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Most of you know that I do not believe it is a woman’s role to rebuke an ordained elder or pastor, but even if you disagree with me on the gender issue you must agree that it should not be done in a demeaning manner and with sarcastic language, would you not agree? Now I have read Ingrid at Slice of Laodicea many times do just that with many preachers, but most of them were of the seeker or emergent variety. But in this post she tackles Bob Jones III who is a theological conservative, never engages in questionable methodology, but has mistakenly endorsed Romney for president. Of course my opinion is that politics breeds compromise.

But listen as Ingrid doesn’t just address the facts, she entitles her post with a demeaning little slight, and then calls Dr. Jones’ endorsement a “love-in”. You see, you can be solidly conservative in 99 points but if you make a mistake you will still receive little respect from camp ODM. Bob Jones University is ultra-conservative, but because the president has been blinded into being part of the political arena he will be brought behind the blog woodshed and shown the ire of a woman blogger peppered with disrespectful and self serving verbiage. That kind of high browed scorn is unchristian and unbiblical regardless whether you are a man or a woman, but it remains the mode of communication on many blogs, personal and disrespectful. It should cease.

Adam is born through God’s life giving breath and suddenly the God of Love has a reflection of His own image. Now whatever the length and depth of that truth reveals, will always be partly a mystery but a truth nonetheless. Adam dwells in fellowship with the Father and in peace with God’s creation. God even creates a help meet for Adam to whom Adam can share his life and love while always remembering who it was who created Eve. But then Adam rebels.

Now all creation will see if God’s love extends beyond Adam’s sin, and if the love of God will elicit an offer of redeeming love, which from our perspective, is the deepest kind of love ever known. Is love expanded when it is offered to perfection or is it put to its strongest test when it is offered to rebellion with no guarantee of like kind return? Is the magnificence of love most transparent when it is offered completely without regard to the giver but with full regard to the receiver? And in a prophetic revelation of God’s redemptive love God clothes Adam and his wife with the bloody garments of animal skins, dripping with the impossible truth of God’s restorative love. It is the first looking glass into the coming glory of a future bloody scene, again offered to the undeserving.
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