Sons of Patriarchy

Giving a voice to the oppressed, abused, and silenced of ministries like Doug Wilson/CREC and Jeff Durbin/Apologia types.

I was taken in by the first season. Season two began to betray his need to grind his axe and lead his witnesses when they didn’t seem to immediately be testifying as bad a report as he desired/expected. Then I heard some about his backstory: - he has falsely represented himself as a pastor/licentiate, while refusing to show any proof, and been refused by 4 reformed denominations: search Sons Of Charlatanry for article documenting this. - he confessed to several disqualifying behaviors on Facebook before deleting the post, but critically, this included being dismissed from 2-3 secular jobs for deception. This post remains in existence through secondary reporting. So a man who lies, tells you that all these other guys are liars and deceptive and just in it for the money. We all interpret each other based on how we ourselves would behave. The liar isn’t qualified to identify liars. The truth teller will require a higher burden of proof. He’s also a big pretender, who has been rejected by the conservative reformed from the pastorate, which is clearly his aspiration. So a guy with a personal beef against the orthodox reformed finds witnesses who will help him trash them and leads them to the desired conclusions (or just says it himself if they’re not about to) because they’re too careful and - frankly - honest. The ONLY honorable action for Peter Bell is to delete this podcast, and go hold down a job. If he can become honest enough to stay employed by the unbelievers, then I’d be willing to hear his thoughts over coffee, but he should get over the idea of taking this kind of teaching role. His repentance will only be shown in his abandonment of this role. Also: being dismissed 2-3 times for large deceit, he may be dependent on this podcast for income. That further destroys his credibility. He may well NEED the scandal to continue. Finally, any who hold to the reformed understanding of the 9th commandment should be disturbed by the way he platforms and only sometimes corrects the worst slanders against Christ and his gospel. This man does not love the truth. He must cease teaching.

Porter definitely pees sitting down. He’s clearly been hurt by the church and has an axe to grind. It’s painful to listen to.

These podcasts are silly. Left but not left but not right either. Fence riding. Never actually discussing the gospel itself which is the true answer to all of this. Instead of fighting over methodologies of how to be a certain type of Christian, why not replicate the only way to do it with the best example being the gospel. SMH.