The Face of the Federal Vision

FV guru and prophet in his own mind, James Jordan, has gone postal. For documentation of his complete mental unraveling go here and here. What will be interesting to see is the inevitable fallout and how men like FV apologist and shill Doug Wilson will try and deflect such clear and evident lunacy from such a prominent FV spokesman and luminary. Commenting on one blog site where Jordan similarly lost his nut, an elder in a CREC candidate church wrote:

“Wowsers . . . I gotta tell y’all- we do not appreciate Mr. Jordan’s approach AT ALL. Uncool- just unnecessary and downright divisive.”

Now, don’t get me wrong, the divisive thing is a good thing. I appreciate Mr. Jordan’s efforts. I really do. I mean, what possible unity can there be with Christ and the FV? Besides, even while spitting bile he makes some great points that P&R men everywhere need to learn. For example, over at Greenbaggins(es) Jordan barks:

Some men remain in the PCA because God has told them they have a duty to help the 7000 who have not yet bowed the knee to antichrist. They hatred of the Kingship of Jesus, which characterizes so much of the PCA, is with fighting. The Reformed faith is that faith includes fiducia, and this is still worth fighting for, regardless of how many antinominian blogs hate it.

Admittedly, even when he is not wearing his disguise, including the one where we’re supposed to believe he is a Christian man and teacher, Jordan still looks foolish, but he does provide another great example why Christian men everywhere – particularly RE’s and TE’s who think their seminary training was the last word – need to read and study Gordon Clark’s, What is Saving Faith. According to the Trinity Foundation website :

This is the combined edition of two of Dr. Clark’s seminal books: Faith and Saving Faith and The Johannine Logos. Both books deal with the crucial issue of justification by faith alone in a new fashion: by deriving a definition of faith (belief) from the Greek New Testament rather than from Latin theologians. It is both ironic and telling that most Protestants, when asked to define the word “faith,” sound like they are exegeting the Vulgate. No one before Dr. Clark has examined, collated, and systematized the wealth of Scriptural material relevant to the definition of faith. The result is a refreshing and exhilarating defense of the doctrine of justification through belief alone.

Refreshing and exhilarating are apt descriptions. So is roter-rooter for the mind. While most P&R men are universally and interminably confused on the central question of what is saving faith and to their shame, it’s clear Jordon and his ilk haven’t got a clue.

Fiducia is translated trust and the word trust is synonymous with belief. Yet, in the lexicon of FV heretics like Jordan, fiducia means works. Or, per that other gospel hater, Doug Wilson, it means “faithfulness” and believing means doing as he repeatedly asserts in his sustained attack against the Christian faith, Reformed is Not Enough. Well, it should be as plain as the nose on Jordan’s face that belief alone is not enough either for these men who all pretend to uphold the biblical and Confessional doctrine of justification which is by belief alone. Yet, in the fevered minds of FV men like Jordan and Wilson justification by belief alone is “antinomian.” Not surprisingly their big brothers in Rome make the same charge. So, not only do these men say foolish things, now they’ve finally found a look that goes with their doctrines.

One other interesting sidebar is that another FV man, PCA pastor Mark Horne, looks to be on the fast track to Moscow if Andy Webb has anything to say about it. Consider this from the comment section at Greenbaggins(es):

January 17, 2008 at 3:07 pm

Mark,

You and Jeff [Meyers] have publicly stated that you are in agreement with the teaching of Steve Wilkins and in print you have said basically the same things he has about a wide range of subjects from Baptism to Perseverance. The SJC, which is the highest judicatory of the PCA, has stated that Wilkins’ teachings raise a “strong presumption of guilt” and that he should have been brought to trial. You teach the same things, therefore the strong presumption of guilt applies to you too. Additionally the GA of the PCA by at least at 90% margin declared your teachings to be in error. I strongly suspect you have been shielded simply by the glacial speed at which we do discipline, the hope that a natural realignment would occur, and the PCA’s natural aversion to bringing charges on doctrinal matters.

That your teaching is erroneous is not a libel, it is the official declaration of at least 7 denominations, various seminaries, and the SJC.

Here is the clincher just in case Pastor Horne didn’t get the message:

And yes, Mark, if you won’t realign, and if no one in your Presbytery will bring charges against you and Jeff for your FV theology, I’ll go the exceedingly tedious way and bring charges from outside. I still have hopes that someone in Missouri will file first however. Clearly, the idea that you can stay in communion with men you FV men describe as fools, devils, antichrists, and Pharisees is idiotic.

I confess, Pastor Webb doesn’t strike me as someone who makes idle threats. To quote the CREC elder mentioned above — Wowsers!

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