June 4, 2013

#Calvinist Theologian John Piper's tornado tweets stir up debate

Oklahoma’s devastating tornado stirred up a theological debate that was set off from a series of deleted tweets referencing the Book of Job.

Popular evangelical author and speaker John Piper regularly tweets Bible verses, but two verses tweeted after the tornado struck some as at best insensitive and at worst bad theology:
“Your sons and daughters were eating and a great wind struck the house, and it fell upon them, and they are dead.” Job 1:19

Piper is a leading theologian of the neo-Calvinist movement that's sweeping many evangelical churches...more 》 USA TODAY

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