“I have found, especially in the area of sexual abuse, details do not really bless and edify. The abuse, which Moore references regularly in her work, came from outside the immediate family, but Moore is as deliberately nebulous about describing it in interviews as she is in books and videos. “I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.”īack then she wanted to keep the abuse as private as possible. “Any time something huge like that has happened to you, there really is not a lot of gray for people like us,” Moore says. Although her revelations about an abusive father position Moore to receive empathy and support as the object of masculine toxicity, in an earlier brush with greatness (2010) in the pages of Christianity Today, coverage of a recent book on insecurity also revealed that she had been abused as a child.įor example, Moore says, her own insecurity largely stemmed from the sexual abuse she experienced as a child. Two aspects of this recent media attention to Beth Moore are odd. It does work to Russell Moore’s advantage to portray the SBC this way since his outspokenness about politics during the Trump presidency cost him support from various sectors of the Convention. Russell Moore generally plays along and interviews Beth Moore delicately all the while underscoring how badly Southern Baptists treated her. According to one summary, Moore writes of her father that “No kind of good dad does what my dad did to me.” She also explains how she and her sister saved their parent’s marriage even when they suspected their father was cheating on their mother.įor someone for whom the abuse of women is a reason to drop what you’re doing, isn’t Moore here guilty of what she faulted the SBC leadership for doing - enabling an abusive father and husband in a co-dependent relationship? The interview comes after a story about her memoir in which she acknowledges her father’s abuse. Why is her experience with abuse such a big deal right now? And why didn’t Russell Moore do more (along with editors at Christianity Today) to push Beth Moore to be fully candid about her past? In one example, she pits the words of the Apostle Paul against the words of Jesus.Russell Moore’s interview with Beth Moore got me thinking. She also pits Scripture against other Scripture and tries to force them to contradict each other. Romans 3:11 says “no one understands no one seeks for God.” We are born in a state of rebellion against God, with a sin nature. What Beth Moore fails to acknowledge, though, is that we are not born with a drive to seek out the things of God. Comparing Adam to the creation of the “very first search engine,” Moore asserts that people are “born with a drive to seek out the things that are of God.” One example of this is by arguing that people are inherently good and are “born with a drive to seek God.” Beth Moore makes a strange comparison of man to search engines. Yet, in one of the rare situations where Beth Moore actually wrote something biblically sound and true - a clear position on the sinfulness of homosexuality - she later retracts the statement and insists that she’s “exceeded Scripture” and then said that by writing that, she was “doing more harm than good.”īeth Moore consistently contradicts Scripture–she does so because she knows that the way she says things will be popular with her gullible audiences. She also insisted that God told her in a dream to go to a bus stop she’d never been to before, find a random woman, and give her money.
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