Hank Hanaagraff, "The Bible Answer Man" Converts to Greek Orthodoxy

[Sarcelle]

Pulpit and Pen are not representative of 99.99999% of Protestants.

I also see the attacks on the Southern Baptist Convention’s Albert Mohler by the Pulpit and Pen pastors. They seem to take issue with the conciliatory attitude towards Pope Francis.

No denomination is safe from their attacks.

 

[7_Sorrows]

Have you read any Puritan literature? You may simply be responding to a caricature of them.

Would Pilgrim’s Progress be considered Puritan literature? I have not read it.

 

[steve93]

Would Pilgrim’s Progress be considered Puritan literature? I have not read it.

Considering the fact that the “puritans” murdered Anabaptists/Baptists just a much as they did the popish plotters (sarcasm), I find the defense of them by modern evangelicals to be one of the most ironically foolish things.

 

[Tomyris]

Would Pilgrim’s Progress be considered Puritan literature? I have not read it.

It is.

I think if you are going to complain about Pulpit & Pen’s assault on other Christians, Fiasco and you should not go after the Puritans with what seems to be the same level of information and tone.

But neither Pulpit & Pen nor the Puritans are the topic of this thread.

 

[7_Sorrows]

It is.

I think if you are going to complain about Pulpit & Pen’s assault on other Christians, Fiasco and you should not go after the Puritans with what seems to be the same level of information and tone.

But neither Pulpit & Pen nor the Puritans are the topic of this thread.

The Pulpit & Pen links certainly are relevant to this thread.

 

[Bruised_Reed]

Do the Orthodox have a version of the Coming Home Network? I’m not surprised he was fired and as I mentioned in another thread I thought the real possibility of losing a job is a factor in delaying conversion. Hank and others like him, who have demonstrated skills as writers, speakers, and radio personalities will find plenty of opportunities. I’m interested in what he will get to do now.

 

[Tomyris]

The Pulpit & Pen links certainly are relevant to this thread.

I’m not convinced those people are relevant to anything. They are sort of the Protestant version of the more extreme sedevacantists and are not influential.

 

[Tomyris]

churchmilitant.com/news/article/protestant-radio-host-becomes-eastern-orthodox-show-dropped-from-evangelica

Following his Chrismation into the Orthodox Church, Hank Hanegraff was fired from his radio network. Seeking the truth has consequences. I will keep him and his family in prayer.

I am not sure this article is correct, after looking at Hank’s Facebook page and the CRI website. I don’t find any corroboration of this, either. I think it may be fake news.

 

[Fiasco]

Thanks for posting this. I have heard Hilaire Belloc mentioned a lot. I think I will have to add him to my reading list.

Don’t forget his mate GK Chesterton, the Apostle of Common Sense, if he’s not already on your list.
A few months back, i heard Scott Hahn mention a GKC quote regarding the fall of the West into the the present-day corruption and decadence (GKC was a visionary.):

We don’t know what we’re doing because we don’t know what we’re UNdoing!

I’m not convinced those people are relevant to anything. They are sort of the Protestant version of the more extreme sedevacantists and are not influential.

In his book “Catholcism and Fundamentalism”, in the Chapter “At the Fringe”, Karl Keating says:

The work of Chick, Rivera, and Alamo as point men of fundamentalist anti-Catholicism legitimises [a number of slightly less extreme anti-Catholic groups] and the other “moderate” anti-Catholic organisations. The three have allowed the groups that effect conversions to appear reasonable and respectable by distancing themselves from their foolishness. “Moderate” anti-Catholics are seen as making the necessary distinctions, as thinking the questions through carefully - which is nonsense, but convenient nonsense.

Way out of date now, of course. Chick and Rivera are dead, and Mr Alamo is behind bars.

So the extremes of the extremes inflict damage, even if only indirectly.
Unfortunately, the sedevacantists have the same effect.

I think if you are going to complain about Pulpit & Pen’s assault on other Christians, Fiasco and you should not go after the Puritans with what seems to be the same level of information and tone.

Puritanism was mentioned because it fits in with the incendiary language of Maples’ and his hatred of “bells and smells” and “pomp and ceremony”, in spite of the rituals of OT worship. At the very least, doesn’t he understand the symbolism of incense?

Have you read any Puritan literature? You may simply be responding to a caricature of them.

Hilaire Belloc, GK Chesterton and others like them wrote what they thought, and thought what they wrote. No beating about the bush, like so many do these days.

 

[7_Sorrows]

Don’t forget his mate GK Chesterton, the Apostle of Common Sense, if he’s not already on your list.
A few months back, i heard Scott Hahn mention a GKC quote regarding the fall of the West into the the present-day corruption and decadence (GKC was a visionary.):

In his book “Catholcism and Fundamentalism”, in the Chapter “At the Fringe”, Karl Keating says:

Way out of date now, of course. Chick and Rivera are dead, and Mr Alamo is behind bars.

So the extremes of the extremes inflict damage, even if only indirectly.
Unfortunately, the sedevacantists have the same effect.

Puritanism was mentioned because it fits in with the incendiary language of Maples’ and his hatred of “bells and smells” and “pomp and ceremony”, in spite of the rituals of OT worship. At the very least, doesn’t he understand the symbolism of incense?

Hilaire Belloc, GK Chesterton and others like them wrote what they thought, and thought what they wrote. No beating about the bush, like so many do these days.

Yes Chesterton is also on my reading list!

 

[Church_Militant]

Typical Gendron a-C polemics…

May God bless Hank as he continues his journey of faith.

The Consequences of Departing from the Faith

Hank Hanegraaff, known as the* Bible Answer Man*, was chrismated into the Orthodox Church last month. According to Orthodox teachings, Chrismation is the mystery by which a person is granted the gift of the Holy Spirit through the anointing of Holy Chrism. How could a man who spent so many years helping Christians identify various counterfeits now make the most foolish decision to join a counterfeit form of Christianity? Like its former protagonist, the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox also teach a false and fatal gospel of salvation by sacraments and works. They are both to be accursed for teaching a gospel contrary to the Gospel of Christ (Gal. 1:6-9).

How could the Bible Answer Man disregard the Bible when making a decision that has eternal consequences? Hanegraaff said, “I’ve been impacted by Eastern Orthodox people who have a very keen sense of Church history and have absolute fidelity to the essentials of the historic Christian faith.” It is hard to believe that someone who claims to know the Bible so well can say the Orthodox religion has “absolute fidelity to the essentials of the historic Christian faith.” Does Hanegraaff not know that the primary essential of the Christian faith is the non-negotiable Gospel of Christ? (1 Cor. 15:1-4).

The Orthodox people do not believe or proclaim the one-time, all-sufficient, unrepeatable sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ for the finished work of redemption. Instead, their priests continue to offer what they believe is the physical body and blood of Jesus Christ everyday on an altar. This Eucharistic sin-offering not only blasphemes Christ, but also rejects His victory cry, “It is finished” (John 19:30). By continuing their sacerdotal priesthood, the Orthodox also reject Jesus as the one mediator between God and man (1 Tim. 2:5). In the Orthodox Church forgiveness of sin and salvation can only come through its priests and its sacraments.

 

[ajcstr]

The “Apology” was nothing of the sort. It was just a confirmation of the original rant, but more blatantly sarcastic.

The name: “Pulpit and Pen” surely has to be an echo of Poe’s Spanish Inquisition fantasy: “The Pit and the Pendulum”.

Since Jack Chick has left us, someone has to slip into his shoes.

Seems like a pretty cheerful guy to me.