By giving them as DD and LIttD he gave himself some plausible deniability since in the US those are almost always honorary degrees. The problem is that the majority of people looking at his page and seeing them next to his academic degrees won’t know that. And people from countries where a LittD actually is significant would definitely be misled unless they were up on US norms for that degree.

I do know academics at major universities who don’t have PhDs; however, they don’t claim the title of doctor (they may get it sometimes because people assume all professors are PhDs). If they mention honors in their CVs the first are likely to be honors by major academic societies (or at the top a Nobel prize) not honorary doctorates. Then of course there are people who have the PhD but haven’t done anything significant since.

For his TMS page to list these honorary degrees as though they are earned degrees is bearing false witness, plain and simple.

He is an opportunist using a “gospel” to stuff his pockets and pump up his already inflated ego. These are not the ways of any true follower of Jesus Christ according to Jesus Christ. We need to stop the nonsense of worshiping these guys who act more like Satan than the truly Humble Jesus. Our celebrities are self-centered and do not act out the orthodoxy of the pure gospel. This guy also has told the Holy Spirit where He can shove His gifts which is way too close to blasphemy of the Holy Spirit to me.

I don’t see anyone denying JMac his honorary docs, do you? However, why would he use a title that misleads his audience? Surely, JMac wouldn’t want to deceive anyone would he?

John Macarthur has managed to get his son-in-law paid in excess of $7,000,000 through the non-profits he controls. That IS an accomplishment well beyond most people here combined.