Zach Uram's Blog

For nearly 2,000 years, from the time of Christ, until the 1960s, it was the universal practice of the Christian churches for women to headcover.

Sadly, with the destruction unleashed upon society by the Satanic feminist movement in the later half of the 1960s, head covering for women was largely abandoned. The so-called sexual revolution of the 1960s was absolutely wicked and brought about the destruction of many families.

A Christian woman who headcovers is displaying her obedience to God, as well as showing she submits to both God’s authority, as well as her husband’s God-given authority!

In the book Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane Ortlund. He portrays a meek and mild Christ.

The book is aimed at Christians suffering from discouragement and depression. Ortlund asserts (based on a single sentence by Christ) that Jesus is fundamentally gentle and lowly in His essence.

The biblical Christ is tough and mighty. He will be returning as the fearsome Lion of Judah.

Ortlund’s Christ is divorced from His biblical attributes. He overemphasizes one aspect of Christ, and asserts that aspect is fundamental and who Christ truly is at the core. This is eisegesis.

Ortlund promotes an insipid, weak, feminine, and milquetoast hippie Christ.

It teaches the false doctrine that some of God’s attributes are more essentially His nature than others, and those attributes which are most essential are gentleness and lowliness.

The false teaching of Crossway’s “Gentle and Lowly”

The 7 utterances of Jesus on the cross were: 

• His prayer to God in behalf of His tormentors (Matthew 23:34); 
• His reply to the dying thief (Luke 23:39-43); 
• He requested the disciple whom He loved to take care of His mother (John 19:25-27); 
• He prayed to God, asking why He had been forsaken (Matthew 27:45-47); 
• He said that He was thirsty (John 19:28); 
• He declared that it was finished (John 19:30); 
• He commended His Spirit into the hands of His Father (Luke 23:46).

Sadly, Reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin both advocated for the murder of those who differed in doctrine such as the Anabaptists.

It’s ironic that Luther, who the Catholic church wanted to murder for his differing doctrine, would himself advocate similarly for the murder of the Anabaptists whom he detested.

Luther favored infant baptism, and not only that he affirmed baptismal regeneration – the doctrine that the act of water baptism (which is a work) is itself salvific.

Calvin likewise affirmed infant baptism as being biblical and he called for the state to execute those who differed on this point of doctrine.

We must not judge too harshly, those who lived in the time of the Reformers, using modern sensibilities. During their time there was no separation between church and state. Having said that, advocating for the murder of dissidents was clearly sinful.

I can affirm this! I’ve seen the exact thing regarding “Reformed” women for the past 10 years.

I’ve been a member of some Reformed singles groups, and once biblical womanhood and the patriarchal order of society were mentioned these women would start pushing back hard claiming they have freedom in Christ to have full-time careers, etc. It was very discouraging. They sounded just like the feminists of the world. By the way, nearly all of them identified as complementarians, even though their talking points and attitudes fit squarely in the egalitarian camp. This is why I find patriarchy to be biblical and complementarianism to be unbiblical!

Nothing makes these women get their dander up like a Reformed man saying it is biblical for his future wife to submit to his God-given authority!

It saddens me that older Reformed women (especially these women’s mothers and grandmothers) are not raising up their daughters properly and in line with Scripture.

This perfectly illustrates how completely feminism has infected all strata of society, even the Church!!