{"id":381,"date":"2007-06-27T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/?p=381"},"modified":"2015-12-31T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T22:34:14","slug":"erwin-mcmanus-real-position-on-the-authority-of-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/erwin-mcmanus-real-position-on-the-authority-of-scripture.html","title":{"rendered":"Erwin McManus\u2019 Real Position on the Authority of Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Just some documentation on the postmodern doublespeak of Emergent church leader Erwin McManus<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/apprising.org\/2007\/06\/28\/erwin-mcmanus-real-position-on-the-authority-of-scripture\/\">Erwin McManus\u2019 Real Position on the Authority of Scripture <\/a>: &#8220;When challenged openly, Erwin is quick to defend himself by making \u201corthodox\u201d statements like, \u201cthe Scriptures are God\u2019s authoritative word to us.\u201d But then he turns around and train his leaders to perpetuate the unregenerate mind of the culture in their own circles of church leadership, telling their followers that the Word of God is God\u2019s word \u201cto us\u201d and for us, and is all about us; that it means, more or less, whatever you think it means. The contradiction should be screamingly apparent to anyone reading this! Scripture, according to Erwin\u2019s definition of \u201cauthoritative,\u201d doesn\u2019t sound authoritative at all. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some documentation on the postmodern doublespeak of Emergent church leader Erwin McManus Erwin McManus\u2019 Real Position on the Authority of Scripture : &#8220;When challenged openly, Erwin is quick to defend himself by making \u201corthodox\u201d statements like, \u201cthe Scriptures are God\u2019s authoritative word to us.\u201d But then he turns around and train his leaders to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,3,18],"tags":[342,56,51],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aberrantheretical-teaching","category-apostasy","category-emergingemergent-church","tag-apostasy","tag-emergent","tag-postmodern"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-69","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}