The Trinity and Gender Roles
Sons of Patriarchy
Peter Bell & Sarah Bader
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🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Join us as we talk with repeat guest Jeff Moss, a former CREC Minister, who has over a decade of experience "in the system."
The Trinity is the bedrock of the Christian faith: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. But what happens when you've entered into a culture war? The perceived "feminization" of the Evangelical church presents to you a problem: how do we fight this?
Enter the old heresy of the Father as "authority" and the Son as "submission." The man in the marriage mirrors God the Father's role, while the wife is subjugated to that of the Son. What better to keep women under control than to tell them to "suffer like Jesus." The Trinity then becomes the foundation for gender roles.
Let's fix this.
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| 0:00.0 | There are words that evade attempts to definition. |
| 0:04.0 | Not because they can't be defined, but any definition seems to limit them. |
| 0:09.0 | Blunt their force. |
| 0:11.0 | Defining these words seems to lessen them, box them in, confine them. |
| 0:16.0 | Love, for example. |
| 0:18.0 | An intense feeling of deep affection. |
| 0:23.4 | Doesn't quite capture it, does it? |
| 0:24.8 | Infinity. |
| 0:28.3 | The state or quality of being infinite. |
| 0:32.3 | Using the same word to define it is odd. |
| 0:33.8 | Hatred. |
| 0:36.3 | Intense dislike or ill will. |
| 0:40.5 | Just borrowed from love. Definitions can capture an aspect of a word, but not their entirety. |
| 0:44.2 | We use metaphors, simile, art, music, and the like to more fully capture what we mean. |
| 0:50.1 | So take love. |
| 0:52.3 | The look from the groom, the moment he sees his bride walking down the aisle, knowing |
| 0:56.6 | they will spend the rest of their lives together and everything that entails. |
| 1:01.4 | Or when a mother looks at her child for the first time, cradling her arms the moment she's given |
| 1:05.3 | birth. |
| 1:06.3 | Love so profound, overwhelming, and all-encompassing, you just can't define it. |
| 1:13.2 | The same for infinity. |
| 1:17.8 | Rather than a definition, look up into the depths of space. |
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