{"id":955,"date":"2015-05-04T14:40:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=955"},"modified":"2015-05-04T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T18:40:47","slug":"danny-akin-on-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"Danny Akin on marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Danny Akin, The head of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, discusses same-sex marriage and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article20046918.html\" target=\"_blank\">explains why he is against it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In light of the clear and consistent teaching of the Bible, it is simply not possible for me to affirm or support same-sex marriage. In biblical terms, same-sex marriage is not possible because it is not marriage. Biblical marriage by definition is heterosexual marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because, you know, <i>Genesis<\/i> says so.<\/p>\n<p>I give Akin credit for this much: He is at least honest; the Bible says so, and that&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p>But-but-but &#8230; what if the Bible is <i>wrong?<\/i>  Oh, n-o-o-o &#8212; the Bible is <i>inerrant<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Did Akin intend, by his frankness, to give away the intellectual dishonesty of theology?  I doubt that, but he certainly has.  The truth of the Bible is <i>the first premise and not susceptible of examination<\/i>.  When he says the Bible is inerrant, it is pure assertion &#8212; an assertion not supported by facts, and in a great many matters contradicted by incontestable facts.<\/p>\n<p><i>That<\/i> is what he reasons from.  Theology is more like a game of &#8220;What if&#8221; than an intellectually serious enterprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Danny Akin, The head of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, discusses same-sex marriage and explains why he is against it. In light of the clear and consistent teaching of the Bible, it is simply not possible for me to affirm &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=955\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}