| "...Corruptio optimi pessimum est, says the proverb: "the corruption of the best is the worst." The early Christians felt a measure of tolerance for the pagans, even though they were persecuted by them, for the pagans were ignorant. "This ignorance," Paul told the Athenians, "God winked at" (Acts 17:30). But Paul did not wink at him who brought "any other Gospel" within the context of the Christian community. "Let him be accursed," he told the Galilean church (Gal. 1:18). Honorable enemies are regarded with less hostility than the traitor from within one's own camp. The Christian life is often presented as spiritual warfare; if the pagans are the enemies, the heretics are the traitors." - Harold O.J. Brown, Heresies - The Image of Christ in the Mirror of Heresy and Orthodoxy from the Apostles to the Present. Doubleday and Company, 1984 edition, page 3 |
Alex,
You posted: "the corruption of the best is the worst."
What corruption? Hahn has an excellent reputation as to his personal behavior, for instance. It is amazing to me that webnuts, who often know little or nothing about anything, assume they are in a position to judge someone, condemn him, and even claim his soul as lost without any evidence.
Hahn gave up Calvinism for historical Christianity. Oh, how terrible!
Very true.