Emerging Critic says Jesus was a real dolt

Emerging critic says Jesus was a real dolt

Phil Perkins says Jesus was a real dolt because He claimed to be “The way, The Truth and The Life”. (John 14:6)

In fact the more Phil clings to his “propositional truth” gospel, the more he denies who Jesus is.

Here is the core of his confusion…“Logos” never refers to “scripture” in the Bible… it only refers to God’s “spoken word”… in the generic sense… and ALWAYS used specific of Jesus…

To use John 17:17 to mean Logos is the Bible… we are then in real trouble…

Jesus is not just a teacher of truth… though He did teach truth. I do not deny Jesus even used propositional truth… it is not the “tools” used that I debate, but proper biblical perspective that the “tools” are used in.

And if that is true according to Phil, then Jesus is just a way, and a life…He loses the power and impact of the statement which Jesus said… Phil is denying the deity of Christ.

I am just using Phil’s human logic.

What Phil continues to miss is that he is preaching another gospel in which the “tools” of modernity are used to fit Jesus into modernity’s system.

It is placing flawed human reasoning over Jesus… making Jesus subject to modernity’s claim of sovereignty.

Again, if the passage in John 17:17 is to mean “scripture” or “the bible” then it would have used another word all together… most likely “graphe/ γραφὰς or gramma”. As in the passage in Matthew“22:29 ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, πλανᾶσθε μὴ εἰδότες τὰς γραφὰς μηδὲ τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ θεοῦ· ” (sorry if this font is a bit scruffy again I do not know greek so I can’t tel if the font is distorted or not.)

I have run this past at least two other teachers who know Greek and teach it and they seem to back what I am saying… I know of no teacher of Greek who is worth his salt outside of maybe the Watchtower society who would agree with Phil on his view.

And this guy teaches Greek and Hebrew at Yellowstone Baptist College! (Ben2590 should look into that schools credentials!


Now, I can only conclude that Phil needs to bone up on his Greek… or that he honestly does not understand, or that he is purposely distorting these things so be right… which is wrong… (Yeah I am being so judgmental… and mean.)

I believe that Phil is so blinded with his hate over the emerging church... That he will resort to anything to prove us wrong… even resort to distorting Greek to his own understanding…and that is really sad.

I am not sure I can take any more excursions into Phil or ben2590 version of reality and their twisted gospel of human reasoning to salvation… Who needs Jesus anyway, right? We have human reasoning and propositional truth to light our way… Who needs the revelation that comes from the Holy Spirit when we have Phil Perkins and ben2590 to set us straight?

BTW, Jesus did not use propositional truth... point to one scripture... in fact the parables were His way of confounding man's reason... I challange someone to point to one scripture Jesus uses propositional truth to teach. He would most often say, "I tell you the Truth". Though Paul does use the "tool" Paul also often points that it was out of "revelation" he taught... Paul always used the "tools" to point to truth, and spoke often against human reasoning and human wisdom as a way to God. God is much more complex than mere human propositional truth.

Again, please join in prayer with me as I sincerely believe these men are afflicted by a religious spirit. Pray that they are loosed form the demonic bondage that is blinding them from seeing who Jesus really is which is all I truly want for them.

Blessing,
iggy

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