Many may know, many may not, that Hank Hanegraaff, formerly a Protestant evangelical for many years and host of the Bible Answer Man radio program converted to Eastern Orthodox in 2017. Needless to say I was shocked when I heard of this.
By way of a little history, in 1989 Hanegraaff took over the office of president of the Christian Research Institute (CRI), Walter Martin's conservative countercult ministry which he founded in 1960. Hanegraaff is also a prolific author.
I don't understand how Hanegraaff can continue to call himself the "Bible Answer Man" when all he does is defend Eastern Orthodoxy. Someone will call in expecting an explanation from the Bible and all they get is a rant on Orthodox dogma. When anyone challenges him he dodges behind what he calls "mere Christianity"; that is, the "essentials" of the faith that, according to Hanegraaff, unite us all. The problem is these "essentials" are so vague as to be meaningless.
All his books are still for sale. He tries to make the argument that what he teaches now is the same thing he's always taught. But this is laughable. Either he's Orthodox or he's invented a new meaning of what it means to be Orthodox. If you listen carefully to him on his broadcast it's clear he's abandoned core Biblical doctrines such as grace alone and faith alone. He defends Catholicism, calling it a true church with grave errors. Huh?
I wonder how Walter Martin would feel about the way Hanegraaff has disgraced the ministry he created and led so gallantly for almost thirty years?
Hanegraaff needs to get honest and change the name of his broadcast to Eastern Orthodox Man.
By way of a little history, in 1989 Hanegraaff took over the office of president of the Christian Research Institute (CRI), Walter Martin's conservative countercult ministry which he founded in 1960. Hanegraaff is also a prolific author.
I don't understand how Hanegraaff can continue to call himself the "Bible Answer Man" when all he does is defend Eastern Orthodoxy. Someone will call in expecting an explanation from the Bible and all they get is a rant on Orthodox dogma. When anyone challenges him he dodges behind what he calls "mere Christianity"; that is, the "essentials" of the faith that, according to Hanegraaff, unite us all. The problem is these "essentials" are so vague as to be meaningless.
All his books are still for sale. He tries to make the argument that what he teaches now is the same thing he's always taught. But this is laughable. Either he's Orthodox or he's invented a new meaning of what it means to be Orthodox. If you listen carefully to him on his broadcast it's clear he's abandoned core Biblical doctrines such as grace alone and faith alone. He defends Catholicism, calling it a true church with grave errors. Huh?
I wonder how Walter Martin would feel about the way Hanegraaff has disgraced the ministry he created and led so gallantly for almost thirty years?
Hanegraaff needs to get honest and change the name of his broadcast to Eastern Orthodox Man.
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