Archive for May 19th, 2008

Tony Jones and Trucker Frank #5

 

Pastorboy (John Chisham) went to Minneapolis at Solomons Porch to do an interview with Tony Jones. It was cut and pasted quite a bit (you can see the whole thing at www.apprising.org) In particular, Tony cut and paste around God being bound by law. He said that he was amazed that I said that God cannot lie

 

Hebrews 6:17 

In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, 18 so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

 He cut out the portion about being born again. (or Not being born again) where he insults me and other ‘fundamentalists’ when he gives a story about camp and crying and etc…

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

and then he elevates his daily agnostic doubt over faith, believing that somehow doubt is better to God than faith, again, an anti-biblical proposition:

Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. 

He succeeded in making me look really bad, but that is okay. I am a fool for Christ! But my real concern is his apparent low view of scripture and high view of man, and man’s reasoning.

Pray for Tony Jones, and this movement. I think that they have found what they are looking for, a church that fits their needs, which fits their desires, and is very cool, hip, and modern. The worship is of man, and God takes a back corner to a god of their own creation. This is idolatry in the strictest sense.