Not long after he suggested people “unhitch” from the Old Testament, he provided this blog post, where he then suggested a form of Marcionism, further divorcing the Old Testament from the New Testament. 1:21).Īgain, Andy Stanley claims to affirm biblical inerrancy and authority, yet his own words suggest otherwise.
It is all authoritative and binding upon every man, woman, and child, for it is God Himself who gave us this Word (2 Pet. The simple point being that we are not at liberty to flippantly suggest one can “unhitch” themselves from any portion of Scripture.
It is this same body of truth that Jude commands the church to agonize over-to not merely defend, but to go on the offensive, to protect, guard, and even conquer the lies of this age with (Col. The faith here is not that personal, subjective knowledge and application of the gospel (i.e., your faith), it is instead, that collective body of truth, from Genesis to Revelation, which was once for all handed down to the saints (Jd. This command to make disciples then encompasses the twofold reality of both teaching and obedience to that teaching, which the apostle Paul picks up broadly elsewhere in referring to the faith (Rom. It is in light of the fact that Scripture is God-breathed, or literally expressed, from the Spirit of God Himself, that the man of God may be equipped to teach, rebuke, correct, and train others in righteousness. God has inspired all of Scripture, for the very purpose made clear by Christ in issuing the Great Commission (2 Tim. It should be noted that one of the points of the Great Commission is that we teach others to obey everything Christ has commanded us (Matt. But that’s not what Andy Stanley implied in his words. The gospel, that is, the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, undoubtedly takes precedence in how we evangelize. Had Andy Stanley suggested one need not figure all of these things out prior to wrestling with who Jesus is, I think most people would naturally agree. Suffice it to say, we simply never find that kind of luxury within the corpus of Scripture, as Jesus Himself was content to uphold these things as literal truths. I wrote another blog post to address this issue at length, as it is also false.
Though he again made it clear that he doesn’t deny the aforementioned hang-ups, he nonetheless suggested one “unhitch” themselves from these things and instead “hitch” themselves on Jesus. In light of this, Andy Stanley suggested that things like miraculous phenomena, the historicity of Adam and Eve, etc., are all negotiable tenets of the Christian faith-that if these things are your hang up-focus instead on Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, for this is the core of the Christian faith.
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