Welcome back to a new week of episodes along with a Christmas episode queued up for Wednesday

just the season.

But today we talk ethics pastor John.

What do you say to those who hold to a trajectory hermeneutic?

Proponents of this view would say something like this, sure, we read in the epistles that

women cannot lead churches, but that was only temporary.

All had close associates in the ministry that were women, therefore Paul's embrace of

women as ministry associates, really sets a trajectory that should develop over time and

lead the church to later embrace the ordination of women.

That's just one issue.

Other issues are used like slavery and homosexuality.

The question really is then, in other words, are the ethics of the New Testament final or

are New Testament ethics to be interpreted as undeveloped and moving along a trajectory

we must follow out and find apart from the New Testament text?

Yeah, this is a pretty sophisticated issue.

So hold on to your hats and let me give a stab at it.

The gist of this view is that we can identify a state of affairs as ideal or different

from what is presented in the New Testament as ideal or normative, at least presently,

and then justify going in a different direction than the New Testament because of clues in

the Bible that we should do things differently than the Bible teaches.

That's the gist of it.

The main issues are the role of women in slavery, but others as well.

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