Evangelicalism is filled with far too many unqualified people holding the pastoral office. We run these seminaries like diploma mills, and after a few years of course study, we give them a certificate that says they’re qualified to lead a congregation of thousands of people.
But they aren’t.
This is just one of many, many examples.
A Southern Baptist pastor named Tyler Edwards at Carolina Forest Community Church in South Carolina recently preached a sermon where he described sex as a “symbol of the Trinity.”
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Like, where do you even get that from, bruh?
It ain’t from the Bible.
Here’s the clip. Listen for yourself:
So, honestly, this is a first. If any of you have ever heard this treatment before, let me know. But he goes on to explain how the sexual union between a husband and wife helps us understand how God can be three in one.
The analogy doesn’t work—I just don’t see how that would make sense at all. And if you actually, truly apply it logically to the Trinity, you have no choice but to land on heresy.
Historically, the church has believed and taught that God is one in essence and eternally exists in three distinct, uncreated, coequal persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. If we apply Edwards’ logic, it would seem that he would be saying that the three persons of the Godhead somehow “come together” to create one God.
Edwards seems to be confusing two completely different kinds of unions and his reasoning, worked out to its logical conclusion, would suggest three distinct and separate beings combine to form God.
That would be heresy.
Genesis 2:24 establishes the one-flesh union between husband and wife, and in Ephesians 5:31–32, Paul explicitly explains the mystery that marriage represents, which is the bond between Christ and His bride, the church. The sexual union belongs exclusively within the covenant of marriage and marriage itself is a picture of Christ’s covenantal relationship with His church.
That’s it. There is no further mystery to be uncovered or read into the Trinity, the hypostatic union, or any other union in Scripture.
But these unqualified pastors are very good at inventing analogies and providing descriptions of biblical doctrines that don’t actually align with the Scriptures. This is a huge problem in the Church today. Multiple studies show that the vast majority of professing Evangelicals are intellectually vapid when it comes to doctrine.
But churches are far more interested in finding a personality rather than a shepherd. Because personality sells seats—pews—and helps keep the doors of these megachurches open. People don’t care about right doctrine. They just want to be entertained.
And the church is paying the price for it.
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