Friday, October 22, 2010

Two Blogs That Go to Different Extremes

The past wk, I have gone on the solasisters blog site. I know they want to defend the gospel and I applaud them there. However last wk I started getting into a debate over something that Billy Graham said and what I believe he meant. This blog is accusing Billy Graham of believing that people of other faiths will come to him, which is not true. Some people can be so concerned about things being black and white that they don't think God could use means such as dreams or wheatever else to draw people groups who would not have an opportunity to hear the gospel through conventional means. There are areas of the world that people might not have the opportunity but it does not mean that God could not intervene somehow in those situations. My mom has heard of stories like that. People who are so concerned about doctrinal purity and correctness can sometimes forget that God could reach people who would not easily have the chance to hear about him through dreams or whatever. These people would accept Jesus. I agree with them on John 14:6. I don't agree with them that the elect only lives in places where they have the chance to hear the gospel through conventional means. It might be easier in this day and age to reach a lot more with the gospel then in the past with technology and various Christian huminitarian organizations, however God might still speak to people in dreams.

A few months ago I debated with Jason Coker on a lot more serious issues. I hope that those contributors to pastoralia have been extremely decieved, since some of the contributors such as Jason and others have denied the substitutionary attonement of the Lord Jesus Christ for their sins, an essential in theology. I also debated with him about the Here and Now which denies Heaven and Hell, a major heresy pushed by McClaren. I also debated him about the fact he does not believe that Jesus will be riding on a horse with his army in the battle of Armageddon at the end. I saw another poster on solasisters where there was another guy who believed similarly. I don't know if he goes to a Vineyard, which is sad that many pastors and churches have allowed this heresy to preached in the pulpits. I go to a church in the Association of Vineyards where the pastors do take the Bible seriously and believe that Jesus is the only way.

Both these blogs have used Billy Graham in not so positive lights.

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Controversial Websites

These days I have been reading rather controversial websites in Christendom. One is too liberal and sad that some pastors in The Vineyard Association of Churches do not want to believe in a literal Heaven and literal Hell. Maybe I will elaborate. Its too late.

I am also reading apologetic blogs that seem to go too extreme. I go to a conservative church in the Vineyard where the pastors preach the word as it should be. I have prayed occasionally in tongues.

Both these blogs are a good way to waste time. What bothers me about the blogs is the liberal one does not want to take scripture literally, especially when it comes to believing in heaven and Hell.
The conservative ones while I agree that completely that the Bible is inerrant, Jesus is the only way and there is a Heaven and a Hell, they go overboard on a variety of issues. I don't like it that these people are not open to tongues and prophecy. It is okay if they don't practice speaking in tongues and don't believe in prophecy. Some of the other things they are too conservative on as well. One of the contibuting bloggers would not feel it okay to agree to disagree on secondary doctrine issues such as tongues and prophecy. They seem so adement on things that should not really matter. I also don't like this opinion of they are the only one with the whole truth. Up until I was 9 my family was involved with these fundy groups that believed their groups were the only one with the truth.

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