Kat and I went to a talk last night over at a dark building in the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. I mention that the building was dark, because its not a bit too creepy to head down to this dark, looming building down near the wharf... Feels a bit like the kind of place you might leave from for a dip in the ocean wearing cement shoes.
FORTUNATELY - These are much nicer folks with the UCSD Graduate Christian Fellowship. The talk featured Dr. Peter and Rebecca Jones, who are affiliated with the Westminster Seminary and have a ministry called Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet (CWiPP).
The topic was on gender, and in short, he built up a very fascinating foundational approach for why the preservation of gender roles and sexual orientation norms are so,... well,... foundational.
The main text he cited was Romans 1:25-26.
25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
He pointed out that the progression here goes: Step 1. Cosmological- Who do we see God as?, Step 2. What do we worship, the creator or the creation?, and Step 3. How do we interact with each other, esp. with regards to sexuality.
I had never really comprehended the connection between sexuality and worldview.
Nevertheless, in a group of grad students, even "Christian" as part of their title, there was a lot of bristling and tension that I felt. This is definitely one of those divisive "flash points" where I think Christians need to take stands, but in love, and for the right reasons and motivations
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