Well it finally happened and I had my interview on the Alan Colmes radio show on Fox News Radio.
As I stated previously – Alan Colmes is a liberal and I did not expect him to affirm my Biblical beliefs at all.
I was somewhat taken by surprise when he started off our interview accusing me of being anti-sematic (hating Jews) for their having Christ crucified. He was referring to a quote I have on my About Me page:
“The pen name I write under is Larry Solomon. The reason I do not use my real name is the same reason that Christ hid himself from Jews:
“Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.” – John 8:59 (KJV)
It was not Christ’s time to die and it’s not my time to go public. And no – I don’t have a Messiah complex! But the Scriptures tell us:
“Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.” – I John 2:6
I am not the Savior, but rather I want to walk as my Savior walked as he grants me the grace to do so. I am not a prophet nor a preacher. I am simply a man saved by the sacrifice of his savior, a sinner saved by grace. A forgiven man with a Bible in his hands teaching his children and whomever wants to listen – the Word of God.”
The “they” in John 8:59 were Jesus’s fellow Jews taking up stones to kill him for claiming to be God.
This is the passage with more context added.
“56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.” – John 8:56-59 (KJV)
It is crystal clear from this passage that it was his fellow Jews that wanted to stone him.
Also we can see here that the Jews were the ones who asked the Romans to crucify Jesus:
“22 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.” – Matthew 27:22-25 (KJV)
He continued to say that my position that the Jews killed Jesus was wrong and offensive to Jews at which point I told him it was offensive to Christians to be told that the New Testament was wrong about who had Jesus crucified. While the Romans did the actual killing, it was the Jews who demanded it.
To say the Jews were not just as guilty for his death as the Romans would be like saying if you hired a hitman to kill someone you are not complicit in their murder. It is absurd to make such a claim.
But just because the Jews had Christ killed does not mean I hate Jews! I love the Jews. God wants to save them and he wants them to accept their Messiah. Some Christians in centuries past and some even today have shown hatred toward the Jews and that is absolutely wrong!
On a more personal note, if I hated the Jews – I would by hating my own ancestors (great great grand parents) who were Jewish Germans that immigrated to America.
When we got to the subject of marriage he asked me if I thought marriage was an equal partnership and I told him “No – the Bible never shows marriage as a partnership, but rather as a patriarchy”.
Alan tried to pull the verse that all Christian feminists use to try and cancel out every other passage of Scripture that shows marriage as a patriarchy and that is Ephesians 5:21.
Alan accused me of “cherry picking” because I said Ephesians 5:21 was speaking about submission of church members in the assembly and it was not speaking of the relationship between husbands and wives.
“21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.” – Ephesians 5:21-24 (KJV)
But the truth is he and those who take his position that the Bible presents marriage as an equal partnership are wrong. They are the ones who are misapplying the Scriptures. You cannot take Ephesians 5:21 and cancel out what is said in the next verses about how a wife is to submit to her husband in “everything” or every other passage of Scripture that tells women to submit to their husbands. Now who is cherry picking?
My wife when she heard Alan about submission said “This is basic Christianity 101 – if you read your Bible you know women are to submit to their husbands. Now we might not always feel like it and we might not always do it – but we know we are supposed to”.
I so wished he would have given me more time to elaborate on the fact that while wives are to submit to their husbands, husbands are to love their wives sacrificially and provide for them and protect them as they would their own body.
I am going to try and get that out the next time I talk to him.
Oh and for lady that said the NIV translation of the Bible does not show a wife submitting let me show you.
“22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.” – Ephesians 5:22-24 (NIV)
Yep – its there.
Now the NIV does not always get the translation right and they do mess up some other verses where they are not faithful to literal Greek rendering. But this is not one of those cases.
It was brought up by some callers after my interview ended that in Christian marriage husbands are to be servant leaders as Christ himself was a servant leader.
I don’t disagree that Christ was a servant leader or that husbands should be servant leaders. But the way we are to serve our wives and the way our wives are to serve us according to God’s Word is very different.
Yes Jesus washed his apostles feet and he broke bread for them at the last supper. But Jesus did not spend the majority of this time washing people’s feet and serving tables. He spend the vast majority of his time doing the work of his ministry – doing his mission as all men should do.
So as husbands yes we ought to serve our wives. Sometimes that might mean taking care of them when they are sick, or helping out with some things around the house when they are overwhelmed. But the majority of a husband’s service is not in these areas – it is to be in the areas of leading his wife, providing for her, teaching her and protecting her.
“28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:” – Ephesians 5:28-29 (KJV)
On the wife’s side – the way she is to primarily serve her husband is clear in the Scriptures:
“I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.” – I Timothy 5:14 (KJV)
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.” – Titus 2:4-5 (KJV)
The primary way a wife serves her husband is by bearing and caring for his children and his home.
The husband and wife serve each other by meeting each others sexual needs.
I think overall the interview went well considering I was in hostile territory.
Biblical Gender Roles 
Good grief I got involved in my son’s science fair project and lost track of time. I missed it. 😦
Just remembered about 20 minutes too late and read Dragonfly’s comments.
Is there any way to listen to it now or read a text?
Sounds like it was quite an interview!
Liz,
Here is a link that if you click on the bottom blue bar it will show you the last half of my interview with Alan Colmes. To hear the whole interview you have sign up for the podcast.
Thanks BGR, but I don’t see any bar or link?
Maybe it’s my browser or something (I use Safari).
Jesus is the Word made flesh, completely divine and completely human. He had the power to avoid crucifixion. If He had chosen to exercise His power, neither the Jews nor the Romans nor any other human power on Earth could have crucified Him. The reason that He allowed Himself to be crucified was for the salvation of mankind, which had fallen into sin. The Jews were sinners, so they bear responsibility for the crucifixion, but then so did the Romans. So did everyone else alive at that time. So did everyone who had lived before and sinned. So did everyone who lived after the crucifixion. So does everyone who lives today including you and I. If we all were not sinners, the Jews and the Romans would have never been able to crucify Christ. His blood is on all our hands. To assign special blame to the Jews (not saying that you were necessarily doing so) is to ignore the reasons for Christ’s sacrifice.