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Thursday, November 04, 2004
Guy Beaumont on the Breastplate of Righteousness in Ephesians Six
Marty Braemer, the self-styled pastor of Fords Bush Bible Church in New York, the man who ran Google searches on me and reported the results on the FFF and then recruited a person to harass and cyberstalk me, wrote the following: Only Calvinists who believe they remain eternally depraved carry baggage. Christians have been redeemed, set free, and are new creations in Christ. In short, we're baggage free. Try it.
Clearly, Marty's belief in total depravity is seriously, even heretically flawed. I've seen other Hyles-Anderson graduates assume the idea that total depravity goes away after salvation. So I wrote (rather harshly), We don't believe in eternal depravity. But unlike Hyles-apostates (and ignorami), we do recognize that the flesh is not removed from this life and must be reckoned crucified by faith, so that the Christian lives by the power of the resurrection of Christ---by faith.
You Hyles apostates just keep trying to shine up the flesh and make it righteous. It doesn't work before salvation, and it does not work after. There IS a KJV translation of the book of Galatians, right?
And to my surprise, Guy Beaumont (BAPTIST) wrote back, Hey BASS, the breastplate of righteousness in Ephesians. Whose righteosness is it talking about there, God's or man's?
It dawned on me that this young man, another self-styled pastor, thinks that the breastplate of righteousness in Ephesians 6 is a Christian's personal righteousness. So I wrote back, God's; more specifically, Christ's righteousness. Did you honestly NOT know that? Please tell me you don't have the ignorance and arrogance to think it is a man's righteousness....clarify for me whose righteousness you think makes the breastplate of righteousness?
To this, he would not make an answer. I repeatedly put the question in front of him again and again, demanding an answer, as it became more and more obvious that Guy Beaumont---at least at the start---believed that the breastplate of righteousness is a person's own righteousness.
Jonathan Farris, an associate pastor at Crosspointe Baptist Church (formerly Pinellas Park Baptist Temple), posted an effort to turn the question into a joke. (That's a pretty standard Hyles-Anderson ploy when a HAC grad is facing somebody who actually knows what the Bible teaches.)
Then Guy Beaumont, to save himself from answering, tried to equate my demand for an answer with who I voted for in the election, but I refused to let him sidestep the question.
Finally, after two days of stalling, when it became apparent that I would not let the matter drop, Guy Beaumont posted a truly remarkable answer. And I will not post his incredible assessment of Ephesians six, but I will provide this one amazing quote, which, yes, a man who has graduated from a Bible college and claims to be a preacher of the Gospel actually wrote: Now, if this book is addressed to Christians, why would He tell us to put on Christ's righteousness?
I told Guy Beaumont that I'm not going to refute his error (I've already done that dozens of times.) I just want to document it. So now I have. You can go read this amazing assessment of Scripture and see for yourself the complete lack of knowledge of our Sanctification by Christ in IFBx Fundamentalism. This error is one of the cornerstones of why this segment of Fundamentalism is going to hell is a hurry and has fallen into such corruption and gross scandal. They have forsaken Christ and preach and teach that we must rely on the works of the flesh to be sanctified and remain pleasing to God.
Marty Braemer, the self-styled pastor of Fords Bush Bible Church in New York, the man who ran Google searches on me and reported the results on the FFF and then recruited a person to harass and cyberstalk me, wrote the following: Only Calvinists who believe they remain eternally depraved carry baggage. Christians have been redeemed, set free, and are new creations in Christ. In short, we're baggage free. Try it.
Clearly, Marty's belief in total depravity is seriously, even heretically flawed. I've seen other Hyles-Anderson graduates assume the idea that total depravity goes away after salvation. So I wrote (rather harshly), We don't believe in eternal depravity. But unlike Hyles-apostates (and ignorami), we do recognize that the flesh is not removed from this life and must be reckoned crucified by faith, so that the Christian lives by the power of the resurrection of Christ---by faith.
You Hyles apostates just keep trying to shine up the flesh and make it righteous. It doesn't work before salvation, and it does not work after. There IS a KJV translation of the book of Galatians, right?
And to my surprise, Guy Beaumont (BAPTIST) wrote back, Hey BASS, the breastplate of righteousness in Ephesians. Whose righteosness is it talking about there, God's or man's?
It dawned on me that this young man, another self-styled pastor, thinks that the breastplate of righteousness in Ephesians 6 is a Christian's personal righteousness. So I wrote back, God's; more specifically, Christ's righteousness. Did you honestly NOT know that? Please tell me you don't have the ignorance and arrogance to think it is a man's righteousness....clarify for me whose righteousness you think makes the breastplate of righteousness?
To this, he would not make an answer. I repeatedly put the question in front of him again and again, demanding an answer, as it became more and more obvious that Guy Beaumont---at least at the start---believed that the breastplate of righteousness is a person's own righteousness.
Jonathan Farris, an associate pastor at Crosspointe Baptist Church (formerly Pinellas Park Baptist Temple), posted an effort to turn the question into a joke. (That's a pretty standard Hyles-Anderson ploy when a HAC grad is facing somebody who actually knows what the Bible teaches.)
Then Guy Beaumont, to save himself from answering, tried to equate my demand for an answer with who I voted for in the election, but I refused to let him sidestep the question.
Finally, after two days of stalling, when it became apparent that I would not let the matter drop, Guy Beaumont posted a truly remarkable answer. And I will not post his incredible assessment of Ephesians six, but I will provide this one amazing quote, which, yes, a man who has graduated from a Bible college and claims to be a preacher of the Gospel actually wrote: Now, if this book is addressed to Christians, why would He tell us to put on Christ's righteousness?
I told Guy Beaumont that I'm not going to refute his error (I've already done that dozens of times.) I just want to document it. So now I have. You can go read this amazing assessment of Scripture and see for yourself the complete lack of knowledge of our Sanctification by Christ in IFBx Fundamentalism. This error is one of the cornerstones of why this segment of Fundamentalism is going to hell is a hurry and has fallen into such corruption and gross scandal. They have forsaken Christ and preach and teach that we must rely on the works of the flesh to be sanctified and remain pleasing to God.
