The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Emergent Church

You are misunderstanding me.
What I was responding to is your quote:
I am not in support of reading books by people like McLaren at all for the purpose of gleaning truth. But when I was reading his book (because it was on my daughter’s bedside table), I noticed something he said that was true. But I noticed his solutions were wrong, but the solutions don't make what he said that was true wrong.
In other words, I don’t think it is necessary to throw out the baby with the bath water, simply because the water (solution given) is wrong.

As you said , lets call that the “baby”. If I throw out this “baby” I have now denied that the “baby” is a good thing, thus your comment about people bringing up good things, would be incorrect.
Rarely is any heresy based on complete lies. Otherwise people would see right through those lies and not follow them. Most of time, they start with a truth then subtly bring lies into the mix to fool the undiscerning.



Ok, let’s take Pharaoh for instance, according to Romans 9:17 God raised Pharaoh to show His power in him, so that God’s name could be declared throughout all the earth.
I am sure you know that Pharaoh was an evil man and how God used him, so I will not go into details there. Hopefully you understand my point.
Even the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ had to do with evil people putting our Lord to death.
Shortly after I became a believer, for what ever reason God allowed me to go through a period where I was under the teaching of Word of Faith heretics. I have many scars even today from that time in my life, but I can’t say that God hasn’t used some of these things for my good, or for that matter those around me.
Back then, I was quite naïve in the faith and I thought for a time I was following the way God wanted me.

Tom