Doug Wilson
posted comments about a video clip of N.T. Wright responding to a question about the issue of homosexuality. Wilson thinks that Wright is giving up ground by asking for "reasonable dialogue" on an issue that is impossibly mired in the darkness of sin. What do you think?
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Here are some of Wilson's words:
"Academic rules of rational discourse are very helpful when it comes to the identity of Shakespeare, the authorship of Hebrews, or the root causes of the Civil War. They are no good at all when the serpent is telling us that we will not die. Die? How do you define die? To enter into dialogue at this point is not to uphold the truth, but to compromise it at the outset. I have often said in sermons that sin doesn't make sense. If it made sense, it wouldn't be sin. If someone is enticing you to leave the way of God, the temptation is to run headlong down the path with no light. And when you get down there, you can't see. Longing for the day, as Wright clearly does, when the devil will starting playing fair, when he will starting arguing like a gentleman, is to mistake radically the kind of situation we are in."
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