Our family watched this with great edification some time back. God is even greater than unnatural affections, and He still makes trophies of rejects and outcasts. Not Reformed, but close enough for Reformed folk to appreciate. “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Cor. 6:9-11).
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“Such were some of you”
Posted in Gender & Sexuality, Redemption Applied, Secularization on April 12, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Demonic Nephilim, hold the hybrid?
Posted in Anthropology, Biblical Interpretation, Gender & Sexuality, Spiritual Warfare; the Occult, WPE Editor on October 28, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Who were the Nephilim of Genesis 6? I have long defaulted to the traditional Protestant interpretation, that they were the product of the lawless blending of the Sethite line with the heathen. Given the analogy of faith, Matthew 22:30 appears to close that door for us rather firmly. The angels “neither marry nor are given in marriage.” And the thought of a mongrel tertium quid between humans and demons just opens a theological Pandora’s box in my mind.
Yet, I am open at least to a variant option. Meredith Kline advanced a unique interpretation of Genesis 6 and the “sons of God.” In the article appended below, Kline argues that these “sons of God” who married the “daughters of men” were princes of the earth (following Psalm 82), and/or heroic, quasi-legendary figures. Maybe even degenerate Sethites drunk on power and glory? In any case, if Kline is on to something, what if these “sons of God” made a Faustian bargain with demonic powers in order to advance their intellectual and physical prowess for even greater domination and glory? Then genetic alteration happens (or a kind of reversal of post-fall physical decline?) along the lines of the Gadarene demoniac, etc. Then these demonically ‘souped-up’ heroes procreate with reckless abandon. And thus you get the Nephilim-giants with demonic sexual influence—something that has been increasingly entertained within evangelicalism in more recent years, such as with Michael Heiser—yet without recourse to the problematic man-demon hybrid theory.
And as always, standard caveats! I am hardly a “Klinian.”
Beeke, “Keys to a Strong Christian Marriage”
Posted in Christian Ethics, Family & Family Issues, Family Religion, Gender & Sexuality, Motherhood & Childbearing on September 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Warfield, “Paul on Women Speaking in the Church”
Posted in Church Order & Discipline, Feminism & Egalitarianism, Gender & Sexuality, Paternalism & Patriarchy, tagged 1-corinthians, bible, christianity, church, jesus on December 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The following is an article written in 1919 by Dr. Benjamin B. Warfield. Prof. Warfield was an orthodox theological heavyweight who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary in the early 20th century, until the institution tragically succumbed to theological liberalism in the late 1920s. He here addresses the question of Paul’s words prohibiting women to speak in the assemblies of the church. A digitized version can be accessed here.
West Port Experiment 