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Tuesday, November 02, 2004
We Wear the Righteousness of Christ
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 hereticlly 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, though I sharply reminded him again this morning to answer the question.
Are these graduates of an alleged Bible college really this ignorant of the teaching of Scripture?
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 hereticlly 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, though I sharply reminded him again this morning to answer the question.
Are these graduates of an alleged Bible college really this ignorant of the teaching of Scripture?
