Do we need the "spiritual elite?"

I'm not sure if you are talking about wolves here or Pastors that have some growing up to do so it's hard to engage further.

They're everywhere; wherever you find someone who thinks they're "special" and wants others to see them as special you'll find a spiritual elitist. If they don't think normal rules of sound Bible interpretation apply to them they're a spiritual elitist.

For example, KJV onlyists are elitist. They don't care about good Bible interpretation, only in what the KJV says. Another example I came across recently is from so-called apostle Bill Hamon. In one of his videos he teaches that tongues in the greatest gift of the Holy Spirit there is; but this clearly isn't the case. If you want to put tongues on a scale scripturally, it's next to last. But does this matter to Hamon? Of course not; he's special and has a direct line to God.

I could go on forever.

On a different Christian forum, I have run into one particular spiritual elitist (who is also a spiritual narcissist) and was also a previous member of Christian Chat but he got banned. He is all about the KJV ONLY movement and he teaches a "different" gospel of "initially" saved by grace through faith, not works, but then ultimately saved by works. He loves to drown out others with endless, long winded posts and he absolutely MUST have the last word in ANY argument and anything that you say to him after that is the beginning of a new argument.

He is all about indicting others on charges of "sinful living" while exalting himself as "holier than thou." I lost count of how many people on that site have placed him on ignore. He even attacked my avatar picture and accused me of promoting a sinful TV show - Seinfeld. I explained to him that I chose that avatar because of my profession as a mailman, yet he still accused me of promoting a sinful TV show and practically demanded that I change my avatar.

I once posted a meme in response to one of his posts that read, "when all else fails, play the straw man card" and in the meme was a picture of the scarecrow from the movie, "The Wizard of Oz." He then accused me of promoting that sinful movie.

No fruit of the Spirit there!

Well, I have to admit that episode of Seinfeld was pretty funny.

I did quit watching the show myself because it promotes a lot of sinful stuff.

I watched a clip of that episode and thought it was funny. Other than that, I did not really watch Seinfeld, so I could not really say either way. I simply chose the avatar pic because of my profession. Now help me figure out why the Wizard of Oz was a sinful movie. Maybe it's the good witch thing.

I found his post.

This again is a promotion of a sinful movie (and people do not even know it is sinful).
First, it subtly promotes for a time that there is a concept of good witches (of which there is no such thing).
The Bible condemns all forms of sorcery and witchcraft.
Second, the good Wizard is portrayed as God, and yet it turns out he is a fraud (Which is an attack upon God and or the faith).
The film proposes humanism because the characters learn to get what they want on their journey (humanism) rather than trusting in God. So the film is Anti-God or Anti-Christian.

There is another member on that site with a 'Ferris Bueller' avatar pic and he really got an earful from the spiritual elitist for promoting that sinful movie, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" as well.

what about the new Avatar movie.

Does he say anything about that.

I found his post.

This again is a promotion of a sinful movie (and people do not even know it is sinful).
First, it subtly promotes for a time that there is a concept of good witches (of which there is no such thing).
The Bible condemns all forms of sorcery and witchcraft.
Second, the good Wizard is portrayed as God, and yet it turns out he is a fraud (Which is an attack upon God and or the faith).
The film proposes humanism because the characters learn to get what they want on their journey (humanism) rather than trusting in God. So the film is Anti-God or Anti-Christian.

I agree we need the Old Testament; it has its proper place. Unfortunately, many of the elite draw on the Old Testament for doctrines that have no place in the body of Christ. They can't find a way to make the New Testament scriptures work so they use irrelevant Old Testament passages. Tithing is a biggie that comes to mind.

Not yet but join that site and post that as your avatar pic and I'm sure you will get an earful. lol