Fall 2009 • VOLUME XIV • ISSUE 2 The Danvers Statement JBMW 14/2 Based on our understanding of Biblical teachings, we affirm the following: 1. Both Adam and Eve were created 5. The Old Testament, as well as the implies a mandate to follow a human in God’s image, equal before God as New Testament, manifests the equally authority into sin (Dan. 3:10-18; Acts THE JOURNAL FOR BIBLICAL persons and distinct in their manhood high value and dignity which God 4:19-20, 5:27-29; 1 Pet. 3:1-2). and womanhood (Gen. 1:26-27, 2:18). attached to the roles of both men and women (Gen. 1:26-27, 2:18; Gal. 3:28). Both Old and New Testaments also 8. In both men and women a heartfelt 2. Distinctions in masculine and femi- affirm the principle of male headship in sense of call to ministry should never nine roles are ordained by God as part the family and in the covenant com- be used to set aside biblical criteria for of the created order, and should find an munity (Gen. 2:18; Eph. 5:21-33; Col. particular ministries (1 Tim. 2:11-15, echo in every human heart (Gen. 2:18, 3:18-19; 1 Tim. 2:11-15). 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-9). Rather, biblical 21-24; 1 Cor. 11:7-9; 1 Tim. 2:12-14). teaching should remain the authority for testing our subjective discernment 6. Redemption in Christ aims at of God’s will. 3. Adam’s headship in marriage was removing the distortions introduced by established by God before the Fall, and the curse. was not a result of sin (Gen. 2:16-18, 9. With half the world’s population 21-24, 3:1-13; 1 Cor. 11:7-9). • In the family, husbands should forsake outside the reach of indigenous evan- JBMW harsh or selfish leadership and grow gelism; with countless other lost people in love and care for their wives; wives in those societies that have heard the 4. The Fall introduced distortions into should forsake resistance to their gospel; with the stresses and miseries MANHOOD & WOMANHOOD the relationships between men and husbands’ authority and grow in willing, of sickness, malnutrition, homeless- women (Gen. 3:1-7, 12, 16). joyful submission to their husbands’ ness, illiteracy, ignorance, aging, ad- leadership (Eph. 5:21-33; Col. 3:18-19; diction, crime, incarceration, neuroses, • In the home, the husband’s loving, Titus 2:3-5; 1 Pet. 3:1-7). and loneliness, no man or woman who humble headship tends to be replaced feels a passion from God to make His by domination or passivity; the wife’s • In the church, redemption in Christ grace known in word and deed need intelligent, willing submission tends to gives men and women an equal share ever live without a fulfilling ministry for be replaced by usurpation or servility. in the blessings of salvation; neverthe- the glory of Christ and the good of this Fall 2009 Fall less, some governing and teaching fallen world (1 Cor. 12:7-21). • In the church, sin inclines men toward roles within the church are restricted to a worldly love of power or an abdication men (Gal. 3:28; 1 Cor. 11:2-16; 1 Tim. of spiritual responsibility and inclines 2:11-15). 10. We are convinced that a denial or women to resist limitations on their roles neglect of these principles will lead to or to neglect the use of their gifts in ap- increasingly destructive consequences propriate ministries. 7. In all of life Christ is the supreme in our families, our churches, and the authority and guide for men and culture at large. women, so that no earthly submission —domestic, religious, or civil—ever Articles Include: Sorry, President Carter … This Argument Falls Flat R. Albert Mohler Jr. NON PROFIT ORG US POSTAGE PAID 2825 Lexington Road • Box 926 LOUISVILLE, KY You've Come a Long Way, Baby Louisville, KY 40280 PERMIT #1545 Mary A. Kassian The Syntax of 1 Timothy 2:12: A Rejoinder to Philip B. Payne Andreas J. Köstenberger "Son of Man" or "Human Beings"? 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Cowan CBMW is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. 77 Annotated Bibliography for Gender-Related Books in 2008 Jeff D. Breeding JBMW | Fall 2009 1 Standard Fare Editorial: A Critical Look at the Barna Study on the Religious Life of Homosexuals Denny Burk Editor, The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Dean of Boyce College Associate Professor of New Testament The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky Introduction Luther and the other Reformers, the sale of indul- Martin Luther is reported to have said that gences amounted to a nullification of the Bible’s gospel preachers disgrace themselves by failing to teaching about justification and grace. Justification take a stand on God’s word in the face of opposi- by grace through faith alone in the work of Christ tion. alone were doctrines under siege because of a tradi- tion that did not accept sola scriptura. The Reform- If I profess with the loudest voice and ers understood that the authority of the Bible itself clearest exposition every portion of the was at stake, and in that sense the Reformation Word of God except precisely that little became a battle for the Bible. That battle would point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not con- have been lost, however, had faithful believers such fessing Christ, however boldly I may be as Luther failed to identify those places at which professing Him. Where the battle rages the assault on biblical truth was most fierce. To there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; shrink back from that fight was nothing less than a and to be steady on all the battle front cowardly capitulation to the enemies of truth. besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he In every generation, Christians face opposi- 1 flinches at that point. tion to the word of God that they profess. Some- times the attacks are subtle. Sometimes they are In his day, Luther stood against a Roman not. The issues vary, but the opposition from the Catholicism that sold indulgences to parishioners enemy does not. His line of attack is ancient: “Hath so that they might buy forgiveness of sins. For God really said?” (Gen 3:1). Has God really said Council members Daniel Heimbach Dorothy Patterson Nancy Leigh DeMoss Charles S. & Rhonda H. Kelley J. Stanley oakes Joseph M. Stowell III Daniel L. Akin H. Wayne House John Piper Lane T. Dennis Beverly LaHaye Raymond C. ortlund Jr. Larry Walker Donald Balasa Susan Hunt James Stahr Thomas R. Edgar Gordon R. Lewis J. I. Packer Stu Weber James Borland Elliott Johnson K. Erik Thoennes John Frame Robert Lewis Paige Patterson William Weinrich Austin Chapman Peter Jones Bruce A.