Heresy oh Heresy
Our local Christian radio station plays the usual
set of evangelical preachers, many of whom wander into rank heresy on a fairly
frequent basis. The worst is generally John MacArthur, a rather egocentric
gentleman who fancies himself some sort of infallible conduit to God (he once
stated that because he didn't want to leave his financially successful, coastal
California position for a position somewhere out in the desert, it was obvious
that God didn't want him to either. His argument being that since he was a
Christian, his "feelings" were effectively driven by the Holy Spirit. It never
occurred to him that perhaps he was being a bit
carnal!).
At any rate, the other day, I
was able to listen to Charles Stanley. He had two points, one was that since we
are going to rule with Christ some day, that perhaps, if God has created
hundreds of thousands of planets He might put us in charge of one (golly, isn't
that what Joseph Smith taught?). Then, in order to become a Christian, we needed
to merely recite the sinners prayer. Just ignore the rest of the New Testament
on that subject (and the early Church). So, let me see, if we simply recite the
sinners prayer, we get a planet to rule? And I thought Irenaeus had a bunch of
kooks to deal with.
Posted: Sunday - April 20, 2003 at 12:44 PM
