tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post1599514925125426864..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: MacArthurite preteristsRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-72995642086531986122013-08-27T14:01:20.255-04:002013-08-27T14:01:20.255-04:00If anyone is interested, I've listed and linke...If anyone is interested, I've listed and linked Steve's recent blogs on the issue cessationism at the following link. They are listed from the oldest to the newest (i.e. the most recent is at the bottom).<br /><br />Here's the link:<br /><a href="http://charismatamatters.blogspot.com/2013/08/steve-hays-on-cessationism.html" rel="nofollow">http://charismatamatters.blogspot.com/2013/08/steve-hays-on-cessationism.html</a>ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-36341754976477721712013-08-23T01:33:57.084-04:002013-08-23T01:33:57.084-04:00I would concur. Thanks for writing up your observ...I would concur. Thanks for writing up your observations, Michael.Truth Unites... and Divideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891402278361538353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-71087868640829560752013-08-22T15:40:46.803-04:002013-08-22T15:40:46.803-04:00Steve wrote:
"I just wonder why it's so ...Steve wrote:<br /><br />"I just wonder why it's so hard for Frank to be truthful. Frank may not be a theoretical antinomian, but to judge by his hit piece, Frank is a practical antinomian. In practice, Frank feels no moral obligation to truthfully represent what the critics actually say."<br /><br /><br />I've been appreciative of most of Frank Turk's postings over at Team Pyro over the years (although I've never commented there or had any other communication with him), but at the same time I've also noticed a disturbing pattern in how he sometimes relates to others who are on the opposite side of an issue with him which hinders honest communication. It's manifested in a number of different ways. This has already been partly addressed in the Triablogue post "Frank Turk Sifted" from awhile back. You've just brought up another aspect of it with Frank not truthfully representing what critics of his position are actually arguing in this current controversy, which analysis I agree with.<br /><br />This all seems to be part of a persistent pattern in which Frank apparently feels the need to exert an inordinate, mischievous and harmful control over the conversational narrative when debating. I first noticed it after reading a number of his "imaginary conversation" pieces over at Pyromaniacs; you know, those faux "dialogues" he has with a proponent of some liberal view or other, in which Frank is the producer, writer, director and plays all the roles. Of course he always emerges the winner in those "debates", crafting the narrative in such a way that his opponent walks right into every trap he sets. Two weeks ago he had a similar entry over there related to this cessationism/continuationism controversy in which he decided to "sit down with *himself* and "ask "himself" a few questions" using a sock puppet. Not surprisingly, at the end of that "conversation" he was vindicated too, having failed to engage his opponents actual arguments-- or himself-- in an honest, meaningful way at all.<br /><br />As long as Frank confines himself to imaginary "dialogue" fantasies where he controls the entire production from start to finish it's all neatly arranged in such a way that he comes off looking like "Mr. Valiant For Truth" every time and his opponents are made to look ridiculous. But when he has to actually engage with other Christians who are also seeking the real truth, who also know the scriptures, and whose objections to his tactics he cannot control or write out of his mental "script", then the problems with Frank Turk begin.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com