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Introduction
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"A heresy is a doctrinal error. A 'heretic' is one who exercises his own will over the Word of God and chooses an error over the truth." David Cloud
All one has to do to be a heretic is use another version of the Bible, other than the King James Version. How much of the Word of God does one have to deny, change, add too, weaken to be an heretic? When one uses any other version he is calling God a liar, a deceiver, adding to God's Word, denying, and changing it. When this happens just about everytime, they (the Bible doubter or scholar) very soon get off on other doctrines.
Romans 16:17 "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them."
2 Corinthians 6:14-17 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,"
1 Timothy 6:5 "Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself."
2 Timothy 2:16 "But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness."
2 Timothy 2:21 "If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work."
2 Timothy 3:5 "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."
Titus 3:10 "A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;"
2 John 1:10 "If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:"
Revelation 18:4 "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."
2 Thessalonians 3:6 "Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us."
Ephesians 5:11 "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."
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Separation is not being mean or unloving, it is being obedient to God and His Word.
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David Cloud said, "Failure to separate from error leaves one open to the influence of error."
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"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
George Washington
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Index of Heretics
Benny Hinn
Beth Moore
Bill Bright
Bill Faris
Bill Gaither
Bill Hybels
Bill Wiese
Billy Graham
Bob Jones III
Bob Jones Jr.
Bob Jones University
Brian McLaren
Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort
Bruce Metzger
Bruce Shelley
Charles Stanley
Cho Paul
Chuck Colson
Chuck Swindoll
Copelands
Creflo Dollar
Crough Paul
C.S. Lewis
Dan Brown
Darlene Zschech
David Jeremiah
David Ruis
Eddie Long
Elizabeth Elliott
Erwin Lutzer
Erwin McManus
Franklin Graham
Friedrich Constantine Von Tischendorf
Friedrich Schleiermacher
G. Campbell Morgan
George Carey
George Vance Smith
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Harold Lindsell
Harold Ockenga
Immanuel Kant
Jack Hayford
Jack Van Impe
James Dobson
James H. Cone
James Robinson
Jerry Falwell
Jesus Seminar
Jim Baker
Jimmy Swaggart
J.I. Packer
Joel Osteen
Johann Jakob Griesbach
John Avanzini
John Calvin
John C. Maxwell
John Hagee
John Piper
John Spong
John Stott
Johnny Lee Clary
Joyce Meyer
Karl Lachmann
Kurt Aland
Larry Burkett
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mother Teresa
Pat Roberson
Paula White
Peter Wagner
Philip Schaff
Rick Warren
T.D. Jakes
Tennessee Temple University
Wilfredo Benitez
Will Graham
William M. Branham
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LESSLIE NEWBIGIN
"LESSLIE NEWBIGIN (1909-1998). He was a bishop in the very liberal Church of South India and was Associate General Secretary in the radically heretical World Council of Churches. In The Gospel in a Pluralist Society Newbigin denied that the Bible is the verbally-plenarily inspired Word of God and said the 18th century defenders of the faith were in error when they taught that the Bible is a set of timeless truths. Newbigin falsely claimed that Jesus did not leave behind "a book, nor a creed, nor a system of thought, nor a rule of life" (p. 20). Newbigin wrote, "All so-called facts are interpreted facts. . . What we see as facts depends on the theory we bring to the observation" (The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, p. 21). Newbigin called the split between liberals and fundamentalists "tragic" (p. 24). He taught that there is the possibility of salvation apart from faith in Christ."
by David Cloud
www.wayoflife.org
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Luis Palau
"LUIS PALAU'S form of worship presents such a broad Christian message that it appeals to Protestants and Catholics alike ... [Palau] carefully avoids the controversial differences between Catholics and Protestants" (The Arizona Republic, Oct. 31, 1992).
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Mark Driscoll
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Max Lucado
Promotes and praises God for the Church of Christ that teaches the heresy of baptismal regeneration, along with prasing God for the Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Southern Baptist, and the Anglicans. All of this is found in his book "In the Grip of Grace."
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Michael Ramsey
In 1961 said, "Heaven is not a place for Christians only...I expect to see some present-day atheists there" (The Daily Mail, October 2, 1961).
Believed that female priest was okay.
Became good friends with Billy Graham. Ramsey also enjoyed friendship with the orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras, and Alexius, Patriarch of Moscow.
He also supported liberalising the laws against homosexuality.
Ramsey was cremated.
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Misc. Liberal Qotes
These are liberals in their beliefs on the Word of God. They do not stand on the Word of God because they change it, they do not take it literally when it says something. Instead, they question what God says with other perversions, there scholarships, and their opinions.
In its June 19, 2002, edition, the Los Angeles Times published an article entitled “Hold the Fire and Brimstone,” documenting the fact that “mention of hell from pulpits is at an all-time low. Bill Faris, pastor of Crown Valley Vineyard Christian Fellowship, told the Times that though he believes in hell he doesn’t preach on it because, “It isn’t sexy enough.” The Times observed that not only does Faris not preach on hell but “his flock shows little interest in it.”
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Bruce Shelly, professor of church history at Denver Theological Seminary, observed that hell is “just too negative” and that “churches today feel the need to be appealing rather than demanding.”
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Norman Geisler
Geisler has writen over sixty books and hundreds of articles and is considered by the new evangelical crowd to be a "scholar", therefore we know right off that he doesn't believe the Bible. Because the world's crowd will never call a true Bible believer a scholar, instead they will call him fanatic, a Jim Jones, etc. Geisler in just one of his books The Battle for the Resurrection, denies the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Norman Geisler and Ralph MacKenzie coauthored Roman Catholics and Evangelicals: Agreements and Differences. The publisher is Baker Books. Below is a few false teachings found in the book.
"Catholics and evangelicals share a common core of beliefs about salvation. ... For both groups salvation is by grace and is not prompted by human works. It comes as a gift of God to undeserving humanity" (pp. 81,103,104).
"Since evangelicals and Roman Catholics have so much in common doctrinally and morally ... we believe that there are, nonetheless, many areas of common spiritual heritage and practical social and moral cooperation possible. ... In this final section we wish to end on a positive note, firmly believing that a cooperative effort between Roman Catholics and evangelicals could be the greatest social force for good in America. ... Our common doctrinal and moral beliefs are too large and the need in America for a united voice on them is too great for us to dwell on our differences to the neglect of crucial cooperation needed to fight the forces of evil in our society and our world. ... Even the most reactionary of Protestant fundamentalists has more in common with Cardinal John O'Connor and John Paul II than with Joan Campbell and John Spong" (pp. 357,358).
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Oral Roberts
In 2007 wrongful termination suits were filed against Oral Roberts University by former professors alleging that the founder’s son RICHARD ROBERTS and his wife LINDSAY misappropriated school money and other improprieties. According to the suit, they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund their lavish lifestyle, including a stable of horses for their daughters, a $29,400 trip to Orlando and the Bahamas aboard a university jet for a daughter and her friends, and a $39,000 shopping spree at one clothing store for Lindsay (“Healing ORU,” Christianity Today, September 2008). The suit also alleges that the Roberts’ home has been remodeled 11 times in the past 14 years, that Lindsay spent nights in the ORU guest house with an underage 16 year old male, and that she frequently had cell phone bills of more than $800 per month, with “hundreds of text messages sent between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. to underage males who had been provided phones at university expense” (“Oral Roberts University Faces the Blue Screen of Death,” http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2007/10/oral-roberts-university-faces-blue.html). The professors were fired for trying to expose “the leadership’s moral failings and financial improprieties.” On November 13, 2007, the tenured faculty of ORU approved a nonbinding vote of no confidence in Richard, and he resigned as president on November 23, 2007. Lindsay is his second wife. He and his first wife, Patti, divorced in 1979.
David Cloud wayoflife.org
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Pat Robertson
Pat Roberson when asked in an interview by the Catholic publication Wander, about the so-called miracles that happened at the shrine of Mary in Lourdes, Robertson gave this answer. "I understand there have been some tremendous healings. ... Again, the nice thing is that so many Roman Catholics believe in miracles. They believe in a God who answers prayer. Miracles are part of the warp and woof of the Church." We are not suppose to set up shrines in Mary's honor or no ones for that matter. Neither are we to be praying to her for anything.
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Pat Robertson called the Pope "a humble and caring servant of the Lord. We all want to build bridges with the Catholic Church."
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Paul Crouch
On September 12, 2004, the Los Angeles Times reported that PAUL CROUCH OF TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK had paid $425,000 in 1998 to Enoch Lonnie Ford, an employee at TBN, to keep him from going public with his allegation that they had a homosexual encounter. It was after Ford threatened to sue that Crouch paid almost a half-million dollars to keep the matter quiet. TBN also paid thousands of dollars in debts that Ford had accrued. Crouch denied the allegations and tried to blacken the character of his accuser, which was not difficult to do. Ford is a convicted sex and drug offender, but it seems very strange that Crouch would pay such a large sum to a man if there was no truth to his allegation. Ford wrote his testimony of the affair but it was sealed by the courts after Crouch sued to have the matter squelched.
David Cloud wayoflife.org
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RC Sproul
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Richard Roberts
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Robert Bratcher
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Robert Bratcher translated the Today's English Version (TEV), better known as the Good News for Modern Man. The TEV was published in 1966 by the American Bible Society.
In 1981 Bratcher said, "Only willful ignorance or intellectual dishonesty can account for the claim that the Bible is inerrant and infallible...No truth-loving, God-respecting, Christ-honoring believer should be guilty of such heresy. To invest the Bible with the qualities of inerrancy and infallibility is to idolatrize it, to transform it into a false god" (The Baptist Courier, Greenville, SC April 2, 1981).
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Robert Schuller
“And what is ‘hell’? It is the loss of pride that naturally follows separation from God--the ultimate and unfailing source of our soul’s sense of self-respect. ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’ was Christ’s encounter with hell. In that ‘hellish’ death our Lord experienced the ultimate horror—humiliation, shame, and loss of pride as a human being. A PERSON IS IN HELL WHEN HE HAS LOST HIS SELF-ESTEEM. Can you imagine any condition more tragic than to live life and eternity in shame?” (Schuller, Self-Esteem: The New Reformation, 1982, pp. 14-15, 93).
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Luke 16:22-23 "And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom."
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Schuller said that "to be born again means that we must be changed from a negitive to a positive self-image" (Self-Esteem page 68).
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Robert Tilton
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Robert Webber
Taught at Wheaton College for 30 years, then the last seven years of his life at Northern Seminary in Chicago.
One of the founding fathers of contemplative movement.
Influential voice in the emerging church movement.
Written several unbiblical books:
Common Roots-1978
Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church-1985
Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World-1999
Younger Evangelicals: Facing the Challenges of the New World-2002
The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life-2006
In Ancient-Future Faith, page 16-17 Webber says, "This search for a common heritage allows for the emergence of a new understanding of unity and diversity...So while we are all Christians, some of us are Roman Catholic Christians, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Reformation Christians, twentieth-century Christians, or some other form of modern or postmodern Christians.
On page 86 he said, "We evangelicals need to turn our backs on the old separatist model."
Webber is a heretic! The Bible teaches separation, not man, fundamentalist, or Baptist. To turn our back on separation is to turn our back on Bible doctrine. Separation is for our good, to protect us against the wolves in sheep’s clothing that is lurking around every corner that we come to. To have no separation from sin and error would cause the waters to become dirty, and grey. With separation things are black and white, but when the two are mixed we have doctrine that is grey and unclear.
Sad to say but Webber lived in a strict fundamentalist Baptist home. He even went to Bob Jones University after high school. In The Divine Embrace (page 199) he recalls one childhood memory: "One central conviction of my parents was that our fundamentalist way was the only faith that stood in continuity with the New Testament. All other viewpoints were distorted at best and some, especially Roman Catholicism, contained no connection with New Testament Christianity whatsoever." I say, "Amen and Amen." I teach the same things to my three teenage girls. Sound like he had some smart parents who loved the Word of God.
Webber gives no clear indication of his salvation testimony. Instead, it is a description of a works salvation. He says, "I remember going out on the back porch that night, looking up into the stars, and asking myself whether or not I was willing to take up my cross and follow after Christ" (The Divine Embrace, page45-46). Following Christ is not the same thing as trusting Christ alone for your atonement and Saviour.
The Emerging Church based on their own unbiblical salvation testimonies, is full of unsaved people.
Attended Protestant seminaries and rejected the Baptist faith that was taught to him by his parents.
Fell in love With John Calvin who believed in infant baptism, sacramentalism, the priesthood, church statism, amillennialism, no Biblical testimony of salvation other than infant baptism, avowed enemy of Baptist, imprisoned Baptist, and put Baptist to death. Webber love for Calvin is one of the many things that lead him to fall in love with Rome.
Webber began studying the Church Fathers which always leads to Rome. Our true Church Fathers are the Apostles. The so-called Church Fathers were spotted with heresies such as sacramentalism, sanctification through ascetism, infant baptism, Mariolatry, and others.
At St. Michael's Church in Wheaton, Webber said after taking mass "...something deeper than anything else I had been through" (Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail, page 39). The Roman Catholic mass is at the heart of occultic mysticism. Page 43 he says, "In the sacrament of the Eucharist I feel close to the Lord, almost like he's saying, 'I'm here." Webber is deeply involved in the contemplative practices as the centering prayer and the Jesus Prayer ("Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner" "again and again"). What we have today is Christians who want an experience, to feel something. Mysticism is supplying that experience for many who are immature in the faith or not in the faith at all. To make them feel like they have Christ, but never having a true born again life changing salvation.
Webber was anointed with oil by a Charismatic in 1974 by Leanne Payne.
Believes in "healing of memories" even though the Bible never tells us of such.
Denies that the Bible is our sole authority for faith and practice.
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Rod Parsley
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Ronald D Cameron
In 1986, at a "Jesus Seminar" Ron said, "The death of Jesus was like a car wreck; it's an accident of history. ...I'm not sure why the Romans killed Jesus, but the gospel stories are not historical in the modern sense of the word. I don't think Jesus had the notoriety that the gospels say he had. His sayings don't anywhere give evidence that he was trying to found a church or a reform movement" (Christian News, April 7, 1986).
I hate to tell Mr. Cameron but Jesus death was no accident and the Romans didn't kill him. I would dare to say that Mr. Cameron is lost and needs Christ because one cannot be saved and believe such "damnable heresies."
2 Peter 2:1 "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction."
1 John 3:16 "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren."
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
John 10:15 " As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep."
John 15:13 "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
Ephesians 5:2 "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour."
Ephesians 5:25 "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;"
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Rowan Williams
The liberal Rowan Williams the Archbishop of Canterbury claims that gay relationships are "comparable to (biblical) marriage." The Times reported that "Rowan Williams believes that gay sexual relationships can “reflect the love of God” in a way that is comparable to marriage..." Rowan believes that the main issue for Christians is not gay or not gay, but that they are "faithful and lifelong." The Times reported, "in an exchange of letters with an evangelical Christian, written eight years ago when he was Archbishop of Wales, he described his belief that biblical passages criticising homosexual sex were not aimed at people who were gay by nature. He argued that scriptural prohibitions were addressed to heterosexuals looking for sexual variety. He wrote: “I concluded that an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might therefore reflect the love of God in a way comparable to marriage, if and only if it had about it the same character of absolute covenanted faithfulness.” Dr Williams described his view as his “definitive conclusion” reached after 20 years of study and prayer. He drew a distinction between his own beliefs as a theologian and his position as a church leader, for which he had to take account of the traditionalist view. The letters, written in the autumn of 2000 and 2001, were exchanged with Deborah Pitt, a psychiatrist and evangelical Christian living in his former archdiocese in South Wales, who had written challenging him on the issue. In reply, he described how his view began to change from that of opposing gay relationships in 1980. His mind became “unsettled” by contact as a university teacher with Christian students who believed that the Bible forbade promiscuity rather than gay sex."
It is obvious that Mr. Williams is a liberal and a heretic. He places his own beliefs above that of Scripture by condoning homosexuality while the Bible (KJV) does call it an abomination.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834
The famous English poet and author was a Unitarian.
"It was Coleridge who was responsible, more than any other single individual, for the diffusion of German neology through Cambridge University and thence through the Anglican Church" (James Sightler, Tabernacle Essays on Bible Translation, p. 12).
Rejected the divine inspiration of Scripture.
Rejected the virgin birth.
Rejected the deity of Jesus Christ.
Filtered the Bible through transcendental (means superior) philosophy.
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Stanley Jones
A Methodist missionary. In 1968 he wrote Song of Accounts, which was his spiritual autobiography. In his book he said, "We do not believe that the New Testament is the revelation of God--that would be the Word become printer's ink" (page 377).
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Sue Monk Kidd
Ungodly Quotes that Support her False Teachings
From her book The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, God's Joyful Surprise (1988) and When the Heart Waits (1990).
"... beginning in my early thirties I'd become immersed in a journey that was rooted in contemplative spirituality. It was the spirituality of the 'church fathers,' of the monks I'd come to know as I made regular retreats in their monasteries. ... I thrived on solitude, routinely practicing silent meditation as taught by the monks Basil Pennington and Thomas Keating. ... For years, I'd studied Thomas Merton, John of the Cross, Augustine, Bernard, Bonaventure, Ignatius, Eckhart, Luther, Teilhard de Chardin, The Cloud of Unknowing, and others" (pp. 14, 15).
"I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding ritual" (p. 15).
She says, "I began to form what I called my feminist critique" (p. 59).
"I would go through the gate with what Zen Buddhists call 'beginner's mind,' the attitude of approaching something with a mind empty and free, ready for anything, open to everything. ... I would give myself permission to go wherever my quest took me" (p. 140).
She said this after rejecting the Bible as the final authority. "I remember a feeling rising up from a place about two inches below my navel. ... It was the purest inner knowing I had experienced, and it was shouting in me no, no, no! The ultimate authority of my life is not the Bible; it is not confined between the covers of a book. It is not something written by men and frozen in time. It is not from a source outside myself. My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period. ... That day sitting in church, I believed the voice in my belly. ... The voice in my belly was the voice of the wise old woman. It was my female soul talking. And it had challenged the assumption that the Baptist Church would get me where I needed to go" (The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, pp. 76, 77, 78).
She was even willing to give up her marriage. "I would not, could not forfeit my journey for my marriage or for the sake of religious acceptance or success as a 'Christian writer.' I would keep moving in my own way to the strains of feminine music that sifted up inside me, not just moving but embracing the dance. ... I felt the crumbling of the old patriarchal foundation our marriage had rested upon in such hidden and subtle ways. Though both of us would always need to compromise, there was no more sacrificing myself, no more revolving around him, no more looking to him for validation, trying to be what I thought he needed me to be. My life, my time, my decisions became newly my own" (pp. 98, 125).
Rejected God as Father. "I knew right then and there that the patriarchal church was no longer working for me. The exclusive image of God as heavenly Father wasn't working, either. I needed a Power of Being that was also feminine" (The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, p. 80).
Believe in the divinity of man. "There's a bulb of truth buried in the human soul that's 'only God' ... the soul is more than something to win or save. It's the seat and repository of the inner Divine, the God-image, the truest part of us" (When the Heart Waits, 1990, pp. 47, 48). "When we encounter another person ... we should walk as if we were upon holy ground. We should respond as if God dwells there" (God's Joyful Surprise, p. 233).
Delve into the worship of ancient goddesses. She met in a cave and sang prayers to "the Goddess Skoteini, Goddess of the Dark." She says, "something inside me was calling on the Goddess of the Dark, even though I didn't know her name" (The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, p. 93).
Prayed to God as Mother. "I ran my finger around the rim of the circle on the page and prayed my first prayer to a Divine Feminine presence. I said, 'Mothergod, I have nothing to hold me. No place to be, inside or out. I need to find a container of support, a space where my journey can unfold'" (p. 94).
Believed that she was a goddess. "Divine Feminine love came, wiping out all my puny ideas about love in one driving sweep. Today I remember that event for the radiant mystery it was, how I felt myself embraced by Goddess, how I felt myself in touch with the deepest thing I am. It was the moment when, as playwright and poet Ntozake Shange put it, 'I found god in myself/ and I loved her/ I loved her fiercely'" (The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, p. 136). "To embrace Goddess is simply to discover the Divine in yourself as powerfully and vividly feminine" (p. 141). "I came to know myself as an embodiment of Goddess" (The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, p. 163). "When I woke, my thought was that I was finally being reunited with the snake in myself--that lost and defiled symbol of feminine instinct" (p. 107).
Believes that the world can be saved by the divine mother. "I know of nothing needed more in the world just now than an image of Divine present that affirms the importance of relationship--a Divine Mother, perhaps, who draws all humanity into her lap and makes us into a global family" (p. 155).
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TD Jakes
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Tim LaHaye
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Tony Campolo
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Tony Evans
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Warren Wiersbe
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Campus Crusade for Christ
Evangelical Foreign Mission Association
Focus on the Family
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Below is a question asked be a viewer and the question and answer was posted on the web site of Focus on the Family. Listen to their unscriptural answer.
"I heard that Focus on the Family doesn't recommend gender-neutral Bible translations. What translations does Focus recommend?
Since Focus does not employ textual or translation experts, we have relied on outside scholars for advice regarding Bible translations -- notably the conservative leaders who signed the Colorado Springs Guidelines for Translation (this link will take you to The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood organization's Web site) in 1997.
Based on their input, we use or recommend the following Bible versions:
Gender-Specific Translations
Essentially Literal, "word-for-word" translations:
| NLV |
New Life Version |
| KJV |
King James Version |
| NKJV |
New King James Version |
| NASB |
New American Standard Bible |
| ESV |
English Standard Version |
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AMP |
Amplified Bible |
| HCSB |
Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| RSV |
Revised Standard Version |
Dynamic Equivalence, "phrase-for-phrase" translations:
| NIV |
New International Version |
| NIrV |
New International Reader's Version (1998 Revision) |
Gender-Specific Paraphrases* (culturally adapted imaginative renderings of the Bible)
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LB |
The Living Bible -- Paraphrased by Kenneth Taylor |
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TLB |
The Living Bible |
| MSG |
The Message by Eugene Peterson |
* Please note that if a paraphrase is used, it should always be in conjunction with one or more of the above "regular" Bible translations. Paraphrases can be helpful as a form of commentary or for inspiration, but they should not be one's only source of reading.
Gender-Neutral Translations
Focus on the Family does NOT use or recommend the following gender-neutral Bibles:
| TNIV |
Today's New International Version |
| NLT |
New Living Translation |
| NRSV |
New Revised Standard Version |
| NCV |
New Century Version |
| CEV |
Contemporary English Version |
| GW |
God's Word |
| NIVI |
New International Version Inclusive Language Edition" |
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Much could be said here about the error of each of these perversions (not the KJV). This is what they call a stand. When I was growing up it was call yellow, or coward. This is a cowards answer to appeal to the masses of worldly "Christians." One does not have to employ translators to believe the Word of God, or to take a stand on it. Notice that they use outside "scholars" to give them advice. They received bad advice from people who don't believe the Bible. Anyone that the world or the New Evangelical crowd calls "scholar", you can bank on it, they don't believe the Bible. They question it, they deny it, they change it, they doubt it, they add to it, they take away from it, they update it, they gender it, they make it positive, they use serveral versions, they use the wrong Greek Text, they don't use the KJV, and they don't believe in preservation like the Bible teaches.
Question 2-Does Dr. Dobson answer theological questions?
Dr. Dobson is often asked to respond in detail to biblical or theological inquiries, however, he has had no formal training as a pastor or theologian and freely acknowledges his limitations in these areas.
Over the years, Dr. Dobson has made a deliberate decision to direct the attention of our ministry away from in-depth biblical interpretation and theology, choosing instead to concentrate our efforts on our primary purpose — introducing individuals to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and thereby strengthening the family.
As an alternative, you may wish to contact Christian ministries that routinely discuss theological topics. Dr. Dobson has great respect for the theological views and biblical integrity of Billy Graham and Chuck Swindoll; the addresses of their organizations are:
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The Bible tells us to "study" and that includes James Dobson. One does not need to have a degree to know the doctrines of the Bible. The Bible tells us to be ready to give an answer if we are asked. In Hosea God said, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..." If Mr. Dobson doesn't know doctrine how can he be sure that his ministry is not founded on some false teachings? He refers readers to the evangelicals friends of his, Billy Graham and Chuck Swindoll. That's because he is from the same tree, New Evangelical. Paul said that the very first thing that the Scriptures are profitable for is doctrine, not building homes, not building marriages. How does Dobson know if his marriage doctrine is biblical with the Word of God, King James Version, if he has no views, or is not willing to share them? Paul said don't be ashamed of the Gospel, which includes doctrine. One who is not willing to share their faith, has no faith.
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Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
National Association of Evangelicals
National Religious Broadcasters
National Sunday School Association
Youth for Christ
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In 1944 Billy Graham the evangelist for Youth for Christ met the Great Whore, the Roman Catholic Church, leader Fulton Sheen. Sheen's hope for heaven is Mary.
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World Evangelical Fellowship
Baylor University
In 2004 the schools news paper, the Lariat, featured an article defending homosexual marriages. Just think Baylor is a Baptist institution. How far they have fallen into apostacy.
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BIOLA

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Fuller Theological Seminary
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The president David Hubbard in 1963 made fun of the Bible's inerrancy of Scripture by saying, "the gas-ballon theory of theology; one leak and the whole Bible comes down."
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Harold Lindsell the author of The Battle for the Bible said this about Fuller. "In or about 1962 it became apparent that there were some at Fuller Theological Seminary who no longer believed in the inerrancy of the Bible, among both the faculty and the board members" (Page 106).
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David Hubbard, the president of Fuller Theological Seminary:
"At Fuller we are characterized by balance in that we are an institution of 'both-and' rather than 'either-or.' We seek to be both Evangelical and ecumenical ..." (Hubbard, Christianity Today, Feb. 3, 1989, p. 71).
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Harvard Divinity School
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In 1965 an professor at Harvard Divinity School, Harvey Cox said this about God being dead, "It is too early to say for sure, but it may well be that our English word God will have to die, corroborating in the same measure Nietzsche's apocalyptic judgment that 'God is dead.'"
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Liberty University
Provided a free screening of the new movie "Billy: The Early Years" on August 3. Thomas Road Baptist Church called Graham "an incredible servant of God."
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Princeton Theological Seminary
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By 1929 was saturated with theological modernism, and even the conservative Presbyterians pull out of their school.
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Tennesse Temple University
The Evangelical Divinity School
Trinity Baptist College
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Westminster Theological Seminary
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Formed in 1929 by the conservative Presbyterians who pulled out of the modernistic Princeton Theological Seminary.
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Christianity Today
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Christanity Today Approval of Heretics.
Formed by the heretic Billy Graham.
Christianity Today editor Kenneth Kantzer wrote that Tony Campolo was entirely orthodox.
In 1984 stated that Robert Schulller theology was not a heretic.
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Thomas Nelson
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In 1990 published the false teaching book Evangelical Catholics by Keith Fournier, a Roman Catholic apologist.
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Southern Baptist Convention
Evangelical Alliance of Britain
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization
Matthew 25 Network
"The Matthew 25 Network is a community of Christians – Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, and Evangelical – inspired by the Gospel mandate to put our faith into action to care for our neighbor, especially the most vulnerable."
This is a quote that comes from The Matthew 25 Network website. No where in the Bible does the Bible say that all religions are to come together for any reason. Instead it says to "avoid" false teachers, like the Catholics, Pentecostals, Protestants, and the New Evangelicals.
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Their ministry is based on Matthew 25:40 which is not the New Testament Church's Great Commission.
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Supports Obama for president, who has no Biblical evidence of salvation, and neither does McCain.
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National Association of Evangelicals
National Religious Broadcasters
National Sunday School Association
Promise Keepers
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Bill McCartney started the Promise Keepers in 1990. He retired for many years but has just come out of retirement in August 2008 to lead Promise Keepers again. He made the following statement at this meeting: “Contention between denominations has gone on long enough. If the church ever stood together, Almighty God would have his way.”
Here is one of the seven core beliefs of a Promise Keeper is #6-"A Promise Keeper is committed to reaching beyond any racial and denominational barriers to demonstrate the power of Biblical unity."
Biblical unity does not entail ignoring doctrine to gain unity. Doctrine is of the utmost importance and should NEVER be compromised to huddle up with unity of denominations. No where in Scripture does it say we are to all come together for a "like-minded" cause and put our doctrinal differences aside. I have no common faith with a Catholic, or Mormon, or Muslim, or Atheist, etc that I should come together under one "cause." The Catholic Church is not a New Testament Church along with most if not all protestant church, so they are NOT the church that Christ is building.
"McCartney is the former head football coach of the University of Colorado. His team won a co-national championship in 1990. He has been inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame (1999) and the Orange Bowl Hall of Fame (1996) and has been honored as UPI Coach of the Year (1990), Big Eight Conference Coach of the Year (1985, 1989, 1990), and National Coach of the Year (1989). He serves on the board of directors of the Equip Foundation, Gospel to the Unreached Millions, and Concerts of Prayer International and has been honored with personal awards including: Humanitarian of the Year from the Syl Morgan Smith Colorado Gospel Music Academy (1999); the Evangelist Philip Award from the National Association of United Methodist Evangelists (1999); the Fire-Setters Award from Revival Fires Ministries (1997); Layperson of the Year from the National Association of Evangelicals (1996); ABC News Person of the Week (February 16, 1996); the Chief Award from Chief, Inc., Phoenix, Az. (1996); the Spectrum Award from Sports Spectrum magazine (1995); and the Impact America Award from Point Loma College (1995)."
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When someone has this much fame in the world and notoriety, you can bank on it they don't believe the Bible or stand for it. You cannot be a friend of the world and be a friend of God.
James 4:4 "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."
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Standing Together Ministries
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Was established in 2001 by Greg Johnson. The purpose was to unite evangelical Christians and Mormons. Greg co-authored a book with Mormon Steve Robinson titled "How Wide the Divide." The subjects main thought is that Bible believing Christians and Mormons beliefs are very closley related.
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World Evangelical Fellowship
Granger Community Church
Granger Community Church is one of the most prominent "seeker sensitive" churches in America. They are located in Granger, Indiana. When you visit their website and click on the video, you hear "Christian" rap music which is their philosophy to make the gospel "relevant" to the culture. In 2007 they used the ungodly Beatles Music for their Christimas theme. The theme being, "Let it be Christmas--A story told by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, George, and Ringo."
Here is their description of their youth department:
"This year in Granger Student Ministry (GSM), you'll experience teaching that applies to real life, killer media, music to rock-out to and atmosphere of outrageous energy. There’s no place that makes learning the truth more fun. Skeptical? Where else will you find:
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wild and friendly competitions
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live worship and cool music
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giveaways galore
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messages that make sense
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mini-basketball, ping-pong, foosball, air hockey and more
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dramas and video clips that will make you laugh – and think
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group discussions with incredible leaders
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loads of fun and lots of friends"
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Are part of the "great sex" bandwagon that many churches are taking part in now. One such sermon title was, "The Greatest Sex You'll Ever Have."
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According to their own "Reveal Now" survey:
47% Don't believe in salvation by grace.
53% Don't believe that the Bible is the absolute authority.
56% Don't believe that Jesus is the only way to eternal life.
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Dan Southerland
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Transitioning: Leading Your Church through Change, a book by Dan Southerland that is highly recommended by Rick Warren, calls those who oppose the Purpose Driven philosophy that so many pastors are trying to push upon their people as “leaders from hell.”
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