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I do not always agree with David Engelsma, but I did like this bit of sanctified sarcasm in response to the notion that the church needs to "repent" of its attitude to homosexuality:
It is some consolation to us - the true church of today that condemns homosexuality as explicitly as Bavinck did implicitly - that as we pour forth our mea culpas regarding our condemnation of homosexuality and practicing homosexuals we find the apostle Paul of Romans 1:18ff. on his knees next to us and, with him and us, the Holy Ghost, who inspired the passage, as well as I Corinthians 6:9, 10, I Timothy 1:10, and other passages that clearly and bluntly condemn homosexuality.
David J. Engelsma, 'Review of John Bolt's Bavinck on the Christian Life', Protestant Reformed Theological Journal, 50, no. 1 (Nov. 2016), p. 117.
It is some consolation to us - the true church of today that condemns homosexuality as explicitly as Bavinck did implicitly - that as we pour forth our mea culpas regarding our condemnation of homosexuality and practicing homosexuals we find the apostle Paul of Romans 1:18ff. on his knees next to us and, with him and us, the Holy Ghost, who inspired the passage, as well as I Corinthians 6:9, 10, I Timothy 1:10, and other passages that clearly and bluntly condemn homosexuality.
David J. Engelsma, 'Review of John Bolt's Bavinck on the Christian Life', Protestant Reformed Theological Journal, 50, no. 1 (Nov. 2016), p. 117.