If you’ve never heard of or studied the late Michael Heiser’s Unseen Realm, he makes some fanciful, outlandish, and even unprecedented assertions. One error and blunder he committed was to appeal to Deuteronomy 32:8, in a failed attempt to say that after the fall of the Tower of Babel, God gave authority to various lesser…
Author: Benjamin Winslett
Pastor of Flint River Primitive Baptist Church in Huntsville, AL.
Is Unseen Realm by Michael Heiser a Departure from Historic Orthodoxy?
Long title, right? For the past two years, I’ve warned people about the teachings of the late Michael Heiser, regarding a council of “lesser elohim” under the authority of Jehovah (though Heiser’s preferred pronunciation would be Yahweh). I first came across it when a long time, Christian friend made a facebook post about the multiplicity…
Horrible Meme about King David
For the record, I keep seeing this post comparing King David to a certain political figure in the USA. I’m not commenting on the political figure or politics. But the post attempts, very grossly, to compare David’s state when he was appointed as king to this political figure’s character failures. It asserts that David was…
Identity Crisis
Sometimes churches of various denominations have an identity crisis of sorts. You see this in America today, as many Baptist congregations want to drop the word Baptist from their name, but retain the identity as a baptistic congregation. The thought is the name is unpopular, so growth can be achieved by changing the name on…
Stuck in the Middle with You
When both sides call you names, you might be on solid ground. What do I mean by that? Well, here are some examples. Example 1: To an absoluter, anyone less than an absoluter is a deist. To a deist, everyone more than a deist is an absoluter. If one person is called a deist by…
“Hold” the Truth in Unrighteousness
I’m sharing a brief note on the word “hold” in Romans 1:18.
Echo Chambers
Short note… Proverbs 11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Do Pastors have Authority?
I saw a good question in a Facebook group pertaining to pastoral authority. Specifically, one was asking how much authority a pastor has within a congregation. While no one answered with the dictatorial model, some did indicate the pastor has no authority. Some said only God has authority. Some answered claiming the pastor has authority…
The Importance of Nonnegotiable Concepts
We live in a day that is permeated by a sort of conspiratorial Gnosticism, where to some, nothing is ever believed to be what it has been established as being and everything is viewed with suspicion and skepticism. This sort of thing manifests itself in every aspect of American life. Social media has made it…