Posted on 04/10/2017 6:40:46 PM PDT by fishtank
Evangelical Apologist Hank Hanegraaff Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy
Posted by: Rob Bowman
On Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017, Hank Hanegraaff formally joined the Orthodox Church. Since 1989 Hanegraaff has been the President of the Christian Research Institute (CRI) and (since ca. 1992) the host of CRI’s Bible Answer Man radio program.[1] Hank, his wife Kathy, and two of their twelve children were inducted by a sacramental rite called chrismation into the Orthodox faith at St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, near where CRI is based. In chrismation, a baptized individual is anointed with oil in order to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.[2]
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Not everything disagreed on is a mere technicality.
I won’t argue that. But I believe,Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Orthodox, ...... or that Christians will be in heaven.
Good for him. The spiritual poverty of Evangelicalism is in stark contrast to the spiritual wealth of any Eastern Orthodox Church.
Ping!
So he went from one heresy to another?
WOW.
My main stink against HH has been the few AWFUL hours when I happened to listen to his radio show.
LOL.
So Rev. Billy Graham is living in spiritual poverty? Goodness.
I know you have to be joking.
I listened to Walter Martin nearly every day and then when he passed away, Hannegraff did a hostile takeover of the show. Hannegraff was completely unqualified to be the “Bible Answer Man” as he didn’t know the Bible or understand it.
Martin was a treasure. Hannegraff was an imposter.
C’mon, everyone knows that the more ornate and richly decorated your buildings are, the more spiritual you must be. Just ask Jesus (Luke 18:22).
Francis Schaeffer’s boy Frankie who went bad.
Come to think of it, I haven't heard anything of Frankie for a while. just as well. And I think his trajectory will take him completely out of Christianity, eventually. What a bitter individual.
You are correct. I have an older pastor I’m close friends with who knew Walter Martin. He described the way he took over the ministry and his treatment of Dr. Martin’s widow as shameful.
Another thing about Hank, he has refused financial accountability. I stopped listening, or paying attention to his books, 20-25 years ago, so that criticism may have changed.
Bank’s appeal to something he called “the historic Christian faith” never made sense in the sola scriptura worldview he ostensibly supported. Neither did setting a particular human being (by whose authority?) up as the “Bible Answer Man”. Those are just “sacred tradition” and “pope” by other names. I guess he finally recognized the incongruity of his position.
Bitter indeed. FWIW, one of Frank Schaeffer’s more recent books was called “Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God.” I’ll never know what he meant by that because I’m not wasting my time on him. His life makes me sad because his father had a tremendous impact on me in the 80’s and early 90’s. I read and re-read his books.
“I know you have to be joking.”
Not. One. Bit.
The Eucharist, for instance, is a treasure Billy Graham has never had. The Body and Blood of Christ Himself and Billy Graham has never had it. That’s spiritual poverty for a Christian.
In the end, Billy Graham will be just fine.
“In the end, Billy Graham will be just fine.”
Maybe he will. And whether he will be or not, in the end, he will know what he missed out on when he could have had so much more.
Spot on with your post.
Hank is a total loon.
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