Bad Exegesis

// August 21st, 2007 // church, theology

Alternate title: John MacArthur versus the Bible.

John MacArthur doing about the worst bit of exegetical gymnastics I’ve seen in a while.

4 Responses to “Bad Exegesis”

  1. joe says:
    August 21, 2007 at 6:46 am

    seems like bob jones III has been smoking some crack himself…

  2. Dean says:
    August 22, 2007 at 8:54 pm

    hey, friend here of nathan colquhuon and fellow Christ follower from Sarnia. the link for YouTube didn’t play the whole video for me but I must admit, what I did here from both the Father and John MacArthur, were not only exegetical errors in their presentation of the scriptures given to “support” their view, but they really bordered on extended application. I myself believe in just war, but with many parameters. I don’t like John’s tone on how the concept is “elevated” to the act of salvation. I myself delivered my first message at our church on the very issue and it required a lot of prayer, research and proper exegesis and hermeneutics. All, said and done, debating this on national TV, won’t help the image of Christ or the witness of The Body.

  3. Keith says:
    August 22, 2007 at 9:23 pm

    CNN’s warriors of God connects so well to this. MacArthur is no different than the islamist or zionist who uses his religious text to prove his teaching is the voice of truth from God. We bemoan the fact that moderate muslims don’t speak out against the teachings of the extremists. Evangelicals are no different. Maybe evangelicals are just too middle class and nice to speak out against what the MacArthurs of the church are saying and doing. It’s all so much the same. At least there is Tony Campolo.

  4. boyd says:
    August 24, 2007 at 4:12 pm

    What a puppet, talking head, sellout! I’m going to beat my ploughshare back into a sword and give him a whack (with the flat side of course :)

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