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Friday, October 17, 2003
 
Free-for-all
Well, yesterday's sun rose on a lot of activity in the Berean forum of the Fighting Fundamentalist Forums. Several new screen names have appeared, as they always do when Jack Hyles worshipers have their backs to the wall. A new name called "Baldpate" came on along with Jonathan Farris to call me a liar. But as Farris has so discredited himself at this point, it is hardly worth mentioning. He's rallying church/staff members to express support for him (which is a classic Hyles technique, because appearances are always important). But a lot of the "pillars" of the forum are either ignoring him at this point or posing hard questions or engaging in outright dispute with him.


Of course, after the previous day's debacle in which madisonmadness attempted to destroy Green Beret, I was surprised to see madisonmadness show up with another stupid claim:

Jonathan and Christian gave some crucial information to a member of the madison family, we do not know if they were aware this was a member(but we suspect they did know). Anyway it has lead us to some serious charges. Thanks for the info, that's all we meant.

Nobody bothered to reply except for me, and I just left a comment that this post was one more hoax from a huckster.

But last night my phone was ringing all night, and I had e-mails stacked up when I got back from the trigger point massage therapist. No time for sore backs or the inversion table! Among other info, I received a call from a guy who went out of his way three times to warn Pastor Farris about Dave Hyles when Dave was at Pinellas Park Baptist Temple. Each time, Pastor Farris brusquely dismissed him. Other info came in, and I got to meet a few Christian brothers over the phone and learn of their part in the effort to help people get out of Hyles-style Fundamentalism and into the gracious freedom we have in Christ.

There are readers who sympathize with my point of view but want me to allow more time for the Farrises to learn the grossness of their error. In my opinion, a decade is enough, but I do recognize that if their flock keeps them in place (or does not leave the church to seek better pastors), I'm not going to change anything down there. They have the Bible. And while the Farrises teach Scripture according to the Gospel of Hyles (my opinion), the Bible is still an open book, and anybody can pick it up and read it for themselves and make their own decisions. I don't know how many innocent people, especially young people, will be made to suffer before parents and concerned adults actually do start holding up IFB errors to the Word of God. I hope they do it soon. Women and children are on the menu at many IFB churches, and their lives are frequently devoured.

I must add here that several of the men who speak for grace do think it is funny that a woman (me) can lambast these Hyles-style preachers. Such men are not used to it! But whoever takes up God's Word holds an everlasting sword.
 
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