Featured Review of "Hell's Best Kept Secret"

Your pastor is a wise man.

 

Therefore, by your own admission Comfort does not obey the Great Commission in Mark, which tells us to preach the Gospel to every creature. When Comfort says to leave them with the Law if they are not humble enough (how does he know this?), he is telling you not to give the Gospel to everyone. He is thus teaching disobedience to the Great Commission.

 

You don't really believe this, or else you have changed your view greatly simply to defend Ray Comfort. Here is what you have on your CERM website in an article from Biblical Discernment Ministries:

"What about the ecstatic speech that is a common phenomenon today? Speaking in tongues as it is practiced today is not Biblical tongues. (We have already established that Biblical tongues refers to foreign languages.) The babblings of today have their origin in the mystery cults of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, and it was practiced by unbelievers."

 

Yet you still tout his books and his method, in spite of his terrible pneumatology, his belief in tongues, and his complete failure to prove that we must use the Law to reach sinners )which he does not prove in his book, only using proof texts).

 

Look in Hell's Best Kept Secret, and tell me where Comfort proves this with a systematic approach to Biblical evangelism rather than just proof texts.

When I have challenged you before on this you said that Comfort proves it but you don't have time, working as you do. So pony up. Where does Comfort prove his thesis?

 

No way. The only book by MacArthur I recommend is Charismatic Chaos, which if you read you might change your mind about Comfort's books.

The best definition of the Gospel remains that of John R. W. Stott in Christian Mission in the Modern World, pp. 41-54.

 

I read a bunch of Schaeffer when I was young, and he was helpful.

 

Thanks for a good laugh. I reject Lordship Salvation because I understand it, not because I don't.

Son, I was thinking about LS and rejecting it way back in 1972, when I was taught it at BJU by Arend ten Pas, one of MacArthur's original sources. (Find him in MacArthur's bibliography.)

I have nine books on both sides of the subject and have read them all. Don't pretend you understand the doctrine until you have read its opponents: Martuneac, Hodges, Ryrie, the pamphlet by Pickering, etc.