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Old Liberal Fallacies Have Been Upgraded

Today I received the following here at Apprising Ministries:

I wanted to say thank you for the post on outlaw preachers yesterday. I had posted an item of facebook, and it was swiftly spread around by someone attending a particular church. There were a lot of upset comments, and one of them asked if I disagreed with John 1.

I was praying as to how to answer this question appropriately, and a few minutes later I read your post. He is a wonderful God.

AM Reader

The AM article that this reader is referencing above is Outlaw Preachers Are Wrong Concerning Sola Scriptura where I discuss a foolish postmodern/Emerging Church argument concerning Scripture using the following Tweet by Andrew (Drew) Tatusko as the object lesson:

@dtatusko: our authority comes not from scripture alone, but from the risen christ. #outlawpreachers #badpresbyterian (Online source)

Tatusko first came to my attention when he made the following stupid statement, which seems to give us a pretty good idea of who he is:

trying to pick a fight with ken silva: http://bit.ly/16pSkB (Online source)

As I said in the prior piece, I have no way to know why someone like Drew Tatusko, consistent with others around the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—wants to work to make people think Sola Scriptura is somehow in opposition to Jesus.

However, I can judge ala Acts 17:11 that his reasoning is fatally fallacious spiritually, which I did in that other article. Well, today Tatusko Tweets:

new post: ken silva’s reading problem – http://bit.ly/2pymA #outlawpreachers #emergent (Online source)

Notice above that in addition to the Emergent Church Tatusko made sure to alert the largely Biblically illiterate group who’ve crowned themselves outlaw preachers now sprouting up around the head Outlaw, gay affirming “pastor” Jay Bakker.

That first link takes us to Tatusko’s latest post ken silva’s reading problem. Again, as a pastor, part of my job here at AM is to alert and educate people concerning  false teachers/teachings which present a clear and present danger to the visible church in this time of accelerating apostasy.

In my post yesterday I made the true statement that, unfortunately for him, Tatusko has just enough formal education to confuse himself, which he demonstrates decidedly in his fantasy-filled piece as it concerns his *cough* “loving” concern about my ability—or lack thereof—to read.

Now consider that this self-described “Christian pragmatist,” which is itself an oxymoron, “earned an M.Div. and Th.M.” from Princeton Theological Seminary; once a bastion of Biblical Christianity, but then later sold out on Biblical inerrancy. This would lead PTS to embrace what Dr. Walter Martin (1928-1989), who held four earned degrees, deemed the “Cult of Liberal Theology.”

Sadly, there’s really no need  for me to even comment further so I simply point regenerated Christians to Tatusko’s post full of myths; rooted in what is really a Liberalism 2.0 spread by people in, and/or sympathetic to, the postliberal cult of the Emerging Church. His screed is nothing but an upgrade of old liberal argumentation.

You may undertsand this EC better looking at it like this: Liberal theology was also known as modern theology and tried to make “Christianity” compatible with the culture of its time. And so Emergence Christianity is a postmodern theology; a postliberalism, which is attempting to be relevant to this capricious culture.

I quoted the following recently in The Emerging Church Highjacking Evangelicalism; in closing this for now, I will tell you again that these tactics outlined below are precisely the same ones used today by the Emerging/ent/ence Church. EC leaders learned from their evil forebears and have leveled the very same attack against Sola Scriptura.

Circa 1985 Dr. Martin, a renouned expert on religious cults, would tell us exactly how Satan injected his poison into the mortally wounded mainline denominations of the visible church:

There is a progression that takes place in liberal theology: It begins with a corrupt bibliology, a corrupt view of the nature and the inspiration of Scripture. They have a corrupt theology because once you are picking and choosing from the Bible what you want, your theology has to suffer from it, because your human reason is corrupt… every major theological seminary that has turned from orthodox Christianity began with disbelief of Biblical doctrine. There wasn’t a single exception.

This corrupt Bibliology then lead them to the next step. Their theology began to be touched by it, their view of the Cross, the Virgin Birth were both immediately questioned; then came the miracles of Christ… And finally they had emptied the Gospel of all its content; they were simply using the outward shell so that they go on collecting money from the people and the churches; because they knew that if the people in the pew knew that they were apostate, they’d throw them out. So the strategy was hang on to the trust funds; hang on to the money we’ve got; hang on the properties we control, and we will gradually educate the laymen into this new approach to theology.

And then finally we will take control of everything. The gradual process of feeding you theological poison until you become immunized enough so that you don’t know what’s happening to you. And when you wake up to what’s happening to you, it’s too late they’ve got everything. That is not a baseless charge, I stand prepared to prove that the Cult of Liberal Theology in the United States has deliberately and consistently followed this methodology to entrap, control and dominate the denominations and the churches of the United States and our educational institutions. (The Cult of Liberalism, available from Walter Martin Religious InfoNet)

See also:

DR. JOHN BATTLE: THE BIBLE CLAIMS VERBAL INSPIRATION

THE NIGHTMARE BEGINNING FOR MAINSTREAM EVANGELICALISM

JOHN MACARTHUR: EXISTENTIAL NEO-ORTHODOXY DENIES SOLA SCRIPTURA

ROB BELL ABSOLUTELY WRONG ABOUT SCRIPTURE

THE EMERGING CHURCH SOWING ITS NEO-ORTHODOX CONFUSION ON SCRIPTURE

KEN SILVA ON IRON SHARPENS IRON: HOW DOES GOD SPEAK?

INDEED, DID GOD REALLY SAY?