We Will Forgive You When You Go Away
Imagine for a moment the hubris it takes to piously lecture the faithful on forgiveness and grace mere months after tarring us as selfish, un-Christlike grandma killers. To demand under the color of Christian obedience the very grace, humility, and forgiveness denied others as you cozy up to secular power requires a special form of narcissism.
Enter Christianity Today.
The same publication whose editors and writers heralded their moral superiority on all things COVID – including decrying the now-proven lab leak theory, platforming mad scientist Francis Collins, and recommending “resources” that are to this day pushing the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” tripe – is now demanding Christian forgiveness include zero accountability for those who provided “Jesus cover” for the freedom-crushing COVID-era spiritual abuse perpetrated on the Christian church.
In the article by fund Ukraine forever ERLC neocon Paul D. Miller, he claims “we got things wrong” before doubling down on his rebuke of believers who employed data, common sense, and (most importantly) scripture and therefore had it right the whole time.
Apparently copying and pasting from 2021, Miller writes:
…it was right to treat COVID-19 as a serious emergency and to act with an abundance of caution. Flippancy about masks and social distancing, especially early on when we did not know much, was unwise. Treating the virus as unimportant or unthreatening was grossly insensitive to older and immunocompromised people who were at extreme risk.
Miller apparently can’t figure out that our “flippancy” and “gross insensitivity” in deciding for ourselves and our families the virus’ importance and threat did not infringe on anyone. In truth, it was bureaucratic tyrants like Anthony Fauci and COVID Apostles to the Evangelicals Russell Moore, Francis Collins, and Ed Stetzer who wielded gospel-branded, state-approved judgment against believers who remained understandably suspicious of a government that had demanded we shutter churches.
In August 2021, Miller himself lectured that he “had no patience” with freedom-demanding Americans who disagreed with forced vaccination (a “commonsense health measure” to Miller), although made sure to let readers know that (in true benevolent despot fashion) he might allow “very rare” religious exceptions to forcibly injecting genetic material into the bodies of his fellow citizens.
Miller’s article ignores entirely the generational damage done to the development of children on the basis of a virus that presented less risk to them as a demographic than vehicle accidents, drowning, and being murdered. It ignores his and others’ complicity in the tyrannical arrests of their fellow citizens, ruining of livelihoods, churches that barred worshipers who refused to be medical test subjects, and his own denomination forcing its missionary families to inject themselves. Most offensively, Miller papers over spiritual abuse – the myriad of false accusations of sin made against faithful believers who stood up to this tyranny and refused to go against their (now undeniably proven true) consciences before God.
Yes, forgiveness and grace should be given. But not in light of the refusal of Miller and those who similarly leveraged Christ in their quest for church closure, forced vaccination, and generational societal abuse to repent. The day we see Paul Miller and friends apologizing to families for giving “love thy neighbor” cover to a power-drunk government that denied last moments with loved ones, we can seriously discuss “forgiving each other our pandemic sins.” So far, perpetrators like Miller have yet to truly confess their sins, much less repent of them, which considering the gravity of their error must involve humble self-deplatforming.
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What I cannot imagine is how totally lacking in discernment the poor individuals reading CT have to be to read the leftist, woke idiocy they turn out.
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Amen, I agree. CT is not a source of biblical truth.
No one should talk about the speck of “covid amnesty” in our brother’s eye until we deal with the plank of “forsaking the fellowship of believers” in our own eye.
Do not fear the reproach of man, Neither be dismayed at their revilings. -Isaiah 51:7
Does anyone seriously think the Church has learned a lesson from Covid? We already saw how little it took for the government and MSM to ignore the fellowship of believers, what is stopping the same thing from happening again?
The Church in the US was willing to shut down after absolutely nothing happened. The Canadians had it worse but there are still a lot of Churches that shut down and only opened once they began to perceive that society as a whole wasn’t buying into “the sky is falling” rhetoric of the talking heads on TV.
For shutting down at all, I have not heard a single apology from any church. Many churches, even conservative ones, shut down for several months in 2020 and instead of repenting, they pat themselves on the back and act like because they re-opened before liberal churches that everything is OK and thank God because “they are not like other men”.
Amen, you are correct.
As Dennis Prager says, “Being on the left means never having to say you are sorry.”
Yet that is exactly why people become Woke/left, and why they stay in that dark and demonic ideology.
Forgiveness? Yes, always. Forgiveness is never deserved.
Trust? Possibly. If trust is rebuilt, through godly sorrow, genuine and full confession, and wholehearted repentance … then, yes.
However, these (and every other ) Wokeists have no interest in repentance. They have doubled-down so many times — all defiantly in the face of obvious truths — that they have seared their conscience, which goes hand in hand with compromising with and embracing doctrines of demons (1 Tim 4:1-2).
Therefore, it is up to them to “produce fruit in keeping with repentance” (Lk 3:8; see 2 Cor 7:10-11), but, instead of actual repentance, according to the ful truth, they proclaim grace while using weasel words, and subtly put the blame on to others.
That is not of Christ, it is anti-Christ.
Carl F.H. Henry would roll over in his grave at what has happened to Christianity Today.
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I have never taken Christianity Today seriously.
Why in the world would this article mention Ukraine? Is this site pro-Russian imperialism and in favor of ethnic cleansing of Ukraine?
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