“In an earlier age, nature was recognized as God’s creation, expressing God’s purposes. Because our bodies are part of nature, the human body has a purpose too. The biological correspondence between male and female in reproduction is part of the original creation that God pronounced “very good” — morally good — which means it provides a reference point for morality.”
Same-sex marriage supporters ignore biology and disrespect the human body, Nancy Pearcey argued in an interview with The Christian Post about her new book, Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes.
Finding Truth uses Romans 1 to develop five principles that Christians can use to understand ideas that are antithetical to the Christian faith and articulate a response to those ideas. Those principles are: 1. Identify the idol. 2. Identify the idol’s reductionism. 3. Test the idol: Does it contradict what we know about the world? 4. Test the idol: Does it contradict itself? 5. Replace the idol: Make the case for Christianity.
Each of the book’s core chapters teaches how to use each principle. The back of the book contains a study guide to further help readers, or small groups, learn to use the principles.
In part one of her CP interview, Pearcey said she wrote the book mainly out of a concern that young Christians are not getting the tools they need to grapple with difficult questions, and when they lack such tools they are more likely to fall away from the faith.
In this part two of the interview, Pearcey was asked to demonstrate how to apply those principles by addressing the topic of same-sex marriage.
Here is the transcript of her emailed response:
CP: You say that the five principles you discuss are not just for communicating with those outside the Church but within the Church as well, because the Church can also be influenced by non-biblical ideas. Can you illustrate that with the current controversy over marriage? How would you use the principles to think about the churches and Christians that believe marriage is also for same-sex couples?
Pearcey: Secularists claim that their view of same-sex marriage is an expression of respect. But surprisingly, the underlying worldview is actually a disrespectful view of the human body.
In an earlier age, nature was recognized as God’s creation, expressing God’s purposes. Because our bodies are part of nature, the human body has a purpose too. The biological correspondence between male and female in reproduction is part of the original creation that God pronounced “very good” — morally good — which means it provides a reference point for morality.
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