I never set out to make John MacArthur a target for my writing. Truly, I’d never given the man much thought before this last year. However, he’s a prominent evangelical pastor who a lot of people in reformed circles listen to and respect, and he keeps saying things from the pulpit that make me angry, so here we are. That’s MacArthur this last Sunday, declaring that there’s now NEW INFORMATION from the CDC that finally gives us the truth , which proves there is no pandemic. This is met with raucous applause from his congregation. He then goes on to tell us how all this fuss about COVID-19 is just deception from Satan. …Sigh… So, John MacArthur is wrong and is deceiving his congregation. When this is pointed out to him (as I’m sure it already has been), he should repent, ask for forgiveness, and make a correction. He won’t, but he should. I’ll get to why he’s wrong in a bit, but first I want to look at how we got to this point. On August 26 th , the CDC published t...