I just
recently received an email from Matt Slick (as I am subscribed to the CARM
email list):
Dear
Friend,
Here
is just one example of how God has used CARM.
Tom
wrote to us to let us know about his experiences with CARM.
Tom said,“Through
my encounter with CARM a seed was planted which was watered by various other
ministries and churches over the years before God made it grow.” Praise
God!
Tom
grew up in a Bible-believing religious home. However, the previous five
generations on both sides of his family were members of a non-christian cult
called The Christadelphians. During his years with this group, he did not know
Jesus as his Lord and Saviour but he was interested in proving that the group’s
unusual doctrines were biblical. These doctrinal positions included a denial of
the deity and pre-existence of Christ, interpreting the devil as an allegory
rather than a real personal being, and minimizing the present work of the Holy
Spirit in the hearts of believers.
He
believed Christians outside the Christadelphian community were willfully
ignorant of the Bible. One day he discovered the CARM website and was shocked
to see it countered Christadelphian teaching with biblical reasoning. This led
Tom to a path of study and reflection and eventually the realization he was
trusting a system of man-made doctrines for salvation rather than trusting the
Lord Jesus Himself.
Today,
like his namesake the apostle Thomas, he confesses Jesus as "my Lord and
my God." Now living in Cape Town, South Africa, Tom is studying toward a
degree in theology by distance learning with King’s Evangelical Divinity School
in the UK. He is also reaching out to others lost in the Christadelphian
community.
To God be the glory
for drawing Tom to His Son. Praise God for CARM and the other ministries He
used to reach him. Tom went on to say,
“God works through
His people and I believe CARM was one of the ways He reached out to me.”
Partners
like you make everything we do possible. We are here through His grace and
those He leads to support us financially and with their prayers. This is a
critical time for CARM. We have a number of new initiatives and a significant
amount of new content and resources we would like to add to our site. Your
support today can help make that possible.
The problem?
“Tom” is Thomas Farrar, who is now a practising Roman Catholic and has moved
into defending unique Roman Catholic theology and critiquing core Protestant tenets such as sola scriptura (e.g., We Have an Altar: The Call to Eucharistic Worship in Hebrews 13:9-16; Simon Peter, Chief Steward of the King's Household: An Exposition of Matthew 16:17-19; you can also read Tom's conversion story at Journeys from Christadelphia to orthodoxy: My story) According to Slick,
however, Roman Catholicism is apostate and Tom will, if he continues to believe
Roman Catholic theology, spend eternity in hell. Perhaps Slick should do a bit
more research into individuals he props up as examples of the work CARM engages
in, especially in the context of looking for funds to support this
organisation.
