So Many Things to Think About!

I’ll begin with a good one: Adam Named Eve.

Christians can never endorse “transsexuality.” That ideology is anti-God.

Here’s one for fun: This is very clever the way a musician pokes fun at a false “prophetess.” She looks possessed to me.

The Vatican has come out against same-sex “mirage.” It’s about time.

Now to the serious.

When you live the lifestyle of the rich and famous false teachers/fake Christians, you have your own jets and travel on their congregations’ dollars. And of course God tells them to buy them.

Another example of the un-Christian and harmful ideology of the heretical and apostate Episcopal Church.

Satan is brainwashing the children.

Beth Moore leaves Southern Baptists.  Interesting. More on the topic.  Dwight McKissic, a fake “pastor” who is leaving the Southern Baptist Convention because some DBC bigwigs say Marxism is incompatible with Christianity, has made the follow gross and blasphemous tweet about Beth:

Andy Stanley is more about himself than he is about being a pastor or teachers.

J.D.Greer continues to prove he is a false teacher.

Campus Crusade (“CRU”) and Matt Chandler both continue their dive into false and destructive teaching.  More reasons to abandon Matt Chandler.

Michael Brown continues to demonstrate why he should be avoided; he defends false prophets.

Tim Keller continues to convince me that he is a fake Christian.  Here’s the 4-minute audio. Notice how he claims those of us who want a non-Demokrat president or want to defend against LEFTIST ideology, “Christian Nationalists.”

Does your church preach “inclusivity” and “white privilege”? If so, run from that false church.

THIS is what happens when Critical Race Theory is allowed to invade the Church.

The Southern Baptist Convention is becoming more and more LEFT. Here we have an SBC “pastor” — Thabiti Anyabwile — telling you if you think Biden’s election was illegitimate, then you have “spiritual cancer.” This “pastor” should be booted out.

We’ll end as we began and that is with something GOOD!

Learn Discernment and Stay Safe from False Teachings

Agglomeration

The Good - For Education and/or Edification

Admonishing with tears — the job of apologists. And it SHOULD be the job of pastors and elders.

Education and safeguarding our children.

Formerly known as male and female.  Thought-provoking article.

Dear Christian: STOP IT!

Good review of Rick Warren’s “The Purpose Driven Life.” One of my problems not noted here is his hard-line Calvinist predetermines. Warren said that God created everyone specifically (rather than allowing undirected procreation) so that every thing about you was predetermined, e.g. eye color, vision, hearing, deformations, etc. This would be a horrible God.

Clint has another review; this time it is of Jerry Falwell’s Building Dynamic Faith.

About that Word-Faith/Charismatic Religion.

Christians and slavery: Many got it wrong and embraced it.

HMMMM

Does Calvinism’s “Perseverance” Really Offer Eternal Security? The Answer: No!

More Wolves and False Teachings

Here’s a group I haven’t mentioned for a while: World Race.  Very cultic with false teachings.

I’ve never heard of Doreen Virtue, but I sure learned a lot about this false teacher at Mary Dalke’s blog.  Very “New Age.”

Beth Moore — Again!  She’s a flaming hypocrite.

Beth Moore, Joyce Meyer, and Gnosticism.

Catholics and their absurd superstitions. There is no such thing as “holy water” to begin with!

This could very well be true!

For all its claims, Zondervan is no longer (and hasn’t been for a long time) a “Christian-based” publisher, as evidenced by their latest Enneagram movie.

Lou Giglio has been on my “RADAR” for a long time, but looking back through my articles I see most of the links I had to articles about him were on a site since taken down—which is actually the old side of Clint Adams. To help you see that Giglio is a false teacher, Clint Adams has an excellent review of one of Giglio’s books.

This is what apostasy looks like. Muslims are taught to eradicate Christians, Jews, and anyone not accepting the Muslim faith.

Did Jesus Go to Hell?

“He Descended Into Hell”

It should read, “He descended into Hades.” We have a similar necessary correction in Acts 2:27 which is a quotation of Psalm 16:10. In the Authorized Version that is cited in the form: “Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,” but the Revised Standard Version and the New English Bible both have correctly: “Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades,” and Moffatt in his translation simply uses the word “the grave.”

The word in Hebrew is Sheol: and Sheol is not hell; Sheol is simply the land of the dead. The Jews had no full doctrine of immortality of a life after death. The believed that the souls of all men, or rather men themselves, went to Sheol which was a grey, shadowy land, in which men moved like ghosts, in which there was neither light, nor color, nor joy, and in which the shades of men were separated alike from God and from their fellow-men. Sheol is simply the place of the dead, with none of the connotation of torture and punishment which the word hell includes.

… The Greeks had the same idea, and Hades in Greek was also the place of the dead. To be quite accurate, it is likely that Hades was not originally a place but a person, for the original phrase is “the House of Hades,” and certainly in the Revelation Hades is a person. [Revelation 6:8, 20:13, 20:14]. Hades was the king of the dead and it was to his shadowy house all men went.

When the New Testament wishes to express the place of punishment it uses the word Gehenna. It is better to lose your hand or eye than with your whole body to be thrown into Gehenna (Matthew5:29-30). It is not necessary to fear those who can kill the body; it is necessary to fear him who can cast soul and body into Gehenna (Matthew 10:28).

Now Gehenna is Ge Hinnom, the Valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem. It was in that valley that in the ancient days those who worshipped Moloch the fire-god had burned their children in the fire as an offering to him. Josiah had stopped that impious worship and had made the Valley of Hinnom desecrated territory (2 Kings 23:10). It had then become the official rubbish dump, the public incinerator of Jerusalem. It smouldered continuously, and in it a loathsome species of worm bred and multiplied. That terrible valley, a kind of valley of destruction, stood as the popular idea of hell..

The two words are quite distinct. Sheol is simply the place of the dead. Gehenna is the place of the punishment of he wicked. Sheol is not hell, but Gehenna is.

This sentence of the creed therefore had originally nothing to do with hell. It simply meant that Jesus went to the place of the dead. In other words, it was merely another and vivid way of saying again that he was really and truly dead. 

The Apostles’ Creed for Everyman, by William Barclay, pg.121-122

So, yes, Jesus descended into the grave, but “NO” he didn’t descend into hell.  Numerous Word of Faith teachers use this statement from the Apostles’ Creed (and the Athanasian Creed) to promote their teachings that Jesus went to Hell, and was abused by the demons there, to pay for our sins. This, of course, is nothing less than rank heresy.  If these creeds were properly translated, the WOF gang would have nothing to hang their heresy on!

Bible passages which support the idea that Jesus descended to the grave and not hell:

Acts 2:27, citing Psalm 16:10.

Romans 10:6-7 (the abyss/pit is another name for Sheol)

Ephesians 4:8-10 (referring to Psalm 68:18)

Philippians 2:9-11 (“under the earth”)

1 Peter 3:18-20 with 1 Peter 4:6

Revelation 5:13 (“under the earth”)

By the way, demons do not live in Hell, nor does Satan.

Some Educational and Edifying Articles

I have been reading some excellent articles this past couple weeks, which I think need to be promoted; they have information which I believe is necessary for Christians to know for defending the Faith.  So, here are the links:

6 Things We Need to Know about the Formation of the Bible.

I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist.  Even with their non-scientific ideologies, they need more faith for their beliefs than a Christian ever would need.

Why Christians shouldn’t cuss.  I also addressed this topic before.

Refuting Paul Young’s false teaching in his book, Lies We Believe About God.

Is the KJV Only position correct in maintaining that the doxology in Matthew 6:13 is original? What about John 7:52-8:11? Short answer to both: NO.

The myth of 33,000 denominations.

The Jesus of the Seventh-day Adventists is not the Jesus of the Bible.

God has something to say about the way we approach worship.

Freemasonry is indeed a religion. 9:47-minute video.

Paul was indeed married, as this article thoroughly examines.

I agree with this article when it comes to biblical reasons for divorce.

The Word of Faith teachings are heretical and spiritually dangerous.

Good, Bad, and Ugly

The Good:

Christian heresies throughout history.  Good history lesson as well as a good lesson on heresies still invading the church.

Where did the Pope come from?

“White evangelicalism”?!  This is the kind of nonsense you get from those who teach a social gospel while leaving the soul-saving gospel in the closet.

The Bad and/or Ugly

What the people at Bethel Redding really worship!

Kris Vallotton -  One of Bethel’s “pastors” — Wealthy, false teaching, prosperity pimp.

Blaming Christians for Muslim behavior is another proof that the Pope is an ignorant pawn of Satan and not a man of God. It also appears that he claimed that there is no hell.

Pure heresy at a Catholic school.

Steven Furtick — How can people call themselves Christian and still follow this theologically ignorant narcissist?

Stovall Weems: Another mega-church pastor telling serious lies to his congregation.  Here’s another report on the situation.  Here’s a more complete video of his claims. Notice like standard charismatic nonsense, he says the Holy Spirit” was very “heavy” in his church. Lots of lying here.

Narcissist Beth Moore never shuts up!

Word of Faith teachers brag about their wealth — taken from gullible followers. And they can’t heal anyone, regardless how many times they claim the healing is taking place.  Excellent proof of their fraud.  You really need to watch both videos!

Francis Chan — he gets worse all the time.

Kyle Howard — I never heard of him before, but he’s another person to avoid.  His whole testimony is full of holes, and he seems to be just another “evangelical” narcissist.

The humorous 

KJV Onlyers require clear covers so one one can hide an NIV—It must be true because I saw it on the Internet.

I guess it would be difficult to tell the difference between a mall and a mega-church.

Warnings of Bad and Ugly Stuff!

A piece of history demonstrating that Michael Brown has always been a part of the false teaching charismaniac world.

It’s a long listen (1 hr 22 min), but it really demonstrates the HUGE problem with the teachings and claims of Michael Brown.

The danger from within the church.

Gloria Copeland and Patricia King—examples of all that is wrong with charismania.  More on Gloria and her flu shot claims.

Brian Houston of Hillsong — bad news all around.

Football is the idol in this church.  Really, for too many Christians football is an idol.

This is not a church, and she is not a “he.”  This is a goat-pen full of people in severe, abject rebellion against God.  ELCA—go figure.

This is what false teachers/prophets look and sound like — total unbiblical inanity.

This Catholic archbishop says he’d rather go to prison than report child abuse heard in confession.  This is more proof of the ungodly nature of the Papist church.  NOWHERE in the Bible will you find the need to confess our sins to a priest (James says confess to each other), nor will you find that anything criminal which is confessed is to be withheld from law enforcement. This man would rather leave a child in an abusive situation leading even to death than to violate unbiblical Papist dogma.

Word of Faith heretics — these people do not meet the definition of true Christians, for they worship another Christ and another god (themselves).

Shawn Bolz — the man is a WOLF!

I guess going back to O.T. law is the best Christianity?  More heresy from Bethel Redding.

This woman is NOT a Christian, no matter what she claims, let alone a “minister.”

Sid Roth is a super-false teacher, and Charisma magazine/News is about as aberrant and heretical as it gets. These people are a blight on the Christian faith.

Good, Bad, and Ugly

Although we are in sort of a drought, with virtually no rain for over a month (all the grass is turning brown, etc), it’s giving me time to work on fixing our deck, fixing our picket fence, digging out lilies (they’ve spread too much), etc.  On top of the yard work I’ve had a lot of piping gigs (including band gigs) keeping me busy so I’m not getting much of a chance to write articles.  Nevertheless, I’m still trying to keep up with apologetic news so I can alert my readers to some good articles as well as alert them to more about false teachings — and about the horrid stuff to beware of!

The Good:

Interesting article about how sexual immorality is turning people away from the Church — not because the Church rejects them, but because they KNOW what they are doing is wrong.

An open letter to Roman Catholics.

A good examination of the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation.

Excellent listing of the false teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Some excellent charts to help you decide what translation of the Bible you’d prefer.

Modern gnosticism invading the church.

The Bad:

Michael Brown exposed for his lies, as well as proof that his audience is gullible.

Jory Micah, solidly shown to be a heretic.

The questionable John Maxwell.

I get amused when Calvinists attack another respected staunch Calvinist.  They are correct about Piper’s bad stuff, though.

The Ugly:

Hillsong Leaders suffering from pride or narcissism? Part 1: Christine Caine.

The wolves continue to fleece the sheep.

The Pope is a LEFTIST hack.  He has decided to be against abortion we must also be for allowing illegal immigrants to invade our country.  Then on top of that he has decided that if you deny their is a connection between the recent hurricanes and “global warming” are denying science.  Okay, what about the scientist who claims “climate change” has nothing to do with the hurricanes, let alone the tons of research proving that “climate change” (aka global warming) is nothing but a fraud, and an agenda for more government control?  The Pope pretends to be an authority appointed by God but his LEFTIST ideology is as false as his theology!

“The Message” translation is a herephrase.  I like the term.  The Message is a “mess,” as I have previously noted.

But quietly, there are the thousands of faithful Christians who practice polyamory—living lives of giftedness, dignity, and worth, but receiving next-to-no spiritual support.  

Um, how can they call themselves “Christian” when they violate Christ’s teachings about marriage?  This article comes from a supposed Christian site, but their “Christianity” is all of the liberal variety, which is not Christian at all.

Delusion on Parade:  Word of Faith “Weather Warriors”

Hillsong and “theoerosism.”  Makes ya wanna puke!