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The pastor, not the baseball star.

Recent remark by Robertson on Janet Mefferd's twits about the Driscoll case was brought to my attention. Paraphrasing his sarcasm: "Ok, Janet, we get it now, you hate Driscoll, he's the anti-Christ. Move on.", it is clear that he had insinuated an unfair accusation on Mefferd. He basically want the world to believe that Mefferd hates Driscoll and calls him the anti-Christ. First flaw.

I believe what Janet was doing was merely keeping track of the news on Driscoll. It's Robertson who needs to move on from his false claim that Janet was obsessed with Driscoll.

This can be a touchy thing since Driscoll was the one who invited himself to talk to Janet on her show even after being told that the book he intended to promote on her show will be subjected to questioning. After being questioned about plagiarism, Driscoll questioned Janet of her authority to "teach" [question] him and others after claiming that he was not aware of any plagiarism, and stated that his true motive was to TEACH Janet on her show, and after that, he hung up on her. I was listening to all these on the podcast. For someone who calls everyone to be a man, he sure couldn't take it like a man.

Then, a string of bad news for Driscoll follow. I'd known Driscoll long ago enough to not be surprised by all these but only thanked God for revealing this hypocrisy in this age.

David Robertson's association with Sinclair Ferguson and the Ligonier got my attention. It would appear that Rev. Ferguson is partnered with Robertson's St. Peter Free Church in Scotland. I'm not sure what Robertson's disdain against theonomy is, after a quick search, but Van Til, Greg Bahnsen gave great support for theonomy: It's either theonomy or autonomy - Van Til.

Then, when I showed Robertson his sarcasm is flawed by replacing "Driscoll" with his "obsession" (he has the ن letter on his profile photo) with ISIS, and he called me comparing Driscoll to ISIS. If he were a bit more intelligent in a Christian manner, he would consider a comparison of the sins of the two. So, I supposed he just want to put words in people's mouth where he does not or is ignorant to understand. Insinuating criticisms as hate. But then his own criticism is not a hate crime I supposed.

I would say Robertson commented Janet the way he did due to him being bribed by Driscoll. He wrote recently about his interview with Driscoll back in 2008. So, I supposed he was bribed by the good time Driscoll gave him. But this may not be his chief problem, which I would illustrate later. The lessons listed in the article were understatements: no protestant popes, etc. In the article, he's very misleading by saying that Driscoll has been apologizing for years, as if he had apologized to Janet and those to whom it matters. I supposed Robertson loves to slap his enemies and apologize to his wife about it. Pun is seriously not intended here.

Robertson is probably the kind that would hate Dr. Tong because I doubt he truly desire to preach, lecture yes, but not preaching the Gospel to unbelievers. Many self proclaimed reformed Christians who do not preach the Gospel to strangers because they are coward, and many of them deny that. This inevitably lead to liberalism, if not them, then by them. He is safe now because he associates himself with many good reformers. His orientation to liberalism will eventually surface. I would think Robertson had learned to be humble after his gastritis and surgeries but I now feel sorry for Dr. Ferguson for associating with Robertson. May God have mercy on us all.

Not Super Gran from UK, but the American TV reality show Supernanny whom Rev. Lin once commended on the pulpit.

Wretched podcast (7/25/2014) has a good take on this:

Secular view. In one instance, supernanny asked the child to "Respect your step father because he's always been there for you..." Wrong, what if he's not there some time?

If you dishonor him[your step father], you dishonor God. The Nanny is only an external temporal witness, when she's gone, we need an eternal witness. So only a Christian worldview can fix this rightly.