the response says it all
This was a classic example for the ODMs response to the criticism of their teacher/mentor, John MacArthur and their theology. I thought that the talk given by Shane McGee in this film was well thought out, well presented and very true in regards to the content in The Truth War. Ken Silva, general editor of Christian Research Network, fails to address any of the content brought up in this film. In fact, his only rebuttal was mocking the film and the movement behind the thinking
The quiet arrogance displayed here is ample evidence of the fetid fruit of the neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church currently infecting your church’s youth group. These kind of men who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth are the new fires of Molech that spiritually obtuse evangelical leaders are sacrificing your children to.
Listen for yourself to this gibberish as a “Christian†agnostic argues how difficult the Bible is to understand using the same arguments as would an unbelieving skeptic. [emphasis mine]
It never ceases to amaze me what these ODMs will write when they are unable to defend their position, including labeling someone as an agnostic. Instead of addressing the issues at hand, they name call and dismiss the claims as arrogance with literally no explanation.
Let me say this about the film – I agreed with most of what McGee had to say. It is more arrogant of John MacArthur to declare that the scriptures are a simple thing to interpret than for McGee to say they are more complex than what meets the eye. Anyone who has taken a basic course in Biblical interpretation knows how intense the process can get when interpreting the scriptures and applying an ancient and sacred text to modern contexts. It is certainly not as obvious at the ODMs would have it.
So there are basically two roads you can take. You either go down the path that the ODMs have chosen. It’s the idea that your exact interpretation of the scriptures is the only interpretation, and everyone else is a man-loving heretic. Or, you are faithful to interpret the scriptures before God to the best of your ability, and accept the fact that we are broken humans who may not get it right 100% of the times. You agree on the essentials, and realize that both pre-trib and post-trib believing believers can read the same scriptures, interpret them very differently, yet worship along side one another.
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