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heresy hunting

Christians, don’t let heresy hunters scare you from asking hard questions

August 28, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: heresy hunting, orthodoxy

Hucksters, Heretics, Hypocrites … and Tim Challies

June 16, 2020 by Randal

In this video, I offer a critical response to Tim Challies’ video “7 Marks of a False Teacher” by demonstrating that he conflates two (or three) different groups and proposes empty and self-defeating marks of false teaching. In short, it’s not helpful advice.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: heresy, heresy hunting, predation, predator, Tim Challies

Hamfisted Heresy Hunters

October 6, 2019 by Randal

Calvinist blogger Steve Hays has a long list of people he needs to monitor on a regular basis and I’m apparently on that list. Every few weeks, he seems to make a point of commenting on one of my articles or tweets. I wrote a reply to him last week and of course, he needed […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: doctrine, heresy, heresy hunting, orthodoxy

If you can’t define “being biblical,” don’t accuse others of failing to be biblical

January 29, 2018 by Randal

Yesterday I posted the following tweet: Nobody should be allowed to say "that's not biblical" unless they can give a succinct, coherent, and orthodox statement regarding what it means to be biblical. — Tentative Apologist (@RandalRauser) January 27, 2018 Some fellow with the Twitter handle @noah_nonsense replied by asking what was wrong with saying “That’s not biblical” without […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical, heresy, heresy hunting

Who is Eric Schneider and why is he defaming Bruxy Cavey?

April 29, 2017 by Randal

Yesterday I became aware of a nasty article by a fellow named “Eric Schneider” who has a blog devoted to destroying the reputation and ministry of Bruxy Cavey. The article was poorly argued and evinced little by way of analytic skills, biblical or theological knowledge, or a modicum of charity. So who is Eric Schneider? […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bruxy Cavey, doctrine, Eric Schneider, heresy, heresy hunting

Heresy hunting and the Church

April 8, 2013 by Randal

First off, what is heresy hunting? I define it as follows: heresy hunting: the practice of searching for indictable theological offenses in written or spoken text. Now let me add immediately that “indictable theological offense” is not a proper definition of heresy. But that’s because the heresy hunter is not really after heresies at all. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: heresy hunting, hermeneutics, interpretation

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