Greg Thornbury, former president of The King's College, says Christians like Al Mohler (of his alma mater SBTS) have adopted postmodern hermeneutics by defying coronavirus lockdowns at their churches in this conversation with Warren Throckmorton in October 2020.

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AL MOHLER [video clip]: When we see an order not to worship the one true and living God, with the church ordered not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together...we've got to call it what it is and we've got to resist.

WARREN THROCKMORTON: All right, so there's your old friend Al Mohler. What'd you think about that?

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GREG THORNBURY: It seems incredibly disingenuous to create this clause for you "We obey the government whenever it's something we want the government to do, but it is incredibly convenient for us to disobey the government and find some other passage in scripture to justify when we don't want to obey what the government is doing."

And this is the madness that is created by ransacking the Bible for illustrations, the exact thing we were taught not to do in hermeneutics classes in seminary, where we were taught about authorial intent. So it's the people that used to talk about objective truth and authorial intent are now postmodern relativists when it comes to textual interpretation, that you can basically justify whatever you want to do based upon some text description.

By the way, I would not be going to Daniel, Mishael, Hananiah and Azariah [referring to an example from the Mohler video]. Those were their Hebrew names, not Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. It's not culturally appropriate to call them by those names.

I mean, what's the actual story of the book of Daniel and Jeremiah? It's that they loved being in Babylon! Look at Jeremiah 29, the famous passage that everybody writes in their yearbook in high school. "For I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD. Plans to prosper you, to give you a future and hope." Nobody remembers the context of that. The context is YHWH speaking to the exiles in Babylon, and he says [v. 9], "Seek the good of the city in which you have found yourself, for in the city's well-being and prosperity you will find your own happiness."

So actually, the exiles loved being in Babylon, which is only proved further by reading Ezra and Nehemiah in which we find that no one wanted to go back to Jerusalem! When the order, the decree, it was a bunch of half-wits and miscontents that hobbled back there, and Zerubbabel who was the governor that was originally put back in Jerusalem, he disappears halfway through the narrative. Where does he go? He went back to Babylon!

So this notion that there's this vast gulf fixed between secular culture, the well-being of secular culture and the health and well-being of our neighbors, vs. us doing whatever the hell we want to do in our own churches, public health ordinances be damned, is so curious and twisty and perverse, that one hardly knows how to begin and end with this sort of gymnastics that it takes to get on board with this sort of thing textually, exegetically, philosophically, etc.

Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8kldPm15hw

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