Purveyors of a false gospel

Jason appears to have a similar charitable perspective to alleged miracles among non-Christian faiths, particularly Roman Catholics. I find that to be odd, knowing what I have read of him in the past outlining the false gospel Catholicism promotes. His conclusion is that within Catholicism, there are Catholics who are genuine believers and the alleged miracle claims from Catholic circles is God working out of compassion on behalf of those Christians. I personally see no precedent from Scripture in which God worked in such a fashion among the purveyors of a false Gospel…I am of a contrary opinion. I believe that God would never heal through a person who is then proclaiming a false religion that only assigns men’s souls to judgment, or a false teacher who may claim to speak for Christ, but proclaims an unbiblical and errant Gospel.  

http://hipandthigh.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/the-theology-of-miracles/

The problem with Fred's strictures is that John MacArthur is vulnerable to the same charge. Here's a little-known fact about MacArthur. 20 years ago I had a conversation with a student at Westminster west. I won't name names, except to say that this student was one of the two top students in his graduating class at Westminster west. 

When he was in college, he wrote MacArthur a letter. At that time, MacArthur was already embroiled in the Lordship Salvation controversy. He was opposing the antinomianism and easy-believism of some fundamentalists. 

He wrote a commentary on Romans (published by Moody). In the first edition, he stated that justification is not a forensic reckoning of righteousness, but an act that makes us actually, inherently righteous. Unfortunately, that's essentially the Tridentine interpretation of Paul. The Tridentine doctrine of justification.

In his letter, the student quoted various Reformed theologians showing him that his view was not only unbiblical and un-Protestant but basically the same as that of the Council of Trent.

MacArthur initially brushed off the letter until Lance Quinn got hold of the letter and told him that he needed to take the criticisms seriously. As a result, MacArthur revised his interpretation in the second edition of his commentary on Romans.

Until he was corrected, MacArthur was unwittingly the "purveyor of a false gospel," mirroring Rome on this crucial doctrine. And he was initially resistant to correction.

Presumably, MacArthur fans think we should cut him some slack. Make allowance for the fact that like every uninspired Christian, he has intellectual and theological limitations. But when it comes to reputable charismatic scholars like Craig Keener, Gordon Fee, Max Turner, and Graham Twelftree, or even mediating scholars like D. A. Carson, MacArthurites are wholly dismissive, if not contemptuous.