Answer 9.5b: Webb’s authority is not the teaching of the New Testament but the goal he thinks the New Testament was moving toward. Someone may object at this point, “Doesn’t everyone have to use some kind of cultural filter like this? Doesn’t everyone have to test the New Testament commands to see if they are culturally relative or transcultural, before deciding whether to obey them?” There is a significant difference in approach. Most evangelicals (including me) believe we are under the moral authority