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An excerpt from a talk around when the book Strange Fire came out. He mentions possible book titles midway.
Since then, MacArthur has become a superstar in 2020 due to keeping his church open – I doubt he could have such a small room now; he’d be using the large megachurch room. This talk was closer to 2013 than 2020.
John MacArthur is an exoteric Christian doubting a late-Modern, Charismatic attempt at esoteric Christianity. There are actually 3 positions in play here:
o exoteric Christianity
o esoteric Christianity as attempted by Charismatic Christianity
o esoteric Christianity per the Egodeath theory
33:40 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA2VFWSr0xE&list=WL&t=2020s —
“secret knowledge”
“esoteric gnosis”
“Transcendent Knowledge”
38:42 –
“mysticism”
40:10 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA2VFWSr0xE&list=WL&t=2410s —
“Holy Spirit revelation” – John 2(?) “mentality that opens people up to some aspect of Holy Spirit revelation that I think you just can’t defend scripturally.”
40:45 –
“ecstasy in preaching”
Book:
Strange Fire: The Danger of Offending the Holy Spirit with Counterfeit Worship
John F. MacArthur
November 19, 2013 (the start of the week of my tree vs. snake breakthrough)
http://amzn.com/1400205174
November 19, 2013 — the start of the week of my tree vs. snake breakthrough, which I immediately published explicitly on the World-Wide Web December 2013; secret = hidden and then revealed.
In the Egodeath theory, text successfully describes the dynamics to everyone regardless of their mystic state firsthand experience. My public text references public bible texts.
The Egodeath theory 