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Originally Posted by HaigLaw  I don't recall anyone criticizing Piper for being a Baptist, or saying these passages are easy.
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On criticizing Piper as a Baptist . . .
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Piper is a great man. Piper is a Baptist. Baptists have a warped view of the Old Testament. A proper Reformed methodology would be to interpret the assumptions of Christ's audience by what they had read and understood from the Law, which allows divorce.
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On saying that these passages are easy . . .
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Bingo. I think we stray into error when we allow personal convictions to be our presupposition to scripture. The text is not ambiguous.
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I always thought those passages were crystal clear
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My view has changed a bit over the years. I will try to explain later tomorrow.
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Dennis E. McFadden, Ex Mainline Baptist (in Remission)
Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)
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