Fiery Darts

I love Bunyan’s work. I’ve been through Pilgrim’s Progress several times, our men’s reading group read it out loud, both Parts I & II.

I also know exactly what Mike Ratliff experiences in the article below.

“The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is a allegory of the journey of one man, Christian, who is saved and makes the journey to escape his home town, The City of Destruction. The journey takes him to the cross by him entering the narrow way by way of the narrow gate that few find. After the burden of sin is taken away at the cross he journeys until he reaches the Celestial City.

“For example, someone professing to be a Christian who hates the Reformation Theology and knows you are “Reformed” and so paints a target on you. What comes next is anything but “Christian.” These “professing Christians” will call the God of Calvinism Satan. They will accuse you of being a pagan. They will not only say these things, when you give them a solid Biblical exegetical and reasoned response, they accuse you of knowing nothing of what you really believe nor do you really know anything about the Bible and on and on it goes

“They soon attack your character, the character of Calvin (as if that matters), the character of the reformers, (as if that matters), they nearly all deny the doctrine of Original Sin, the doctrine of imputation of both the active and passive obedience of Christ, the doctrine of election, et cetera.”

I’ve experienced it less directly, but there is one major blog site where I agree with most of their posts on the culture and the church. But they are adamantly anti-Calvinist, it grieves me greatly how they misunderstand these basic doctrinal areas of the Reformation.

Anyway enjoy reading Mike’s article and hopefully you don’t receive darts, or at least have a good shield of faith to withstand them!

What are fiery darts?