Christian author and Bible teacher Beth Moore is leaving the social platform Twitter “for a bit.” Moore said, “I don’t trust myself. Gonna punch somebody. I can either get ugly or get off.” Moore recently announced she no longer identifies as a member of the Southern Baptist Convention and is leaving the largest Protestant denomination in the United States.
Moore is extremely active on Twitter where she has has over 980k followers, usually posting multiple times a day. Recently she has been defending her views on complementarianism, one of the main reasons she gave for leaving the SBC.
A Twitter post she wrote a week ago led to over 500 comments on this single thread: “Let me be blunt. When you functionally treat complementarianism—a doctrine of MAN—as if it belongs among the matters of 1st importance, yea, as a litmus test for where one stands on inerrancy & authority of Scripture, you are the ones who have misused Scripture. You went too far.”
In the same thread, she issued an apology for supporting complementarian theology and pleaded with her followers by saying, “I beg your forgiveness where I was complicit. I could not see it for what it was until 2016. I plead your forgiveness for how I just submitted to it and supported it and taught it. I trusted that the motives were godly. I have not lost my mind. Nor my doctrine. Just my naivety.”
Moore followed that up with telling men not to respond boldly, saying, “And, dudes, do not DM me. Spend your energy tending to your house.”
