the deeds. …

Michael Foster

I’ve casually followed Michael Foster for some time on Twitter. Some of you may know of him from the “It’s Good To Be A Man” blog, which is shared with Dominic Bnonn Tennant. Readers here might have read Sharkly’s critical piece on the pair (from 2019) called “Bnonnas Foster: A …

Justification By Faith, Part 6

Perseverance and Salvation The word sōzesthe (σῴζεσθε) can be translated either as “you are saved” or “you are being saved.” Regardless of which one is chosen, Paul does not describe a works-based salvation, as if 1 Corinthians 15:2 said “you are saved as long as you live the gospel.” Paul doesn’t say “unless …

Patriarchy

There is a great—and revealing—discussion of patriarchy happening over at Sigma Frame. Let’s take a short break from the ongoing series on justification to discuss it. Over the last few months, I pointed out to Sharkly—time and time and again—that Christian patriarchy, by excusing male responsibility, doesn’t respect a man’s authority within his domain. If …

Justification By Faith, Part 5

In this discussion on justification by faith, we have talked a lot about faith, but not a lot about justification. In the Bible, the word translated as justification comes from the Greek word dikaioó (δικαιόω): I make righteous defend the cause of plead for the righteousness (innocence) of acquit justify; hence: …