I've been in the recovery for 41 years...

[aron]

Originally Posted by Lisbon

I began having real problems with WL during the Psalms videos. I sat beside Raul Bajandas and when WL started hatcheting psalm after psalm we just roared with laughter. There I was a 50 yr old man raised in a Christian and even heard WL quote all scripture is God breathed and here WL is hatcheting the Word right and left!

Amen. "Hatcheting" is an appropriate characterization. How can you say that you are cutting straight the word of God, when you maul it so severely?

Look, on the day of Pentecost Peter stood up with the eleven, and quoted Joel once, and quoted David twice. See vv 25, 34: "David said about him..." Where did Peter dredge up those quotes? From reading the word, of course.

Now, here is the sixty-four dollar question: where did Peter, or anyone else for that matter, disparage the word of David as "fallen"? Where did he or anyone else warn us that only some of the Psalms were profitable for teaching, for reproof, and instruction in righteousness, while the bulk were vain and unprofitable words of natural men?

Again and again the NT writers and speakers referenced the Psalms as the basis of their revelation of Christ. Look at the epistle to the Hebrews for instance. Nowhere that I can see any of them putting a 'hatchet' to it like WL did. Case closed, for me: WL stands alone. He wasn't 'steadfastly following in the teachings and fellowship of the apostles'. By doing a hatchet job on God's word he not only went astray but led others astray as well.

The Bible reveals to us Christ Jesus our Lord. To disparage it thus is to turn away from the very Christ sent by God, and revealed, sometimes plainly and sometimes in shadow and type, in the pages of scripture itself.