You don’t know how much good it did me to come across your blog site this evening. I only wish there were more christians and more ministries who would wake up to the smear tactics that heresy hunters repeately use. These professing believers are like trained Doberman Pinschers – they spend so much time mocking, attacking and demonizing fellow christians, all in the name of “doctrinal purity.” It’s about time the church stand up to these theological bullies and demand the same accountability out of them that they always demand out of their targets. And by the way, I am speaking from the perspective of someone who has been studying doctrine and apologetics for over two decades.

You are exactly right when you say the heretic hunters virtually never take the time to meet with those whom they are so bent out of shape with. I have concluded they don’t want to because they don’t really intend on trying to find out the real truth of a lot of the things they allege. The Bible is very plain about how christians are supposed to approach things when one has something against his brother (or sister), yet you’d be amazed at the sort of reasoning used by the heresy hunters in their attempt to justify why they don’t have to meet with those they love to repeately tear into.

You are also correct that much of the theology and reasoning used by these critics is not Biblical. They love to portray themselves as being completely Scriptural in all they say and do and continually make snide remarks against anyone who accuses them of being unloving. Yet, I have seen enough to convince me beyond any doubt that in many respects the heretic hunters are every bit as wrong Scripturally in some of the things they say as they claim their targets are. It is so true that spirtual pride is the worst type of pride, and the HH people are saturated with it!

I have heard preachers over the years say that we christians should ban together because we are all really fighting only one common enemy….yet, when someone visits a heresy hunter website or reads one of their slanderous books, it would be easy for that person to conclude that not every believer thinks there is just one enemy out there that we should be concerned about.

It seems that these critics are virtually obsessed with trying to find new material or targets to spew forth their poison at. If they would get off their spiritual high horse and would go back and re-study the Bible they claim they are so loyal to, they would see that, proportionally speaking, there are few verses that actually address the matter of correcting a believer. Therefore, since God did not think it necessary to repeatedly hammer on the matter of rebuking believers (since most of the New Testament talks about other subjects), these heresy hunters are thus being unBiblical when they give so much attention to doing such, because they are majoring on minors and therefore handing Scripture disproportionately.

I did want to comment on one other thing you said. You wrote that most of the supposed heretics and heretic hunters out there are better Christians than you. I dispute that. On the contrary, you seem to have the truly Biblical approach, in which you recognize that a balance must be struck between (a) contending for the true doctrines taught in the Bible and (b) doing so in a Christ-like, not worldly, manner. Heretic hunters violate 2 Timothy 2:24-25 in their constant tirades against those whom they despise and thus do not use the balanced approach so desperately needed today.

Sorry that my post is so long, but I just had to get this off my chest. Thank you again for addressing this issue. I only wish the whole American church could see your blog. I would enjoy communicating with you via e-mail, if that is something you would consider. You can send one to the address I provided. May God bless you in all you do.

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