The Orthodox can keep him.
Old Hank has been on a crazy train for YEARS.
The Orthodox can keep him.
Old Hank has been on a crazy train for YEARS.
From the article:
“Although Hanegraaff’s conversion to Orthodoxy is a dramatic development, in a way his theology and religiosity has been in almost constant movement throughout his nearly three decades at CRI. Hanegraaff’s family background was Dutch Reformed and his ministry experience prior to CRI included working with Calvinist pastor and broadcaster D. James Kennedy. When he arrived at CRI he was also a staunch young-earth creationist. Over the years Hanegraaff transitioned to old-earth creationism (which happens to be my position as well) but also passed through two or three forms of eschatology, eventually becoming an advocate for the controversial view known as preterism (which views almost all NT prophecy as fulfilled in the first century). Presumably now that he has become Orthodox he will need to support its traditional eschatology, which is amillennial.”
Huh. Too bad that for all of these years he was not guided by the Holy Spirit. I didn't know that took an oil change to do it. He must have been pretty squeaky. < /sarc >
So the Bible answer man hasn’t had the right answers for 30 years? He needs to make up his mind before he tells everyone what is right.
Denominations are man’s creation. The Bible tells us the way, the truth, and the life. That’s what matters.
“I am now a member of an Orthodox church, but nothing has changed in my faith,” Hanegraaff said. “I have been attending an Orthodox church for a long time—for over two years, really, as a result of what happened when I went to China many years ago.”
He said that in witnessing the simplicity and passion of Chinese Christians, he was led to study Watchman Nee and theosis (a teaching of the Eastern Orthodox regarding union with God) and felt drawn to the days of the early Church...
Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis had expressed worriment about Hanegraaff in 2003, after the author and speaker seemingly denied that the serpent in the Garden of Eden was literal, and suggested that the Leviathan in Job was simply a “metaphysical reality.”
“Eve was not deceived by a talking snake. Rather, Moses used the symbol of a snake to communicate the wiles of the Evil One who deceived Eve through mind-to-mind communication,” Hanegraaff wrote. http://www.waltermartin.com listen
Fractured fractious evangelicalism has nothing to brag about.
Unity cannot be in their dictionary because they are all about competing with the umpteen forms of evangelicism lining the streets next to each other all across America.
Glorious. We are godparents to a young man entering the true Church of Eastern Orthodoxy tonight. He’s coming home from The Roman Catholic sect.
The Orthodox will surely be doubting the benefit of this soon enough.