Posted on 07/16/2014 2:00:44 PM PDT by Morgana
In the wake of the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s recent decision to celebrate same-sex “marriages,” celebrity pastor John MacArthur of “Grace to You” has come out with some strong statements condemning “false churches” that abandon Biblical teachings against homosexual behavior.
“They have no allegiance to the Bible,” MacArthur told The Blaze online news service. “You go back to every one of those seminaries … for a century [they] have been deniers of biblical authority, they have no relationship to scripture, they are the apostate church, they are Satan’s church.”
While it seems clear MacArthur was implying that self-professed Christians who accept gay “marriage” are doing Satan’s work, not necessarily worshiping the devil, it is worth noting that the actual Satanic Temple of America has called same-sex “marriage” one of its “sacraments.”
MacArthur, who is Baptist, believes in the teachings of John Calvin regarding the inerrancy and literal truth of Scripture. The PCUSA also has its roots in Calvinism, but in 1967 the church updated its precepts to distance itself from Calvin and adopted a more flexible view of Biblical truth.
During a 2001 debate over whether the denomination would permit the ordination of openly homosexual pastors, PCUSA officials said, “We acknowledge the role of scriptural authority in the Presbyterian Church, but Presbyterians generally do not believe in biblical inerrancy. Presbyterians do not insist that every detail of chronology or sequence or pre-scientific description in scripture be true in literal form. Our confessions do teach biblical infallibility. Infallibility affirms the entire truthfulness of scripture without depending on every exact detail.”
In his interview with The Blaze, MacArthur lamented the cultural decline of mainstream denominations like the PCUSA, and said their watered-down approach to theology is a major factor in the increasing secularization of America, which he argues was founded on “cultural Christianity.”
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According to MacArthur, the historical “cultural Christianity” of Americans has long been a stabilizing force for society. It didn’t mean that everyone belonged to the same church or worshiped exactly the same way, but it did mean that the culture as a whole had a shared set of values and generally believed they would have to answer to a higher power in the afterlife.
The founding fathers, MacArthur told The Blaze, “knew you couldn’t compel people to goodness” unless the majority of people believed in God. But in our increasingly agnostic society, the very idea of “goodness” is open to debate.
Yes, it's rather easy when you're not standing before 10,000 people, late at night after a busy day, having it pod cast through the Internet.
There are people on this site that have stated a lot worst theological boo-boos including myself. I wouldn't brand MacArthur, or anyone here, as anything more than a sinner saved by grace.
The one area of theology were I depart from MacArthur is his dispensational eschatology.
So you don’t believe the Bible?
Sure I beIieve the the bible, that’s why reject dispensationalism. Dispensationalism is the comics section of the theological newspaper.
You're absolutely right. Dispensational eschatology is one area where good theologians make huge theological errors. Even they can't get their act together on this misguided topic.
Do you know what the “mark of the beast” is?
Because no one knows for sure yet so you have God creating a hidden sin land mine. God does not do that..
You are confusing conscience permanent choice to rebel against God and join Satan army..to knowing willing put on the unform “his mark” vs having the mark imposed or not knowing what it is or entails.
Like Satan and his fallen angels. .it will be there choice the side they choose with full knowledge and consent.
The Apostle Paul believed in it.
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