Joshua Harris and Purity Culture
Reasonable Faith Podcast
William Lane Craig
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm falling. I'm falling in love with you. |
| 0:28.8 | Dr. Greg on the last podcast we talked about a popular musician who was struggling with his faith and had some |
| 0:34.9 | questions that we'd address and so on. |
| 0:37.7 | This came at about the same time that another popular Christian said that his faith was on shaky grounds. |
| 0:45.0 | Josh Harris, Joshua Harris, had a million-seller book back in the early 2000s that he wrote when he was about 20 or 21 years old called |
| 0:55.6 | I Kissed Dating Goodbye. For some reason, Bill, this was very influential in the American church in particular and really tied in kind of |
| 1:06.5 | with the homeschooling movement and really made a lot of people say dating is bad, don't date, do something called courtship where you don't |
| 1:18.2 | even kiss or hold hands or anything like this. |
| 1:22.2 | And he later said that there was a lot in the book |
| 1:26.1 | and a lot in this whole purity culture that started |
| 1:30.0 | that he saw as harmful and he renounced it. |
| 1:33.6 | And now he's gone several steps further. |
| 1:35.7 | He's separating from his wife and he's renouncing his faith. |
| 1:40.9 | At this recording, we don't know where he is on these questions. But Bill |
| 1:46.2 | it sounds to me like maybe we need some sexual sanity here. Obviously |
| 1:51.6 | Christian teaching on sex is going to be at odds with what the culture |
| 1:56.3 | things. |
| 1:57.3 | Well, I think that's right, Kevin. |
| 1:59.0 | What I seem to understand here is that this is a falling away from the faith for moral reasons. It's not |
| 2:07.4 | intellectual reasons pertinent to the existence of God or the reliability of the Gospels or evidence for the resurrection of Jesus, |
| 2:17.5 | the grounds here seem to be moral grounds for rejecting Christianity and that indeed would be very serious and I |
| 2:28.3 | commend Josh Harris for his honesty at least he recognizes that he is not a Christian by any |
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