Today, on renewing your mind, we can fight, we can protest, we can oppose, we can vote for, and vote against,

we can remain steadfastly committed to our principles in the world, but at the end of the day,

progressives and progressivism always wins, because conservatives always have to move their way in order to compromise

in order to be considered nice.

What we have to make sure of is that it doesn't creep into the church.

At St. Petersburg Parsons addressing one of the many questions that our teaching fellows and speakers fielded during our 2022

Ligonier Ministries National Conference, our theme was upholding Christian ethics.

So the questions focused on some of the challenging issues that we face in a world that is increasingly hostile to biblical Christianity.

So let's dive into some of those questions now. Our moderator is Ligonier's president and CEO Chris Larson.

Does God ever approve of dishonesty?

It's a general question, but Tenerra Downe was Rehab's dishonesty approved by God in Joshua 2.

Yeah, so what I think sometimes we look at in the text as a falsehood actually at times would not be a falsehood if we knew more about the text.

For instance, the midwives are always thrown out as that.

Well, I think if you do a little bit more deep dive into the text and you understand how many midwives there would be and who were the midwives and et cetera,

I think what they're saying is by the time when I'm not saying that they aren't finding the ways to clutter their calendar that they didn't get there at the delivery point,

but they're in fact they would deliver quicker than they could get there for various reasons.

And I think they're taking a valid point and making it.

And so I think sometimes when we claim that there is a falsehood there, I'm not sure that we understand the context.

So I would at least put that out as a beginning point. So if they come to me and say to me in World War II, do you have any Jews in your house?

Well, I know what they're asking me. They're not saying all that they're asking me. They're asking me, do you have any Jews in your house for me to kill?

And the answer is no. I don't have any Jews in the house for you to kill.

I may have some Jews in the house, but they're not here for you to kill.

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