CT v CT again: Driscoll alleges that Christian Theology (which ones?) err by defining spiritual warfare as personal rather than systemic (which means he's never read Caird, Berkhof, Wink or Stringfellow)

There were moments in reading Mark Driscoll’s new e-book where I wondered if he had suddenly taken the side of Greg Boyd (sarcasm alert): 

Christian Theology vs. Critical Theory

© 2021 by Mark Driscoll

ISBN: 978-1-7374103-7-9 (Paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-7374103-8-6 (E-book)

Page 20

 

The point is that unified unbelievers seeking to make Heaven on earth without God are more powerful than divided believers. Jesus said that a house divided cannot stand up but will fall. Knowing this, the Critic behind Critical Theory, the same spirit that was at work in Babel (also known as Babylon), is seeking to divide believers and unify unbelievers to dismantle systems and institutions and redistribute wealth and power to build their version of Heaven on earth without God. Simply stated, this is a counterfeit of God’s Kingdom ruled by King Jesus - our kingdom ruled by us.

 

Unified unbelievers seeking to make Heaven on earth without God are more powerful than divided believers? On the basis of what?  Driscoll went on to make another proposal that struck me as confident but baffling:

 

since 2019, an official 180 degree turn from Mark Driscoll on interpreting Genesis 6:1-4 ... so he's caught up to the last thirty years of Enochic scholarship but ... why would Satan try to replicate the Incarnation before it happened?

A year and a half ago Driscoll publicly did a 180 on his take on Genesis 6:1-4.  So he does change his views, and has been, for those who have mistakenly still referred to him as a Calvinist when he's said the TULIP is garbage (although the TULIP itself is more recent than many non-Calvinists might realize).  So ... Genesis 6:1-4 can now be thought of as referring to precisely the angelic-human hybrids that Driscoll said couldn't be what Genesis was referring to in the Mars Hill Genesis series circa 2004-2005:

https://www.facebook.com/pastormark/videos/does-genesis-6-teach-that-aliens-mated-with-women-and-created-a-super-race/591300321339707/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMwsjyL9ow

a reading list, for the moment presented without much explanation (11-14-2020, but it's a list of books on exorcism, diabology, The Watchers tradition, and spiritual warfare manuals in Christian writings and academic commentary thereon spanning 1895 to 2020)

But you'll see there's, ahem, a very persistent theme after the break. (updated as of 11-15-2020)