An Assault on Sola Fide
MacArthur doesn’t stop there. It gets far worse. In a sermon on Zechariah 12:1-14, he states this concerning the Jews:
While their spiritual eyes are up and they’re thinking about God and how He has delivered them, they’re going to see God incarnate, Jesus, coming. They’re going to look on Him….they recognize that the very one who came back as their deliverer, was the same one they killed and they pierced when He came the first time. That’s why they mourn. And now that’s the anguish of true repentance, beloved.
He goes on:
And then Israel is going to receive salvation, look at 13:1, “In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.” God’s going to wash the nation from its sin.
First, they’re going to cry “My Lord and my God,” when they see Jesus. They’re going to realize it was God they pierced. And then God’s going to turn the fountain loose and wash them and pour out His Spirit.
What ever happened to Sola Fide?
Here MacArthur has not only promised opportunity for repentance after Christ appears, but he teaches that, at least for the Jews, salvation is no longer sola fide, by faith alone, but for the Jews, it is in faith by sight. Brethren, this contradicts all teaching of Scripture. This man’s dispensationalism forces him into a twisted, unbiblical exegesis that promises hope at a time when there is none any longer.
John MacArthur may desire to appear calvinistic, but his teaching in eschatology is clearly from the bosom of John Nelson Darby where it originated. In fact, reformed theology has always, historically opposed MacArthur’s dispensational teaching. Far from teaching the doctrines of grace and proclaiming the urgency of repentance today while there is yet time, John MacArthur is clearly proclaiming another gospel – for the Jew – which truly is not a gospel at all, but a lie endangering souls of men, deceiving the Church body at large and robbing the Church of Jesus Christ of the comforts of God’s faithfulness in fulfilling His prophetic Word in Christ Jesus.
Next to exposing Santa Claus there is probably no more dangerous person to expose than John MacArthur. Loved by the world and especially by those who hold the murderer John Calvin as the greatest bible teacher ever, Johnny Mac as he is affectionately called, claims to be a lover of truth while wresting the scriptures that prove his doctrines false. He has many defenders from the Calvinist (whether they admit they are or know what one is is irrelevant) which all seek to promote each other while viciously attacking those who would dare to speak the truth in love hoping that some will see and come out from his subtil web of deceit. He masterfully uses tautological statements weaved with some good teaching, appearing as a humble, preacher of God’s word.
If one does not have the blood of the Lamb as the bible defines it or admittedly has no biblical point of salvation he by definition is not a Christian. Is it any wonder then that he preaches the false gospel of Calvinism? His many followers betrays the broad path that he is on and leads others on, while condemning sin he then promotes it with his subtil doublespeak.
Did you know John MacArthur taught that the “washing” of blood is a mistake in the Bible? That washing doesn’t mean washing? That the physical blood of Christ doesn’t save you but only Jesus’ dying? Did you know that he doesn’t know a time where he was ever born again but just knows he was? That he says on the one side of his mouth that God does not tolerate sin and will allow none into heaven, then on the other side of his mouth says there is no sin a Christian can commit and be prevented from going to heaven? If you think that is the gospel, you have bought a lie and are in error and in need of conversion. James 5:19-20
Please listen closely to the quotes of John MacArthur, the idol of so many, and stop making excuses for these men who teach false doctrines and mislead untold millions to hell by their good words and fair speeches. Learn how to discern biblically, and warn others so they may to escape those who promise liberty but disdain the blood and have no testimony of salvation.
The second point of contention is MacArthur's questionable attempt to co-opt "Calvinism" from amillenniarians and claim it for the dispensationalists. This is seen in MacArthur's remarkable claim that amillennialism is inherently "Arminian."
As I thought about drafting a response to this claim, it occured to me that it has already been done. In 1993, Richard Muller--who was my Ph.D. dissertation advisor and acknowledged by all as the leading authority on Reformed scholasticism and Calvin (Click here: Amazon.com: The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition (Oxford Studies in His)--published a short essay entitled, "How Many Points?"
In this essay, Muller demonstrates why people like MacArthur are not Reformed. MacArthur may hold to the "five points", but Muller shows why MacArthur is not "Reformed" nor a "Calvinist" in any meaningful or historical sense of those terms.
Before you read Muller's essay, please remember that the issue he's tackling is not whether those outside the Reformed churches are truly Christians (they are, if they are trusting in Christ). Muller is not saying that they have nothing good to contribute to the cause of Christ, nor any other such thing.
The specific issue Muller tackles is "who is Reformed?" And John MacArthur is not.
I've heard Ferd say many good words.
Good words are heard when they're said by Ferd.
If you havent heard the words of Ferd...why...you're just a nerd!
oh boy..
Ferd, Ferd he's our man if he can't do it nobody can.
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Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. (Romans 14:4)
Scripture is its own interpreter. Nothing can cut a diamond but a diamond. Nothing can interpret Scripture but Scripture" Thomas Watson.
And yet he is just one out of millions of Evangelical type teachers. The Evangelical (Protestant) Movement is the greatest association of cults within Christendom.
After you listen to them a while you realize their two main messages.
1. Christ is not the only God.
2. Sin is ok.
Sounds a lot like what the Holy Spirit warned about.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.Jude 4
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