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Well you clearly have your own beliefs and aren't swayed by reality, and choose to actually ignore what people say. Good on you champ.Yeah, I'm not a John Piper fan either.
But he has a much more reduced speaking engagement schedule than Ravi or some of the others.
But I did notice that he calls what is essentially a ghost writer/researcher an editor. It's semantics at best. He is commissioning a book based on very rough notes with an editor/ghost writer. He tried to call them a co-author...as if that makes it less culpable in guilt of doing what his many contemporaries do.
Yeah... whatever. At least he has read the book his name is on.
Again, who ghost wrote Augustine and Calvin?
Did you actually read what Piper said, because your comments about it are a joke and clearly you're the one who has a problem with honesty.
"Therefore, I think putting your name on a book you didn’t write is a lie. And people would be shocked if someone took a one-page set of ideas that they got from your sermons and turned it into a book, and you put your name on the book. That would be a lie, and God said, “You shall not lie”
Now I believe in editors, big time. David Mathis at Desiring God is called a senior editor. I sent off a book to him yesterday or the day before and said, “Go at it, David. Help me avoid error. Help me not say things stupidly. Help me get my grammar right.” He is going to send it back to me and there will be some blue highlighting in it. And if that editing process reaches a point where this is anywhere near substantially David’s work, his name is going on it. I will put, “John Piper with David Mathis.”
What Piper does is clearly and obviously not hiring ghost writers. Piper writes all his own books, and has them edited. How many Piper books have you seen that have a co-author on them? In other words, Piper writes his own books. More books that Ravi wrote.
People write their own books champ. It does happen.
Ravi wrote his own books. Piper writes his own books.
It's amazing how highly you think of your uninformed opinion.
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