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Darwin's
factiousness stems from his belief that all truth is equally portentous. His
entire ministry therefore consists of straining at gnats while insisting they
are camels, and while arguing fiercely that Scripture makes no essential distinction
between the gnats and the camels.
For example, in Darwin's assessment, someone who is in error about the mode
of baptism or the timing of the rapture is as guilty of "heresy"
as those who deny the deity of Christ or justification by faith. (This is
no hyperbole. Both in his sermons and in our private conversations, Darwin
has affirmed that this is exactly what he believes.) So people who err in
any point (translation: those who disagree with Darwin)—especially people
who refuse Darwin's "correction," must be exposed and pronounced
damned.
In fact, Darwin once taught that communion ought to be served with a common
cup and a communal loaf. Those who served small cups and crackers were judged
to be handling the elements in an unbliblical way and were anathematized for
it. Darwin has since recanted
that opinion, but he still regularly declares Christians hell-bound over
similar picayune matters. His theology, his lifestyle, and his treatment of
others are all utterly and completely without grace.
The predictable result is that Darwin has cut himself off from fellowship
with everyone who dares to disagree with him on any aspect of his teaching—in
effect isolating Darwin and his congregation from the whole of Christendom.
Darwin is neither shaken by this nor appalled at it; he is proud of it! He
brazenly admits he cannot name anyone besides himself since the apostolic
era who has ever understood and affirmed the real "truth" of Scripture.
This does not matter to him, and he will tell you so with a smarmy, self-assured
haughtiness. He despises every historic stream of Christianity. But instead
of soberly viewing his renegade status as a matter of concern and a reason
for self-examination, he regards it as an occasion for boasting! He is convinced
that he is right and every pastor, theologian, and church leader he knows
about—dead or alive—is simply wrong. If you disagree, Darwin will
automatically consign you to the "hell-bound" category.
Darwin declares, for example, that Charles Spurgeon, all the Puritans, and
all other five-point Calvinists are false teachers, damned to eternal perdition
for teaching "limited atonement." It is evident from Darwin's presentation,
however, that he doesn't have the most basic understanding of Calvinistic
doctrine, and he clearly does not even understand the concept of substitutionary
atonement. On this point in particular—as well as on many things he
makes issues of—he simply does not know what he's talking about.
But it's clear that teaching what edifies is hardly Darwin's top priority.
Nearly all the preaching and publications that emanate from "a true church"
focus on condemning other ministers—especially well-known ones. Darwin
and Al Soto used to
spam Christian Usenet forums with a "False Teachers List"—a
list of well-known evangelical leaders under Darwin's anathema. He even paints
his vehicles with
condemnation of other ministers. Indeed, Darwin's penchant for labeling Christian
leaders as hypocrites and heretics is virtually the
trademark of his "ministry."