I could see an apologist for the cultural moment lean into expressive individualism and say

something in the effect of how dare you tell somebody to oppress, to sustain their desires.

What we ought to do is look within ourselves and find the desires that are there.

The only way that we can really be an authentic version of our own selves is if we express

our desires.

What I would say to that is use the word rubric.

I love that because we should look at our desires from a biblical rubric versus a cultural

one.

Because the culture is ultimately telling you to do the same things.

The cultural gives you a rubric for saying these feelings are okay and these feelings

are not.

As an example, if you're walking down the street and you have this desire to commit murder,

the expressive individualist wouldn't say go ahead and do that.

No, we have a cultural rubric that says don't commit murder.

That's a feeling and expression that you should not be your authentic self for.

So essentially all we're saying is like, look, the culture has a rubric for you on how

to express yourself, but it's broken.

The scriptures give us a better understanding of how to express ourselves through who

God created us to be, which often means to deny certain feelings that we might have

like murder or same-sex attraction.

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It's full of a lot of lighthouses and I personally, gentlemen, had the privilege of seeing one

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