Pretty much everything folks are telling you about Cloud is true. Now, just because I guy is against Calvinism, doesn't necessarily ruin his reputation as a commentator on the lives of great men in the past or Church History in general. The problem with Cloud, however, is that he does not have such a reputation. He does notoriously bad research and misrepresents the facts about folks regularly. I wrote this to a poster on another board who was asking the same questions about Cloud:

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Though I would not question David Cloud's faith as a believer, I certainly question the reliability of his research as a defender of fundamentalism and Christianity in general. David Cloud is one of the most notorious promoters of misinformation in the name of Christianity on the internet. One of the reasons (out of many) for his misinformation is that Mr. Cloud depends upon grossly out-of-date citations and facts for his postings. He will selectively cite some example of heresy against a person from a source 5 to 10 years old. It does not matter if the person has since recanted those alleged "heresies" or was misquoted and selectively cited in the first place a decade before. For example, last year on October 18th, 2004, he posted a hit piece against Christian music singer/preacher, Steve Camp, accusing him of being ecumenical in his philosophy of ministry. I know Steve Camp and I can tell you right now that he is not ecumenical, and if anyone were to read his website with any regularity he writes against it. However, that was just one grevious error among many Mr. Cloud raised against Steve Camp. The most comical was the biographical information Mr. Cloud posted giving his readers a sketch as to who Steve Camp is. Mr. Cloud stated that Steve Camp is currently (2004) a member of John MacArthur's Grace Church. Camp hasn't been at Grace in 6 years! He left sometime after 98-99. It should be further noted that this article is a re-published article on the same subject, ie, Steve Camp's ecumenicalism as a CCM musician, that was originally posted in 2002. That means Mr. Cloud never bothered to re-check his information and correct it from the first time he posted it.
I actually took the time one afternoon on a Friday when I had a slow day at work to write Mr. Cloud a note informing him of this inaccuracy. He wrote me back a curt response basically dismissing my email as unimportant, because it is the broader information in his article against Camp that is important to note, even though the allegations Mr. Cloud uses as demonstrating ecumencialism against Camp is 10-15 years out of date. His response reminded me of CBS and Dan Rather's comments against the allegations of document fraud in the whole Bush/Air National Guard fiasco from last fall. If Mr. Cloud regular gets his facts wrong about general, run-of-the-mill information on people, how can I be expected to trust the reliability of his other main points in his articles? (ShaperIron forum, 4/18)

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