I usually listen to MacArthur when i remember he is one the radio, and have downloaded most of his sermons going back to 1978, and he is a gifted holy and substantive teacher. However, his broad-brush damnation of Pentecostalism, even targeting Calvary Chapel (whose leader he used to commend) is not of God. Nor is much of what is seen in Pentecostalism. However, MacArthur throws the whole of it under the bus, as if it was Mormonism. When or before he sees at the judgment seat of Christ that most of the redeemed in the past 100 years are from Pentecostalism then he will have a different opinion.
I disagree with MacArthur on gifts - although I’m not a pentacostal - and I disagree with his Calvinism. But we don’t need to agree on everything.
Beth Moore seems to have started off teaching women - which is fine - but then decided to ignore the clear statements of scripture and decided God wanted her instructing men. AND began talking about God giving her personal instruction meant to be passed on to the church. Uh-oh.
You correctly infer that my post #32 was facetious. I find MacArthur arrogant, abrupt, grouchy and abrasive. And, being Pentecostal, I fear for him when he trashes those of us who have experienced the Biblical second sovereign work of grace, AKA the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Call it what you will but don't call it "Strange Fire".
When the scribes, etc., trashed Jesus, saying He was casting out devils by the power of the devil, Jesus said, "I'll forgive anything but that." Now, opinions vary on what He meant; but to me it is inescapable that He was addressing men who knew they had a Man operating in the power of the Holy Spirit (as evidenced by Nicodemus' preface in John 3:1-2). The works of Jesus were unprecedented, obviously empowered from Heaven, not the devil, yet for their own narrow ecclesial purposes they felt they needed to gainsay His ministry.
I think Jesus was referencing the fact that these men knew better and thus were thus at least borderline guilty of blaspheming the Holy Spirit.
MacArthur also knows better; and yet he (as you said) broadbrushes the entire phenomenon of Pentecostalism. This is very dangerous.