FEBC Ammends Nashville Statement The Nashville Statement – A Coalition for Biblical Sexuality | As amended by the Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches Article 1 WE AFFIRM that God has designed marriage to be a covenantal, sexual, procreative, lifelong union of one man


and one woman, as husband and wife, and is meant to signify the covenant love between Christ and his bride, the church.


WE DENY that God has designed marriage to be a homosexual, polygamous, or polyamorous relationship. We also deny that marriage is a mere human contract rather than a covenant made before God.


Article 2 WE AFFIRM that God’s revealed will for all people is chastity outside of marriage and fidelity within marriage.


WE DENY that any affections, desires, or commitments ever justify sexual intercourse before or outside marriage; nor do they justify any form of sexual immorality.


Article 3


WE AFFIRM that God created Adam and Eve, the first human beings, in his own image, equal before God as per- sons, and distinct as male and female.


WE DENY that the divinely ordained differences between male and female render them unequal in dignity or worth. Article 4


WE AFFIRM that divinely ordained differences between male and female reflect God’s original creation design and are meant for human good and human flourishing.


WE DENY that such differences are a result of the Fall or are a tragedy to be overcome. Article 5


WE AFFIRM that the differences between male and female reproductive structures are integral to God’s design for self-conception as male or female.


WE DENY that physical anomalies or psychological conditions nullify the God-appointed link between biological sex and self-conception as male or female.


Article 6


WE AFFIRM that those born with a physical disorder of sex development are created in the image of God and have dignity and worth equal to all other image-bearers. They are acknowledged by our Lord Jesus in his words


about “eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb.” With all others they are welcome as faithful followers of Jesus Christ and should embrace their biological sex insofar as it may be known.


WE DENY that ambiguities related to a person’s biological sex render one incapable of living a fruitful life in joyful obedience to Christ.


Article 7


WE AFFIRM that self-conception as male or female should be defined by God’s holy purposes in creation and redemption as revealed in Scripture.


WE DENY that adopting a homosexual or transgender self-conception is consistent with God’s holy purposes in creation and redemption.


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