Alistair Begg Prays At MacArthur's Memorial Service But Quadruples Down On His Sin

Alastair Begg quadruples down on his "wisdom" to show "compassion" toward a transsexual/gay person by supporting their blasphemous union called a "wedding". Go here for my article of Begg's tripling down in unrepentance.

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"If people said, 'What do you know about Begg?' I don't think compassion is necessarily the first word that they would use," he said.

"I'm not trying to be unkind to myself," he said regarding how others might assess him. "I think, realistically, they might say he's very direct, they might say he's funny. They could say a bunch of stuff, but I don't think they'd say 'compassion.'"

"So now, in my one attempt at compassion, I should have known better," he added, as the audience laughed. "I don't do compassion. I do compassion, all hell breaks loose against me."

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So according to Begg, this was a PR stunt to make him look more compassionate. It backfired. Moreover, he himself is mocking Scripture including the very letter of Jude that condemns such a twisted view:

Jud 1:7  just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. 

This denies God's absolute sovereignty over the salvation of a person, too because it's from a pragmatic stance of "trying to win a person" to salvation. It also denies the doctrine of Election. Both MacArthur and Begg claim to hold to these doctrines, yet their sin and compromise regarding a gay or transsexual wedding proves they don't. They fear rejection of the ungodly. Instead of encouraging Christians to stand firm against such blasphemy as a gay/transsexual wedding which is what noble men of the faith did (like Noah, Lot, and John the Baptist), Begg and MacArthur are encouraging cowardice, compromise, and treason.
Moreover, the believer's disposition is not to celebrate what God says in Romans 1 is unnatural, wicked, and ungodly (see Rom. 1): 

Jud 1:23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with FEAR, HATINGEVEN THE GARMENT STAINED BY THE FLESH.

Shame on Alastair Begg. He's twisting words to deceive Christians. It's not "compassionate" to celebrate blasphemy of God, His name, His created order, and His creation of genders & marriage. That's literally HATRED. It's also NOT the disposition of Lot toward the same thing.  

Isa 5:20  Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! 21  Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight! 

Isa 31:2 And yet he is wise and brings disaster; he does not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and AGAINST THE HELPERS of those who work iniquity.

Rom 1:32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but GIVE APPROVALE to those who practice them.

Rather, we're to have this disposition toward such unnatural, immoral abominations:

Gen 19:6 Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him, 7 and said, “I beg you, my brothers, DO NOT ACT SO WICKEDLY.

2Pe 2:7 and if he rescued righteous Lot ,GREATLY DISTRESSED by the sensual conduct of the wicked 8 (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was TORMENTING his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard)

Jud 1:23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with FEAR, HATING EVEN THE GARMENT STAINED BY THE FLESH. 

Heb 11:7  By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. 

The loving thing to do is to NOT go to such a blasphemous occasion NOR to give such a relationship validity. Instead one should make it clear this is heinous sin, is earning them death, and call them to repent as Jude clearly states: 

Jud 1:22  And have mercy on those who doubt; 23  save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.  Begg's "wisdom" is earthly and demonic.

Jas 3:13  Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.  Jas 3:14  But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.  Jas 3:15  This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.  Jas 3:16  For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.  Jas 3:17  But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.  Jas 3:18  And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.  

Jas 4:4  You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 

Heretic Molinist William Craig Lane Is Clearly An Open Theist

*Molinist William Craig Lane has made it very clear that he is in fact an Open Theist (should anyone ever had been in doubt previously).

As reported by Dissenter: 

Here’s what Craig actually said—verbatim:

“One might think that if God is omniscient, then he can’t learn anything new, because to be omniscient is to know all truth, it’s to know all the facts there are. But in fact, an omniscient being can learn things that are new if he is in time.

If God is in time, then at any particular moment of time, he knows all the truths that there are at that moment. But if truth changes over time, then God’s knowledge will change over time as well. So to illustrate, say at a certain moment, God knows that Bill Craig is now eating lunch....

So if God is in time, even though he knows all the truths that there are at any moment of time, because truths change over time, God will in fact learn new truths, new facts as time elapses.”

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Dissenter goes on to say:

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But it seems Craig wants a God who is in time, reacting and adjusting like a weather app. Why? Because a God who is outside of time, who decrees all things, who is immutable and omniscient and sovereign, is a terrifying God to those who still want to sit on the throne themselves.

This is the dirty little secret behind all forms of Open Theism. It’s not about God. It’s about man being in control of himself. Intellectual control. Spiritual control. The control to define a God you can argue with, tame, and keep on a leash.

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*What is Molinism"

Molinism is related to Open Theism. It's where today's Open Theism cam from, along with 

Molinism is named after the Roman Catholic Jesuit, Luis de Molina from the 1500's. It tries to "reconcile" the sovereignty of God with man's "free will". It denies God's absolute sovereign control over all creation and man's total depravity. Molinists claim God has "Middle knowledge", that God knows all the potential outcomes of theoreticals or hypotheticals (if you were born 100 years earlier or if you married a different person).  Of course Scripture destroys such notions particularly with the whole nature of prophecy (eg Judas in  John 13:18; Acts 1:16; of Jesus: Is 7:14 & Luke 2:12; Luke 4:21,Luke 22:37, John 19:36; of Abraham in James 2:23 and Rom 4-5).

Psa 139:16  Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. 

Act 17:26  And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 

Eph 1:11  In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 

Eph 1:19  and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might 

Rom 8:28  And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 

Rom 8:29  For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 

Rom 8:30  And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. 

1Pe 1:1  Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2  according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. 

There is no "free will" of man. Man is born dead in his sins, hostile toward God, without any good in him, enslaved to his sin nature (Eph. 2:1-5; Rom.3:10-18;6:16-17,20; 8:7-9; 1Cor. 2:14).

Eph 2:1  And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 

Eph 2:2  in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 

Eph 2:3  among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 

Eph 2:4  But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 

Eph 2:5  even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 

Open Theism is the logical end of Arminianism's free willism.  It deifies man to be the determiner of what happens. It removes God as absolute and sole sovereign God who is reigning over all things, bringing history to His decreed conclusion. It instead sits in the seat of the ancient Serpent of Gen. 3 attacking God's name, nature, and word by dangling the . It was the devil's sin of seeking to be like the Most High God and then seducing Adam and Eve:

Gen 3:4  But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5  For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 

The god of Molinism, Open Theism, and Lane is a foreign little god that is powerless and ever shifting, ever having to LOOK TO MAN to gain knowledge and then to act. This is contrary to the whole of Scripture:

Is 40: 13 Who has understood the mind of the LORD, or instructed him as his counselor? 14 Whom did the LORD consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way?
Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding?

Isa 46:9  remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, 10  declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,'

Psa 50:21  These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

Isa 40:18  To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him? 

Moreover, the very name---God's memorial name forever (Ex. 3:14-15) is Yahweh: the Self Existent One. It reflects God's eternal nature. Jesus in John 8:24, 58-59 declared Himself to be eternal as well ("I am") who was before Abraham's existence. John the Baptist also declared Jesus to exist before his own existence although John was born 6 months before Jesus. This also demolishes the damnable doctrine of Open Theism.

Job 38-42 declare the unreachable knowledge of God OUTSIDE OF TIME.

Jas 1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. 

Another wrong view of Open Theism's heresy is that God is limited to the constraints of time just because He works inside time. They and their predecessors the Molinists, constrain God's knowledge to both time and man's experience. They see time as a fixed state.

To quote Eric Powers in his "Is There Any Warrant For Doctrinal Triage?",

“Eternity is not a measurement of time. Eternity is forever. On the other hand, time is a  measurement because it has a beginning point and a point of cessation. On the other hand, God’s existence is immeasurable.” 

Moreover, God created time and will end it therefore it is linear and finite (Gen. 1-2; 2Peter 3:10-11; Rev. 21).

Open Theism has a god that has the fallen attributes of man: very limited, finite, and with error. This is what Scripture calls "doctrines of demons" in 1 Tim. 4:1 and "wisdom" from demons in James 3:15. It comes straight from Satan himself, the Ancient Serpent who lied from the beginning in Gen. 3.  It is of unbelief and rejects the God of Scripture, His nature, name, and Word. Moreover, it is at war with the thrice Holy God of Israel. It is damnable doctrine created by the devil to elevate man and lower God.

Flat SUN Theory

 

Makes just as much sense as the demonic and delusional "flat earth" theory. Scripture is clear: the earth is a sphere. All planets and moons in our galaxy are globes. Physics, eyewitness accounts, photos, all confirm this obvious truth. 

1Ti 1:4  nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith. 

1Ti 4:1  Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 

1Ti 6:20  O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” 

1Ti 6:21  for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you.