Scripture and Gender (with Erik Thoennes)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This podcast episode is also available as a video on Biola's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvSlsNMJkB4 Biblically speaking, is our biological sex an essential part of our identity? Are there unique differences and roles for men and women? In this live interview, Sean and Scott talk with Biola professor Erik Thoennes and Scripture and gender. They also discuss some practical ways to love people with gender dysphoria. Dr. Erik Thoennes is committ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to ThinkBiblically, conversations on faith and culture.
0:05.0	It's a podcast from tablet school theology here at Biola University.
0:08.0	I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics.
0:12.0	I'm your co-host, Sean McDowell, Professor of Apologetics.
0:15.0	I want to welcome you to a special edition of our podcast today and let you know that you can
0:19.7	also view this on video at biola. Edu slash Think Biblically. So join us now for our
0:26.5	conversation with Dr Eric Thomas. Does the Bible say anything about sex and
0:31.3	gender? Are there differences between men and women?
0:35.3	Well given so much conversation about sexuality today in issues of gender in the
0:39.8	LGBTQ conversation, it's more important than ever
0:43.4	that we think carefully about this,
0:45.4	but also think biblically.
0:47.5	I'm here with my co-host Scott Ray from Talbot School Theology.
0:51.1	We have a guest today, Eric Taunis, a Bible teacher, beloved
0:54.8	professor, former football player who's willing to talk about these issues that a
0:59.6	lot of people want to avoid. So we're really grateful that you would come on and talk with us
1:04.4	about this. You're in the classroom with students. I see you bringing students when you
1:08.8	go out and speak. You have a lot of conversations with young people today about this. What are some of the questions
1:14.6	you're hearing them ask about issues of gender and as is tied to scripture?
1:18.7	Well, what's fascinating about that question is how much the questions have changed since I started teaching almost 25 years ago.
1:26.7	There used to be questions way further down the road of what does it look like to take leadership in a marriage or in the church.
1:35.0	Now the very existence of objective categories of male and female are up for grabs and being
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