A Whole Lot of Wishful Thinking These Days
Published February 5, 2010 by Sandy Simpson
Deception In The Church

In this article I want to detail a number of beliefs people have these days that have no basis in Scripture.  I am going to roam all over the map, so to speak, and try to give fairly short answers on a number of topics and also give you useful links to articles that will help you deal with any particular issue.  It is truly amazing how many false ideas people cling to without giving a thought to what the Bible has to say on the subject.

“There Is No Hell”

This is certainly wishful thinking at its worst and most destructive.  The Bible is replete with warnings about the lake of fire and who will follow the AntiChrist, False Prophet (Rev. 19:20) and Satan and his demons (Rev. 20:10)… that is all unbelievers (Rev. 21:8).  Those who believe there is no hell are those who do not believe in what Jesus Christ and the Apostles warned us about in the Bible.  Among those who teach against hell are many of the leadership of the Emerging Church movement.

Articles to read:

Hell (http://www.carm.org/christianity/christian-doctrine/hell)
Hell (http://www.letusreason.org/doct12.htm)
Is there a Hell? (http://www.letusreason.org/biblexp39.htm)

Purgatory

There is a holding place called Hades where unbelievers are held till the day of judgment.  Old Testament believers were taken with Christ upon His death when He went to the part of Hades called “Abraham’s bosom” and emptied it by taking those there to heaven with Him.  By the way, Jesus did not go to hell but to Hades to tell everyone there what He had done by His death and coming resurrection.  Today Hades is only populated by unbelievers.  Purgatory is a manmade idea from the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church and has no support in Scripture.  Since there are no believers there since today all believer’s spirits immediately go to be with Christ in the third heaven or Paradise, then there is no such place as Purgatory where either sinful believers or unbelievers can do penance and be prayed out of there by living believers.

Articles to read:

Doctrine of Purgatory (http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/cat1030.html)
Is There Really Such a Place as Purgatory? (http://www.thebereancall.org/node/1280)
Purgatory a Spiritual Bermuda Triangle (http://www.letusreason.org/rc9.htm)
The Roman Catholic Bible Has The Answer (http://www.christian-witness.org/rcc/rc_bible_has_answer.htm)
Purgatory: Purifying Fire or Fatal Fable (http://pro-gospel.org/x2/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=62)

Confession Doctrine

Also known as “blab it an grab it”, “positive confession”, “name it and claim it” and other names this idea is solely without merit in Scripture.  We are not little gods as Word of Faith proponents extol, since that is the original lie of Satan (Gen. 3:5).  We cannot create something out of nothing as only God can.

Rom. 4:17  As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” {Gen. 17:5} He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.

Only God can create something out of nothing.  We may ask God for His help but we do not command God. We may ask, seek and knock (Matt. 7:7) if we do so according to His will (1 Jn. 5:14) as long as His words remain in us (John 15:7).

Do not say “Lord if it be thy will”. (Robert Tilton, Success in Life, recorded 12/14/91)

We cannot speak a car or money into existence from nothing.  Yet that is what they claim.

What do you need? Start creating it. Start speaking about it. Start speaking it into being. Speak to your billfold. Say, ‘You big, thick billfold full of money.’ Speak to your checkbook. Say, ‘You, checkbook, you. You’ve never been so prosperous since I owned you. You’re just jammed full of money.’ Say to your body, ‘You’re whole, body! Why, you just function so beautifully and so well. Why, body, you never have any problems. You’re a strong, healthy body.’ Or speak to your leg, or speak to your foot, or speak to your neck, or speak to your back. … Speak to your wife, speak to your husband, speak to your circumstances; and speak faith to them to create in them and God will create what you are speaking.” (Marilyn Hickey, quoted in Hanegraaff, Crisis, 63).

(Paul Yongi) Cho’s concept of fourth-dimensional thinking is nothing short of occultism. In his best-selling book “The Fourth Dimension”, Cho unveils his departure from historic Christian theology and his entry into the world of the occult. Cho lists four steps in his incubation formula: 1) Visualize a clear-cut goal or idea in your mind; 2) have a burning desire for your objective; 3) pray until you get the guarantee or assurance from God that what you desire is already yours; 4) speak or confess the end result into existence. (Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity in Crisis, 1993 citing Paul Yonggi Cho, The Fourth Dimension, Volume One (So. Plainfield, NJ: Bridge Publishing, 1979), 9-35; vol. 2, 18-33)

Many of the phrases popularized by present-day prosperity preachers, such as “What I confess, I possess,” were originally coined by Kenyon. Kenneth Hagin … plagiarized much of Kenyon’s work, including the statement, “Every man who has been ‘born again’ is an Incarnation, and Christianity is a miracle. The believer is as much an Incarnation as was Jesus of Nazareth.” (E. W. Kenyon, The Father and His Family, 17th ed. (Lynnwood, WA: Kenyon’s Gospel Publishing Society, 1964), 100; cf. Kenneth E. Hagin, “The Incarnation,” The Word of Faith, December 1980, 14)

Confession doctrine is probably the quintessential “wishful thinking” gimmick of our time.  This is what “The Secret”, Oprah Winfrey and other New Age gurus have been advocating for a long time.  So have hundreds of Word of Faith teachers who hearken back to Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland.

Articles to read:

Preaching a False-Positive with a Smile (http://www.letusreason.org/Popteac29.htm)
I have what I think and say I have (http://www.letusreason.org/Wf8.htm)
A Profile Of The Word-Faith Movement (http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/wf-10.txt)
Danger and Apostasy! The Signs and Wonders of Kenneth Copeland (http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/discernment/church-issues/false-prophets/danger-and-apostasy-the-signs-and-wonders-of-kenneth-copeland)
Four Current Movements Within The Church (http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/discernment/church-issues/false-prophets/four-current-movements-within-the-church)
Revisit to “The Seduction of Christianity” Part One (http://www.thebereancall.org/node/6856)

Drunk In The Spirit

There is a Latter Rain teaching that has floated around now for many decades through many counterfeit revivals.  It is the idea that Christians should seek to be “drunk in the spirit” usually through a transferable impartation.  The justification for this practice is from the teachings of Rodney Howard-Browne and others where they claim that the disciples were drunk in the Spirit at Pentecost.  But this teaching is exactly backwards.

Acts 2:5-16  Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. Utterly amazed, they asked: “Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native language? Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs— we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?” Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.” {Or sweet wine} Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

Peter explained to them that their mocking remarks about the disciples were incorrect, they were not drunk.  They were filled with the Spirit and speaking tongues lucidly, proclaiming the Gospel message.  And yet drunkenness is equated by Latter Rain proponents as being filled with the Spirit.

“I mean people say, “How can Dr. Wagner at his age be with all these weird people.  He’s been on a fourteen year drunk.  It’s the only way to explain it.  He’s not been sober for years. … when you sober up and all of a sudden you’re not cross-eyed, your pastor doesn’t look what you thought, man that person you’ve been praying with irritates you and you don’t like their personality, you’ve got one choice. Get drunk again!  And let me tell you (cheers) if we’re going to make it in this hour, if we’re going to make it in this hour, we have got to stay filled with the spirit.” (Jim Laffoon, NSOP, 5/00)

The Bible not only says not to be drunk but it contrast being drunk with being filled with the Spirit.

Eph 5:18  Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

Being filled with the Spirit is the exact opposite of getting drunk and putting oneself in an altered state of consciousness.  Being filled with the spirit is the ultimate in soberness and self-control, which is a fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23).

Articles to read:

Drunk on the new wine (http://www.letusreason.org/Pent21.htm)
Whooping it up under the new anointing (http://www.letusreason.org/Pent17.htm)
Drunk in the spirit (http://www.apologeticsindex.org/d43.html)
Resolution on the Brownsville Assembly “Revival” Movement (http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/opposition.htm)

Spiritual disciplines

It is being taught that if you do certain pragmatic exercises you can get closer to God or have a better relationship with God.  But this is the same misguided methodology practiced by false religions and cults.  Yet many in the Emerging Church movement are trying to take people back to the practices of the early Roman Catholic “desert fathers”, monks who instead of getting out and preaching the Gospel has sequestered themselves away from people in order to mystically get closer to God.  So EC proponents want Christians to follow the practices and teachings of men who were fundamentally disobedient to the Great Commission.  Going into trance states, contemplating your belly button, doing labyrinth prayer repeating some word over and over, standing under a waterfall for hours, subjecting your body to rigorous exercise or grueling self-inflicted punishment will do absolutely nothing to get you closer to God.

Col. 2:22-23; 3:1-2  These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence. Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Mt 6:7  And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

Spiritual disciplines ultimately focus our attention on earthly things, get us further into self and emotion.  If we would but follow the practices of the first century Christians we would benefit.

Acts 2:42-47   They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Articles to read:

Journey Into Wholeness or Journey Into Worldliness? (http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/intowholeness.html)
Pragmatic Methodology versus Practical Theology (http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/intowholeness2.html)
New Spiritual Discipline from Ancient Roman Catholic Sources (http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/discernment/catholicism/new-spiritual-discipline-from-ancient-roman-catholic-sources)
Ancient-Future Heresies (http://www.thebereancall.org/node/6535)
Life with God, Reading the Bible for Spiritual Transformation by Richard J. Foster (http://www.svchapel.org/resources/book-reviews/4-christian-living/618-life-with-god-reading-the-bible-for-spiritual-transformation-by-richard-j-foster)
Contemplative and Spiritual Formation (http://www.lighthousetrails.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=LTP&Category_Code=CTMP)

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Take The Test: Are You A New Ager?
Published January 30th by Mike Oppenheimer
Let Us Reason Ministries

This may seem like an inconsequential question, even a silly question to ask, but many people may not know how involved they are in the new age movement that has permeated our society. In other words, do you believe or practice what is taught in the new age movement without knowing it? Here are some questions to ask yourself…

Do you believe God is a force? That God is in all things (panentheism) or that God is all things (pantheism) .

Do you believe in karma and reincarnation as Hindus or Buddhists do?

Do you believe life is an illusion (not real) and the real world is unseen?

Do you believe that all religions and spiritual paths lead to the same place and are acceptable to God? (universalism)

Do you deny a moral standard for all people that is understood by our conscience or the law given to Moses?

Do you believe that all holy books are given by God at different times?

Do you believe that all religions and spiritual beliefs are based on or point to the same God who is known by different names?

Do you think Jesus was an enlightened master like many others? That he discovered God by realization of what is inside him.

Do you believe God is a force or is a he or a she?

Do you believe we can leave our bodies and visit other realms through psych spiritual techniques or dreams?

Do you believe that we can come in touch with God through Yoga or meditation?

Do you believe that man can pass onto you by touch a spirit or gift?

Do you believe that ghosts are people that once lived and are trying to communicate with us?

Do you believe space aliens are visiting to give us knowledge for the advancement of human kind?

Do you believe that spirit beings from other dimensions are desiring to channel to us information?

If you believe any of these you are involved to some degree, willingly or unwillingly.

If you believe any of these as a Christian, then you are accepting beliefs and practices that go against the faith that is to be focused on Jesus Christ. Paul writes for us to test to see if we are in the faith. Any one of these beliefs can remove you from the gospel (Corinthians 15:1-4).

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The Perils of Presidential Failure
Published January 22, 2010 by Caroline Glick
Bible Prophecy Today

US President Barack Obama is feeling the heat. His response to the current crisis threatening to sink his one-year-old presidency is telling for what it says about the future of both his domestic and foreign policies. Israel should take heed of his responses.

Obama’s Democratic Party, and indeed the US political establishment as a whole, received a jolt on Tuesday when Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts seat in the US Senate that had been held by the Democratic Kennedy dynasty since 1952. The question now on everyone’s lips is whether Brown’s stunning victory will cause Obama to change his course and moderate his policies.

The Massachusetts Senate race was a real world example of what opinion polling data has shown. Since last summer, a consistently growing number of US voters oppose Obama’s policies.

Brown’s victory was nationally significant because it removed the Democrats’ filibuster proof, 60-man super-majority in the Senate. With Brown as the 41st Republican senator, the minority party can now muster the votes to block legislation from being called to a vote before the full Senate and so prevent laws from being passed.

In addition to its immediate legislative significance, the larger political importance of the Massachusetts election rests in what it signals for House and Senate Democrats who will face reelection in November. Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are reportedly now veering into full-blown panics about their prospects in those elections. As Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh put it, “If you lose Massachusetts and that’s not a wake-up call, there’s no hope of waking up.”

Tellingly, Obama and his White House advisers are refusing to “wake up.” Obama responded to Brown’s win as he has to many of his setbacks since assuming office a year ago this week. He blamed his predecessor, George W. Bush.

In an interview on Wednesday with ABC News, Obama said, “People are angry, they are frustrated. Not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.” Obama argued that the growing unpopularity of his programs is due not to substance, but to style. As he put it, “We were so busy just getting stuff done… that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values.”

Even as Democratic lawmakers are openly expressing misgivings with moving forward in implementing Obama’s radical plan to reform the US health care industry, Obama’s senior adviser David Axelrod told the media that abandoning the initiative is “not an option.”

Rather than accept that Massachusetts voters elected Brown because Brown repudiated Obama’s agenda – on both domestic and foreign policy – the Obama White House has argued that Brown’s victory was simply the consequence of poor electioneering by the Democratic candidate and poor planning by the national Democratic Party apparatus.

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The “Camel Method” of Evangelism Is Not Biblical
Published January 13, 2010 by Paul Proctor
NewsWithViews.com

I have addressed, on numerous occasions, the Church’s ongoing efforts to reinvent Christianity into a global religion of Results & Relationships by using the powers of pragmatism and consensus to artificially grow itself into something more widely accepted by the world instead of faithfully proclaiming the Word of God “in season and out” as we are commanded to do in 2nd Timothy 4:2. The leaders of the new spirituality and its church growth movement have always had a hard time avoiding the “wide gate” and “broad way” choosing clever methods of “evangelism” that are not only incompatible with God’s Word, but also prove them unwilling to trust Him with the increase – ever looking for something more clever, spectacular and impressive to glory in and boast about to a watching world.


“…for men to search their own glory is not glory.”
– Proverbs 25:27b

“So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.” – 1st Corinthians 3:7

There’s no better example of this than a recent story from The Baptist Standard where Christians are encouraged by a “veteran missionary” to employ what’s called “The Camel Method” to evangelize, where the Quran is used, instead of the Bible, to share Christ with Muslims – a method that reportedly utilizes “selected verses” and “doesn’t teach or lecture, but asks questions.”

Isn’t this exactly what dialectically trained facilitators have done for years in many seeker-sensitive and purpose driven churches to draw and hold large and diverse crowds of potential converts with a lot of non-offensive opinion sharing and relationship building in order to find common ground and greater tolerance for one another through compromise and group dynamics? That may be the agenda of global socialists at the United Nations, but it’s not the Bible’s agenda for Christians or the gospel of Jesus Christ. I’m sure the UN would have no problem with a program like this where sidelining biblical truths for a contrived unity is celebrated and syncretism is the spirituality of choice.

“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” – Proverbs 14:12

According to the report, missionary Kevin Greeson, who “has served 16 years with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board,” is “working to start Christian movements among Muslims in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal…” adding that “his goal focuses less on individual conversions and more on starting spiritual movements that will result in thousands of Muslims becoming followers of Christ.”

Greeson: “Our generation can’t afford to be satisfied or happy with winning one lost person to Christ. There are so many lost people, we can’t be happy with that.”

“…I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.” – Luke 15:10

Certainly most Christians would like to see more than one person they witness to repent and receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, but where in God’s Word are we commanded to “take up thy Quran” and “go ye into all the world and start a movement?” Sure it sounds lofty and high-minded in our Big Box culture where consumers like to impress each other and get the most for the least; but isn’t this more of an exercise in ecumenical egomania and spiritual sleight-of-hand than humble obedience to Jesus’ call to “take up thy cross” and “go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature?”

It’s alarming enough that the Bible is set aside with this method of “evangelism,” but it’s outright heresy that Jesus Christ is presented as the son of Allah, since Allah was widely recognized and worshipped as a pagan moon god even before there was a Mohammed.

Related Articles:

1. Use the Quran to share Christ with Muslim, veteran missionary suggests
2. Is Camel Method leading thirsty world to oasis of truth?
3. The Church Of Common Ground
4. Is Your Church Suffering From R & R?
5. Christian leaders betray Christ for world peace
6. Rick Warren Still Doesn’t Get It
7. Whatever Works

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What’s Wrong With A More Social Gospel?
Published January 6, 2010 by Paul Proctor
NewsWithViews.com

In a recent article for Christianity Today titled, A More Social Gospel, C.L. Lopez writes about a new evangelical emphasis emerging on college campuses:

“There has been a definitive shift in how campus ministries think about connecting with students,” said Kara Powell, executive director of the Fuller Youth Institute at Fuller Theological Seminary. “More and more campus leaders are realizing that the gospel is both personal evangelism and justice.”

The gospel is “justice”?

If there is any “justice” to the gospel, it is that the Lord Jesus Christ took our “justice” on the cross to satisfy the debt we incurred in our rebellion against God. But that’s not what “social justice” or the “social gospel” is about.

Lopez continues:

Scott Bessenecker, associate director of missions for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, said students within the organization’s 850 groups on 562 campuses have focused more on social causes in recent years.

As Mr. Bessenecker points out, their “focus” is “more on social causes” which, frankly, is not the gospel Christians are called to proclaim. Still, he added:

“[We] want to engage students with a Jesus who walks among the marginalized,” Bessenecker said. “InterVarsity is trying to help students embrace and engage the social dimensions of the gospel in a way that will inspire individuals to say, ‘I want to follow this Jesus.’”

How many Jesus’ does Mr. Bessenecker think there are?

First of all, when one talks about the “marginalized” in general, they are usually referring to those outside the mainstream of society. But then, one could make the case that all minorities feel “marginalized” at some point along life’s way, from African Americans to fundamentalist Christians to homosexual activists to witches.

In fact, I would dare say that most individuals have, at one time or another, felt to some degree, “marginalized.” So, in this context, statements like Jesus “walks among the marginalized” might have a universal appeal and even sound compassionately Christian, but in reality, may not be at all biblical or even relevant with respect to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. And that is my concern here.

Moreover, it has been my experience that whenever someone refers to “a Jesus,” they’re probably not talking about the Jesus of the Bible, but instead, a less scriptural and more worldly personality that appeals to “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life” – a “Jesus” more useful in advancing earthly agendas than those of heaven.

“For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.” – 2nd Corinthians 11:4

The social gospel and its increasingly popular “social justice” campaign is not an acceptable substitute for preaching repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. Its promoters all too often set aside the vertical, spiritual and eternal issues of sin, rebellion, obedience, holiness and reverence toward God in order to redirect the focus toward more horizontal, physical and temporal values. In the end, the flesh is, for a time, fed and comforted, but the souls of sinners are left abandoned to biblical ignorance because disobedient do-gooders have spiritually sidetracked the Church and its mission.

And then there was this in the CT piece:

Josh Spavin, an intern with the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Campus Crusade for Christ chapter, said traditional evangelistic outreach still works, but times have changed with this generation.

It “still works, but times have changed?” Sounds like dialectic doubletalk to me – designed to carefully steer the undiscerning in a new worldly direction without alarming or offending anyone.

The article went on to say:

“Students tend to not just take it unless they experience it or see it in someone else’s life,” Spavin said. “It is still the same gospel and it is still the love of Christ that is being shared – it is just a different tactic.”

“For by tactics are ye saved?” Is that what the Apostle Paul taught in Ephesians?

The “love of Christ” is obedience to His Word, not doing what is right in our own eyes to “connect” with people and win their favor so they might hopefully hear the truth someday. If we put our relationships with each other over and above our relationship with Jesus Christ and withhold the whole counsel of God so as not to offend, not only are we breaking the two greatest commandments given, we are yielding to the flesh and prince of this world.

I would say the greatest failure of the Church today is its unwillingness to say and do the unpopular thing. Too many Christians busy themselves these days trying to come up with new ways of being admired and desired by the world rather than simply being obedient to the Lord they claim to love.

With a self-sustaining focus on acquiring evermore results and relationships (i.e., “church growth”) by way of pragmatism and consensus, none of which is biblical, today’s Christians are, by and large, being persuaded and trained week after week to embrace surveys, marketing principles, public relations programs and people skills as their new commandments with dialectically-trained consultants and facilitators posing as prophets and preachers – people pleasers who know how to work the crowd and steer the herd while selectively applying the scriptures as needed to maintain a biblical appearance of righteousness and religiosity.

We’re essentially giving people what they want at church these days in hopes they will reciprocate with more participation and support. How is this “tactic” any different from those used on Wall Street and in Washington D.C.?

“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” – 1st Corinthians 1:18

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Unholy Trinity
Published January 3, 2010 by John MacArthur
Bible Prophecy Today

I don’t watch much television, and when I do I generally avoid the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). For many years TBN has been dominated by faith-healers, full-time fund-raisers, and self-proclaimed prophets spewing heresy. I wrote about the false gospel they proclaim and the phony miracles they pretend to do almost two decades ago in Charismatic Chaos (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992. See especially chapter 12). I had my fill of charismatic televangelism while researching that book, and I can hardly bear to watch it anymore.

Recently, however, while recovering from knee-replacement surgery, I decided to sample some of the current fare on TBN. From a therapeutic point of view it seemed a good choice: something more excruciating than the pain in my leg might distract me from the physical suffering of post-surgical trauma. And I suppose on that basis the strategy was effective.

But it left me outraged and frustrated – and eager to challenge the misperceptions in the minds of millions of unbelievers who see these false teachers masquerading as ministers of Christ on TBN.

I’m outraged at the brazen way so many false teachers twist the message of Scripture in Jesus’ name. And I’m frustrated because I’m certain that if these charlatans were not receiving a large proportion of their financial support from sincere believers (and silent acquiescence from Christian leaders who surely know better), they would have no platform for their shenanigans. They would soon lose their core constituency and fade from the scene.

Instead, religious quacks are actually multiplying at a frightening pace. One thing I discovered to my immense displeasure is that TBN is by no means the only religious network broadcasting poisonous false doctrine around the clock. The channel lineup I receive includes at least seven other channels whose schedules are filled with false teachers and charlatans. There’s The Church Channel, Daystar, GodTV, World Harvest Television (LeSEA), Total Christian Television, and several others. Some of them feature blocs of family television programing and a few fairly sound teachers who provide moments of escape from the prosperity preachers. But all of them give prominence to enormous amounts of heresy and religious claptrap – enough to make them positively dangerous. And TBN is singularly responsible for kicking that door open so wide.

The continued growth and influence of TBN is baffling for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the thick aura of lust, greed, and other kinds of moral impropriety that surrounds the whole enterprise. A long string of scandals involving notable charismatic televangelists between 1988 and 1992 should have been sufficient reason for even the most credulous viewers to scrutinize the entire industry with skepticism. First came the international spectacle of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s moral, marital, and financial collapse. That was followed closely by the revelation of Jimmy Swaggart’s repeated dalliances with prostitutes. Shortly afterward, an episode of ABC’s Primetime Live exposed clear examples of deliberate fraud on the part of three more leading charismatic televangelists. Those incidents were punctuated by a score of lesser scandals over several years’ time. It is clear (or should be) – based on empirical evidence alone – that preachers promising miracles in exchange for money are not to be trusted. And for anyone who simply bothers to compare Jesus’ teaching with the health-and-wealth message, it is clear that the message that currently dominates religious television is “a different gospel; which is really not another” (Galatians 1:6-7), but a damnable lie.

TBN is by far the leading perpetrator of that lie worldwide. Virtually all the network’s main celebrities tell listeners that God will give them healing, wealth, and other material blessings in return for their money. On program after program people are urged to “plant a seed” by sending “the largest bill you have or the biggest check you can write” with the promise that God will miraculously make them rich in return. That same message dominates all of TBN’s major fundraising drives. It’s known as the “seed faith” plan, so-called by Oral Roberts, who set the pattern for most of the charismatic televangelists who have followed the trail he blazed. Paul Crouch, founder, chairman, and commander-in-chief of TBN, is one of the doctrine’s staunchest defenders.

The only people who actually get rich by this scheme, of course, are the televangelists. Their people who send money get little in return but phony promises – and as a result, many of them turn away from the truth completely.

If the scheme seems reminiscent of Tetzel, that’s because it is precisely the same doctrine. (Tetzel was a medieval monk whose high-pressure selling of indulgences – phony promises of forgiveness – outraged Martin Luther and touched off the Protestant Reformation.)

Like Tetzel, TBN preys on the poor and plies them with false promises. Yet what is happening daily on TBN is many times worse than the abuses that Luther decried because it is more widespread and more flagrant. The medium is more high-tech and the amounts bilked out of viewers’ pockets are astronomically higher. (By most estimates, TBN is worth more than a billion dollars and rakes in $200 million annually. Those are direct contributions to the network, not counting millions more in donations sent directly to TBN broadcasters.) Like Tetzel on steroids, the Crouches and virtually all the key broadcasters on TBN live in garish opulence, while constantly begging their needy viewers for more money. Elderly, poor, and working-class viewers constitute TBN’s primary demographic. And TBN’s fundraisers all know that. The most desperate people – “unemployed,” “even though I’m in between jobs,” “trying to make it; trying to survive,” “broke” – are baited with false promises to give what they do not even have. Jan Crouch addresses viewers as “you little people,” and suggests that they send their grocery money to TBN “to assure God’s blessing.”

Thus TBN devours the poor while making the charlatans rich. God cursed false prophets in the Old Testament for that very thing (Jeremiah 6:13-15). It’s also one of the main reasons the Pharisees incurred Jesus’ condemnation (Luke 20:46-47). It’s hard to think of any sin more evil. It not only hurts people materially; it deludes them with groundless hope, deceives them with a false gospel, and thereby places their souls in eternal peril. And yet those who do it pretend they are doing the work of God.

That’s not all. Almost no false prophecy, erroneous doctrine, rank superstition, or silly claim is too outlandish to receive airtime on TBN. Jan Crouch tearfully gives a fanciful account of how her pet chicken was miraculously raised from the dead. Benny Hinn trumps that claim with a bizarre prophecy that if TBN viewers will put their dead loved ones’ caskets in front of television set and touch the dead person’s hand to the screen, people will “be raised from the dead . . . by the thousands.”

Ironically, one doesn’t even need to be an orthodox Trinitarian in order to broadcast on the Trinity network. Bishop T. D. Jakes, well known for his rejection of the Nicene creed in favor of oneness Pentecostalism, is a staple on TBN. Benny Hinn has repeatedly attempted to revise the doctrine of the Trinity in novel ways, notoriously teaching at one point that there are nine persons in the godhead.

And yet evangelical church leaders typically show a kind of benign tolerance toward the whole enterprise. Most would never endorse it, of course. They may joke about the gaudiness of the big hair and tawdry set decorations on TBN. Ask them, and they will most likely acknowledge that the prosperity gospel is no gospel at all. Press the issue, and you will probably get them to admit that it is a dangerous form of false doctrine, totally unbiblical, and essentially anti-Christian.

Why, then, is there no large-scale effort among Bible-believing evangelicals to expose, denounce, refute, and silence these false teachers? After all, that is what Scripture commands church leaders to do when we encounter purveyors of soul-destroying substitutes for the true gospel:

The overseer must be above reproach as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain, but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, just, devout, self-controlled, holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict. For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of sordid gain (Titus 1:7-11).

Those who remain silent in the face of such grotesque lies may in fact be partly responsible for turning people away from the truth. Consider the testimony of William Lobdell, religion reporter for the Los Angeles Times, who once considered himself a devout evangelical Christian, but after doing a series of investigative reports on the moral and doctrinal cesspool at TBN; then “finding that his investigative stories about faith healer Benny Hinn and televangelists Jan and Paul Crouch appear to make no difference on the reach of these ministries or the lives of their followers, he gave up on the beat and on religion generally.”

All those who truly love Christ and care about the truth have a solemn duty to defend the truth by exposing and opposing these lies that masquerade as truth. If we fail in that duty because of indifference, apathy, or a craving for the approval of men, we are no less guilty than those who actively spread the lies.

Related Links


Does TBN represent Jesus? – Let Us Reason Ministries
Is the Word of Faith movement Biblical? – GotQuestions.org
Exposing False Teachers – In Touch Ministries (Charles Stanley)
Exposing False Doctrine – Berean Watchmen Ministries (J.R.Hall)
Charismatic Chaos – John F. MacArthur (Book)

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U.S. Nears The Precipice
Published January 4, 2009 by Dennis Lingo
Watching And Waiting

Whew!!! 2009 is in the past and now we can look forward to 2010. For those of us who are optimists, we may like to believe we can ignore the problems that were with us the last week of 2009 and simply turn the page and hit the “reset” button.

Truthfully, that only happens in movies and fairy tales.

The reality is that we do still have the problems of 2009….and we can expect them to get worse in 2010.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!, says Debbie Downer.

Remember, Jesus our savior says that we can expect the tribulations of the world to continue to increase as His return draws close….they will be like labor pains where the pain becomes more frequent and more sharp.

For the U.S., those labor pains are going to be contracting around our financial condition…and today’s Wall Street Journal says we are near the precipice….and precipice means the very edge of a cliff.

Here is the headline:

Deficit, Budget Woes Need Solutions as U.S. Nears the Precipice

The Obama administration has a lot to wish for in 2010, including a new health-care system and a sustainable economic recovery. But even if those wishes come true, policy makers face an even bigger problem in the new year and beyond: convincing the world that the U.S. government can get its finances back in order.

Economists have long fretted about how an aging population and growing health-care costs will cause the U.S. budget deficit and public debt to balloon – an outcome that could wreak financial havoc by undermining confidence in the U.S. dollar. But the latest recession and related stimulus efforts have made the problem more acute, a point four prominent economists made Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association.

“We’ve moved closer to the precipice, and the precipice has moved closer to us,” Alan Auerbach, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley who has focused on U.S. government finances for about 15 years, said in an interview. The other three panelists at a session on the deficit — Robert Barro and Martin Feldstein of Harvard University, and Tom Sargent of New York University — agreed that the situation is dire. It “frightens all of us,” said Mr. Sargent.

Did you catch those statements I put in bold above? Havoc could result if the world loses confidence in the U.S. dollar…and this “frightens” the best economists in the country.

Read it all here.

The Bible is very clear that in the Last Days men will faint with fear for what is coming upon them. I believe that passage more relates to the rising oceans, earthquakes and erupting volcanoes….but it may also apply to many men fainting when they realize that the labors of their entire lives has simply vanished along with the value of the paper money.
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The Lord Is Calling His People Out From The Midst of The False
Published December 28, 2009 by Lighthouse Trails Research Project
Lighthouse Trails Research Project

History is filled with stories of those who have stood for truth, many of whom gave their lives to defend the faith God had put in their hearts. History is also filled with those who tried to squelch that truth. In his riveting account of the Nazi empire, historian William L. Shirer meticulously documents the internal workings of a system that once threatened to take over the world. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a chilling account of the effects of mind-numbing propaganda.1 The endless barrage of misinformation, incredibly, molded a once-beaten and fragmented people into the icon of elitism, which culminated in grisly death camps and the cold-blooded murder of those deemed lesser humans. A firsthand witness and opponent of the Nazi regime, Shirer recounted instances of conversation with German people, when he dared contradict the ludicrous governmental and media declarations of ethnic, cultural, and military superiority. He was met with shocked silence or an amazed stare. He noted that to question the Nazi machine’s view of anything was considered blasphemy of the highest order. It dawned on him that the minds of many of the people had become so warped that they were no longer able to think for themselves or evaluate anything by a higher standard. Shirer observed that with the rise of the new German empire, the truth had become whatever Hitler and Goebbels said it was; they were the final arbiters of reality— spiritual and otherwise.

Some may think it is extreme to compare the spiritual deception and control tactics within the church today to that of the Nazi regime and the death camps, but we should remember that the church in Germany in the 1930s was very much like the church is today—having a head in the sand mentality about spiritual deception and turning religious leaders into super-human heroes who can do no wrong. Perhaps we are not all that different than Christians in Germany back then. We should not fool ourselves and think we would never be duped like that. The apostle Paul issued a warning to Christians:

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. (I Cor. 10:11,12)

Despite all of this, there is hope in the Lord; He is “Faithful and True” (Rev. 19:11). And He promised to preserve His church, that true body of believers whom He calls the Bride of Christ. Praise His name—there is hope. When truth is challenged, mocked, and thrown against the wind, we can be sure, it will never be altered. And that Word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path.

The Lord is calling His people out from the midst of the false, to adhere to His truth, no matter what the cost. Let us respond with joy and thankfulness, knowing His grace is sufficient to strengthen us and give us courage.

Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. (Hebrews 13:13-14)

(Excerpt from The Other Side of the River by Kevin Reeves, pp.214-215)

Notes:
1. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster/Touchstone, 1959).

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A Time of Universal Deceit
Published December 14, 2009 by Star Parker
Cure

Americans, not surprisingly, are feeling cynical.

Gallup’s just released Honesty and Ethics of Professions poll shows that for the first time, a majority — 55 percent — rate members of the U.S. House of Representatives low/very low for honesty and ethics. Senators come in slightly better at 49 percent.

A whopping 9 percent of the house and 11 percent of the Senate get high/very high ratings in honesty and ethics.

Even members of the clergy do not escape this cynical cloud hanging over the nation. Although 50 percent rate the clergy as high/very high in honesty and ethics, this is the lowest since Gallup starting reporting it.

This prevailing mood of distrust is understandable given how commonplace it has become for so many in public life to lie to us.

A mountain of hacked emails shows that scientists who held the public trust regarding information on climate change research were liars. The emails show they selectively expunged data and suppressed research not supporting the conclusions they wanted showing man-made global warming.

Congress is frenetically trying to pass major health care reform that report after report shows is filled with politically manipulated data and conclusions. And now we learn that even Tiger Woods has been lying to us about whom he is. What is so troubling is that all this is not about human error or fallibility. It’s the opposite. It’s about individuals intentionally manipulating information to deceive the public in order to advance their own personal agendas.

The late writer/physician Michael Crichton pointed out back in 2003 in a speech he gave at the California Institute of Technology the common sense being violated in the research allegedly showing that human activity is causing the earth’s climate to irreversibly warm.

“Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we’re asked to believe a prediction that goes 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everyone lost their minds?”

Similarly in the health care reform push, simple exercise of common sense would put the brakes on what is going on.

Before us is proposed massive new government expenditures and intervention into health care markets under the assumption that the benefits of all this government activity will exceed the costs.

But simple honesty would recognize that if this were true it would be unprecedented.

When Medicare was enacted in 1967, the projections then were that its annual expenditures by 1990 would be $12 billion. Actual expenditures in 1990 were $110 billion.

Medicaid started as a proposed modest program with $1 billion in annual expenditures. It’s now $280 billion.

We’re told that health care reform won’t cost more than $900 billion over the next 10 years. This is accomplished on paper by sleight of hand. Taxes are assumed to start in 2010, but expenditures not until 2014. Starting the meter when the expenditures actually begin shows that over the first ten years the costs are more like $2.5 trillion.

It’s not that we no longer know how to conduct honest inquiry in America. It’s that our interest in doing so is disappearing. How can you search for truth in a society that increasingly denies that truth exists?

What is adultery when our acceptance of something as basic as the definition of marriage can change with the political winds? So Tiger Woods, unhampered by moral constraint, simply pays handlers to produce a public image calculated to maximize his income.

Our national history began by asserting “self evident truths.” Now we have a president who, in his interpretation of our constitutional history, writes: “Implicit in its structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth …”

It must have been times like this that George Orwell had in mind when he wrote: “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

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The Ghosts of Planet Earths Past & Future-Global Warming
Published December 2009 by Mike Oppenheimer
Let Us Reason Ministries

Worth Noting In The Article Below:

-Recently one of global warming’s most outspoken critic, Lord Monckthan, told an audience of some 700 attendees at Bethel University in St. Paul. “Your president will sign it. Most of the Third World countries will sign it, …. nobody won’t sign it,” “I read that treaty and what it says is this: that a world government is going to be created. The word ‘government’ actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. “The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to Third World countries, in satisfaction of what is called, coyly, ‘climate debt’ – because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t. The third purpose of this new entity, this government is enforcement.” if that treaty is signed, your Constitution says that it takes precedence over your Constitution”

-The Copenhagen agreement would cede U.S. sovereignty, mandate a massive wealth transfer from the United States to pay reparations for “climate debt” to Third World countries and create a new “world government” to enforce the treaty’s provisions. Since we have a president whose platform is social justice there is no reason to resist this policy, in fact he would insist on it.

By now, if you have not heard about global warming you must be from the ice age.

The politics of fear are changing our worldview by  the term “Global Warming.” While most will concede there is “Climate change” taking place, it depends on who you ask to understand exactly what kind of change is taking place.

“The earth continually warms and cools. The cycle is undeniable, ancient, often abrupt, and global. It is also unstoppable. Isotopes in the ice and sediment cores, ancient tree rings, and stalagmites tell us it is linked to small changes in the irradiance of the sun.” (Atmospheric physicist Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery, Unstoppable Global Warming)

The biblical view is that God made man of superior intelligence to care for the earth from which he was made from. The secular science view leaves God out of the equation and looks to nature as having the last say on what takes place for all her creatures. This leaves our focus on “mother earth” as the solution to any environmental problems and man is to submit to her greater intelligence.

The Environmental movement was once considered radical, fringe; it has now become mainstream. Now it is promoted by the government and politicians that fully believe in its message and it is being used to manipulate people into change, to a green economy and lifestyle. Fear is a good motivating principle to preserve life, when there is something to fear. But it can result in the opposite effect if there a made up fear. When fear is used to move masses of population toward a goal it becomes brainwashing.

Global warming has been a useful tool in the hands of globalists to reshape our world and its economy. It is now cleverly called “climate change” because of the obvious fluctuations of the weather but they still blame even the cold on global warming.

Is it the religion of Chicken little – “the sky is burning?” By the hysteria one would think so. Rep. Ed Markey, one of the sponsors of the American Clean Energy and Security Act states “The EPA concluded that our health and our planet are in danger. Now it is time for Congress to create a clean energy cure.”

We are constantly hearing reports like this one from the Pentagon, Reporting Global Warming has reached a threshold. Dire consequences elevate Global Warming to the greatest threat to U.S. national security – the greatest threat to all humanity – greater than terrorism!

We being convinced to change our entire business structure and way of life over global warming – which is a hoax. Of course some will react to this statement and repeat what they heard from the newly created philosophy and religion of Al Gore. Most have not heard from the “other scientists” in the media because they are being silenced. If you control the debate it is easier to shape public opinion. Not all scientists believe global warming is man made, but see the changes in sunlight reaching the surface deciding the temperature change.

Lord Christopher Monckthon, is the former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and is also Global warming’s most well known critic. He is well prepared to argue the other side. This is why he gets the doors shut on him. Rep. Joe Barton, Ranking Member on the Energy & Commerce Committee invited UK’s Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to go head to head with Gore and testify at the Global warming hearing at the Capitol on April 24, 2009. Monkthon’s plane landed in the US only to find Gore did not show up and he was blocked by House Democrats from allowing him to appear at the hearing in Washington. In an interview Monckton told Climate Depot “The House Democrats don’t want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” “They are cowards.” Monckton has openly challenged Mr. Gore to a debate numerous times (most recently on Glenn Becks radio and TV program) and is lecturing everywhere he is allowed.

Remember, it was not too long ago we were told to use plastic because paper was killing too many trees and affecting the environment. Now they have reversed their position, we are told to not use plastic because of its toxicity. This is science by a yoyo. Consider the light bulb, which they have put in the center stage of green adjustments for the new era. Congress has outlawed incandescent bulbs by 2014, for the costlier replacing fluorescent light bulbs (Greenpeace campaigned against the incandescent light-bulb because it emits carbon dioxide). According to the British Government’s own figures, more than half Britain’s domestic light fittings cannot take them (light dimmers do not work with them).

What they neglected to tell everyone is that you can’t just throw them away, each bulb it contains about 5 milligrams highly toxic mercury and they cannot be disposed of as we would do for normal bulbs. The EPA recommends taking the bulbs to hazardous waste sites, but many of these facilities are not near where most live and won’t accept them. They may need to be carried by the government to a toxic dumpsite. If the toxic mercury of these bulbs end up in landfills as they are supposed to, with enough time the chemical will leach into soil and water as poison. And what if a truck or plane that is transporting large amounts goes down, then what? There is no way to recover these toxic time bombs if leaked out in this manner. Also these bulbs need at least 15 minutes to be on, you cannot just turn a light on and off, if you need to leave the house right after you turn it on, you must leave it on otherwise it is possible to break; and if one of them breaks – call hazmat, because your green nightmare is just beginning.

That’s only one example of green progress for you – one step forward and two steps backward. Now we are hindered from drilling for oil or using natural gas because of the environmental concerns. We add ethanol made from corn (a main food source) to be used in our gas to diminish pollution the environment. (A tank of ethanol is equal to enough grain for one person in a year. It takes more oil to produce ethanol then it does to produce the same amount of gas). the price of gas continues to rise. So the best substitute is other alternative fuel sources, right? By going to ethanol, it does not reduce the amount of oil used by any significant amount.

Fossil fuel industries are involved to make money and for the most part the debate has been controlled and not fairly opened to the public to make a decision, in fact the deck has been rigged. This becomes the ultimate rendition for the “end justifies the means.” With the take your medicine it’s good for you attitude, the facts are REMOVED to arrive at out “better destination” for the good of our planet.

Ethanol may be better for certain cars; gas is more corrosive, but we are being fed a lot of disinformation to intentionally change the balance of power. The facts do not matter when it come to the subject of “Global warming.” For some it is as close to a religious experience that they will ever come to.

Throughout the 1970s it was global cooling. 1974, Time magazine featured an article titled “Another Ice Age?” The mean temperature of the planet is reported to be about 54 degrees. Most are of the opinion that humans — crops and animals depend on a temperature closer to 70. (Click on links below to continue reading)

“The Ghosts of Planet Earths Past & Future-Global Warming-Part 1″ (Click Here)

“The Religious Aspect of The Environmental Movement-Part 2″ (Click Here)

“Pantheism, Pledges and Earth Worship-Part 3″ (Click Here)

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