Both Adrian Warnock and Ray Ortlund have promoted Billy Graham and his message today. Both spoke of Graham’s “sincerity”. Both quoted John Stott.
Listen, sincerity can send you to Hell in a hand basket. And a quote by John Stott doesn’t help.
Folks, the Arminian message of Billy Graham can send you to Hell itself. He may have been an ‘evangelist’ but he knew little or at least spoke little to nothing about propitiation, the heart of the Gospel.
Ray Ortlund and Adrian Warnock are promoting the sincerity of a man filled with error. Remember, you can be sincere, and sincerely wrong.
Come to think of it, the error most relevant today is not Billy Graham’s, but Adrian Warnock’s and Ray Ortlund’s for propagating it. What a shame.
For more on the errors of Billy Graham, I highly recommend you read the book Evangelicalism Divided by Iain Murray.
God bless.
And his error seems to be growing with his age.
You’re right.
He may be and have been very sincere. He may be a really nice guy.
But that Southern Baptist theology is deadly.
It’s not southern Baptist theology that’s wrong, just wrong theology.
BG is a Presbyterian… But there is enough garbage going around in the SBC that your comment is applicable.
I thought free will sent one to hell????
“Free-will”theology IS Southern Baptist theology.
However you want to slice it, “free-will” is not the answer…it IS the problem.
Thanks.
Some are free will but not all. You can’t lump all SBC into the same pot. There are many differences.
oldadam – the SBC do not have the market cornered on the free-will error propagated by Charles Finney and John Wesley; lots of churches embrace this heresy – it is the way of the flesh. And not all SBC churches embrace it – if you are ever in the swamp known as Houston, I will show you one that stands on Truth
“Remember, you can be sincere, and sincerely wrong.” This is the money line. I have long referred to this notion that one could find peace with God by being sincere as “Great Pumpkin Theology”, after Linus in the Peanuts comic strip. It is dangerous.
Actually, technically God sends men to hell. BIlly may grease the skids, unfortunately.
Thanks for the book tip. I live in “free-will” land where BG is worshiped. People get really offended when you question his doctrine.
My wife and I are visiting Dallas this weekend and It will be a real treat to visit a non-Arminian baptist church.
Thank for correcting me that not ALL So. Baptists believe in making their “decisions” for Jesus.
I do believe you. It’s just that I have known a great number of So. Baptists, Baptists, non-denom’s, and I have never found a one of them who believed in infant baptism, where God is the One who is choosing us.
Everything starts with them, and continues with them.
It’s a false and potentially quite dangerous doctrine. (you guys already know that)
oldadam, The SBC is far from monolithic, so one will find much variety therein. But you will not likely find any Baptists who hold to infant baptist – if there’s one bit of biblical truth all Baptists hold, it’s that of baptism: it’s for those who believe. Infant baptism is not of the Bible and it’s a false construct of the New Covenant. Liberal Baptists dunk a bunch of false converts, but they think they are baptizing in accordance with Scripture, which teaches that one believes and then is baptized.
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