Responding to James White - A Few Thoughts on #BigEva

All right, so I was shoveling snow earlier, and I was listening to the dividing line while I shoveled snow.

And I thought to myself I got to do a response video to this not because I necessarily

Think that James White was saying something wrong.

But I think I have like a slightly different take and I just wanted to get his opinion on it or just your

opinion on It I suppose so I recorded this 20 minute long video, and it was really good.

And then I went to edit it and for some reason the microphone it wasn't recording through this one.

It was recording through this one, which is horrible, and it sounded it was unusable normally I'll just put it

out there even though it's the quality is not great, but this time the the audio was unusable so I decided not to do

it and that always presents me with a dilemma because Redoing the video.

It's very hard to get you know the energy up again the excitement the entertainment value even.

And so I was thinking do I rerecord this or not, but I just decided to do it because I think it's worthwhile this is

a really good podcast from James White and I Really like James White his content is

great.

I like his style like his attitude and all that kind of stuff.

And he's in this he's sort of responding to these these evangelicals who have clutched their pearls.

Just like how dare you how dare you call Kamala Harris Jezebel like don't you know that it's racist.

And it's like well.

We don't care.

How do you like that?

We don't care that you think it's racist to call Kamala Harris Jezebel.

We don't care at all at this point like there are certain people that if they call you like like like

a lot of these Guys like JD Greer.

You know Danny Aiken Jamar Tisby if they call me racist I I just think it's like they said nothing to me it rolls

right off my back in fact if they didn't call me racist I would think that I have some problems because these people are so

warped and twisted.

That when they call you racist it actually means that you're doing the opposite of what a racist would do these people

are completely twisted and warped.

So you know if Jamar Tisby hasn't called you racist.

I can't trust you.

There's just that simple.

I can't trust you, but anyway.

So he's talking about them and risk kind of responding to it and all that kind of stuff and at one point Rich jumps in

and they kind of commiserate with each other rich does this from time to time.

I always appreciate riches perspective.

It's slightly different than than James White so I like that.

Anyway at one point rich jumps in and he compares guys like JD Greer or Danny

Aiken and all these guys who who.

Always like oh, how dare you how dare you be an uncharitable to Kamala Harris?

We should be celebrating her amazing rise to power as a woman.

It's like well that guy.

He's he's like he's war he's more mealy -mouthed, and he's more like like

What did he call him like he has no spine like worse than Mitt Romney like he's he's even worse than Mitt

Romney in that regard.

Where's the spine?

I think a couple of them said I think James said it.

I think we're said this.

Where's their backbone right?

We're very glad that you oppose their policies.

Sort of we're very glad that you're gonna use your your platforms, too.

But but that should be a given for a Christian like of course you should oppose the pagan platforms as a given.

We actually need you to have strong language.

We need you to act like you believe it as well.

And so people are saying that you know a lot of people say this it's not just James White like where's their backbone?

And I actually have a slightly different take dr. James way.

I want to know what you think about this if you do watch this video.

One of the things I like about James White is he's very committed to Unity he's very committed to

accepting somebody's profession of faith.

Even if we don't see eye -to -eye on every little thing and and I I'm the same way I I want to accept people's

profession of faith.

And you don't have to believe every single thing I believe in the exact same ways I believe it in order for me to accept your profession of

faith.

I want to hold on to that I want to I want to affirm the the the the realness of being

baptized into Christ and being part of the visible Church.

I want to I want to acknowledge that as much as I can.

And James White gets gets a lot of flack for accepting for example Michael Brown's profession of faith because of his

charismatic leanings and stuff like that and that I Support you on that James white.

I really do and and and I I'm not a fool I know that I'm I'm skewed a little bit on that because

my family all my grandparents are all charismatics as well.

And I believe that my grandfather who's you know, I sometimes I'll roll my eyes, you know, and I see he already has to say

about Prophecies and words from the Lord, but I affirm that he's a Christian.

I know him too.

Well, I mean he believes in the in the book I've told stories about him telling me that that the Lord

spoke to him and I'm like, oh, here we go.

And it's and then he tells me what the Lord said to him and it's literally a quotation from Scripture.

Like that's what he's talking about when he hears a word from the Lord.

He's remembering recalling Scripture that he's read over over his the decades

and decades of his life.

So I understand it's not out and not all charismatics are equal man.

That doesn't mean all charismatics are Christians.

Of course, we all have to have our own dividing line.

So I support that but James white here.

Here's what I think about this like like guys like JD Greer and Danny Akin and Tisby and Vischer and stuff like

that.

Personally, I think we need to come to terms with the reality that they're playing for the wrong team.

Like they they fear their God.

But their God is not Christ like even if you look at how they interact like you said, where's their backbone?

We need to grow some spine and stuff like that and and I don't blame you for lamenting that dr. White because I've

thought that Same thing.

What what's the deal with their spine?

And I've come to realize that they do have backbone.

They do have spine.

They do have harsh language for people in their minds who are the enemy who are the sinners.

But the problem is that they play for the wrong team.

So they reserve their backbone and their authority and their and their harsh words.

For those fundamentalists over there those conservative Christians over there those Christian nationalists

over there.

They come out with the quickness and with the harshest rebukes with the harshest review.

No pro clutching then as long as the enemy is being ridiculed.

There's no pro clutching.

But as soon as as soon as their friends Kamala Harris and stuff like that are being Criticized in any

kind of way.

Well, that's when the hudda.

How dare you sir?

Oh, how dare you and it's like well.

That's something that I've seen just happen too often and what it's told me is that they're playing for the wrong team

Jesus Christ.

This isn't an exact analogy, but I think that the the principle really does apply here

where he says He's talking about about his believers and and stuff like that and he says.

Everyone who acknowledges me before men.

I also will acknowledge to my father who is in heaven.

But whoever denies me before men I also will deny before my father is in

heaven and I think what we're seeing with guys like JD Greer and Tisby and Fisher and

and and Danny Aiken, they're not all the same.

I'm not.

I'm not putting them on the same, you know level.

But you can see who they who they rip and who they go after and who they

support in public and.

Then you can see well.

That's who they fear.

They don't fear Christ.

You see the thing is like like they'll tell you how dare you I might disagree with some of what Kamala Harris says.

Okay.

Well show me that disagreement.

Show me where you actually treat Kamala Harris's worldview like it's as if it's pagan right show me that

show me how you treat.

Because the minute I say it's analogous to Jezebel who brought in sexual immorality who brought in who brought

in Pagan worship and and and bail worship and stuff like that the minute I compare her worldview.

Which is very comparable to Jezebel's worldview you get start clutching your pearls.

How dare you this is a great woman is powerful.

Inspirational because they play for the wrong team.

You see the thing is they know how to rip people.

They know how to ridicule people.

So long as it's those conservative fundamentalist Christians over there so long as it's someone who's actually living and As if

Christ is really on the throne and Christ is really in charge of the government is really on Christ's shoulders those

people who?

Live like that.

That's who they reserve their ridicule for.

I've mentioned many times Jonathan Lehman's article In response to John MacArthur where he's just like well, I

I don't want I don't want them to be too excited to go to church.

The government told us we can't.

Meanwhile, he's willing to risk life and limb because according to Lehman I guess this is the worst pandemic ever.

He's willing to risk life and limb in order to look good for the Black Lives Matter pagans.

You see he has backbone Jonathan Lehman.

Don't make any mistake, but he's got backbone as Long as the enemy in his mind

is being ridiculed and in his mind the enemy is those conservative Christians.

They embarrass me maybe they might even believe in six -day creationism, and he that's the thing like I

Think a lot of them are unbelievers.

And I think that I'm not.

I'm not pointing to a point of doctrine to call them an unbelievers.

I'm pointing to the way they act in public they deny Christ every

Single day, and you're like well.

How could you say that they they affirm traditional marriage?

Yeah, sure they affirm traditional marriage, but only in the ways that are up Tolerable by the

pagans you see like they're not gonna call it what it is an actual sexual perversion instead.

They say well God just whispers about it.

Yeah sure the Bible says it.

But it's almost like an apology when they when they when they say the Bible affirms traditional marriage is almost like they're

apologizing to you.

It's just not that big a deal you see like that that that stance of apologizing for what the

Bible says instead of just believing it and being and being Assertive with it and being confident

in it and saying well no no the Bible calls that perversion, so it is perversion.

I don't have to soften it you see they soften it every step of the way in order to still be

palatable and to still Be accepted by those who they fear.

That's not Christ who they fear.

It's something else and so I disagree.

I think these guys have a lot of backbone.

They they're they're willing to come with the quickness.

They're willing to get aggressive against immorality, but the problem is in their twisted

minds immorality is.

The moral Christians the Christians that are affirming that God has something to say about racial racial

justice.

But it's not what the pagans say.

It's it's not what the pagans say he has something to say about social justice, but it's not what the pagans say.

Those people become the enemy those are the immoral ones those the ones insisting on God's law every step of the way.

Are the ones that are the white supremacist racist bigots and they will they will rebuke them with the quickness with intensity

all of a Sudden they don't have any pearls to clutch when it comes to when it comes to the people that are actually living in light Of the

truth of the Bible and so they do have that it's not that they don't have any backbone.

It's that they have backbone, but they serve the wrong God.

Am I off base here?

I mean, I'm listen.

I I'm I'm with you about affirming and Accepting people's profession of faith,

but public behavior matters a lot to this right?

And so if we see people denying Christ apologizing for what Christ says Apologizing for the way

Christ spoke and all of that stuff and clutching their pearls.

How could you you're such a sinner?

How could you call her Jezebel like like how many times how many different ways can somebody deny Christ?

That's what I'm wondering and so just a slight am I am I just too harsh on this and my I

don't know I'm not the kind of guy that says this about a lot of people but I just don't know any other way to see

this you see them attacking who they perceive as the enemy and For them the enemy

is those conservative fundamentalist Christians to them.

The enemy is me to them.

The enemy is James White on the screen.

By the way James if you do watch this, dr. White.

This is the funny story one of the very first ways that someone that I knew criticized me for my content.

This is a big Eva woke as well can be, you know person that I knew personally, he said that

I that I'm I I'm doing James White style takedowns and I don't

at the time.

I wasn't taking down anybody I was just responding to white privilege and stuff like that for Matt Chandler and stuff like that.

And that's how they criticized me because to them.

You're the enemy for insisting on correct doctrine.

To me that tells me they serve the wrong God.

I Can deal with an Arminian.

I can deal with a charismatic I can deal with people that don't believe the same way I do about the Lord's Supper.

But but I can't deal with someone who's going to publicly reject Christ in numerous ways and publicly

reject Christ's bride in Numerous ways again and again and again, I just can't do it.

Am I off base guys.

Let me know what you guys think if even if dr. White doesn't watch this.

Let me know what you guys think.

I hope this was helpful.

God bless.

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He's out of batteries, I guess everybody that's my son

Ezra god bless.