Decided to get my daily dose of insanity today, only to find Kim Jong Un levels at Peter Lumpkins' site. Really, James White = Fred Phelps (the godhatesfags guy)? Since there's a lot of terrible Arminians out there, can we make the same kind of connection with Peter? Oh, wait, we don't have to, Peter is the archetype.
UPDATE: James White has offered to have Lumpkins on the Dividing Line with uninterrupted time. He noted that Lumpkins' intent in comparing himself to Fred Phelps is to show that White's noting that Harwood's views were Pelagian is akin to White's being related to Phelps. Now, the category error is quite clear. Harwood actually espouses Pelagian views, White does not espouse the same views as Phelps, apart from a general subscription to the 5 pts of the Canons of Dort, but that isn't what Phelp's errors consist of.
Even I can see that! ;)
Friday, April 12, 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Peter Lumpkins Responds... sorta
Peter responded to my post, sort-of. He seems to shrug-off the fact that the quotes he specifically used were of James White quoting Al Mohler.
I remember White's words specifically during that Dividing Line broadcast, cause I was in #prosapologian typing:
I do not dispute that James White said Harwood's statements were semi-Pelagian in nature, my point was that from the quote provided by Lumpkins, his main issue appeared to be with Al Mohler.
It's shocking that there are folks in the SBC proposing the same views as the cultic Church of Christ, but given their attitude toward White, Calvinism and anything they cannot seem to wrap their head around, (and I doubt Peter even heard of "Pelagious" [sic] before the podcast.) Original sin, and the idea of Adam's sin imputed to his offspring is foundational to understanding Christ's righteousness imputed to believers.
We are told in Scripture that "many died through one man's trespass", "because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man", "one trespass led to condemnation for all men" and "by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners". (Rom 5). Now one may argue that Adam's sin only made men potential sinners, or left them in a state where'd they'd be sinners. But Scripture doesn't stop there: "death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come." The point Paul is making here is not simply that Adam's sin made us potential sinners, or even made us likely sinners, rather Adam's sin is our sin. We sinned in Adam. This is why Paul stats "even over those whose sinning was not like... Adam". Paul is setting up the imputation of Christ's righteousness, for he follows with: "much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ."
Now, if Paul's point here is simply that Adam's sin has made us sin-able but not guilty because of it, how can one say that Christ's death has made us righteous without us likewise being righteous in works. That is, if we're required to sin to be sinners, we must be required to be holy to be reckoned as holy. The entire basis for our salvation by grace alone through faith alone is lost.
What isn't shocking is that the discussion of someone's doctrine and the rightful identification of it (Harwood's view IS Pelagian, as I showed in my previous post) is declared "verbal-abuse" and "slander" by the likes of drpenn and Craig Delassio's favorite mouthpiece, while their derogatory comments are left on display with little more than a tsk-tsk from Peter. We've come to expect that kind of language and ad hominem from Peter and his krew... one wonders if their behavior is representative of the majority of the SBC . If so, it might explain why their numbers continue to fall precipitously.
I remember White's words specifically during that Dividing Line broadcast, cause I was in #prosapologian typing:
||Micah || No, that's not semi-pelagian
||Micah || that's fully pelagian.
I do not dispute that James White said Harwood's statements were semi-Pelagian in nature, my point was that from the quote provided by Lumpkins, his main issue appeared to be with Al Mohler.
It's shocking that there are folks in the SBC proposing the same views as the cultic Church of Christ, but given their attitude toward White, Calvinism and anything they cannot seem to wrap their head around, (and I doubt Peter even heard of "Pelagious" [sic] before the podcast.) Original sin, and the idea of Adam's sin imputed to his offspring is foundational to understanding Christ's righteousness imputed to believers.
We are told in Scripture that "many died through one man's trespass", "because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man", "one trespass led to condemnation for all men" and "by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners". (Rom 5). Now one may argue that Adam's sin only made men potential sinners, or left them in a state where'd they'd be sinners. But Scripture doesn't stop there: "death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come." The point Paul is making here is not simply that Adam's sin made us potential sinners, or even made us likely sinners, rather Adam's sin is our sin. We sinned in Adam. This is why Paul stats "even over those whose sinning was not like... Adam". Paul is setting up the imputation of Christ's righteousness, for he follows with: "much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ."
Now, if Paul's point here is simply that Adam's sin has made us sin-able but not guilty because of it, how can one say that Christ's death has made us righteous without us likewise being righteous in works. That is, if we're required to sin to be sinners, we must be required to be holy to be reckoned as holy. The entire basis for our salvation by grace alone through faith alone is lost.
What isn't shocking is that the discussion of someone's doctrine and the rightful identification of it (Harwood's view IS Pelagian, as I showed in my previous post) is declared "verbal-abuse" and "slander" by the likes of drpenn and Craig Delassio's favorite mouthpiece, while their derogatory comments are left on display with little more than a tsk-tsk from Peter. We've come to expect that kind of language and ad hominem from Peter and his krew... one wonders if their behavior is representative of the majority of the SBC . If so, it might explain why their numbers continue to fall precipitously.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Peter Lumpkins doesn't know who he's responding to.
Peter Lumpkins has responded (sort of) to Jame White's recent Dividing Line episode where he did a quick review of Lumpkins booklet against Calvinism. The problem is, Lumpkins' quote of White is of White quoting Al Mohler. Nearly 99% of the quote is actually Al Mohler's own words.
Lumpkins writes:
As an aside: Harwood did in fact uphold a Pelagian understanding of the fall. I verified this asking him through Twitter:
So regardless of Lumpkins' shocked response, Harwood denies imputation of Adam's guilt to his posterity. This is defined even by Wikipedia as: "Pelagianism is the belief that original sin did not taint human nature and that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without special Divine aid..." and "Pelagius did not believe that all humanity was guilty in Adam's sin, but said that Adam had condemned humankind through bad example, and that Christ’s good example offered humanity a path to salvation." So regardless of what Peter Lumpkins thinks, Pastor Harwood is at least Semi-Pelagian, if not fully.
It's evident that Lumpkins' response to White is as vacuous as his book contra Calvinism. While using the word heresy in the title, he never once shows where such a claim was ever made. Talk about slander? In fact the only mention of heresy in the article comes in the last paragraph:
These are the kinds of 'christians' Peter Lumpkins pals around with. Note Lumpkins' defense of that statement when challenged:
Peter notes in post-script the following:
So while the US descends into moral anarchy, while the failure of evangelicalism and the relegation of Southern Baptists to pile of irrelevancy in our culture, people like Lumpkins and the John 3:16 Conference speakers will continue to ignorantly revile Calvinism... way to go.
Lumpkins writes:
Not only did James White twice slanderously implicate Adam Harwood in defending a Pelagian understanding of fallen human nature, White grossly attributed to Harwood the mindless notion that for unity to take place in the Southern Baptist Convention...But what Lumpkins quoted was James White quoting Mohler. Now, it's true White would agree with Mohler's assessment of Harwood's statements, but accusing White with "slander" while he was quoting Mohler is amusing.
As an aside: Harwood did in fact uphold a Pelagian understanding of the fall. I verified this asking him through Twitter:
So regardless of Lumpkins' shocked response, Harwood denies imputation of Adam's guilt to his posterity. This is defined even by Wikipedia as: "Pelagianism is the belief that original sin did not taint human nature and that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without special Divine aid..." and "Pelagius did not believe that all humanity was guilty in Adam's sin, but said that Adam had condemned humankind through bad example, and that Christ’s good example offered humanity a path to salvation." So regardless of what Peter Lumpkins thinks, Pastor Harwood is at least Semi-Pelagian, if not fully.
It's evident that Lumpkins' response to White is as vacuous as his book contra Calvinism. While using the word heresy in the title, he never once shows where such a claim was ever made. Talk about slander? In fact the only mention of heresy in the article comes in the last paragraph:
And, for the record, I hope God gives me yet another seven years to stand against the raw, hateful, and theologically slanderous seeds ("You're a heretic!") men like White...Really, Peter? When did James White ever call you a heretic? Now, I may firmly believe that Peter is a heretic, but that's on the basis of his constant lying (such as I've documented here and elsewhere), and his ongoing support for liars such as Ergun Caner. In fact, notice the number of times the word heretic is used in the comment section of the blog post... where is any of this substantiated? Also, notice the language used by "drpenn" unapologetically :
Oh for the love of chicken. Is James White ever going to die? I can't believe ANYONE takes what he says seriously. He's still the driveling, sniveling, conniving #@#$5& he always was. Give me a break.
These are the kinds of 'christians' Peter Lumpkins pals around with. Note Lumpkins' defense of that statement when challenged:
To suggest she wished White would literally die is completely presumptuous on your part, Matt. Attempting to make her comment more severe than it actually is does exactly squat toward making your already well-taken point stronger. Drop the nonsense, Matt. You haven't a clue nor does her context demand she meant it to be a literal deathwish...Since the dictionary definition of "literal" is "Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory", it's clear that Diana Penn did in fact wish White dead, and a clear violation of the 6th commandment.
Peter notes in post-script the following:
Only recently did White remove from his website wording in his bio which made it sound as if he still taught adjunctly at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary (GGBTS), wording which I questioned in private correspondence and he subsequently removed.The fact of the matter is that it was I who removed that wording from the bio, because White did in fact teach there during the 2012 season. As I wrote:
Apologetics, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, 2003-2004, 2009-2010, 2012I've provided links to the class schedules as evidence against Peter's claims to the contrary that James White did in fact teach Apologetics at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary during the "2012-2013" season, as I had previously written in the bio. White doesn't have access to his own bio yet, as he doesn't have the software necessary to edit it, so he relies on volunteers like myself to keep it up to date. But notice that Lumpkins keeps attempting to push this issue, that White doesn't teach at GGBTS, and yet, he has (off and on) since 2003.
So while the US descends into moral anarchy, while the failure of evangelicalism and the relegation of Southern Baptists to pile of irrelevancy in our culture, people like Lumpkins and the John 3:16 Conference speakers will continue to ignorantly revile Calvinism... way to go.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Office 365 - One more rant
So I've set up the retention policies on all mailboxes using the insanity that is Windows Powershell, but it turns out that those polices only work on mailboxes over 10 megabytes.
So, if you set up a policy to delete all junk/deleted items after 30 days, it will only work if the mailbox is > 10 megs. Of course, you can set all mailboxes to do this but you have to use the magic spell : "Manually run Start-ManageFolderAssistant –Identity cmdlet to force Managed Folder Assistant to process the specific mailbox."
Seriously, it's 2012, why am I forced to type such nonsense into a text box?!
So, if you set up a policy to delete all junk/deleted items after 30 days, it will only work if the mailbox is > 10 megs. Of course, you can set all mailboxes to do this but you have to use the magic spell : "Manually run Start-ManageFolderAssistant –Identity
Seriously, it's 2012, why am I forced to type such nonsense into a text box?!
Thursday, August 23, 2012
More Office 365 Nonsense
Microsoft is marketing Office 365 as an alternative to installing Office on each corporate machine. So far we've only started using the Exchange online aspect of the product.
I want to say up front that while I'm tech savvy, I've never used Exchange, which seems to be a prerequisite.
So here's some of the issues and solutions I've come up with so far.
Adding Holidays to a Non Default Calendar
In Outlook 2010 (and 2007) you can create an additional calendar to put specific data on.
You cannot, however, easily add holidays to that calendar.
You CAN add holidays to your default calendar and then COPY them to the others, but selecting your calendar and choosing "add holidays" does not work.
Archiving Mailboxes and Retention Policies
Setting a retention policy in Exchange online doesn't really do anything, unless you've selected the "delete" option.
Unless you turn on the Archive mailbox, which uses a portion of your mailbox quota, your retention policies will have no effect.
While you can assign retention policies for all users in the Exchange GUI control panel, you must turn the archive mailbox on individually for each user unless you use the Windows Powershell, an arcane command line interface.
You probably already have Powershell installed, at least you do if you ran the Office 365 install. First you must connect Powershell to Exchange then you must tell Exchange to turn the archive mailbox on for all users. Why the second article doesn't contain the login info, I don't know, but I've come to expect only partial instructions from Microsoft help.
By the way, Exchange Online Plan 2 claims to have an "unlimited" mailbox size, this is untrue. The mailbox is still limited to 25 Gigs, and the archive is unlimited.
Adding an Account that Simply Forwards Email
So we have some users who, in the migration, received new email addresses. Unfortunately some users outside our organization can't really figure out how to email them at the new address, so we needed to set up alias email addresses without using an Exchange online license.
With some difficulty I eventually found the solution and it is fairly simple.
1. Create a new Distribution Group
2. Choose the Display Name and the Alias and Email address you want. This is the email address you want to create.
3. Add to the Members section the user you want to receive the mail.
4. Save the Distribution Group and then go back into the group to see its details.
5. Under Delivery Management select "Senders inside and outside of my organization", so that people outside of your company can send email to the address.
One Final Note and a Plea
The documentation and help files scattered on the various Microsoft servers is a mishmash of old information, misinformation and downright useless trash. Every time you click the little ? in the corner of a page, you wonder what help system you'll be taken to. Will I see the gold/tan Office 365 online system, or maybe the older grey Outlook Web app system, or maybe the annoying Outlook.com help system?!
You never know cause each page within the Office 365 architecture seems linked to some unrelated help system.
When you call for support you'll likely get a nice person willing to help who, just like you, is Googling frantically for the answers. I've spent a total of 6 hours or so on the phone troubleshooting this email migration, and while the techs were good, they really were only gestalts for my finding the answers myself.
Here's my plea to Microsoft: FIX THIS.
I believe this is a good product. Having synchronized email across all devices is a dream come true, but the amount of hoops one has to go through to make it work properly and just to find information pertinent to their situation is ridiculous. Rarely have I been so frustrated at one company.
I want to say up front that while I'm tech savvy, I've never used Exchange, which seems to be a prerequisite.
So here's some of the issues and solutions I've come up with so far.
Adding Holidays to a Non Default Calendar
In Outlook 2010 (and 2007) you can create an additional calendar to put specific data on.
You cannot, however, easily add holidays to that calendar.
You CAN add holidays to your default calendar and then COPY them to the others, but selecting your calendar and choosing "add holidays" does not work.
Archiving Mailboxes and Retention Policies
Setting a retention policy in Exchange online doesn't really do anything, unless you've selected the "delete" option.
Unless you turn on the Archive mailbox, which uses a portion of your mailbox quota, your retention policies will have no effect.
While you can assign retention policies for all users in the Exchange GUI control panel, you must turn the archive mailbox on individually for each user unless you use the Windows Powershell, an arcane command line interface.
You probably already have Powershell installed, at least you do if you ran the Office 365 install. First you must connect Powershell to Exchange then you must tell Exchange to turn the archive mailbox on for all users. Why the second article doesn't contain the login info, I don't know, but I've come to expect only partial instructions from Microsoft help.
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| WAKE UP IT'S 1984 |
By the way, Exchange Online Plan 2 claims to have an "unlimited" mailbox size, this is untrue. The mailbox is still limited to 25 Gigs, and the archive is unlimited.
Adding an Account that Simply Forwards Email
So we have some users who, in the migration, received new email addresses. Unfortunately some users outside our organization can't really figure out how to email them at the new address, so we needed to set up alias email addresses without using an Exchange online license.
With some difficulty I eventually found the solution and it is fairly simple.
1. Create a new Distribution Group
2. Choose the Display Name and the Alias and Email address you want. This is the email address you want to create.
3. Add to the Members section the user you want to receive the mail.
4. Save the Distribution Group and then go back into the group to see its details.
5. Under Delivery Management select "Senders inside and outside of my organization", so that people outside of your company can send email to the address.
One Final Note and a Plea
The documentation and help files scattered on the various Microsoft servers is a mishmash of old information, misinformation and downright useless trash. Every time you click the little ? in the corner of a page, you wonder what help system you'll be taken to. Will I see the gold/tan Office 365 online system, or maybe the older grey Outlook Web app system, or maybe the annoying Outlook.com help system?!
You never know cause each page within the Office 365 architecture seems linked to some unrelated help system.
When you call for support you'll likely get a nice person willing to help who, just like you, is Googling frantically for the answers. I've spent a total of 6 hours or so on the phone troubleshooting this email migration, and while the techs were good, they really were only gestalts for my finding the answers myself.
Here's my plea to Microsoft: FIX THIS.
I believe this is a good product. Having synchronized email across all devices is a dream come true, but the amount of hoops one has to go through to make it work properly and just to find information pertinent to their situation is ridiculous. Rarely have I been so frustrated at one company.
Monday, August 20, 2012
Office 365 - Exchange Outline - Outlook Migration
My company has chosen to migrate their email to the cloud-based Office365 system.
This is aka Exchange Online / Microsoft Online etc. The biggest problem is the naming. There seems to be a plethora of names for this product (or others) and they're often used interchangeably.
Are we using Office 365? Outlook Web App? Exchange Online? Microsoft Online? Outlook.com? All of the above?
While using the software you'll see urls and redirects to nearly every permutation of the above names and more.
Our mail server, for example, is on outlook.com, we cannot, however log into outlook.com to get our mail.
Anyway, we have lots of users with existing PST files. Some in excess of 10 Gigs. In order to upload / migrate those PST files, I was told to use the PST tool, DO NOT TRY THIS. It doesn't work and it's a pain in the ass.
Best thing to do is:
1.Export Outlook items to an Outlook Data File(.pst)(Or use their existing one)
2.Connect your desktop Outlook to Office 365 email account. Best way to do this is to delete the existing profile (in Windows, go to Start / Control Panel / Mail ), and create a new one using the Exchange Online addresses.
This might help:
a. set up your desktop for Office 365. Please refer to the link: http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-smallbusinesses/ff637537.aspx
b. Set up Email account in desktop Outlook: In Outlook 2010 In Outlook 2007 (Use the profile manager in the Start / Control Panel to do this most easily)
3. In Outlook 2007 go to File / Import export and select "Import from a file..." and select "Outlook Data File (.pst)". In Outlook 2010 go to File / Open / Import Export, select "Import from a file..." and select "Outlook Data File (.pst)".
This begins to import Outlook items from an Outlook Data File(.pst) to Office 365 email box. This can take a LONG TIME. Do not allow the user to stop the process!
This worked pretty well for us. More on this later.
This is aka Exchange Online / Microsoft Online etc. The biggest problem is the naming. There seems to be a plethora of names for this product (or others) and they're often used interchangeably.
Are we using Office 365? Outlook Web App? Exchange Online? Microsoft Online? Outlook.com? All of the above?
While using the software you'll see urls and redirects to nearly every permutation of the above names and more.
Our mail server, for example, is on outlook.com, we cannot, however log into outlook.com to get our mail.
Anyway, we have lots of users with existing PST files. Some in excess of 10 Gigs. In order to upload / migrate those PST files, I was told to use the PST tool, DO NOT TRY THIS. It doesn't work and it's a pain in the ass.
Best thing to do is:
1.Export Outlook items to an Outlook Data File(.pst)(Or use their existing one)
2.Connect your desktop Outlook to Office 365 email account. Best way to do this is to delete the existing profile (in Windows, go to Start / Control Panel / Mail ), and create a new one using the Exchange Online addresses.
This might help:
a. set up your desktop for Office 365. Please refer to the link: http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-smallbusinesses/ff637537.aspx
b. Set up Email account in desktop Outlook: In Outlook 2010 In Outlook 2007 (Use the profile manager in the Start / Control Panel to do this most easily)
3. In Outlook 2007 go to File / Import export and select "Import from a file..." and select "Outlook Data File (.pst)". In Outlook 2010 go to File / Open / Import Export, select "Import from a file..." and select "Outlook Data File (.pst)".
This begins to import Outlook items from an Outlook Data File(.pst) to Office 365 email box. This can take a LONG TIME. Do not allow the user to stop the process!
This worked pretty well for us. More on this later.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Peter Lumpkins Reduced to Using Fake Photos of James White
Ol' Lumpy's at it again. For all his decrying of James White's investigations of Ergun Caner's lies, Lumpy just has to attempt to ridicule that which he can never understand.
He's just posted a video, illegally lifting, wholesale, White's recent Dividing Line podcast without permission to make a silly video about it where he posts pictures of people (not Dr. White) in kilts and writes on top of the photos.
Seriously? You think this is a response Petey? Get some balls man and call Dr. White directly if you THINK you have something worth saying. Otherwise, go crawl back to your blog where the foul-mouth and the reptile women alone read and comment.
You're a God-hater. I've said it before, and now you're proving it time and again. Repent Peter.
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