JAMES WHITE TURNS HIS APOLOGETIC
ATTENTION
TO EERDMANS AND THEIR PRO-MORMON BOOK [04/28--2005]
On
his blogsite today, Apologetic Blogger James White has turned his attention away
from "Ole Bob" and is blogging about a book by the William B. Eerdmans'
publishing company which promotes Mormonism. Here is his
blogitorial:
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As I look around my office I see literally
hundreds of volumes produced by the venerable old Christian publishing house,
Eerdmans. Many of my best resources bear that name on the spine. And I truly
wonder what the founders of that company would think about its newest
book.
Robert Millet is the Richard L. Evans Professor of
Religious Understanding and professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young
University. A believing Mormon, he has been key in the dialogues taking place
between certain non-LDS scholars and pastors and LDS scholars from BYU. His
book, Another Jesus?, though advertised by Eerdmans as a work "intended
to inform rather than to convince or persuade," is pure apologetic from start to
finish. You could find this kind of work at your local LDS bookstore, but thanks
to Richard Mouw of Fuller Seminary, now you will be able to find it in your
Christian bookstore, too! Yes, friends and neighbors, not only has Richard Mouw
apologized for all of us mean-spirited folks who have labored to witness the
true God and the true Christ and the true Gospel to Mormons for decades, but now
he has made sure to provide a "Trojan Horse Apologetic," a work that attacks the
Trinity, deity of Christ, sola scriptura, justification by grace through
faith alone, the sovereignty of God in salvation, the finished work of Christ on
the cross" etc. etc.
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What Apostle James
could have told his readers is that Eerdmans is a Pedobaptist-owned company and
has been one of the greatest advocates and promoters of (1) pre-faith
regeneration, (2) the presumed regeneration and baptism at an early age of
"elect" nfants, (3) infant church membership, and (4) pre-faith regeneration
without the necessary instrumentality of the Word of God as a means. White is at
least an apologist for the first and fourth points of these views advocated by
Eerdmans.
In view of Pedobaptist Eerdmans practice of publishing and
promoting books of false doctrine -- (which is not really a new thing with
Eerdmans) -- it raises the question as to the "cause and effect" connection that
might possibly exist between the theory of pre-faith regeneration and ultimate
apostasy from the truth.
When we consider the apostasy of the pre-faith
regenerated Pedobaptists which occurred in Europe and England, in addition to
the apostasy of Pedobaptists in New England and in the Pedobaptist schools and
churches all across the United States, we wonder if the filling of the churches
with pre-faith "regenerated" infants as members might have made a significant
contribution to this apostasy? With the addition to the churches of
"regenerated" infants, is it really surprising that in due course of time
apostasy takes over?
Furthermore, why should it be thought strange that
Eerdmans would publish a book favorable to Mormonism? After all, for years
Eerdmans has published books which asserted the fiction of "presumptive
regeneration . . . in connection with elect children," so why should we marvel
if they publish a book which embellishes Mormonism? Is one fiction any more
credible than the other? -- Bob L. Ross
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