Matt Slick of CARM Gets
The False Teacher's Award

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Perhaps one of the most loathsome things about most of the eternal security teachers is they often try to hide what they really believe. This is the case here, at least sometimes. Matt Slick of CARM teaches a license for immorality but periodically tries to hide it. In other words, he isn't always open and honest about his own theology. But how could Matt Slick do better than teach a license for immorality since he is a Calvinist and therefore believes in the perseverance of the saints (eternal security) and the other loathsome points of Calvinism. In fact, CARM aligns itself with a theology founded by John Calvin, who believed in infant baptism! In a past email exchange with CARM Matt Slick's license for sin came out. I wrote to Matt Slick the following about King David when in his sins of adultery and murder. Here is one of my emails to him:

Matthew, you never responded to my question regarding David remaining saved in his sins of adultery and murder or not! I wonder why? Could it be that you are trying to perpetuate the false image that Calvinism is associated with holiness and that Calvinism is Scripturally sound? Matt Slick, let's debate eternal security.

that John 10:27,28 states King David remained saved while in adultery and murder! That is a clear MISUSE of Scripture! John 10:27-28 does NOT promise that backsliders like King David who turn to adultery and murder will never perish! Only those who continue to follow Jesus are referred to in John 10:27-29. Moreover, his answer implies the license for immorality CARM, and all other such Calvinistic ministries, often try to hide. [Again, John 10:27,28 only applies to those described in v.27, that is, the continuous tense follower of Jesus. If one turns to adultery and murder, which a person who once had saving faith can do (as shown by King David), then such a person is no longer following Jesus and that blessed promise in v. 28 no longer applies. In contrast, CARM actually thinks it does! Please do NOT let CARM deceive you!]

that there are Christian adulterers and Christian murderers. The only adulterers and murderers in the Bible are always unsaved and therefore on the road to hell in desperate need of repentance for salvation. Eternal security teachers, like CARM, would want us to dangerously believe that some adulterers and/or murderers are actually saved because they once were regenerated. By teaching that way CARM is actually saying his gospel is only a form of godliness, without power to live above sin. Such people also tend to declare their message to be associated with the real gospel, grace, foundational to Christianity, etc. That makes the once saved always saved message another gospel and the eternal security teachers very dangerous people. Matt Slick of CARM is only one of many such groups and people.

Matt Slick, if you change your mind, we could still easily text debate eternal security and place it on each other's web sites for visitors to read. This would equip Christians and refute error in the truest sense, which CARM is supposed to be doing! Why a text debate? Because a text debate will be done in an honest and fair fashion. I've had debates with eternal security teachers, some very well-known, and things were not always done fairly and unbiasedly. That would never occur with a text debate. Furthermore, the debate points could be much more easily analyzed by the readers and re-examined many times. However, IF there is no other way for the sake of SOULS, I will debate Matt Slick on youtube, though youtube is very favorable to Matt Slick of CARM and suppresses me.

For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person -- such a man is an idolater -- has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore do not be partners with them (Eph 5:5-7).

Christians are not exempt from sexual sin. If you are such a person who has fallen into fornication, adultery, pornography, homosexuality, lesbianism, bestiality, or any other sexual deviation, then you need to stop .... If you are a Christian involved in sexual sin then you know that the Holy Spirit has been convicting you. If you feel no conviction then you are either not really saved or are so hardened by the sin you've been committing that you are close to God taking your life. This is the case in 1 Cor. 5:5 where a man was having sex with his father's wife and he would not repent. Paul said, "I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." Rest assured that God takes this seriously. He will take your life to essentially save your soul. This is a loving move on God's part.

CARM would have us think there are Christian adulterers, Christian fornicators, etc. CARM refers to 1 Cor. 5:5 which has nothing to do with teaching such immoral people are Christian. The unnamed man in 1 Cor. 5 is called wicked in v. 13, and therefore, can not be a Christian. To teach he was a Christian while in sexual immorality is to declare exactly what the devil (and Calvinists) would like us to think. Moreover, 1 Cor. 5:1 states the 1 Cor. 5:5 man was sexually immoral in a way in which even pagans were not, yet CARM wants us to believe that man was a Christian bound for heaven! That is both SHOCKING IGNORANCE and a bold display of distorting grace into a license to sin!

CARM (just like Dave Hunt) would also have us think that God, in his anger, will strike an unrepentant heinous sinner dead and take him to heaven in that unrepentant state. Somehow to CARM, this is following Jesus because we are his sheep and enduring to the end because we are truly saved! The following is quoted from CARM's page Can you lose your salvation?, a dialogue between Matt Slick and Sam:

Dear reader, to learn what true grace is ponder Titus 2:12, Rom. 5:2 and 1 Peter especially in light of 1 Peter 5:12. Also, please see chapter 10 on grace in our 801 page book, The Believer's Conditional Security: Eternal Security Refuted.

CARM attempts to analyze the parable of the Prodigal Son, but in doing so misquotes the Scriptures to protect eternal security and his Reformed theology. This is how CARM misstated it:

The important word again after the word alive is missing! It should read "alive AGAIN." That shows the prodigal son was spiritually alive, became spiritually dead and lost when in sexual sin, and when he turned from his wickedness to serve the Father (repented), he became "alive AGAIN." Jesus stated it this way:

For this son of mine was dead and is ALIVE AGAIN; he was lost and is found.' So they began to celebrate. (Luke 15:24)

for this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found. And they began to be merry.