John MacArthur on Beth Moore
Okay, if we are going to have an orthodoxy and Biblical exposition contest, Macarthur is clearly going to win.
However, the viral video of his answer to the question, What do you say to Beth Moore? is disturbing.
His answer, Go Home.
Could anything be more contemptuous or dismissive?
"Women aren't supposed to preach." Well, we can discuss this; there were prophetesses in the book of Acts, women are expressly told to teach the younger women (which is how Beth got started), and there's always Junia and Priscilla, Lydia and Dorcas . . . .
Johnny Mac thinks the only women in the Biblical were Euodia and Syntyche, the two cantakerous women in Philippi. Or the woman caught in adultery. Or the demon-possessed girl in Acts 16. In other words, the only women in the Bible are women who are non-exemplary.
Go home. Don't dare use your gifts in education or leadership or writing or anything else. Go home. Raise the kids. Otherwise you're a feminist just looking for power (watch the whole video).
Johnny Mac has always been my go to for good commentary, and he helped me greatly at a certain time in my life--back when we were both younger and he was more tolerant. But he lost a good chunk of credibility on that one. His attack on SBC raised my ire even more. He started an "independent, non-denominational" megachurch. Does he operate under any authority? This is about the supposed "social justice agenda" of the SBC--which I'm not seeing.
But don't worry--I am not a Beth fan. However, she has a myriad of problems, doctrinal and associational. A narcissist, I don't know; she certainly has an inflated idea of her authority. However, she has stood up before powerful men for victims of sexual abuse in a way a lot of men never would. For that I admire her.
However, the viral video of his answer to the question, What do you say to Beth Moore? is disturbing.
His answer, Go Home.
Could anything be more contemptuous or dismissive?
"Women aren't supposed to preach." Well, we can discuss this; there were prophetesses in the book of Acts, women are expressly told to teach the younger women (which is how Beth got started), and there's always Junia and Priscilla, Lydia and Dorcas . . . .
Johnny Mac thinks the only women in the Biblical were Euodia and Syntyche, the two cantakerous women in Philippi. Or the woman caught in adultery. Or the demon-possessed girl in Acts 16. In other words, the only women in the Bible are women who are non-exemplary.
Go home. Don't dare use your gifts in education or leadership or writing or anything else. Go home. Raise the kids. Otherwise you're a feminist just looking for power (watch the whole video).
Johnny Mac has always been my go to for good commentary, and he helped me greatly at a certain time in my life--back when we were both younger and he was more tolerant. But he lost a good chunk of credibility on that one. His attack on SBC raised my ire even more. He started an "independent, non-denominational" megachurch. Does he operate under any authority? This is about the supposed "social justice agenda" of the SBC--which I'm not seeing.
But don't worry--I am not a Beth fan. However, she has a myriad of problems, doctrinal and associational. A narcissist, I don't know; she certainly has an inflated idea of her authority. However, she has stood up before powerful men for victims of sexual abuse in a way a lot of men never would. For that I admire her.
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