God and the Gay Christian? Quotes

“Vines fails to understand that in a fallen world the strength of our sinful desires is a demonstration of our guilt, rather than our innocence.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., God and the Gay Christian?: A Response to Matthew Vines

“Vines’s book makes it seem that the only way to show care for people struggling with homosexuality is to accept their sinfulness. Christians throughout the ages, however, have believed that love requires a tender call to repentance. A life devoid of repentance is a life devoid of Christ. If Christians follow Vines’s attempt to reverse the church’s moral position on homosexuality, their loving call to repent of sin will be silenced, and the grace of Jesus Christ to change people will be obscured.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., God and the Gay Christian?: A Response to Matthew Vines

“Regardless of what people in other ancient societies may have thought about the inferiority of women, those who embraced Genesis 1 believed that men and women are equal in human dignity because God made male and female in his own image (Gen 1:27). At several points, Vines asserts that whereas those who”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., God and the Gay Christian?: A Response to Matthew Vines

“Gender complementarity is the belief that the Bible’s teachings on gender and gender roles is to be understood in terms of the fact that men and women are equally made in God’s image (status) but different in terms of assignment (roles).”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., God and the Gay Christian?: A Response to Matthew Vines

“This leads to a haunting question. What else does the Bible not know about what it means to be human? If the Bible cannot be trusted to reveal the truth about us in every respect, how can we trust it to reveal our salvation? This points to the greater issue at stake here — the gospel. Vines’s argument does not merely relativize the Bible’s authority, it leaves us without any authoritative revelation of what sin is. And without an authoritative (and clearly understandable) revelation of human sin, we cannot know why we need a savior, or why Jesus Christ died.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., God and the Gay Christian?: A Response to Matthew Vines

“This leads to a haunting question. What else does the Bible not know about what it means to be human? If the Bible cannot be trusted to reveal the truth about us in every respect, how can we trust it to reveal our salvation? This points to the greater issue at stake here — the gospel. Vines’s argument does not merely relativize the Bible’s authority, it leaves us without any authoritative revelation of what sin is. And without an authoritative (and clearly understandable) revelation of human sin, we cannot”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., God and the Gay Christian?: A Response to Matthew Vines