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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Offering information relevant to Rose Huskey's
initial post, I posted the following link:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>There are a number of issues discussed in
this link in a sometimes very lively and revealing manner. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>At least two are perhaps worth a short comment
upon from an outsider's point of view.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Cessationism v.
Anti-Cessationism</FONT> </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>The Anti-Cessationists believe that God still
speaks and among the way it speaks is through revelations, visions, signs,
etc.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>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
<EM>serrated edge</EM> Wilson's lame and illogical defense of this inclusion of
Driscoll is skewered by various members of the Reform Community.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Catching On</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>There is another very interesting phenomenon
found in the comments section of the above link.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Among his current flock there are
spouses, most of them women, who hold similar views.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>There is an old adage about adultery: "The
husband/wife is always the last to know."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>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 <STRONG><FONT color=#339966 size=5>Wilson Family Cult and Cash
Machine</FONT></STRONG>, but if reports are accurate, not flowing nearly so
copiously as in past times.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>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."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>w.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Wayne A. Fox<BR><A
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