Has Paul Washer Mocked Apostle Paul’s Supernatural Experience?
By Julio
Severo
Calvinist
evangelist Paul Washer has suffered a heart attack days ago and, in his
critical condition in a hospital bed, he sent a message in his Twitter:
“If it makes you feel any better, I
didn’t go to the third heaven.”
A
heart attack time is not a time for jokes, against him who has suffered the attack
and much less from him who suffered it.
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| Paul Washer |
He
who suffers a heart attack cannot permit himself the luxury of joking about God’s
things.
Third
heaven was a supernatural experience Apostle Paul had, in which he seems to
have died and had heavenly visions, according to 2 Corinthians 12.
It is
common for cessationist Calvinists to mock followers of Jesus who have
supernatural experiences today. But to joke about supernatural experiences of
the apostles is a more serious act.
If I
were in Washer’s place, in a hospital bed in a critical condition, even remotely
I would not joke about God’s things. I would tremble at such thought.
Washer
said,
“If it makes you feel any better, I
didn’t go to the third heaven.”
Yet,
why would Washer’s audience feel better if he had not supernatural experiences
in death? Are they cessationist? Are they unbelievers? Do not they like God’s
visitations? Are they people who spend their lifetime rejecting God’s interventions
and in death they want to remain loyal to their unbelief for the sake of a
carnal theology?
Apostle
Paul did not choose to have a third heaven experience and other supernatural experiences.
Who decides it is only God. Why would to avoid such experience make a man feel
better? I am sure that Satan did not feel better with Paul’s experience.
I cannot
understand the bad-taste joke of Calvinist evangelist Paul Washer.
I
cannot also understand some of his omissions.
I
have heard some of his sermons, where he specifically condemned what is called
Prosperity Gospel. Yet, after many searches, I have not found any condemnation
by him of the Theology of Integral Mission (TIM).
Prosperity
Gospel does not threat Calvinists, who reject it totally. The only theology
threatening Calvinists is TIM, which is the Protestant version of Liberation
Theology. That is, it is a theology with a Marxist soul. On this subject, I
have an e-book in English, Portuguese and Spanish. For more information, use
this link: http://bit.ly/15AJmMC
Some
could argue that Washer does not condemn TIM because he is an American and has
never heard about it.
Such
argument would hardly sustain itself, because Washer was a missionary in Peru
for ten years. Peru is one of the Latin American nations where Calvinist
churches were most influenced by TIM. So, ten years in Peru was time more than
enough for him to see, hear and feel TIM in all its disgrace — unless he had
not found that it was a disgrace.
Considering
that Brazilian Calvinist churches have been highly affected by TIM, it was
expected that all Washer’s trips to Brazil would include specific condemnations
of TIM. Not some condemnations, but many. Yet, this has never happened…
For a
Calvinist preacher to speak at Calvinist meetings in Brazil without addressing
specifically TIM is akin to a medical specialist seeing a cancer patient and,
instead of dealing directly with cancer, treating a cold. To treat the cold is
important, but to deal with cancer is vital.
If
Washer does not intend to treat the TIM cancer among Calvinists, why come to
Brazil?
On
the other hand, if he steps on the shoes of Brazilian Calvinists, TIM, will
they want to invite him again to Brazil? It is easy for him to come to Brazil
and, instead of attacking the main problem of the Calvinist churches, attack
the problem of other churches.
Incidentally
or not, Prosperity Gospel, which is so attacked by him, is the theology that
has most harmed the advance of Brazilian socialism and TIM, which has been so embraced
by Calvinists.
I would
like very much Washer to have a third heaven experience. He would come back
less unbeliever, less mocker and more focused on God’s priorities in regard to
the serious problems of Brazilian Calvinists, who need much assistance. But if
even a Calvinist as Washer is not willing to talk against the TIM cancer, who
will do it?
My
sincere wish is for him to recover from the heart attack and get an awareness
of the important responsibility that he has to prioritize, in his warnings to
Brazilian Calvinists, the threat of TIM. Only a miracle can achieve it, and I
believe in miracles.
Portuguese
version of this article: Paul Washer debochou
da experiência sobrenatural do Apóstolo Paulo?
Source: Last Days Watchman
Recommended Reading:
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