Behold unregenerate inanity

Here's a post from a typically wet Christian site:

Dan Phillips [a writer at another blog] tells us the truth matters. Who disagrees with that? But did you notice he never actually defined truth in his post? What is the biblical definition of truth? Is it really doctrine as his post seems to imply? Can he defend that from Scripture? But what kind of exegesis walks and talks without defining terms? Not the sort I want to engage in.

The person's post he is referring to was referencing the Word of God as truth. To be able to discern truth - the Word of God - you have to be regenerated by the Holy Spirit which is the Spirit of truth. A person who writes, in effect, but what is truth? is not a regenerate believer.

Now look at this inane comment by one of their in house intellectuals:

1 Comment » But, Kevin, when you’re a Fundamentalist (especially a Fundamentalist Calvinist) you don’t have to define anything. That’s the beauty of the system. You know you have a guaranteed clique that’s listening to you (”the Faithful”), and you know they already share all your premises about the Bible and exegesis, all your angst at being in a world that hates and fears you because you expose their deeds of darkness to the light, and all your desire for ready-made, sloganeering conclusions that “refute” the preachers of “falsehood.”

These things being true, all you have to do is keep your tone shrill and your blood pressure elevated and the audience’s fervor against “error” and their fear of “compromise” worked up into a lather and you can get away with fratricide. You don’t have to answer for your own assumptions, you just have to be able to huff and puff and blow down the house of cards you’ve constructed for the other guy to live in and which, all his protestations to the contrary, you insist he must be living in merely because he disagrees with you. You don’t have to offer anything except slogans and categories of thought that came out of your own group’s most traumatic experiences with “heresy” and which you treat like infallible Platonic Forms that judge everything. You don’t have to be accountable to anyone outside your little group, because your little group is the Truth. Everyone knows what you’re talking about, and they love to sit and listen to you pound the pulpit while simply preaching to the choir.

Why try to do anything else? You can sit fat and sassy on the laurels of “the” Reformers and keep propounding the most ignorant caricatures of all other views (”Romanism,” “postmodernism,” “emergent Church”) and people will keep eating it up because neither you nor they know any better. After all, you’re too busy doing expository exegesis to seriously read the Church Fathers or the Medievals and other groups that don’t share your own inbred intellectual tendencies, and since your “Daily Dose of Spurgeon” keeps the heresy away, anyway, you’re really just A-OK.

Comment by Tim Enloe — April 17, 2007 @ 11:14 am

At the foundation of this nonsense is the trite and always fashionable belief that truth can't be known, i.e. that everybody's 'truth' is Truth; and also if 'truth' isn't held to by a vast majority it can't be real truth. If only a small minority of people see it it's obviously wrong.

He also engages in the unregenerate practice of mocking true believers.

This individual is currently on a track to earn his Ph.D in something or other, and as I see it, all the current Ph.Ds in his field deserve him. This little monster will sit at their table in their conferences and be an effective mirror for the rest of the fools self-identified as Christians with letters after their names.