Adam Potter

“The Incarnate One is truly human as well as truly divine, and so properly spoken of as our friend and brother as well as our Lord and God.”
― Preston Sprinkle, Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church

“describing singleness as “a rare calling,” which is neither a common position in Christian history (at best we may say that most Protestants in the West have recently begun to think like this) nor a plausible reading of the New Testament,”
― Preston Sprinkle, Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church

“apart from marriage, our friendship should count as one of the things that remain stable. But just this is not so in the estimation of others and the consideration that they give it. It is marriage—whether it is the more stable of the two or not—that gets the outward consideration and recognition. Everyone, in this case the whole family, must take it into account and thinks it right that much has to be done, and should be done, on behalf of a married couple. Friendship, even when it’s so exclusive and includes all of each other’s goods, as it is with us, doesn’t have any “necessitas,”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

“for Christians, not every passage in the Bible is equally prescriptive or determinative for a Christian ethical life. Rather, the Old Testament must be read in light of the New, the Mosaic legislation must be read in light of its fulfillment in Christ (Rom 10:4), and so on. The point is simply that one must look for Scripture’s Christological center and read all of its various parts in light of that center. When”
― Preston Sprinkle, Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church