True Discernment

from The Armory:

Indeed, Has God Really Said? Part II:

I would submit that much of the modern church is a sleeping church, and she needs to be alarmed and startled concerning those who are creeping in unnoticed – in droves.  

So I will dispense with the formalities that normally attend the book reviews that I write.  Most of you know who N.T. Wright is; and many are enamored with his reputation within academia, notwithstanding his doctorate degrees from Merton College, Oxford University and his several honorary doctorate degrees from other institutions.  Yet despite his renown as the Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey, I must sadly report that many of his core convictions are in fact non-canonical, especially when it comes to his teaching concerning the doctrine of justification as revealed in his book:  What Saint Paul Really Said [Eerdmans Publishing Company]. . . . .

Indeed, Has God Really Said? Part III:

It is here that I do not hesitate to say that Wright’s courtroom scene is clearly a Christless one.  Devoid of any preview of our Priestly Advocate, the reader is sadly turned away from the substance of Christ in order to be abandoned to the shadows of Mosaic law – and a limited perspective of the Mosaic law at that.  Thus, to say that Paul believed in a Christless judiciary (whether as previewed in the O.T. or revealed in the N.T.) is indeed a new perspective on Paul – but it is a grotesquely wrong one. . . . . .

Indeed, Has God Really Said Part IV:

There are many zealous defenders of Wright who would quickly shriek at the notion that anyone should dare to question the man’s commitment to Holy Writ, but Wright’s treatment of the Bible is in fact troubling.  It is much like the many experiences that I have had in visiting churches.   Many churches will herald the doctrine of inerrancy in their doctrinal statements, and yet there are many of these same churches that fall short of applying and preaching core church doctrines:  the gospel itself, church discipline, or the biblical roles of men and women.  To say that the Bible is authoritative is one thing, but how one treats the Bible becomes the moment of truth.  It is here that I would suggest that Wright’s moment of truth has come, especially in the way that he treats God’s Word in What Saint Paul Really Said: . . . .

You can also read “Indeed, Has God Really Said? Part I” here