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I tend to agree...Haven't we had enough of the "Vinnie" type people here for a while?No we don't!

I tend to agree...Haven't we had enough of the "Vinnie" type people here for a while?No we don't!
Apologies for the long delay in responding Gringo.....
Gone chopin. Bach in a minuet
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I made one, but at the moment it seems to be Haydn from me..
Did you take a chopin liszt with you?
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John Piper. They call MacArthur Johnny Mac and Piper Johnny Pipes.I don’t get it. MacArthur was staunchly anti-charismatic. Who is Pentecostal Johnny Pipes?
I rarely hear anything from John Piper now. Not that I dislike him or anything, just that there are so many other good Bible teachers and preachers that have had my ear these days.John Piper. They call MacArthur Johnny Mac and Piper Johnny Pipes.
He stopped full time pastoring 10 years ago, at 66, as opposed to MacArthur who is still preaching weekly at about 85.I rarely hear anything from John Piper now. Not that I dislike him or anything, just that there are so many other good Bible teachers and preachers that have had my ear these days.
Dude, you're talking bare knuckle fist fight..If you’re a Free Willy you are really a closet Open Theist.
Funny story about Greg Boyd.Oh yeah? You remind me of Greg Boyd.
Funny story about Greg Boyd.
My son was in a local church that had Boyd speak occasionally. He said, "Oh, Dad, he's a great speaker." I was hesitant, but I said to him, "Be careful, he holds some things that are not good historic Christian views." And I left it at that.
Today, he is interning at a church where a guy who used teach at MacArthur's Master's Seminary, and sees that Boyd is a total wack. He said my few words, just warning him without bashing his church helped get him on the path.
Oh man. That hurts. Especially it being your brother. My brother is an unbeliever, and I have fasted occasionally and prayed for him almost daily to come to Christ for 39 years. Even if your brother attends a RC church, he could be truly saved. Mine rejects God entirely.That’s pretty cool.
TLDR; (my combative attitude in apologetics had a course-correction)
I had one of those moments once and n my militant IFB days with my recently converted older brother, only my lack of discernment and sensitivity led me to spill too many words for any good thing yo come from it.
He’s married to a practicing Roman Catholic (which he is also now a member of too), and at one point long ago he had what I believe to be clearly a born/again experience (too long to detail here). Shortly after his conversion he began asking me theological questions (and attending the RC church with his wife). He’s always been the proverbial doubting Thomas type, asking provocative and probing questions of a devil’s advocate variety. In one of those early post-conversion (but pre-conversion to RC) conversations he made the statement that “all three major monotheistic religions were essentially the same”, to which I aggressively corrected him in a harsh manner. That conversation didn’t end well. He told me months later that he was merely testing my knowledge-base, respected me as a teacher, but that my brutish attitude turned him off a bit of my version/practice of Christianity. It was one of those moments of epiphany in my deconversion from the militant aspect (as I had understood it to that point) of fundamentalism.
Oh man. That hurts. Especially it being your brother. My brother is an unbeliever, and I have fasted occasionally and prayed for him almost daily to come to Christ for 39 years. Even if your brother attends a RC church, he could be truly saved. Mine rejects God entirely.
Ugh...not a fan!At least we've got some excitement going on. While I'm here, John MacArthur isn't that bad after all.
I am not a big fan, but I can tell you this, my son, who was in a Greg Boyd type church (Greg Boyd spoke there at times) finally was mentored by a MacArthur guy, and now at least he has some backbone, theologically. So I appreciate John MacArthur to that extent.Ugh...not a fan!
C’mon dude…who needs needs a geocentrism thread when you’ve got a “cocaine shark” thread??Hmmm, there's a Geocentrism thread we could revisit...![]()
Not interested at all. You could go over to the BB and argue Penal Substitutionary Atonement with JonC, the moderator. He closed my thread when I opposed him.Hmmm, there's a Geocentrism thread we could revisit...![]()