Christian Clarity Review

June 12, 2009

byFaith Magazine: Apologist for Apostate Doctrine

The PCA magazine, byFaith, has repeatedly published pro-feminists articles and is always to be seen in the forefront of every new wave of innovation of doctrine in the guise of informing the members of the PCA in a will-neutral manner, the PCA, and the world of ‘issues’ with a “biblical viewpoint”.

Since the defeat of the overture last year of overturning the ban on women deacons, those who push the feminist agenda, against which there has been no discipline whatsoever, and that constantly seek to make and keep women dissatisfied as their best honesty and internal discipline of life simply because they exist, while claiming to be “for” women, have submitted no less than 22 overtures again. They have been given a platform by the editors and publishers of byFaith Magazine repeatedly. Article after article “questioning” and “debating” whether or no women have been wronged for 2000 years is pumped out only to be followed by article after article on how to ‘fix’ ‘the problem’.

The women in the PCA have been under attack from Satan as part of the general populace for decades and have to some extent fallen for the lies pumped out to the them everyday via television, newspapers, magazines, radio and the internet that constantly tell them they are a downtrodden class who by definition of being a woman, can’t get any justice. This has been simply part of a sustained campaign as a war against the family as a widget that tells women that if they are not discontent in their relationship with their husbands and by extension, the “male dominated Church” ( as if Christ wasn’t the head but men had decided for themselves what doctrine is..) , then they are too stupid to be “helped” and are blind to the “oppression” which they suffer. It is nothing more than an attack as a lie dressed as a favor, personalized within the larger lie of ‘free’ will and put forward with a smile. Those who fall for it will do monstrous evil and think of the evil they do as the good. It is simply the same lie being put out as class warfare dressed in “biblical” garb.

That same lie directed against the general populace has women eager to kill their children simply to prove they are good adherents to the lie of free will and must prove they have ‘choice’ by doing away with what is lyingly presented to them as that-which-prevents-future-choice: children. They line up already simply to prove they are pious to the lie and can’t wait to do it often.

Now the women in the PCA are attacked by wolves while those who claim to be shepherds tolerate the attack as if it were merely a will-neutral nothing that has no effects and as if women pastors and/or deaconesses were something that has been ‘lacking’. Their families are being torn, their lives are being ruined and their response is to run off to General Assembly and be polite as if being polite was more important and more moral than protecting the sheep.

byFaith magazine has given every adherent to every attack against sound doctrine a repeated platform on the premise of providing a ‘voice’ to minority ‘views’ –simply to do it, very obviously as a matter of what they consider principle. “State your view” is obviously more important than what God Says.

In the latest lie by byFaith Magazine, women aren’t getting their share of …praise, responsibility, ..being taken seriously. In fact, by the slant of byFaith magazines articles, women by definition can’t be taken seriously unless they are given ..more and more attention in some manner. Christ doesn’t get the attention. “Women need the attention and authority or they are being oppressed” is the constant lie. Not to long ago it was the musical directors who were not getting “their share”.

excerpted from: “Seeing Women Through God’s Eyes

Watch the standard deceptions of Satan come out as that deception:

Step one: appear to have been ‘moved’ by the plight of an underclass and their struggles and then to have encountered encouragement from that supposed/idealized underclass to be a spokesperson to raise awareness of their oppression in a bid to hold forth as biblical truth that because they feel oppressed they are oppressed.

I was already thinking about the subject matter of the book when the leaders of a women’s Bible study that I was teaching came to me and asked if I would tackle the subject of “women of the Word.” I gladly agreed and the women in that group were greatly encouraged by the studies and they urged me to write this book.

Step Two: always portray the underclass as ignored and oppressed and as an underclass: never deal with the underlying issues of where their emotional response set/emotional common sense came from or what it is, only what it produces and greatly exaggerate their idealized pitiful existence in that spirit/set/common sense because the new doctrines necessary to alleviate the ‘problem’ are not in effect:

I could give you hundreds of examples that would illustrate the consequences of this profound misunderstanding of God’s perspective on women, but I will give just two examples of women who came to speak to me after they began to read Through His Eyes. One of them is the wife of a pastor of one of the most prominent evangelical churches in this country. She spoke with tears about the pain of raising her daughter in her church. She said that women are basically treated as second-class citizens in the church and are never encouraged to give their opinion about any spiritual matter or to share their understanding of God’s Word or their experience of living as a Christian. It is as if the female half of the congregation were barely human. The second example is a young woman who is a student at a major university. She was asked by several other female students to lead a small group. She said that one of the great difficulties they have experienced is that not one of them had ever been asked to pray aloud—either in their homes or their churches—and that they simply did not know how to pray. I weep as I think about the tragedy of this.

“Hundreds of examples …only two”? “I weep”? “..they simply did not know how to pray?” “a young woman at a major university”? “barely human?”

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The lies and generalizations-for-effect in those statements are so plain and byFaith Magazine so bald in its overt promotion of the lies as to plainly point out the magazine itself as a propaganda tool of Satan, even if the writer of the article was used as a disposable blame-receptacle for the purpose of writing the particular heresy at hand. The leading questions, ” How are we experiencing consequences of our misunderstanding?”, the constant reference to emotional suffering, the constant spotlight on the heart and not the soul or spirit and certainly not Christ and certainly not the heart of a suffering servant of Jesus Christ, but the heart of feministas, wholly given up to the world and the pursuits of it are plain. No mention is made of God giving new creatures in Jesus Christ in female bodies prayers and praying it through them as He does in all new creatures in Jesus Christ. No mention of God actually dwelling in new creatures in Jesus Christ in female bodies, only the championing of an idealized absence of God and idealized loneliness in that absence and thus an idealized isolation in an idealized persecution –all lies well known as lies to true Christians. Such true and actual prayer does not serve the purpose of the radical agenda and conflicts with the lie of free will. What is presented is uniquely an insinuation that women’s will, without the help of feminists who are men to speak “for them”, to ‘advocate’ or them, wouldn’t know how to pray ..in free will.. supposedly completely empty of the Spirit of God in them but always ‘learning’ at the feet of some teacher ‘how to pray’ feministically. It is the most base subjugation of women via religious widget while pretending to “set them free”. It is blatant socialism and communism as seeding class warfare wrapped in a “biblical” garb with byFaith magazine as the constant and continual platform. The very same sort of spokeperson for women deaconesses and the like was one who ‘advocated’ for the ‘right’ of Israeli women to weep for Tammuz against the Temple that resulted in women IN the Temple weeping for Tammuz/Nimrod.

Step three: Deny Scripture while saying you are not denying Scripture and twist plain truth into obscurity if possible:

In many churches, reflections about women begin with the passage about male headship and women’s subjection in marriage (Ephesians 5) and the so-called restrictive passages about women’s ministry in the church (1 Corinthians 11 and 14, and 1 Timothy 2); and reflections on women often end with these passages, as if Scripture had nothing else to say about women. But this is not where Scripture begins its discussion of women and it is not where Scripture ends! I think we rarely ask the foundational question: “How does the Lord see women?” I was eager to write a book about women through God’s eyes—not a book about women seen entirely through the eyes of men reacting to feminist emphases by focusing all their deliberation on those four passages.

The PCA should be glad in Christ that Satan had to pump out such a Class A, top-notch propaganda piece against it and as a sustained attack through the means of their own magazine. Those propaganda pieces have to be placed carefully or they lose their effectiveness and to be the target of such effort is to be validated as true Christians. Only hypocrites never get targeted. Satan is always trying to ‘fix’ new creatures in Jesus Christ. Supposedly, the non-oneness-with-Christ “you” ( in free will lies/theology, you are not a new creature in Jesus Christ but only struggling in the world to be a better and more powerful you later on..) are all wrong. Your emotions are all wrong –or ignored. Your outlook is all wrong, your life is all wrong, etc. Those attacks can go from “you don’t realize you are being oppressed” as supposed educating you from the subtle “if you don’t learn what I say then you are stupid on purpose/ you love to put your head in the sand” to “you are oppressing others” as more overt accusation. Either way it is an attack and a constant wounding of the body of Christ while Satan says he “weeps”.

Look for more lies from byFaith magazine as spirits of deception on ‘how’ to use your will and the collective will of the ‘Church’ ( a peculiarly Romanist doctrine ) in an idealized absence of the Spirit of God in you and in the absence of non-metaphorical and real new birth in Jesus Christ. Look as well for someone taking the magazine private to maintain a platform for Satan beyond the discipline of the Church on the supposed principle of mere secular “journalistic integrity”.

Obviously, Covenant Seminary sees its resident scholar positions as shadow doctrine strongholds and as safe houses for church political operatives, writing what seems to be honest and well-intended doctrine simply to keep in step with secular lies and ‘give the seeker what they ( are seduced to..) desire’.

Mark 9:42 And whosoever shall be a snare to one of the little ones who believe in me , it were better for him if a millstone were hung about his neck, and he cast into the sea.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen

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