[vladimir998]

This apparently has caused some controversy online.

[vladimir998]

The opening piece led to this response: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ecperson/2017/04/19/a-response-to-the-hit-piece-on-hank-hanegraafs-greek-orthodox-temple/

[PROCON]

Also here:

'Bible Answer Man' Hank Hannegraaf Leaves Evangelicalism, Joins Greek Orthodox Church

[Romans Nine]

Hanegraaffs con game is all to obvious.

He has a well develope cache of platitudes and cute little “ditties” he has used for many many years now. Total canned answers that he will restate the callers question in his words so the answer he uses will fit.

The name “Bible Answer Man” is incredibly presumptuous and probably blasphemous.

[GrootheWanderer]

I wonder if when he went to that church he realized he eas about to do a hit piece on himself.

[arthurus]

Starting with a whole lot of ignorance there, and no improvement in the course of the discourse.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I have read some other things this blogger has written on this issue, so I read the excerpt only; I am not going to give him a hit. I’ll make the assumption that they were okay with Hanegraaf before he left the plantation. I did read J.D. Hill’s follow-up to Maple’s original piece. I really don’t have time for their kind of ignorance (I had never heard of them before this controversy, and that was a blessing), and I have nothing but for contempt for someone who visits a church on its holiest celebration with the hope of confronting one of its members. That they had to leave the service early because they had to “worship the living God” in the morning says it all. If they had stayed, and if they weren’t so ignorant, they would have found the living God at St. Nectatios. Christos anesti!

[Mrs. Don-o]

I never heard of the "Bible Answer Man" before, so I can't comment on that aspect. I must say I pity Jeff Maples. May he live long and experience both maturity and grace --- because when he does, he will realize how he has humiliated himself with this truly stupefying piece of writing.

Full disclosure: to my shame, some 45 years ago, when I was young and stupid, I emitted words --- and I mean "emitted" in front of a microphone in a public park, and on more than one occasion --- which were equally offensive and imbecilic. I writhe a little now, inside, when I think of it.

I don't think I was recorded. Thank God.

Unfortunately, Maples' words will live on in Internet eternity. Sincerely, I feel sorry for him.

[Campion]

I hope I can get back the IQ points I lost as result of reading that stupidity.

[NRx]

Words fail me. It’s been a really long time since I’ve read anything this ignorant and insulting. Going to another church for their Easter service for the purpose of trashing it and “confronting” one of its new members... I don’t know what denomination this man belongs to, but if this is what they pass for Christian behavior you may color me unimpressed.

[iowamark]

Vulgar anti-Christian bigotry from Mr. Maples.

[rcofdayton]

I don’t know anything about Hanagraaf nor do I care. However, it seems presumptuous that after attending a single service at a particular Orthodox church this poster could condemn ALL Orthodox churches. I think the poster saw what he wanted to see.

[hinckley buzzard]

Ridiculing the Orthodox Church because it has a sung liturgy and lasts more than the usual 45 minutes, is the kind of shallow and disrespectful reaction we have regretfully come to expect from the scantily trained pseudo Christian 21st century Protestant.

I know nothing about Hanegraaf but whoever he is and whatever his sins, this attack on Orthodoxy is illtempered and unwarranted.

[NorthMountain]

Hostility just oozes from that opening paragraph ...