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- Jun 14, 2024
While I will primarily attack Protestants in this piece, I am going to start by mocking noted Orthodox Bog Hog Jay Dyer, who smacks his lips approximately every fifteen seconds and frequently interrupts his long-winded theosophical monologues to hawk "natural male vitality" testosterone pills. Jay Dyer has made God's house a house of merchandise through his natural male vitality shilling. It's quite easy to listen to three hours of Jay Dyer's free-associative slam poetry regarding the interconnections of Greek philosophy and the supposed necessity of trinitarian theology to make sense of any facts of the natural world. It's quite easy to listen to all of that without actually contemplating the glory of Jesus Christ once. Jay Dyer and all other e-Christians are the exemplars of monetized idleness. The kind of idle chatter that Socrates offered for free is now being commercialized by these fraudulent e-Christian gasbags.
Moving on to Transactional Protestantism, particularly, Transactional Reformed Protestantism. For a long time, I was a voracious consumer of e-Christian content and found people like RC Sproul and John MacArthur to be quite compelling and persuasive. Sproul, in particular, was highly erudite and several standard deviations to the right of the IQ bell curve. I have great respect for RC Sproul and he is not himself an e-Christian. I would never characterize him as such, and he is in heaven now anyway.
But I bring up Sproul and MacArthur because their content is what caused the entire Protestant house of cards to collapse in my mind. Cracks began to appear when I noticed how these men contradicted each other on what seemed to be fundamental matters of the Faith. For instance, RC Sproul argued in one of his talks that the underlying reason a sinner is damned to hell is not because of that sinner's rejection of Christ but because of that sinner's objective state of sin. In other words, failing to accept Christ is not itself the causa damnationis. Instead, failing to accept Christ is the reason the sinner is not pardoned, but the sinner is ultimately condemned on the basis of his own sins. John MacArthur answered the question in exactly the opposite way. (MacArthur also hews to several other "pop Christianity" heretical beliefs such as the view that Jesus was literally damned to Hell on the cross, a vile heresy which James White has convincingly refuted.) MacArthur alleges that the sinner is fundamentally damned for not accepting Christ and the sinner's particular sins are just symptoms of the underlying cause.
The inability of Protestantism to give a cohesive answer about anything is what undermines the Protestant claim that there is some fundamental unity to all the various denominations. Protestants will object to the characterization of "20,000 different denominations" by pointing to underlying similarities between groupings of denominations. Yet even those who are aligned in lockstep on most matters of "Reformed theology" such as MacArthur and Sproul often reach fundamentally contradictory conclusions. Yet they all claim to be inhabited by the same Holy Spirit! Why would the Holy Spirit lead different people to different "truths"? That's not the Spirit of God; that's the spirit of deconstructionism, which is just destruction with a couple extra syllables.
Ok, but there is one area where almost all "Reformed Protestants" agree: a "transaction" occurred on the cross. Christ's righteousness was traded for wretchedness and Christ became sin on the cross. In the process, his righteousness was transferred or imputed to all believers who would ever follow in his path. The elect, then, were instantaneously and irrevocably declared "forensically justified," without the need for them to demonstrate any kind of actual righteousness in their own behavior. In this view, someone like John Calvin who was part of a criminal conspiracy to have a "heretic" burnt alive is currently enjoying the beatific vision of eternity with God, while the poor guy who got burnt alive is now burning eternally in hell. In other words, the murderer gets to enjoy eternal salvation while the one murdered is burning in hell. What a load of shit.
It is necessarily true that if there is any reality to the Gospel of Jesus Christ then true believers must actually be infused with the righteousness of Christ! Infusion, not mere imputation! Sanctification and justification are and must be ONE! Do you think that God treats your sins like parking tickets, in which someone else can pay the penalty for you and you can simply go on committing further offenses?? BLASPHEMY! You dishonor God when you say such things. God is Holy.
The Christian's heart must yearn for Actual Righteousness, not the mere imputation thereof!
You protestants with your phony transactionalism, as if God's justice is a Western Union wire service and your salvation can be purchased without any righteousness being displayed in your own lives, are DECEIVED!
Moving on to Transactional Protestantism, particularly, Transactional Reformed Protestantism. For a long time, I was a voracious consumer of e-Christian content and found people like RC Sproul and John MacArthur to be quite compelling and persuasive. Sproul, in particular, was highly erudite and several standard deviations to the right of the IQ bell curve. I have great respect for RC Sproul and he is not himself an e-Christian. I would never characterize him as such, and he is in heaven now anyway.
But I bring up Sproul and MacArthur because their content is what caused the entire Protestant house of cards to collapse in my mind. Cracks began to appear when I noticed how these men contradicted each other on what seemed to be fundamental matters of the Faith. For instance, RC Sproul argued in one of his talks that the underlying reason a sinner is damned to hell is not because of that sinner's rejection of Christ but because of that sinner's objective state of sin. In other words, failing to accept Christ is not itself the causa damnationis. Instead, failing to accept Christ is the reason the sinner is not pardoned, but the sinner is ultimately condemned on the basis of his own sins. John MacArthur answered the question in exactly the opposite way. (MacArthur also hews to several other "pop Christianity" heretical beliefs such as the view that Jesus was literally damned to Hell on the cross, a vile heresy which James White has convincingly refuted.) MacArthur alleges that the sinner is fundamentally damned for not accepting Christ and the sinner's particular sins are just symptoms of the underlying cause.
The inability of Protestantism to give a cohesive answer about anything is what undermines the Protestant claim that there is some fundamental unity to all the various denominations. Protestants will object to the characterization of "20,000 different denominations" by pointing to underlying similarities between groupings of denominations. Yet even those who are aligned in lockstep on most matters of "Reformed theology" such as MacArthur and Sproul often reach fundamentally contradictory conclusions. Yet they all claim to be inhabited by the same Holy Spirit! Why would the Holy Spirit lead different people to different "truths"? That's not the Spirit of God; that's the spirit of deconstructionism, which is just destruction with a couple extra syllables.
Ok, but there is one area where almost all "Reformed Protestants" agree: a "transaction" occurred on the cross. Christ's righteousness was traded for wretchedness and Christ became sin on the cross. In the process, his righteousness was transferred or imputed to all believers who would ever follow in his path. The elect, then, were instantaneously and irrevocably declared "forensically justified," without the need for them to demonstrate any kind of actual righteousness in their own behavior. In this view, someone like John Calvin who was part of a criminal conspiracy to have a "heretic" burnt alive is currently enjoying the beatific vision of eternity with God, while the poor guy who got burnt alive is now burning eternally in hell. In other words, the murderer gets to enjoy eternal salvation while the one murdered is burning in hell. What a load of shit.
It is necessarily true that if there is any reality to the Gospel of Jesus Christ then true believers must actually be infused with the righteousness of Christ! Infusion, not mere imputation! Sanctification and justification are and must be ONE! Do you think that God treats your sins like parking tickets, in which someone else can pay the penalty for you and you can simply go on committing further offenses?? BLASPHEMY! You dishonor God when you say such things. God is Holy.
The Christian's heart must yearn for Actual Righteousness, not the mere imputation thereof!
You protestants with your phony transactionalism, as if God's justice is a Western Union wire service and your salvation can be purchased without any righteousness being displayed in your own lives, are DECEIVED!
