JOHN MACARTHUR

[Gregory]

Just saw a video of John MacArthur.
He looks badly.
He must have something a little serious.

Anyone know anything??

i know he had 4 stints put in his heart and they had to replace his auora valve and also had to do surgery on one of his lungs and that reduced his lung capacity to 50 percent on that one lung

 

[st_worm2]

For a long time now he has seemed to me to be the leader of the pack against the idea that God communicates His will directly to people by Spirit-to-spirit revelations. I don't know if it qualifies as the unpardonable sin to suggest that people who believe they hear from God may be listening to evil spirits. But it is plausible. Only God knows for sure.

Hello NewLifeinChrist, I believe that the unpardonable sin (blasphemy against the Holy Spirit) is never done in ignorance of the truth. Rather, it's committed by those who (like the Pharisees) fully understand that what they are uttering against the Spirit is a lie, a lie that requires such an utterly cold, black heart to commit that those who commit it could care less that they are doing so.

So, for MacArthur (or anyone else) to simply make "the suggestion" that people who believe that they are hearing from God "may be" hearing from Satan or a demon instead, is something that wouldn't qualify as a blasphemy, much less as the unpardonable sin in the Bible.

We do, after all, have Biblical warnings about Satan (e.g. that he can appear to us as "an angel of light" .. 2 Cor 11:14, and will try to deceive us, if possible), as well examples of the very thing that MacArthur is talking about occurring fairly recently in real life. For instance, a few years ago theologian Gleason Archer, who was fluent in the language that was being shouted in tongues from the pulpit one Sunday (by a longtime member of his congregation), refused to repeat what he heard that morning because, rather than praises/truth/thanksgiving about/given to the Godhead, the words that his fellow congregant was uttering in the service were actually extreme blasphemies against the Holy Spirit, instead

God bless you!!

--David

 

[JLB]

So, for MacArthur (or anyone else) to simply make "the suggestion" that people who believe that they are hearing from God "may be" hearing from Satan or a demon instead, is something that wouldn't qualify as a blasphemy, much less as the unpardonable sin in the Bible.

If agree with the above.