James White is not showing Muslims any love; he's using them to get praise from the world
Here's James White defending being targeted by Muslims as a dupe; and then being caught acting like a dupe:
@JeffTheGKÂ You know what, Jeff? Here's my suggestion. Do not support me in my work. Remain isolated from the Islamic community---don't seek to understand their life or their language or their beliefs. Stay safely in the womb of American evangelicalism. I have no intention of joining you, for numerous reasons. First, you all have failed, miserably, to provide any kind of meaningful and compelling biblical argumentation, as has been demonstrated ad nauseam. Secondly, every single person working in Islamic countries around the world with whom I have spoken has simply rolled their eyes at the criticisms you have leveled. They can tell you (critics in general) have no idea what it means to live and work out in the real world of Christian minority status. They have, to a person, encouraged me to press on, despite the howls of the American critics. I have now traveled enough in this world to gain sufficient perspective to see how safe, and introverted, and self-centered, American evangelicalism can be. I have grander goals and desires. I believe the gospel is the power of God and it does not need to be protected from exposure to other views. It needs to be explained and proclaimed to those who have either never heard it, or have only heard a misrepresentation of it. And I will seek to continue to proclaim it with love and compassion in my heart. I will show that love by accurately representing even those who seek to contradict my words. I will show respect by being truthful about even those who mistreat me. I will not call Muslims names, show them disrespect and disdain, as your entire cadre of critics do daily to Dr. Qadhi and anyone else you all decide to dehumanize and vilify. And I will trust that the sovereign King of Grace will make His gospel to come alive in the hearts of His elect people, and that He will graciously bring hosts of precious man and women to the feet of Jesus out of the Islamic faith, not by force, not by my arguments, but by the glorious revelation of the Lord of Glory, Jesus, accomplished by the almighty Holy Spirit, bringing the gospel to life in their hearts. And if I have to endure the constant misrepresentations and epithets of those who gnash their teeth at my efforts, then that will be the price. So be it.
Notice how he casts his critics into hell (they "gnash their teeth")...
James White is a Bowe Bergdahl of Christianity.
Each year White announces more verses and sections of the Bible he refuses to "preach"; declaring them to be unbiblical, based on his scholarship. Mostly this is driven by Muslim critics of the Bible. Then he sucks up to Muslims ("Teach me...") while signalling to them his politically-correct disdain for American Christians.
All while having no clue the way you evangelize to Muslims is to proclaim the law - yes, the law - and the Gospel directly and boldly to their face. You don't give such entrenched Devil worshipers only the Gospel. Of course it helps to fear God alone to be able to do that. White's seeking of the praises of the world is not doing Muslims any good.
James White may still be a Christian, but he is worthless in Christ's army.
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