"God was manifest in the flesh" there's controversy over that verse, but let's say for sake of argument that a translation, NASB, reads "He who was manifest in the flesh"

This doesn't eliminate the incarnation, because there's tons on verses in the NASB that has the incarnation, the deity of Christ, that God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit is Jehovah (It's either 1 or 2 Corinthians 13:14 regarding Jehovah, thus the Trinity)

If a doctrine rests on one verse, then we've lost a doctrine, but if a doctrine is found through the Bible, namely the New Testament, then we've lost nothing.

" whenever a zionist pastor calls for war in the Middle East, ie Iraq -- enlist his sons to go to war" I believe that's called communism. Penned, that statement is not logical.

" for every village destabilized in the ME, open up the gates of a gated community in Cali.....why should it be only poor americans and arabic Christians that get to experience it?" Now you have something against Cali? How about Christians in the other states that America has? I get the feeling that you think a lot of Christians in Cali live in gated communities and that living in a gated community is a bad thing.

And I'm not sure why you say, " Connor, you all can take your denials to the bema seat" First off, what am I denying? I explicitly said that if John MacArthur was wrong, then he was wrong. Is he responsible for what the gov decided to do?

1. Matthew 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance"

2. Matthew 9:13 "But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

3. "Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins."

4. Acts 11:18 "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life."

5. "But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance."

6. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

And you seem to have something against John MacArthur and using terms like "rich hallways...gated community" John MacAruthur is 78, he had a knee replacement surgery I believe, he is also "the current president of The Master's University in Newhall, California and The Master's Seminary in Los Angeles, California."

He does the Shepherd's Conference, he did the Strange Fire conference, he writes articles for One Passion Ministries, TableTalk, GTY, and many other things.

Not everyone can do everything, I'm not fluent to lecture on the following:

Apologetics
Textual Criticism
History of the KJV bible
Church government
Etc.

As far as who will represent this generation, we lost the beloved R.C. Sproul, but we have MacArthur, Paul Washer, Steven Lawson, Albert Molher, Ken Ham, Michael Kruger, Ray Comfort, Gary Bates, James White, Daniel Wallace, Bill Mounce, Jason Lisle, Phil Johnson, etc.

What more can you ask for? God has blessed this generation in America, we have more resources to proclaim the gospel than any other generation before.

Let's iron this out:

"if Republicans want to actually do something rather than political grandstanding,"

This assumes all Republicans don't want to do something and that they only want political grandstanding, this assumption is a false assumption. Not a good start.

"they would get together with black evangelicals"

Why not Mexican evangelicals? Or Indian evangelicals? Jim it sounds like you want to use black people to push your own agenda.

"and push for Universal Health Care" this is your solution? Can you provide scripture to back your solution up? Are you seriously saying that we should use black evangelicals to push for Universal Health Care? It sounds like you're suggesting that black people need universal health care.

"and anti-abortion legislation their show they're actually pro-life!"