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Question 8
Finny quoted Francis Schaeffer’s warning that feminism became an “accommodation” so severe that some leaders altered their view of biblical inerrancy, calling it a “Trojan horse”; where have you seen (in yourself, your church background, or your teachers) certain passages about men and women treated as the weak link that quietly determines whether the whole Bible is trusted, and what would repentance look like if that’s true?
Another way to ask: Where have you seen Bible passages about men and women treated like the “weak spot” that decides whether people trust the whole Bible? If that’s true in you or your church, what would repentance look like?

Direct Answer Finny suggests passages on men and women can become the “weak link” where people decide the Bible must be partly wrong, and then inerrancy collapses from there. Repentance, in his framing, would mean stopping the deliberate “bending of the Bible” to match the age and returning to humble, childlike submission to what Scripture actually says.

Support from Transcript:

  • He quotes Schaeffer (1984) describing “accommodation” to the “world spirit of this age” in marriage/family/feminism.
  • Key line: “Some evangelical leaders… have changed their views about inerrancy as a direct consequence of trying to come to terms with feminism.”
  • Finny explains the mechanism: people read Paul and say, “Ah, well, that can’t be true. The Bible must be a mixture of human wrong ideas with divine correct ideas.”
  • He calls it a “Trojan horse”: once people question a “cluster of passages” (1 Cor 11, 1 Tim 2, Eph 5), “the whole thing starts to come down.”
  • Personal illustration: his wife “did not like Paul… had her Bible underlined in red… ‘wrong, wrong.’”
  • His alternative posture: “read… with childlike hearts that believe you, that believe your word.”
Discussion Follow-ups Finny doesn’t narrate a full repentance story, but he implies it involves admitting desire-driven resistance. What would it look like to confess, “I treated these texts as the test-case for whether God gets to be Lord over my thinking”?

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