Days after Beth Moore took exception to Jonathan Edwards’s sermon ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’ for very BethMoorish reasons, she took to Twitter to chastise those who would publicly humiliate heretics and share pictures and memes about why they are so bad.
A couple of days ago, Beth Moore admitted, “I’m no great theologian, and she’s completely right. She doesn’t understand the value of 2 Corinthians 10:5 “We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.” She doesn’t understand that it’s loving to rebuke & correct wicked people claiming Jesus. It is loving and good to correct false teaching in public and private. It is a virtue to excoriate those who preach a false gospel and are leading people to hell through deception and wicked deeds.
For this reason, she might as well have said this:
Writing articles or sharing pictures or memes of why Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, or some false teacher who says he’s the second coming of Christ, is a virtue, not a vice, and is a work of the spirit. The fact that she’s mad about it is very, very telling.
It’s all just a misnomer, however, because we’re not going to hear God say “well done good and faithful servant,” because we did any specific good work, but rather because he sees Christ’s righteousness in us on account of our justification.
Knocking heretics around a bit? That will give us a reward in heaven as surely as other works of mercy, but that’s not the basis of why we stand before the Lord of glory.
For the uneducated, Moore’s theological ineptitude and outright horribleness are the stuff of legends, as she has routinely claimed direct revelation from God (like her famous tale of God telling her to brush a guy’s hair instead of witnessing to him), affirming so-called woman pastors and those who affirm LGBTQ+, labeling her entire denomination racist, and claiming white supremacy is running rampant” in the church. She has liked tweets dissuading believers from sharing the Gospel at BLM protests and recently said that the pulpit has become a threat to women’. She has criticized complementarianism, as ‘it wipes out half the gospel force’ and has begun preaching at churches.
Bonus, here is an example of something Moore does not like:
