John Piper is indeed fallible......and he is dead(ly) wrong in this case
I was reading something my friend James Lee sent me the other day. It was an article written by James White of Alpha & Omega ministries regarding something John Piper wrote on why he (Piper) does not own a gun for self-defense. I was working on a blog post about what White wrote and how it applies to self-defense/non-resistance but something seemed familiar about it. Sure enough, I blogged about this very A&O post a year and a half ago and had a very different take. I would say now that I was completely wrong in my assessment. I like what Dr. White had to say about the topic because it reinforced my own opinions. So now I find myself retracting what I wrote in July of 2008. I have more to write about this topic but I found it interesting to see how my thinking had changed on this topic (like many others) over the last year and a half.
Presumably, you're suggesting that you had it dead wrong in saying that Piper had it dead wrong last year!
ReplyDeleteI find it amazing myself to know how my views can change radically over time because of different things I learn and grow by. I look forward to reading your post with great interest.
That is exactly what I am saying! (That is coming from someone who owns not one but a whole bunch of guns.) As I study Scripture, I find that some of my positions are strengthened while others are changed.
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