Josh Duggar: The Protestant Gospel Strikes Again
Yawn. Here we go again. The Catholics no longer have the market on sexual child abuse cornered…for some time now. Pray tell, how much longer are all of the clichés going to cover for this stuff until people finally realize that there is a serious fundamental problem underneath the hood of the Protestant magical yellow bus supposedly going to heaven.
May I suggest a false gospel?
How many children will be sacrificed for the sake of evangelicals saving face? I understand that Westerners don’t want to admit that we fell prey to the same en masse religious deceptions found in the East, but the price of children is way too high for the redemption of Western pride. Besides, Germany trashed the notion during the 40s anyway.
Dear discernment bloggers: in case you haven’t noticed, you cannot save the Protestant church. You are now merely gossip peddlers; nothing more or less. And enough with your whiney open forums: truth is found as promised by Christ in His word, not your pooling of ignorant uninformed opinions leading to more and more confusion.
It’s time to stop and question everything, and the answers are egregiously simplistic. It’s time for the solution.
The first century Christians met in homes for mutual edification because that is the intended model; always was, always will be. The “church” was NEVER meant to be any kind of institution. The Protestant gospel was designed for institutional purposes. The five word gospel, “Christ died for our sins,” was derived from spiritual caste presuppositions and an institutional mindset.
Catholics like Protestants because they both share the same metaphysical presuppositions concerning mankind and a call for oligarchy. Hence, the few will always be sacrificed for the collective good. Name one victim who has found justice in the church. Where is this victim? Where is Christ’s one in ninety-nine? You search in vain. That’s because in the Protestant five word gospel, “victim” is a misnomer.
What’s your first clue? Regardless of the fact that Josh Duggar confessed to child molestation in 2006, he was appointed as executive director of the Family Research Council. They knew. Everyone knew. James Dobson probably knew. Sigh. You really think it’s about families? Really? Are you that naive?
Again, the fundamental problem is egregiously simple: the Gospel of Jesus Christ is more than five words. Christ died so the old us could also die. The old us should be dead. But it isn’t, so we continually return to the death of Christ to seek forgiveness for our total depravity. By focusing on our total depravity, grace abounds, and those who know how sinful they are—are actually more qualified to be Christian leaders. And because of that, the Duggars are among the Grace Philosopher Kings, and the American Christian peasantry still doesn’t understand these things. Well, Josh must resign and once again Christianity has lost a great leader because of the Pharisees. In essence, this is the same worn-out Protestant response being proffered in the press by the Duggers.
Also missing from the Protestant five word gospel is our resurrection with Christ. Instead of emphasizing the holiness of new creaturehood, we rejoice in the evil that supposedly manifests Christ’s living, not a “righteous living of our own.” We have not died with Christ, nor have we been resurrected with Him. This is a gospel that is totally off the biblical reservation.
Gee whiz, it’s testimony to the fact that there is a lot more grace work to be done in the church—boy howdy—God’s people still do not understand grace. Poor Josh must resign because there are still way too many Pharisees in the church.
When are God’s people going to stop falling for all of this? When are the discernment bloggers going to beat their keyboards into tools for solutions instead of brushes for whitewashing the tombs of dead people? It’s not a few bad apples, it’s the whole Protestant basket.
And when are Christians going to see the five word gospel for what it is? When is the investment made in error going to look like dung in comparison to the children who have been made to stumble?
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Paul's Passing Thoughts 
When I saw this story last night, my first thoughts (unfortunately) vassilated between “here we go again” and “nothing new here” and “does this really even surprise us anymore?” That may seem cold-hearted considering the children involved. Really, tho, I find no joy or satisfaction in the outing of another big name protestant. My only thought’s now are, when will we find out about the Robertsons? (Duck Dynasty)
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When a gospel is predicated on the total depravity of the saints-it is what it is. If you tell people they are sinners, they will act like it. Their efforts to conceal the sin are grounded in their belief that they are in the minority who really understand grace.
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Susan and I are free from this garbage. We tell people straight up that we are Christians and therefore do not go to church. Christianity is not church.
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I see now that TLC just announced that they pulled the Duggar’s show on the heels of this “scandal”.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/05/22/report-tlc-pulls-19-kids-and-counting-from-tv-schedule/
Get ready for the Christian “community” at large to throw back their heads and howl. But I have to say, TLC seems to be the one with the integrity, which in and of itself speaks volumes!
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Paul, this essay of yours needs to be shouted from the mountaintops. You, Susan and Andy have largely solved the theological problem facing modern American evangelicalism, and John Immel has solved the philosophical problem. All of you have investigated and examined the historical issues as well. I believe there is still the psychological part of the problem that has yet to be investigated and/or intergrated – but that is maybe for another time.
I often marvel when reading the Wartburg Watch, and not in always a good way. Granted, there are some good people who post there. At the very least they recognize that there is a problem and post news stories about abuse, and I give them points for that. However, it is not good enough to expose the abuse and continue the philosphical and theological system that is producing the abuse. They are afraid of doing things differently. There will continue an exodus from the institutional church becuase people are starting to be afraid or creeped out by evangelicals, especially the young ones. I spiritually do not feel safe in a church anymore. That was not the case 30 years ago.
Nowadays, I hide my faith. I will not be yoked together with the fools that inverst the leadership of modern evangelicalism. I’m cynical, embarassed and disheartened.
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I think I am going to respond further here with some clips from last nights radio show.
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To all from last night’s show:
“Other than the typical Reformed collectivist ideas in the vein of Hillary Clinton’s It Takes a Village, there are some stunning statements in this chapter that segue into chapter 6. First, Tripp quotes Tod E. Boisinger on page 75:
‘More than any before us, an America today believes “I must write the script of my own life.” The thought that such a script must be subordinated to the grand narrative of the Bible is a foreign one. Still more alarming is the idea that this surrender of our personal story to God’s story must be mediated by a community of fallen people we frankly don’t want getting in our way and meddling with our own hopes and dreams.’
Full stop. Here is what Christians don’t understand and I believe I am going to make this the focus of my TANC 2015 sessions; the truth about the redemptive-historical interpretation of the Bible. Folks, this not only comes right out of the Heidelberg Disputation, it is NOT in a manner of speaking. This is a prescribed way of seeing reality itself—this is a philosophical ideology that involves the state of being.
True reality is a metaphysical redemptive story written by God. ALL of reality is a gospel narrative about how God saves some and not others. If you believe you have a free will and can make choices, you are writing your own story. Martin Luther called this the glory story, or the story of man. Believing that God has prewritten all of history according to His redemptive story is the cross story, and true theologians of the cross understand this.
Do you understand why this theology and counseling construct is taking the church by storm? Think about it. You go in for counseling because of something horrible that has happened in your life and you are distraught. Hey, lighten up, don’t be so uptight, this is just all part of God’s prewritten narrative for His glory—don’t worry, be happy. God is in control, right? God controls and has prewritten every jot and tittle of reality and its history. Has God predetermined what you are going to wear to work tomorrow? Sure He has, it’s just another part of the prewritten metaphysical script.”
So, do the Duggars think his failure was prescripted by God so that he and others can better understand the gospel? Read their statements for yourself.
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“When a gospel is predicated on the total depravity of the saints-it is what it is. If you tell people they are sinners, they will act like it. Their efforts to conceal the sin are grounded in their belief that they are in the minority who really understand grace.”
I just had a conversation with my MIL about the Duggers and she said the exact same thing …..well, we are sinners so this is going to happen” I wanted to pull my hair out. I said NO, we are not sinners, we are declared righteous! We sin, yes, but we are NOT sinners. To give my dear MIL credit I was there too. Unless, you step out of that RIDICULOUS church building you are not going to see because you are indoctrinated. Oh I am so mad today because of the church for myriad of reasons – some personal. I need to go and have a day at the beach tomorrow….. and yes Sunday!
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When you state that all Christians are sinners you take away the dignity and accountability of that individual.
We are capable (even unbelievers) to choose right from wrong. This Protestant mumbo jumbo has wreaked havoc in our country and more so than any of the seculars could.
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As I walked away from this post I started thinking about the double lives the American Christian is living right now. On one hand, “we” forgive so easily and say “oh well things like this will happen in the church because we are all sinners” and this kind of debauchery is then covered up; but on the other hand, if any kind of evil hits close to home (lets say to one of our own family members or especially to oneself) we will cry out for justice. So in a sense, sinners are given a pass as long as it does not affect one personally. When it does we will readily “flip the table”.
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i suppose it would be too simplistic to judge Protestantism according to a rule Jesus coined: “By their fruits you will know them.”
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Ryan and Pondering,
Susan no longer calls herself a Christian, but rather a “believer.”
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