Controversy in the Christian church is seldom just about biblical exegesis and theological formulations. By and large people do not want to engage these issues publicly, perhaps because they know deep down that their religious convictions cannot stand much public scrutiny. So most church fights and even divisions are on social issues such as racial prejudice, equality for women or members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, or issues of human sexuality like birth control, abortion and the ordination of women to be priests and bishops. Those issues, in which the church has
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