Take the Maestroh Challenge
Last week we had a guest commenter, Maestroh, give us this little ditty:
The reason they [Hanegraaff and McConnell] called the Faith teachers ‘heretics’ is because they are, plain and simple.
That Kenneth Hagin taught Jesus was born again is quite impossible to deny (cf. pp. 29-32 “The Name of Jesus,” 1978 edition). Copeland taught it as well did Kenyon.
Furthermore, it is quite clear that you didn’t read either book or have chosen to demonstrate a lack of integrity concerning both books. Both McConnell and Hanegraaff went through NUMEROUS biblical passages demonstrating the folly of the ‘born again Jesus’ doctrine. (Maestroh, comment on our post CRI’s “Word of Faith” Update) (edited for this post)
While we’ve done an extensive series on the fact that Jesus descended into hell, we haven’t delved into him “becoming sin” (in Hagin’s The Name of Jesus in pp. 29-32, he deals with Hebrews 2.9, John 8.44, and Acts 2.27 which we have examined in prior posts). We’ve decided to take the Maestroh challenge. Beginning this week, we’re going to deal with this so-called heresy head-on. Should the faith teachers really be “accursed,” that is, damned to hellfire, because they say that God’s redemption plan required Jesus to become sin or have the heresy bounty hunters taken us captive on a wild escapade?
The series will prove to be a long one. We’ll not only have to deal with the various scriptures, but also professional theologians, denominational protectors, heresy hardballists, and all of their political subtleties of the languages (Greek and English). In one of his essays, the political writer George Orwell wrote about the language of politics saying:
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
We’ve redrafted Orwell’s statement to set the scene for our series:
Theological language is designed to emasculate the utter depth of Jesus’s mission and its ultimate outcome and to present an acceptable mask to what is nothing more than hollow wind.
[Note: No, it’s not a typo and it’s not us. Maestroh, for whatever reason, uses a misspelling.]
[Comment deleted for violation of our Comment Policy]
It is readily apparent that the commenter did not review our Comment Policy regarding the use of “heretic.” It is also obvious that the commenter did not take the time to explore our previous posts on the subject matter, all which are readily available 24/7 by clicking on the sidebar. As we have stated in the past (the very recent past actually), if one wants to lob a heretical cocktail at us (or any other preacher), we’d better see some gas in the bottle.
Due to the nature of this comment, we are again moderating all comments. PSM