tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post2512984546756409459..comments2023-12-22T08:29:29.230-08:00Comments on WHAT IS TRUTH: How Big Is Disobedience to 2 Corinthians 6:14?Kent Brandenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-89430994090790490222013-06-19T10:44:36.852-07:002013-06-19T10:44:36.852-07:00Hi Joshua,
I saw that, and I thought that was exa...Hi Joshua,<br /><br />I saw that, and I thought that was exactly what someone should have done. Dave Doran was exactly correct. I'm surprised that his counsel was not followed by the staff there and for the very reason why that he explained.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-32333522698268987252013-06-18T14:36:48.162-07:002013-06-18T14:36:48.162-07:00Bro. Brandenburg,
Interesting article. Here is a...Bro. Brandenburg,<br /><br />Interesting article. Here is a recent comment by Dr. Doran on SI concerning the false gospel being proclaimed by someone in the comment section: "I don't have a vote, but if I did I'd vote that the door for heresy to be advocated here be closed." <br />J RobertsAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14875190127831976059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-6568054007352513992013-06-18T13:22:49.058-07:002013-06-18T13:22:49.058-07:00Jon,
I think you're right. And the music thi...Jon,<br /><br />I think you're right. And the music thing was touched on.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-90370131351979507502013-06-18T13:21:19.730-07:002013-06-18T13:21:19.730-07:00Larry,
We might be squibbling over some technical...Larry,<br /><br />We might be squibbling over some technicalities here and clouding a major point I'm making, one that you seem to be agreeing with in your last comment. And it is that point that I was making, not at the quality of moderation, although I could do a separate post about that. I see this as somewhat similar as to the news media's role in holding this presidential administration accountable. They have a bias that causes them to be less harsh on some things they may have been harsh about previous.<br /><br />Joshua Caucutt is not KJVO, doesn't mind pants on women, and is OK with rock music in worship, so the radar is not out for him. He only espouses a false gospel, so he's given the kid gloves.<br /><br />I recognize that Paul H wrote something -- he's involved and it was his post. But the normal barrage and someone at least saying "false gospel," wasn't there. I know Galatianism includes a false gospel and heresy is sometimes a false gospel, but false gospel and Galatianism are not categorically the same. Paul H. got it. Maybe that was enough. I was looking for the same dynamic that would be received for the other, so-called peripheral, issues. The "major" got treated peripheral and the "peripheral" gets treated major.<br /><br />People maybe like the liberty of multiple versions, rock music, and pants on women more than then they like the gospel. Or at least, they like a gospel that allows a lot of stuff, a lot of disagreement, a lot of nuance.<br /><br />Thanks for coming by.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-53541488538959229202013-06-18T13:02:36.007-07:002013-06-18T13:02:36.007-07:00"Why is public repudiation of a false gospel ..."Why is public repudiation of a false gospel confidential? What is so private about it? The false gospel was proclaimed in public"<br /><br />I don't bother with the "confidential" issue at all. If something wrong is proclaimed/taught in public, it gets told openly as wrong in public by me. I care not who is bothered by that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-25777069127108424282013-06-18T12:00:03.243-07:002013-06-18T12:00:03.243-07:00I see that since writing my last comment this morn...I see that since writing my last comment this morning and forgetting to hit "send" (or post or whatever it says), a bunch more was said.<br /><br />But to address Josh and Dave who made similar comments, the silence or lack of interaction may be a reflection of a number of things not entirely healthy. My guess is that more people read posts like about pants, music, than read posts about trying harder. Let's face, trying harder really isn't that controversial or exciting.<br /><br />The discussion about justification is under a post that really has nothing to do with justification. My guess is that, like Dave, many people aren't reading it. I didn't read it for a long time, and still haven't read most of it, though I skimmed it. It's not that I am soft on justification. It's that I don't have time or interest to wade through the nonsense.<br /><br />Again I reiterate my only point from the beginning was about one little thing in Kent's post--that charge that no one had said anything. That simply wasn't and isn't true. Were that removed, the post would be fine.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04886866662463467215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-50945215620038662772013-06-18T11:46:55.605-07:002013-06-18T11:46:55.605-07:00So you don't think that Galatianism was a fals...So you don't think that Galatianism was a false gospel? You may be the only one in the history of the church to think that. <br /><br />But I will leave off here. Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04886866662463467215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-63527788956142803112013-06-18T10:47:05.465-07:002013-06-18T10:47:05.465-07:00Interesting. I rarely have time to read the comme...Interesting. I rarely have time to read the comments anymore.<br /><br />Are Joshua Caucott's views compatible with the SI doctrinal statement? If not, surely the moderators should address it publicly and ban him if he doesn't retract? I'd think the pastors among the moderators would want to take the lead on that.<br /><br />But maybe the moderation team thinks they are compatible. Someone maybe should ask Aaron if he thinks so.<br />***<br /><br />The music thing. Amazing. A guy writes: "Much of today's worship music, by contrast, does something else entirely <i>for me.</i> With some exceptions, these songs <i>engage my heart and soul.</i>"<br /><br />So he makes an argument based on what it does to him, his heart, his soul. Brenda T was entirely in bounds to point out that a woman's sermon "engaged his heart and soul," that preaching in a hippie costume or a straight jacket "does something else entirely for him," etc.<br /><br />And she was taken to task for not engaging with what he said? If you make an argument that something moves you, then it is certainly appropriate to look at what else moves you. Maybe, just maybe, he isn't moved by spiritual things. That's not relevant?<br /><br />Urgh. <br /><br />That's probably off-topic to Kent's point, though.Jon Gleasonhttp://www.mindrenewers.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-2297703106606774762013-06-18T09:35:00.028-07:002013-06-18T09:35:00.028-07:00D4,
I do appreciate your approaching him. I unde...D4,<br /><br />I do appreciate your approaching him. I understand that when you try to do something like that, you'll have to spend time you probably don't have. I don't expect full fledged continuation to the end, just something that matches the severity.<br /><br />Everyone,<br /><br />I recognize that Paul H is dealing with him, because it was his post. And now a few more are chiming in, but the 5 days of near silence is what caught my attention.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-57909127169835071682013-06-18T09:34:59.829-07:002013-06-18T09:34:59.829-07:00D4,
I do appreciate your approaching him. I unde...D4,<br /><br />I do appreciate your approaching him. I understand that when you try to do something like that, you'll have to spend time you probably don't have. I don't expect full fledged continuation to the end, just something that matches the severity.<br /><br />Everyone,<br /><br />I recognize that Paul H is dealing with him, because it was his post. And now a few more are chiming in, but the 5 days of near silence is what caught my attention.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-82438680977256567392013-06-18T09:34:59.638-07:002013-06-18T09:34:59.638-07:00D4,
I do appreciate your approaching him. I unde...D4,<br /><br />I do appreciate your approaching him. I understand that when you try to do something like that, you'll have to spend time you probably don't have. I don't expect full fledged continuation to the end, just something that matches the severity.<br /><br />Everyone,<br /><br />I recognize that Paul H is dealing with him, because it was his post. And now a few more are chiming in, but the 5 days of near silence is what caught my attention.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-91141828825056455282013-06-18T09:33:11.538-07:002013-06-18T09:33:11.538-07:00Don,
I hope you're right, but Calvary in Lans...Don,<br /><br />I hope you're right, but Calvary in Lansdale, Northland, and some of what I see happening at BJU has me think that it's at least somewhere in between what you are saying and what I'm seeing.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-23108272121655973312013-06-18T09:32:16.123-07:002013-06-18T09:32:16.123-07:00Susan,
I publish everything essentially. The onl...Susan,<br /><br />I publish everything essentially. The only reason I moderate comments before publishing is because, I think, if someone knew I wasn't moderating, there would be more crank comments that would stay there for hours and sometimes days without moderation, because I don't know when I can't moderate.<br /><br />Anyway, I published everything, so if I didn't get something from you, I apologize.<br /><br />I wasn't going after the moderators by the way. I had one major point overall and it wasn't about the technicalities of moderation.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-49068047756637265932013-06-18T09:30:25.445-07:002013-06-18T09:30:25.445-07:00Josh,
Exactly my point.Josh,<br /><br />Exactly my point.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-15524564853470453092013-06-18T04:30:17.616-07:002013-06-18T04:30:17.616-07:00Larry,
I think Ken's point-- that the pile o...Larry, <br /><br />I think Ken's point-- that the pile of "what in the world???" posts that sometimes (I stress sometimes)ensue when someone challenges the use of certain styles of music did <b>not</b> ensue when someone challenged a key element (perseverance of the saints) of the Gospel--is a valid point to raise and may perhaps be a genuine indicator of the mood of some participants at SI.<br /><br />I only learned of the line that poster was persuing from Kent's article here, and challenged him because I went to college with him, sang in choir with him, etc, and wanted to be sure he meant what it sounded like he was saying. And he was. Unbelievable.<br /><br />On the flip side, I didn't see it as it all went down because I was AFK most of last week, and it could be that some gospel defenders also just happened to miss it because they (like me) don't read every article or every comment under every article. d4v34xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07346680257860879900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-55732577356633687662013-06-18T01:18:50.547-07:002013-06-18T01:18:50.547-07:00It is remarkably telling what people will give the...It is remarkably telling what people will give the ol' screaming dogpile to, and what gets a yawn and a shrug.<br /><br />That's the crux of it right there. No amount of explanation of the subtleties of forum moderation and what may or may not have been mentioned in private is going to alter that.<br /><br />Pants = screaming dogpile. KJV = screaming dogpile. Music = screaming dogpile. False gospel = ??? It doesn't take a genius to see where the wind is blowing here. In any community folks find out pretty quickly where the boundaries lay and what is and isn't accepted and tolerated. I think the borders of this community are pretty clear now.Joshuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-86537210373891279402013-06-18T00:09:38.076-07:002013-06-18T00:09:38.076-07:00Hi Kent,
You're right on this one except one ...Hi Kent,<br /><br />You're right on this one except one point. I've pretty well given up on serious comment over there. Certain posters I simply will not respond to at all, even when they make personal attacks.<br /><br />Where I take exception is where you say (in the comments) <i>The members are not an institution per se, but the members represent what fundamentalism allows today, which is a sort of heartbeat. More conservative fundamentalists are not so comfortable at SI, because the rules are different for them, but SI represents what is allowed in fundamentalism.</i><br /><br />I really don't think most fundamentalists consider SI to be really fundamentalist. As you say, Aaron is more conservative than some of the others, but even he seems to have a fairly high toleration level. The fundamentalists I talk to are dismissive of SI. FWIW.<br /><br />Maranatha!<br />Don Johnson<br />Jer 33.3Don Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03332212749734904541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-7670332538048150332013-06-17T19:56:24.077-07:002013-06-17T19:56:24.077-07:00Hi,
Nothing that I wrote, except for the idea tha...Hi,<br /><br />Nothing that I wrote, except for the idea that someone may have privately called him on it being a false gospel, has been untrue. In a way, I hate to post a paragraph that someone could read already above, but I wrote:<br /><br />"There were men who disagreed with him, but no one called it a false gospel. No one shut down the thread. None of the moderators confronted him directly for espousing a false gospel. He wasn't asked to recant or be banned. He was still in good standing."<br /><br />I said men disagreed with him, but no one called it a false gospel at the time of this writing. Someone had said it was heresy and Galatianism -- to be technical, that isn't calling something a false gospel.<br /><br />I'm saying that after his proclamation of a false gospel, five days went by with no moderation. You're saying it happened privately. But if that's true, no actual moderation occurred, because he kept espousing it. I don't mind if someone reads this entire thread of comments. I still haven't had someone tell me that he privately told that commenter, before this writing, that he was espousing a false gospel. I've only been told that what I'm saying is not true, and that I should respect private and confidential communication that has been made with him, so I shouldn't assume he hasn't been told it's a false gospel.<br /><br />Larry,<br /><br />A major point of my piece is that you can tell what's important to people by how they react to something. It's not a red herring. The most important things got little attention. After I posted this, yes, David O has been dealing with him at the "trying harder" thread. I posted it just after midnight on Sunday/Monday. David O started in on Monday AM/Noonish.<br /><br />People can take what I've written at face value, judge it, slice it/dice it. I think it's important to think about how people really react to a false gospel versus how they react to other things. On SharperIron, I had never seen someone state a position like that particular commenter, and the lack of dealing with him was of interest.<br /><br />Aaron didn't deal with the false gospel at all, by the way. It was definitely a theological error against the doctrinal statement of SI. I'm not trying really to provoke the supervision there -- just making an observation -- that you seem to be saying means nothing. It doesn't change my interest in SI. I still like looking at it. And I continue to see this episode as tell-tale.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-42916974310851987102013-06-17T19:28:33.247-07:002013-06-17T19:28:33.247-07:00Kent,
First, haven't you disproven your own c...Kent,<br /><br />First, haven't you disproven your own complaint when you say that Paul Henebury called it Galatianism and heresy? The whole point of Galatians was a false gospel, and invoking means calls it a false gospel. David O has also been challenging him, as others have. So you can't really complain that no one has rebuked him publicly. You even pointed out that someone has rebuked him publicly. The fact that the letters "false gospel" in that order may not have been used is missing the point. It has been clearly and openly challenged as false teaching on the gospel. Therefore, your whole article is misguided from the outset.<br /><br />Second, I would simply say that you being unaware of something is not the same as it not existing. So it entirely possible (and actually true) that moderators have said something and you simply didn't know about it. Furthermore, others have challenged him and are challenging him. My point is that your article was incorrect and should be changed to reflect that.<br /><br />Third, I doubt many people are reading it now, or read it past the initial article. I skimmed a few posts, saw Paul was interacting, saw Aaron was interacting with him, and went on my way. As I have said before, I don't read all the threads at SI and I don't keep up much with the ones I do read. I assume others are like that as well.<br /><br />Fourth, I don't know how many moderators there are, so I can't help you there.<br /><br />Fifth, Whether or not pants on women would get a different response these days, who knows. But I am not sure how or why that matters. That's just a red herring, it seems to me. In this particular discussion, a point was made and has been challenged by multiple people in multiple ways. That has happened on pants, Bible versions, music, and a host of other things.<br /><br />I didn't intend to get into a back and forth. I merely wanted to point out that your article was wrong, not intentionally, but because there are things going on that you don't know about.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04886866662463467215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-47328491813578789032013-06-17T16:49:36.643-07:002013-06-17T16:49:36.643-07:00Another thing. Let's say that someone was prea...Another thing. Let's say that someone was preaching a false gospel in public. No one rebuked him in public. So I said, no one rebuked him. Someone comes along and says, what you are saying is not true. So I ask, So did someone rebuke him in private? The person replies, I'm just saying what you are saying is not true. And someone else in the know follows up, all correspondence that is not public is therefore private and thus confidential.<br /><br />Is it still confidential? Isn't the public conclusion that someone repudiated someone publically, so it isn't confidential any more? If you are trying to keep it confidential, then you've now given away that you said the very controversial private statement that a false gospel was in fact a false gospel.<br /><br />My question: Why is public repudiation of a false gospel confidential? What is so private about it? The false gospel was proclaimed in public. Why is it being rebuked in private? Is this the correct course of action? Should a public false gospel receive a private repudiation?<br /><br />What I think I'm supposed to conclude is that a false gospel was privately repudiated and then the adherent of the false gospel still kept promoting it, but no one is to conclude that it was not repudiated, because no one can conclude that, because it is possible that it was done privately. I don't really know. This seems new to me, like something I've never seen before.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-43075042614635375792013-06-17T14:34:50.032-07:002013-06-17T14:34:50.032-07:00Hi Susan again,
I think I have a handle about SI....Hi Susan again,<br /><br />I think I have a handle about SI. It is owned by Aaron and he is more conservative than most of the members, even as seen in his articles, recently taking Bob Hayton to task a little on "trying harder," Bob representing the new preach-the-gospel-to-yourself sanctification theory. <br /><br />On the other hand, SI is an organization or institution. The members are not an institution per se, but the members represent what fundamentalism allows today, which is a sort of heartbeat. More conservative fundamentalists are not so comfortable at SI, because the rules are different for them, but SI represents what is allowed in fundamentalism. At one time, what is allowed could be stopped. Fundamentalism seems to not even be trying to stop it. The shift is seen in what has occurred at NIU. I know people are against that, but the main leaders are not being that strong about it, much like they haven't been strong about Calvary at Lansdale.<br /><br />What I am observing in this article is that I believe that there is some hypocrisy about the gospel issue with those who say it is first in importance. If it is, why do they not react like it is? I thought that was communicated with my article. It is one thing to say that in a doctrinal statement, but then one can watch how people react.<br /><br />Do you not think what I'm saying is true?Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-4129416588177337172013-06-17T13:44:59.063-07:002013-06-17T13:44:59.063-07:00A few more things. I gave it several days here be...A few more things. I gave it several days here before I wrote this. If this was no-pants or KJVO or no-on-rock-music it would have been savaged for hours for days, mocked and ridiculed. No one would have needed a reminder. Here's a rare false gospel appearance and it is dealt with very sensitively and softly by the few saying anything, and nothing by SI that I read. Nothing. The usual suspects, who say the gospel is so important, say nothing.<br /><br />A women stood up against rock music in comment on the sidebar filing post pro-rock music, and someone spoke to her condescending and a "my dear," and she had to bow out of the conversation. The left comes in strong, is disrespectful, and they get room to maneuver. This is a culture there that I don't understand. I'm not saying everyone there supports it, but it looks obvious to me.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-90156909690164165032013-06-17T13:37:12.825-07:002013-06-17T13:37:12.825-07:00Hi Susan,
So when someone proclaims a false gospe...Hi Susan,<br /><br />So when someone proclaims a false gospel at SI in public, that's a private moderation? And if he continues down that line, he doesn't get banned?<br /><br />The Jason Janz was just part of a narrative. My own evaluation is that SI hasn't changed much. I like Aaron much better than Jason. Aaron himself is far more conservative, but the feel of the participants is at best the same, but probably worse. I don't think it's because of you. I don't expect you to confront someone like the one making the comments.<br /><br />My big point is that fundamentalism says its big beef is the gospel, but they act like their big beef is KJVO and pants on women issues by the reaction. Here was a rare occurrence of someone preaching a false gospel and it just went on and on. No one said, "Take it elsewhere." If he did, he's not getting it in public. <br /><br />Has someone really said to him, That's a false gospel. That's what Larry is saying has been said to him by a moderator. Moderators are very public in most instances, so I don't get the private. Even here, when I even brought up the issue, because no one said "false gospel," I got something in public, not in private. I don't mind it in public, but how would pointing out a false gospel be as big as the actual false gospel itself?Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-7669574013029769692013-06-17T12:37:20.622-07:002013-06-17T12:37:20.622-07:00I just got back in and scrolled through the commen...I just got back in and scrolled through the comments, and I didn't see anyone confront him as espousing/preaching/teaching a false gospel. The most was Paul H, who called it Galatianism and heresy. There isn't the outrage there would be if someone said he said 'pants were wrong on women.' That would get public ridicule there.<br /><br />Maybe you are saying that someone confronted him privately and said a "false gospel." He's not retracting, not stopping, continuing to go with it there, so I don't see it. You'll have to help me.<br /><br />There are three moderators, right? At least as advertised?Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-19825504096726923262013-06-17T10:00:47.603-07:002013-06-17T10:00:47.603-07:00You said, " None of the moderators confronted...You said, " None of the moderators confronted him directly for espousing a false gospel."<br /><br />This is false.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04886866662463467215noreply@blogger.com