IFB and their double standard on doctrinal separation

[elfdream]

I do remember thinking at one point "If Luther was right...why aren't we all Lutherans?" Things kind of got out of control after that.

What floored me is the way they conveniently left things out of the lives of some of these heroes of the faith. Like the fact that Spurgeon was a Calvinist. I don't care personally but why hide it? I'm looking at you Sword of the Lord. I won't get into the mess that Scofield made of his life. Luther made some anti-Semitic statements. I never knew of any of this until I left fundyism.

You all remember the wonderful story of the hymn "It is Well with my Soul'? It was written by Horatio Spafford. He lost four daughters in a shipwreck and wrote the beautiful hymn. He and his wife had a son who died young and another daughter who was born with physical problems that caused her to be confined to a wheelchair. They started an orphanage. All well and good....until he developed some kind of Messiah complex. He and his wife founded a colony in the Holy Land which eventually became cult like. They lived in a commune, practiced abstinence within marriage. Men and women lived separately. In short they became fanatics. It got so bad that the American Consulate there warned people to stay away form them. All of this is from their daughter's writings "Oh Jerusalem'. After their death she took over and relaxed the rules and apparently there is still a children's home named for them that does good work but that is more than likely because of the efforts of their daughter.

I never knew about any of this. It does not take away from the sentiment behind the song but it might well have been best to just let the song stand as is without the 'background' story especially if they are going to leave some of it out.

Makes me wonder what else they didn't tell us.

[TruthSeeker]

When my former IFB pastor would preach against Calvinism about half way into his sermons he would talk about bible believing baptists like John Bunyan. Now wait...wasn't John Bunyan a Calvinist? How could my pastor missed that if he read up on him? Hmmm...