Why Matt. J. Slick and Shawn Aaron McCraney are not Christians

[James]

Shawn McCraney said he was born-again believing God the Father was a man and Jesus was his physical son and the Devil was one of Jesus' brothers. Someone needs to tell Shawn to have no other gods. God is a spirit and triune. If God the Father was a man who exalted himself, and his father did the same, how is that Monotheism? For in monotheism, there is only one uncreated Creator, and no men becoming gods. God is spirit. Nobody has ever seen the Father. We can only see Jesus who is the fullness of the Godhead bodily, fully God and fully man.

Shawn keeps mentioning wooing with love, but he is attempting to do so without giving what the Bible says to people how and why we need to be saved. Is that love? Therefore, he presents a false gospel, appealing to emotion, rather than spirit touching spirit. Why is wooing with God's love mutually exclusive of presenting the word of God? The way to woo people is to explain to them why we are sinners, why we need to get saved and prove how Jesus is God and the Trinity is true.

Slick is abusive towards women yet another sign why he is not a Christian. He says women cannot be directly chosen by God as Apostles, nor are Apostles allowed to appoint women as Elders. Of course that is false because Junias was an Apostle, and there were women who had positions of authority. There are lots of explanations for further proof women can be apostles, elders, prophets, evangelists, deacons, shepherds/teachers.

Women Apostles and Women Elders -- I feel sorry for Matt J. Slick's wife if he is married.

[James]

The Trinity

Shawn contends with the Trinity, but then if the Trinity is not true, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are created. This is yet another proof, showing why Shawn is not a Christian. Shawn says about the Trinity it "it not for me." Shawn has never been born-again because he makes Jesus a created being like all cults try to degrade Jesus. This is yet another way to reject God Almighty. Since the Father is the first and the last, alpha & omega, and so is Jesus, only the Trinity can make sense of this. Jesus is "equal with God" (Phil. 2.6). Jesus is not praying to Himself when He prays to the Father so Modalism is just as false as Arianism (claiming Jesus is a created being). Shawn says he could be wrong about the Trinity, but when he is before Jesus he won't change his mind. Even as Jesus is explaining it to Shawn, Shawn still can't fathom the Trinity so how will he accept what he can't understand?

The 3 Persons of the Trinity each have their own will. They can interact as persons do. Before time and space though there was no sonship. Sonship was given for creation so the 2nd Person would show us how to live and die for us. There was no Father, Son, Spirit before time and space, but simply the 3 Persons. There was no subordination. For the purpose of creation we see the operations of the Father, Son and Spirit manifested by the 3 Persons of the Godhead. The atonement would not be valid if Jesus was giving an atonement to Himself. Rather, He presents an atonement acceptable to the Father.

Where we see the Godhead mentioned as a plurality, Shawn claims like Mormons this is a heavenly host including angels that are creating. But the angels never created anything. Only God created all things. Shawn said he doesn't want to submit himself to a God that requires he believe that the Son is equal with the Father in the Trinity. There you have it, he said it, he will forever reject the Triune God in which the Father is not the Son and the Son is not the Spirit and the Spirit is not the Father, but comprise the 3 Persons of one being.

Shawn commented on John 1.1: "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word is God." Shawn said that the "word" is from God, such are God's words, they were always His and with Him. But the "word" is later identified as Jesus, not just words of God. "He [Jesus] was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not" (John 1.10). Shawn is teaching Modalism which is a heresy. Jesus prayed not to Himself but to the Father. Therefore, the 3 Persons of the Godhead are necessary. What Shawn believes is God puts on 3 different masks, 3 different personas. Whereas the Trinity really has this distinct 3 Persons each with their own will in the Godhead. This shows in God's Godhead He is relational within Himself. Humans are also tripartite: spirit, soul and body. Our spirit has God-consciousness, our soul has self-consciousness, and our body has world consciousness. These 3 parts in us communicate with each other. These are not 3 different masks we can put on (modalism), for God breathed in the breath of life directly creating man's spirit, and when the spirit made contact with the body, man became a living soul with a spirit and a body. Three distinct parts of our one being, distinct but not separate.

Shawn is really messed up. He rejects the Hypostatic Union in which Jesus is fully God and fully man. He said Jesus only had one nature. This is a heresy. Virtually every church council ever formed rejected this heresy of monophysitism.

By Shawn's liberal theology if he is not a false Christian then who is? Shawn is recognizing the profitability of telling people what they want to hear, and most people want a very liberal theology.