Spike's Placemat: John Piper on the Prosperity Gospel

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Arrogance, defined biblically, is the practice of challenging the will of the triune God. Every aspiring idol, precisely because it is aspiring to replace the triune God, must seek (however unsuccessfully) to take on the same attributes. This means that idols try to define arrogance in the same way. Arrogance is that which challenges the god who seeks to reign.

This means that when modern evangelicalism has compromised fatally with the idols of the age (which it most certainly has), and when someone points that out in a way that cannot be ignored, the basic defense of the idolatry is to attack the critic as one who is arrogant.

From "A Serrated Edge" by Douglas Wilson

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Saturday, July 25, 2009

John Piper on the Prosperity Gospel

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