[Vision2020] Worse than I anything I could imagine

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Offering information relevant to Rose Huskey's initial post, I posted the following link:

http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2011/08/pornographic-divination.html

The link offers from a religious group, many of whom are Reformed, the sect that Douglas Wilson anoints himself as the leader of.  I posted this information so that readers could see some of sexually obsessed Reformed Pastor Mark Driscoll's remarks, and to see the various reactions to it from within the Reformed Community.

There are a number of issues discussed in this link in a sometimes very lively and revealing manner.  

At least two are perhaps worth a short comment upon from an outsider's point of view.

Cessationism v. Anti-Cessationism 

Cessationists, of whom Douglas Wilson is an example, believe that the Bible, at least in the form that Wilson uses, is the last word from his alleged God.  There haven't been nor will there be anymore signs, words, revelations, etc from this God until judgment day.

The Anti-Cessationists believe that God still speaks and among the way it speaks is through revelations, visions, signs, etc.

This is what is curious:  Mark Driscoll claims his very sexually charged, obsessive, explicit visions including visions of rape, homosexuality, child molestation are visions from God.

This is contrary to Wilson's position yet Wilson defends Driscoll's use of these visions and has made him the feature attraction of Wilson's upcoming Grace Sexinar.  If you read the comments found in the above link, you will see how cleverly and not without the serrated edge Wilson's lame and illogical defense of this inclusion of Driscoll is skewered by various members of the Reform Community.

For of us that occasionally visit various religious commentary sites, this latest double gaffe( inviting Driscoll, and then defending his view) of Wilson's is one in a long line of declines in his national prominence and influence.  His ersatz and not clearly thought through, uneducated theology has come under increasing attack from many who were at one time his allies.

When someone like Wilson sets themselves up as the ultimate authority, mistakes cannot be admitted without undermining that authority.  But Wilson's mistakes are sometimes so glaringly obvious that his ultimate authority is undermined anyway.  It will be interesting to see the amount of permanent damage Wilson has inflicted upon himself with the Driscoll gaffes.


Catching On

There is another very interesting phenomenon found in the comments section of the above link.

Various apostates of Wilson's Christ Church Cult have commented upon his unsuitability to be a pastor citing lack of his moral fitness, dishonesty, intolerance, narrow, illogical interpretation of scripture, narrowly proscribing the kind of music allowed in church, glaring favoritism toward his family and others, defending the indefensible (Sitler, Wight, et al), etc as reasons for their views.

Among his current flock there are spouses, most of them women, who hold similar views.

I haven't read every dispute with Wilson on the web over Reform matters, but the comments in this link are the first time I have seen either directly or indirectly members of the Reform Movement questioning Wilson's suitability to be a Reformed pastor.  If you read closely the reasons are similar to some of the above including lack of moral fitness and theological errancy and inadequacy.

There is an old adage about adultery:  "The husband/wife is always the last to know."

Aside from the obvious very close-to-home implications, it appears that Wilson's local flock is in the same position as a cuckold.  Perhaps if some of them read the comments in the above link from their brothers and sisters in the Reform Movement, the might begin to catch on to what a hypocritical, self-centered, bamboozling charlatan their pastor is and decide it is time find a congregation with a leader of more integrity.


It probably has not escaped notice that besides Wilson, his son Nathan and apparently permanently bewildered son-in-law Bennie Merkle are speakers at the Grace Sexinar.  So the cash keeps flowing into The Wilson Family Cult and Cash Machine, but if reports are accurate, not flowing nearly so copiously as in past times.


Almost everyone has sexual fantasies of various kinds and intensities.  Mark Driscoll is entitled to his.  But for him to claim they are visions from God is delusional, and to broadcast and to celebrate them as such is beyond outré.  And when crackpots/con artists like Wilson who intentionally and for profit promulgate such delusions and celebrations, especially when contrary to their alleged theological beliefs, in the name of their alleged God one can easily see why Rose proclaims: "Worst than anything I could imagine."

w.


Wayne A. Fox
wayne.a.fox at gmail.com
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