I have a great deal of respect for Macarthur from my protestant days, but he is so wedded to Sola Scriptura (which is, to be sure, a hallmark of evangelicalism) that he throws the baby out with the bathwater. Renovare, for instance, is much more comfortable including Macarthur in the kingdom than Macarthur is including Renovare. His list is an absurd “straw-man” mix that displays an ugly arrogance that has no place in the kinngdom. It has taken many of us who have made the move from fundamentalism/evengelicalism to Eastern Orthodoxy a long time to recognize how spiritually untenable the dogma of Sola Scriptura actually is. In fact, I believe that it has been one of the key factors in the complete fragmentation of western Christianity, with tragic results for modern culture.
Hi Houghton, just becuase I post something from Macarthur does not mean I agree with his every word. I already disagree with his eschatology for one thing, and his views on several other matters...
But from what I do know about these 20th Century thinkers, while they themselves may not have been out and out subjectivie/existential whatevers—I believe their theological deviations from Scripture, however *slight* did plant the SEEDS for such ideas to eventually gain steam throughout the century...
It does not mean that those men were not really believers or something. Merely that their ideas are flawed. Some of Macarthur’s are too—but that doesn’t mean his criticisms don’t have some semblance of validity.