I've left a comment on Justin Taylor's blog, on the post entitled Keller and Powlison: Should You Pass on Bad Reports?.
Have a look and see if you agree.
Update I: The comment's gone but the question remains—the New Testament names Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5); Peter (Galatians 2); Euodia and Syntyche (Philippians 4) and 'Cretans' (Titus 2:12), and a number of individuals in 2 Tim 4. Then in the gospels we have Judas, Peter, and all of the disciples in one way or another shown up as betrayers, spineless, proud, inconsistent, hypocritical and foolish. In each instance, and more, bad reports are passed on for the benefit of readers. So the post by Tim Keller and David Powlison is a useful reminder, but flawed because it is selective in its attention to the biblical evidence.
Update II: Lisa in the comments for this post points to a useful discussion on the 9 Marks blog, covering similar ground.
Update III: Justin Taylor has just kindly sent me an e-mail letting me know that no comments were deleted. So any comment of mine or anyone elses that disappeared can be blamed on the evil technology demons!
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Definitely maybe!
As Archie Poulos once said (without realising the irony), "it's like everything, you can't generalise!"
Until today I was blissfully unaware of the neo-logism "watchblogger" or that there was someone called Joel Osteen that people love to hate.
Hi Gordon,
You should swing by the 9marks blog and check out Mike McKinley's review of some false teachers on TBN a Christian TV network, and the comments discussion that follows.
Update I: The comment's gone but the question remains—
Gordon, what do you mean 'the comment's gone.'
Did you withdraw delete it or did Justin censor you or something else?
Dunno Dominic. I didn't remove it. I said I thought that Tim and David's post was useful but flawed, but I can't see that this would be cause for deletion, so something else may have happened. I noticed the comment below mine had disappeared too, and it was fairly onside with the original post, so it may just have been a technical glitch.
I noticed Blogger doing some strange things with posts on my blog and other blogs today, so maybe it was.
An update: Justin Taylor has just kindly sent me an e-mail letting me know that no comments were deleted from the post in question. So any comment of mine or anyone elses that disappeared can be blamed on the evil technology demons!
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