I’ve just accepted Brett Noll into membership of the discussion group. He is a worshiper of John MacArthur and is limited in scope for this discussion.
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I’ve just accepted Brett Noll into membership of the discussion group. He is a worshiper of John MacArthur and is limited in scope for this discussion.
Lol
Anyone who likes john macarthur might need to repent.
I am unfamiliar with John MacArthur except for his name… Why the bad rap?
John MacArthur is the Evangelical equivalent of Jimmy Swaggart — they both think they know everything and it is their responsibility to condemn anyone who disagrees with them.
John macauthur is a cessationist and teaches that god will understand if you take the mark of the beast. He pretty much hates everything Pentecostal or charismatic.
John MacArthur is a mega-church pastor in California. He comes on the radio and TV. He has long been a dispensationalist, and some would say he has rebranded himself as a Calvinist. Maybe he’s been a Calvinist all along, but he’s a big proponent of that sort of thing, too.
He’s also known for opposing the Charismatic movement. He’s written three books against certain modern day spiritual gifts. The most recent one was Strange Fire. He held a whole conference for Strange Fire. The conference was lacking in any real Biblical argument against the gifts. I watched the main sermons on it, not all the breakout stuff, online. It was pretty sad.
Anyway, I can appreciate that John MacArthur has spent a lot of time studying the Bible and he seems to be really diligent about that. He is also bold on Larry King when asked about homosexuality or whether Mormons are saved, etc. I can appreciate that. I got a commentary of his on Matthew at a thrift store that had some pretty informative stuff about it.
But it seems like he’s got some serious blinders about spiritual gifts. The worst sermon I ever heard or read on I Corinthians 14 was his. It seemed downright blasphemous to me. He was so anti-tongues that he considered the tongues the Corinthians were speaking to be pagan. He tried to tie ‘speaks mysteries with his spirit’ to the Greek mystery religions. We call those religions that now, but Paul uses ‘mystery’ consistently for positive things in the New Testament. The logical conclusion if one believed his assertions was that Paul wanted the Corinthians to interpret their pagan utterances to edify the assembly.
Charles Page you should have some rules on joining this group. Maybe people who are now or were at one time Church of God or the very least have a love for COG History and heritage along with a desire to see it prosper.