There has recently
the rise of ‘christian’ ministries, which claim to be Christian but are not.
Such ministries can be very cunning. A Cry for Justice is one such ministry.
They say on their blog under the ‘Our Theology’ tab that:
We are not “liberal” Christians; we hold to the solas of the
Reformation.
We believe absolutely in the inerrancy and inspiration of Scripture.
We insist, along with God’s Word, that a person must be born again through faith and repentance in Christ if they are to be justified before God.
We believe absolutely in the inerrancy and inspiration of Scripture.
We insist, along with God’s Word, that a person must be born again through faith and repentance in Christ if they are to be justified before God.
A true
Christian might think it indicates they are Christian. But, what is a mere
profession of faith in Jesus Christ worth? Nothing. Jesus Christ Himself said:
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’
will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven. 22 Many
will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and
in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you.
Away from me, you evildoers!’ (Matthew 7:21-23).
In Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus was referring not to atheists, muslims, or
other blatant unbelievers who openly blaspheme God, mock Christians and are proud
of it. No, he was referring to people who professed His Name, in a way which
showed familiarity. Jesus said that one shall know who are true followers of
Christ by their fruit:
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s
clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes
or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree
bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the
fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them (Matthew 7:15-20).
A Cry for Justice shows much bad fruit from their website. When
confronted on their positions on fundamental Christian doctrine, they simply
avoid and propagate. Here are some of their emails in print format (please note
that messages forwarded to brother in Christ have been deleted out of respect
for his privacy):
Question about forgiveness,
adultery and marriage
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Tue,
Oct 25, 2016 at 10:36 AM
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To: swordtrowel@gmail.com
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Jeff Crippen <swordtrowel@gmail.com>
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Tue,
Oct 25, 2016 at 12:28 PM
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Cc: Barbara Roberts
<barbara@notunderbondage.com>, Renee Detig <twbtc.acfj@gmail.com>
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Tue,
Oct 25, 2016 at 12:33 PM
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To: Jeff Crippen
<swordtrowel@gmail.com>
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Tue,
Oct 25, 2016 at 12:40 PM
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To: Jeff Crippen
<swordtrowel@gmail.com>
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Jeff Crippen <swordtrowel@gmail.com>
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Tue,
Oct 25, 2016 at 1:11 PM
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Cc: Barbara Roberts
<barbara@notunderbondage.com>, 123twbtc@gmail.com
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To: Jeff Crippen
<swordtrowel@gmail.com>
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Jeff Crippen <swordtrowel@gmail.com>
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Thu,
Oct 27, 2016 at 12:20 PM
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Cc: Barbara Roberts
<barbara@notunderbondage.com>, 123twbtc@gmail.com
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Thu,
Oct 27, 2016 at 3:59 PM
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To: Jeff Crippen
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As you may note, I have not deleted the email addresses of the unstable
and ignorant heretics. This is because they need to be exposed, and do not
deserve the benefit of privacy.
The bad fruit of A Cry for “Justice”
Their bad fruit includes their position of divorce, marriage,
forgiveness, sin, Biblical gender roles, the role of secular psychology,
respect for husbands and fathers and appreciation of all they do, and respect
for pastors. So, this introductory article will give a brief overview about
their heretical positions.
Divorce and remarriage
They reject the Biblical view of divorce that it is a sin and that God
hates divorce, which is in and of itself a vile sin that is worthy of great
condemnation. Some of their articles are real unequivocal evidence of this:
They even dare utter blasphemies openly and proudly by saying on the
Non-negotiables for Effective and Biblical Abuse ministry page that:
Divorce for abuse is not only
permitted by God, but blessed by Him. The institution of marriage must not
be prioritized over the safety of the individuals within it.
Yet, they even dare call their “wisdom” Biblical.
Hatred for true Biblical pastors
One of the key signs of a false convert is an utter lack of respect for
Biblical pastors. Such utter lack of respect is a manifestation of hatred of
pastor, a shepherd of God, and therefore the hatred of Christ and His
followers.
In their self-righteousness, they list the names of well-known pastors, Biblical
true bold pastors as evil, heretical false teachers. They vile heretics even
the audacity to accuse John Piper, John Macarthur and Voddie Baucham as false
teachers because of their permanence view of marriage or Biblical denial of
ground for divorce, the right view. This is not to say that Piper, Macarthur
and Baucham are flawless and can never fall into sin. Piper indeed has compromised
with people as CWC has pointed out. However, that is not the issue here. The issue
is that they hate these godly men of God because
of their Biblical-mindedness, not because of sin on their part. Thus, A Cry
for Justice have been evil and demonic to even think about accusing proper
Biblical teachers of being false teachers, which is utter contempt for the true
Church of Jesus Christ.
They condemn John Macarthur because he has “has consistently denied that abuse is
grounds for divorce”. They represent John Piper as some evil demonic teacher by
saying:
Piper is well-known to readers of
this blog as a teacher of the permanence view of marriage. That means no
divorce for any reason ever as long as one’s spouse is still living. More about
Piper’s false teaching can be found at this post: John Piper’s Divorce Doctrine: Opinion Turned
Into God’s Law. For still more information
about Piper, we have a tag called John Piper. It can be found on the
top menu under TAGS.
Oh, wow!
Piper is so dangerous, because he believes in the permanence view of marriage!
He must be an abuser then! Because of his holy and righteous stance on divorce
and remarriage!
Hatred and ungratefulness towards
Husbands and Fathers
Reading
their articles makes you feel like you are reading some feminist screed against
husbands and fathers. But no, they are a ‘christian’ website. They accuse those
who rightfully respect the role of the husband and father of idolising him:
The husband and father is the head of the household (Ephesians 5:22-33;
6:1-4). He is the leader, and not the wife. He is to be obeyed by the wife and
children. The only times to not do as he says is when he tells his wife or
children to sin. They are to obey him in anything that is not sinful, no matter
how undesirable, asinine or silly it may seem.
It is also to be noted that although children are to obey their parents,
that is, without question, unless they tells them to sin (Colossians 3:20; Ephesians
6:1-2), the primary authority to discipline children rests on the father
(Ephesians 6:4).
So, the Bible clearly teaches us the earthly father is to be treated with
great respect. It is due to him.
What A Cry for Justice is saying, however, it is idolatrous to show
respect for him. They paint a negative false picture of him in their evil vile
article about the “patriarchal father”:
Patrarichalism sets up the
husband/father of the home as an idol. A false god. He is the one who
distributes “God’s Word” to the family. It is his prayers that really count. He
is the one to be served and praised. His word is the word that is infallible. A
little papacy is established. And whoever
does not fall down and worship him. . .
As children grow up in such
deception, and particularly as long as the wife/mother still embraces that
deception herself, all of the Bible, all input regarding just about any subject
including the very nature of God himself, is going to be perceived through the
idolatrous grid entrenched in their minds. That is to say, through the idol
called husband/father. Daddy says.
. .
When such a man perceives that
anyone — whether it be the pastor, an author, a church member, a friend of his
wife — that anyone is starting to see through his idolatrous false kingdom, he
goes on the offensive to squelch any and all opposition. He will slander that
person speaking truth. He will accuse them. And if all else fails, he will
isolate his family from them.
And his family believes him. Try
to reason with them. Try to warn them. It will be to no avail. Daddy says…. Translated? God says….
And THAT, little children, is
idolatry.
I saw a news documentary once on
North Korea and the cruel dictatorship that reigns there. The reporters found
that certain questions would be met with blank stares on the faces of the
people. “Have you ever thought that perhaps your leader could be wrong
sometimes?” It wasn’t that the people got angry at this question. No. Worse
than that, they lacked the ability to even
process the possibility, so thoroughly had they been brainwashed.
“Our glorious and beloved Leader, wrong? What does that mean?” They had no
mental paradigm or apparatus to take in such words. You may as well have said
something like “How do you like the taste of yellow?”
And so it is with the children of
the kind of idol father I am speaking of here. “Daddy, wrong?” Show them hard,
concrete evidence to the contrary of what their father said, it will not get
through. He has become their surrogate Christ. Really, an anti-christ.
And such a god can do whatever he wants.
Do not be deceived by their cunning words. This is exactly the way in
which false teachers pervert Biblical doctrine, by calling good evil and evil
good (Isaiah 5:20). Do not be deceived.
Respecting one’s father, and seeking him, not the mother, for decisions and counsel
on decisions that affect the directions of one’s life, is the Biblical thing to
do.
The patriarchal father should be, and is, a term of great honour. He or
she who respects the patriarchal father in the Biblical sense is righteous for
doing so.
Adoption of secular psychology
They not only adopt, but endorse the demonic doctrines of Lundy Bancroft,
a secular psychologist:
To justify
themselves, they say in their Thursday Thought 13 October 2016 post:
As a Christian site, we do not recommend yoga or meditation and we certainly don’t recommend same-sex relationships. We know our readers already understand that, but we have to say it anyway so that our detractors can’t attack us for appearing to endorse those things. The rest of what Lundy say is very helpful, and we thank him very much for his contribution to helping victims and survivors of domestic abuse.
This
qualification is only a front to appear Biblical. A truly Biblical ministry
would not endorse secular psychology, not matter what. This is because 1 Corinthians 3:19 says: For the wisdom of this world is foolishness
with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Such is
friendship with the world which the Bible has strong words of admonition about:
“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”[c]
but shows favor to the humble.”[c]
(James
4:4-6).
They even
have the audacity to attack pastor, Jay Adams, because of his nouthetic
counselling. Again, this is not to say Adams is perfect and has no mistakes. Rather,
the issue here is that they despise a pastor because He uses the Bible alone to counsel people, rather than because of sin of his part.
Biblical gender roles
This issue
which should not be controversial has become controversial, because of feminism
(from its beginning), and because of false Christian ministries like A Cry for
Justice. This is evident in the page about ‘What Headship and Submission do not
Mean’:
In it, they
attempt to do away with wife’s proper submission, and instead, in furthering
their agenda, cunningly implicitly blame all dysfunction on the husband’s
“failure” to lead his family. This can be inferred from their subtle omission
of the wife’s obligation to submit to her submission, and to love her husband
and children (Ephesians 5:22-24; 1 Peter 3:1-6).
Such failure of the husband to lead his family,
to put in bluntly, is often largely because of wife’s fault, in stopping him
from being righteous. It is really usually the case that the wife is a jezebel
where a marriage breakdown occurs. She is usually the one who wants to control
her husband, indicating why about 70-90% of divorce in the West is initiated by
the woman. This is simply true, whether you agree with it or not.
Many people in the west today,
including many conservative Christians, who rightfully uphold the doctrines of
Biblical headship and submission refuse to believe this. This is because they
are conditioned by modern society to believe that all marriage problems are
caused by the husband, and psychologically manipulated by feminist voices to
believe this. That is a problem for the spiritual lives of Christians because
it enacts a stronghold over his or her spiritual life in fully accepting the
doctrine of Biblical headship and submission.
A Cry for
Justice’s agenda is even clearer when they say on their ‘Non-negotiables for Effective
and Biblical Abuse ministry:
We reject patriarchy. By
“patriarchy,” we do not mean any idea of the Bible’s teaching on proper
biblical responsibilities given to husbands and wives (such as in Eph 5). We do
mean, and we reject, teaching that presents a man as superior to a woman.
Common teachings of patriarchy include, for example, the husband and father as
priest of his home, the insistence that a wife is never to criticize her
husband, etc.
Yes, A Cry
for Justice really does mean that they reject Ephesians 5 responsibilities, as
indicates throughout their blog in saying that a wife has a “right” to divorce
her husband for adultery, as well as desertion, abuse and even ‘neglect’, and
by rejecting the doctrine that the husband of the head of his home. That is why
they really mean when they say they reject the doctrine that husband is the
priest of his home. They also endorse the nagging wife who is a curse to her
husband, by saying that they reject the idea that a wife is to never criticise
her husband. ‘Criticising’ in the negative sense, as opposed to ‘critique’,
‘rebuke’ or ‘admonish’ is unbiblical in and of itself. No where does the Bible
counsel people to ‘criticise’.
Rather, it tells people to ‘rebuke’, ‘counsel’
or ‘admonish’ for the spiritual wellbeing of that people, so that he or she may
be sanctified. This is totally different from the act of scolding or
criticising by some nagging psycho, that is, a nagging wife, because of her own
unstableness.
Conclusion
The rise of
apostasy and deception is what the Bible predicted. It is time that we the true
Church of Jesus Christ submit to Him, and to never ever let our ears be tickled,
and zealously hate the spirit of jezebel.
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