Lou Martuneac
Have a nice life:wavey:
peace to you:praying:
Sixth Lordship Distinctive- Reviewed
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Lou Martuneac, Jan 15, 2008.
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jd:
I truly understand your fear of and refusal to deal with the question. Your determination to evade the defining question is remarkable.
I understand your dilemma: If you answer, “Yes,” then you agree with a “commitment and unconditional surrender” for salvation message. If you say, “No,” then you have acknowledged that you defended something you never understood in the first place.
It is too bad that you have had to evade and dodge one simple, unambiguous question.
LM -
Lou Martuneac: jd nails it here when he says that JM nevers used the words "upfront committment". "That was your invention." He has exposed your error, so why don't you just take your licking and move on instead of trying to smear his reputation as with John MacArther's?
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JD and jd,
I believe that JM is making the same appeal the Catholics do. They believe they are "elect" through infant baptism and that all their life they are making God "Lord." Even early Reformers didn't give up this notion that "original sin" was taken care of in infant baptism and that there was no other "work" that would later save. Therefore, "Lordship" becomes the Reformer's sacerdotalism as the sacraments are to Catholics and as the sacrifices were to Judaism.
You would agree, wouldn't you, that there is nothing one can do to be "elect"/saved, right? And if you keep repenting of your sins and believing on Christ's "Lordship," you are "elect"/saved?
You appear to see the "James connection" ("faith without works is dead") in the life of the "elect" as we do among those we call "saved." However, you refuse to make that connection when it comes to the reception of salvation itself. Why is the "work" of belief not the "sinner's prayer" or some such "confession" that results in salvation??
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You stated in the very first post of this thread the following:
My question to you, then, is when you made the previous quote, where you:
a) deliberately lying
b) ignorantly lying
c) being intellectually dishonest
d) both a and b.
I had, at first, believed you to be ignorantly lying. However, since the truth has been plainly explained to you on numerous occasions and you still perpetuate the falsehood, I must now conclude you were deliberately lying, thereby exposing your intellectual dishonesty.
The title of your next book should be, "How to smear a good man's character without engaging scripture"
It is, apparantly, the only thing you are good at.
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jd:
No matter how much you complain, distort and try to distract attention, you have been unwilling and afraid to answer the question on MacArthur's 6th distinctive.
I understand your problem, you never read any of JM's books on LS, and you never read any books that take the opposing view. So you did not know or understand what you were dealing with, and wound up defending a personality.
LM -
Suppose someone makes (or believes he has made) this so called "unconditional surrender".
Then a few days later he/she sins, even a "small" sin (e.g. goes over the speed limit). Then an argument can be made that this individual has not made an unconditional surrender" because the Scripture says to Christians:
2 Peter 2
13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
and...
Romans 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
So, If we go 26 MPH in a 25 MPH zone we have resisted "the ordinance of God" and have not submitted ourselves to the the ordinance of God "for the Lord's sake".
Well, one may say, 1 infraction doesn't prove anything. Well then, how many infractions does it take?
Or take this Scripture for instance:
1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
Who has lived up to this?
Does anything less than unceasing prayer prove that an "unconditional surrender" has NOT been made?
HankD -
You have written a book and numerous blogs based on a falsehood. You do not have the moral courage to admit your error, you simply perpetuate the falsehood.
You cannot be considered a serious scholar or thelogian by anyone with an objective mind. Your agenda has clearly clouded your judgement. Your exegesis of scripture is non-existent.
You are swimming in an ocean of intellectual dishonesty, and swimming further from the truth with every passing second. You live in a sea of your own deception. Your arrogance has blinded you to the truth and pulled you into a ditch.
I have demonstrated a better grasp of what John MacArthur believes and teaches than you have.
I have more accurately expressed what John MacArthur believes and teaches than you have.
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jd:
The more you complain the more loudly it shows you refuse to address the issue with JM's sixth distinctive.
We know you don't want to answer because you never read or understood LS in the first place.
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I have demonstrated your false statements by direct comparison of what you claim MacArthur believes and teaches to what he actually believes and teaches; and I have provided to anyone who wants to see for themselves a link to John MacArthur's actual words. http://www.gty.org/Resources/Articles/2439
You provide links to your blogs so they can see more falsehood.
I have demonstrated your intellectual dishonesty on many occasions and have explained from scripture and from John MacArthur's own words WHY your statements are intellectually dishonest.
You continue to make the same baseless allegations, offering neither proof nor analysis of scripture as a foundation for your allegation. You continue to refuse to engage scripture on the issue.
John MacArthur uses scripture to support everything he believes.
You offer your opinion as if it were scripture.
Whatever scripture verses MacArthur uses to support his position are dismissed, and the same old charge of "that's an extra-biblical belief" is made; without offering any analysis of the scripture mentioned.
You have written a book and numerous blogs based on a demonstrated falsehood. You should be ashamed, but cannot muster the moral courage to admit you are not only wrong, but have been deliberately misleading.
You, therefore, desperately try to change the subject to me and what I believe, rather than on the real question of whether you are accurately representing what John MacArthur believes; I have demonstrated to everyone that you do not.
You have been exposed by the truth.
You are withering in the direct light of truth.
You are sinking in the quicksand of your own deception and falsehood.
Your only hope is to admit your deliberate false statements, write a letter of apology to John MacArthur, and have your book of falsehoods removed from circulation.
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Can we quit attacking posters and attack the positions? This is becoming a broken record...
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jd had to turn this into a personal attack against me. Because he never read JM's books on LS he came to realize later the fact that he did not really understand LS.
That is why he refused to answer the one simple question about JM's 6th distinctive. He had answered it would have been plain to all: 1) He misunderstood LS, or 2) He would have had to agree with the works-based, message of LS that frustrates grace.
So, instead of giving an honest answer to the question, he opted to launch personal attacks to draw attention away from his misunderstanding of LS.
It has been just that simple.
Anyway, I am willing to leave it at that.
Here are links to articles that address Lordship Salvation. These are for those who may be unfamiliar with Lordship's misinterpretation and corruption of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
John MacArthur's Costly Salvation
The Relationship Between God's Grace & Lordship Legalism
Is This an "Invitation to Salvation?"
How Does the Lordship Advocate Define Repentance?
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That's the problem with LS. There is no blanks to fill in.
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