We wrote this email to Mike Ratliff on Nov. 9, 2009 - no response from Mike to date.

Mike, I am not going to post on your site at this time, but whatever it is worth. We are not an enemy of Jesus Christ, we love the Lord and want to obey him. I do believe that you are misusing the "three witnesses needed" scripture, this accusation has been made before a company of witnesses and the Grace to you Church called the cops, you believe no doubt that you are protecting the "church". Protecting Mc Arthur is not just about protecting Mc Arthur, it is about protecting a whole host of people who look up to him, including yourself. So many people have everything they have, invested in Mc Arthur and people like him. I believe that God is against these people and will expose this idolatry for what it is. Again we are all alone, we are despised, we are persecuted, because we claim to know something by the Spirit of God, and are willing to stand for truth all alone in this world. The people on your side of this look at us and say, "poor deluded Robert and his pathetic family". I guess if they are right, we are of the most horrible abominations alive, because we suffer for NOTHING but perhaps our own pride and failures! Funny thing though, when we open the Word, we see the testimony of the Holy Spirit, that we have heard about our beliefs all over scripture, old and new. Jesus said, the scribes and pharisees make the outside of the cup clean, but inside the cup are abominable filth, we may look very ugly on the outside, but I can tell you one thing, when our children drink from the cup, they get the health and nutrients they need. Bob Johnson is just one of many people in the inner workings at Grace Church that have tasted of the filth inside the cup. I don't know Bob Johnson, I am sure he isn't perfect himself, but that is besides the point. The outward image on the outside of the cup is portrayed through fine speeches on the radio and apparent right doctrine, yet to taste of the cup is much different than to look at the cup.

Just food for thought,

Robert Begnaud When will someone come to the defense of my people?

We wrote this email to Mike Ratliff on 11-11-09 - No response to date.

Mike, I really don't know whether you hate my guts now or not, I don't know what is in your heart or mind, whether you still mean what you said to me in your last email or not.

However, again, you just don't get it. I noticed that you claim you shouldn't elevate MacArthur and then contrary to scripture, you insist that he must be referred to as "Doctor".

What you don't get, is you are required by scripture to give me that same regard and chance to convince you of truth, as you give MacArthur, now I am not going to paste this email with bunch of scriptures, but I assure you that I could. Have you read my most recent articles? "The Word of God is a Person" "The Theologian's Imaginary Church" , just to name a few key articles, and if you have, why aren't you listening, don't you understand that the organized church is a house of cards that is ready to fall? The evidence is overwhelming. God is not going to give his glory to another, he will not give his glory to those who claim that they can live by "exegesis"! "It is not by might, not by power, but by my Spirit says the Lord!" Why don't you get this? You are not seeing what I am seeing, because you are in the middle of it, I have been on the outskirts for many years, I don't have built in loyalties like you do, I am not biased! I don't know what I know by my own efforts, (prudent study - exegesis), I know what I know by the Spirit of God and by the way I can prove it! Have you read my email exchange with Bob Dewaay, Pastor of Twin Cities Fellowship ? Can't you see the wisdom in my words VS his? You no doubt, suspect that I am trying to glorify myself, rather than save you from error and deception? So you just go with your gut on me, but with MacArthur, nah, nah, nah, there isn't a word of truth to these accusations? Have you read my simple rebuke of MacArthur, no big conspiracies, no taking his words out of context, just a simple man's few paragraph rebuke! Even if these things about MacArthur are blown out of proportion, this is what Bob Johnson believes, I believe Bob Johnson, but even if he is wrong, does not change one thing about the fact that God is bringing this house of cards down! Let me guess, I don't get credibility because, I claim "the Spirit of God" rather than prudent study showed me these things? Stop judging me according to your own ways and the ways of your people and give me the EXACT opportunity you would give MacArthur, that is how you get the idols out of your heart!

Sincerely,

Robert Begnaud

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