Dec 06
Proud to be a heretic
There are an awful lot of heretics out there, and you’re almost certainly one of them, according to a new “blog” which won’t allow comments, and posts its material only under the anonymity of the title “Discernment Research Group”. But it looks like just about anyone who’s not part of their little group is a heretic. And of course, they won’t let anyone argue back, not least, I presume because it wouldn’t take much acquaintance with the Bible or theology to demolish their spurious rubbish.
If you go the website, you’ll see they’re pre-millennial group who thinks the Rapture merits two mentions in their statement of faith, even deserving an article of its own. You’ll also see, from the wording that, entirely ignorant of the use of metaphor, they seem to believe that “faith in the precious Blood of Jesus Christ, and in His death on the cross” are two separate objects of belief, both of which you need to be duly raptured.
And they call the rest of us heretics! Twats!
(HT: Henry Neufeld)
December 6th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Ya know, I’m all the time railing against dilettantism… and this is a perfect example of why. They CLEARLY have not a theological bone in their body and yet some hapless twit will find them, read them, and believe them.
Further, since they are anonymous, they are doubly useless.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:28 am
[...] Doug Chaplin points us to a group of heresy hunters disguising their blog as some sort of ‘ministry’ [...]
December 7th, 2007 at 3:33 am
jim–
i’m a dilettant. these folks are agenda-driven, advantage-taking scoundrels, who prey on the ignorant.
December 7th, 2007 at 9:45 am
The statement of belief published by Discernment-Ministries Inc. introduces a lack of clarity, or disguises a hidden agenda. Taken altogether, their statement may be read to suggest two-stage salvation: repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; and, ’spiritual regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for personal salvation’. This strand runs through part of, but not all, Neo-P and Pentecostalism, which is the necessity of a ’second blessing’ for full salvation. One is either in Christ or not. The fact of being in Christ (a completed act) means that the fullness of God through the Holy Spirit is already in process and evidenced by growing in holiness. If their agenda is two-stage salvation, these guys could meditate on Colossians and reflect calmly on what they read.