He self-identifies with the label “heterosexual.” As he says the phrase “all heterosexual men,” Keller holds his hand against his own chest, indicating that he is part of this category. Rather than tackling any of these issues, I instead want to call your attention toward two notable features of Keller’s statement:įirst, note the hand motion Keller makes at this moment in the video. I prefer to interpret this biblical text more literally than Keller does-though I’d also readily admit that Keller’s theological mind is undoubtedly superior to mine in a multitude of ways.) Keller seems instead to propose that Jesus was tempted only in some ways, not precisely as we are. I confess I have difficulty squaring his argument with the assertion of Hebrews 4:15 that Jesus was tempted “in every way, just as we are” (NIV). (This view requires believing, as Keller argues later in the same video, that Jesus never experienced any sexual temptation. I’m not even interested, for our present purposes, in dealing with Keller’s claim that the mere ability to experience sexual desire outside the covenant of marriage is itself sinful. Because I try (as much as humanly possible) to limit my commentary on denominations with which I’m not personally aligned, I won’t pretend to rehash all the controversies surrounding this particular document.Įmbodied: The Latest from Preston Sprinkle Indeed, this particular video was created by Keller and fellow committee member Kevin DeYoung as part of their presentation of this report to the PCA’s 2021 General Assembly. The “text” Keller refers to is a lengthy report created for the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) by their Ad Interim Committee (AIC) on Human Sexuality-a report of which Keller himself was a key author. And we have to be very careful not to say, ‘Well, to desire a man is unnatural, to desire a woman is natural, so one of those is a more sinful desire than the other.’ This text is actually saying ‘No’ that basically, they are both equally illicit, they are both equally wrong.” But the fact is, because we’re not perfectly sanctified, all heterosexual men who are married have that ability to desire that, and that is illicit. “If I was perfectly sanctified, I would have no ability to even… sexually desire a woman other than my spouse. Ī few days ago, I stumbled across this video of Tim Keller making the following statement about human sexuality: Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers.
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