Blog of the Week - The Irvins

Come on Tim… How can you recommend this guy? I got one paragraph into his article on arminianism and was told that anyone who is not a six pt. Calvinist is an idolator. Then, I decided to review the article you recommended on ‘invitation’. Now, understand, I think that the invitation system is in need of some serious critiquing, since it is a largely cultural expression of modernism’s influence on the church, but his logic and his vitriol are suspect to say the least. He assaults finney’s character (which is the ad hominem fallacy), calling him ‘man centered’ simply because his theology differs on a slight matter. He basically uses his theology to beg the question. To me, it looks like this:

Bill: “God must exist.” Jill: “How do you know.” Bill: “Because the Bible says so.” Jill: “Why should I believe the Bible?” Bill: “Because the Bible was written by God.”

Except, he’s doing it like this:

Bill: “Invitations must be wrong”Jill: “How do you know?”Bill: “Because it is not reformed theology”Jill: “How do you know reformed theology is right?”Bill: “Because it is.”

Very suspect logic, and very poor form. I’d give this guy an F-. Insulting those who disagree with you is just plain wrong. Whatever happened to “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another”? If he really loved his fellow believers he wouldn’t insult them.