Good, Bad, and Ugly

I’m really getting behind on my blog!  Busy summer—that’s my excuse!  Meanwhile, I try to keep up with my reading, so here are things I felt needed to be shared.

The Good:

To their own destruction--Jehovah's Witnesses.

Was the thief on the cross justified by works, as claimed by the Roman Catholic Church?

Old Testament polygamy does not justify same-sex “marriage.”  I previously wrote an article demonstrating God’s attitude towards polygamy.

5 non-negotiable from the church fathers on the incarnation.

Educational Limbo: How Low Can You Go?

Was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil good or evil?

When did churches stop baptizing by immersion?

Is the KJV the most accurate translation?

John MacArthur has a series, “The Long Struggle to Preserve the Gospel.” Part one here, part two here.

The Bad and/or Ugly—Things you need to be alerted about!

When a Christian university capitulates to the culture for money (i.e. accreditation).  They could have kept their morals and people could still get educated there, but approval of man seems to be more important.

Kenneth Copeland: why, oh why, are there still people listening to this horrid wolf!?!? He is a false teacher, false prophet, and bald-faced liar. Nothing he says is even remotely true or based in reality.

The more I read about the Pennsylvania priest sex scandal, the more I see how horrid is the Papist church.  The organization has been rife with perverts from the beginning and the RCC just continues to protect them.  The only time they do anything is when they get “caught with their hand in the cookie jar.” And contrary to what the author of this article claims, this did NOT start in the 1960s and is NOT just a thing in the USA.  An archbishop is calling for the Pope’s resignation, claiming the Pope was involved in the cover-up of the crimes.

When Catholics deny reality—which really demonstrates the reason that sexual abuse is rampant in the Catholic Church, and always has been.

But if you haven’t had enough proof that the Pope does not represent Christ or God, take a gander at this.

The Mormons are trying to escape their history. It seems “God” has spoken to them again.

Mormons were NOT persecuted, contrary to the claims of President Trump.

Remember, this is what the apostate ELCA denomination has become.  How can a true Christian continue being a member of this group?!?!

A cult to be aware of, and warn others about, is The Twelve Tribes.

I’ve mentioned the name Ed Stetzer in prior posts, but I think you need to know more about him so as to mark and avoid him.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything about Joyce Meyer, so let me remind you of what a horrid false teacher she is.

Rachel Held Evans gets worse all the time.

More evidence that Tim Keller is a WOLF.  Mark and avoid him!

Mark and avoid this wolf and his goat pen, Greater Purpose Community Church. They are instruments of Satan.

Random Aberrations, Apostasies, and Heresies

Ed Stetzer honored heretic C. Peter Wagner!  I can’t add to that as a reason to never trust Stetzer for anything to do with theology.

The social justice Jesus is NOT the Jesus of the Bible.

Discernment and Revelation.  Excellent article naming lots of those in the Spiritual Formation movement, as well as other practitioners of similar mysticism and those claiming direct revelations from God.

Michael Brown defends the indefensible.  As noted in my last RAAH report, Brown cannot be trusted with theology.

Modern Day Montanism.  A 52-minute teaching, well worth educating yourself about.  He names names!

Be careful about what bands/singers you promote, in whatever way you do it (including social media).  They may be teaching Christ from their lips while their hearts are far away from him with their sinful lifestyles which reject Him.  (Or, in the case of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. e.g., they worship false gods!)

Ezekiel 13 for the 21st Century.

Church by the Glades continues to prove it is nothing more than a goat-pen led by false teachers.  It is difficult for me to believe that these people really think this honors God. (And really, is sitting in old cars for church conducive to thinking about worship or attending a concert/drive-in movie?)

The Roman Catholic Church really needs to get control of their universities!  These schools continually violate RCC doctrine and principles, and may as well just call themselves secular institutions.

Rick Warren — need I say more?

More proof that Jen Hatmaker is a false teaching wolf to be avoided.  Read the RNS article linked to — if you can stand it.

Apostasy in the Christian Church — good examination of what are necessary beliefs and teachings for the true Christian.

No, it is NOT Jesus calling.

Where does the Catholic Church find biblical authority for this rule?

Cedar Creek in Ohio is just another “church” who seem to think they need a secular concert to start their worship services. Interesting that I couldn’t find any type of doctrinal statement on their site, and they look to my like a bunch of goat-pens.

Well, that’s all for today!

Random Aberrations, Apostasies, and Heresies

NEVER partner with heretics in any way, shape, or form.

A good summation of false teachings and bad ideology from Andy Stanley.

Joel Osteen has proven he is not a true Christian by preaching another gospel.

I think this “church” would violate Paul’s command to do everything decently and with order (1 Cor. 14:40).  This pretty much looks like a goatherd with a goat-pen.

Steven Furtick is being proven over and over again to be someone to completely avoid as well as warning others to avoid him.  Read not only this article, but also the article it links to: “Steven Furtick: His Past, Present, Future.”  There is nothing godly about this man.  In the first article, the first video has just a brief mention of Furtick, by John MacArthur as being unqualified), but the whole video is well-worth listening to as MacArthur has some really solid comments about various false and/or seeker-sensitive teachings. (If you leave the video up after it ends, the next one continues MacArthur’s responses to questions about various false teachings; the man doesn’t mince words.)

A good review of “God’s Not Dead 2.”  I don’t waste my time with this sort of movie.

More teachers to avoid like the plague: Lisa and John Bevere, and their idol Kris Vallotton (who happens to be with Bethel Redding).

Christine Caine continues to demonstrate that she is indeed a false teacher.

“God’s Gang” is a horrible goatpen pretending to be a Christian Church.

Several years ago, during the time of the “Toronto Blessing,” I read John Arnott’s book,
“The Father’s Blessing.”  I saw lots of false teachings in that book, and of course I knew the “revival” in Toronto (later carried to Brownsville, FL) was man-made nonsense.  I found this review of Arnott’s book in my files, so I thought it would be good to share.

“The ultimate oxymoron: ‘Christian Psychic.’”  Well, I think there is a worse oxymoron — “Christian pornography” — but that doesn’t alter the fact that Christianity and psychics don’t mix!

Doug Evans has an excellent article describing the occult roots of the New Apostolic Reformation.  William Branham is an unfamiliar name to most, but he is an important person to know about due to the grave philosophy he started.

I've heard of Ed Stetzer before, but NOW I know he’s someone to avoid listening to.  This man totally forgets there was a Reformation for a reason.

NO!  Paul’s teachings DID NOT conflict with those of Jesus’!

The Exclusiveness of Remnantism.  Starts on page 16.

Very important article about IHOP.  This cult is spiritually dangerous!!

Should women be pastors?  Absolutely NOT. The heretical organization called Sojourners tries to teach otherwise and is exposed by Elizabeth Prata.

The satire at Babylon Bee is just too on target!!!

Random Apostasies and Heresies

Satan never sleeps, and it seems every day he comes up with more and more ways to deceive not only the world, but also Christians.  After all, deceived Christians can be sidelined so as to be ineffective at spreading the Gospel, and they can also be used to spread the deception.

As my last post showed, the new “Son of God” movie is not anything Christians should be spending money on to see, nor should they be promoting it.  There are so many false teachings in it!  But that doesn’t seem to matter to Mark Driscoll - his church bought out more than 3500 seats [link gone by Sept 2020] in their area.  Guess who is also endorsing this madness — Rick Warren, Andy Stanley, Max Lucado, Joel Osteen, and T.D. Jakes.  These men have no business being shepherds when they feed garbage to the sheep (of course Osteen and Jakes are rank heretics to begin with).

Then there is Steve Furtick, who seems to think HE is God!  Maybe that’s because he gets so many people baptized.

I’ve never heard of Ed Stetzer before, but I learned this week that he is the president of Lifeway Research, which is part of Lifeway Publishing, of the Southern Baptist Convention.  He has seen fit to begin hosting Praise the Lord on the heretical Trinity Broadcasting Network (or, as Ken Silva calls it, Trinity Blasphemy Network).  When you view this article, you will also several other names mentioned - people involved in all sorts of false teachings.  One of these is Lifeway’s darling and favorite false teacher, Beth Moore — who has a new series in which you can “hear what the Holy Spirit is saying to the church and every believer seeking their full potential in God’s Kingdom.”  And I thought we had the Bible for that!

Very often I get commenters who ask me if I have personally confronted the teachers I expose before I write about them.  I am told I am required to do so by Matthew 18.  Of course I point out that Matthew 18 is about personal sin - how you confront someone sinning against you.  Public false teachings require public denouncement.

I was shocked reading THIS ARTICLE today - the Pope thinks same-sex civil unions should be tolerated because they would be good for economics.  Fine, corrupt society but be sure to provide those who practice deviant sex a good economic status.  Of course they have the same economic access as normal people do, but apparently that’s not good enough for the Pope.

I consider the proper hermeneutical approach to the Bible will lead to a complementarian view of the roles of men and women.  There are those on the liberal side of biblical interpretation who have decided we need to look at how culture is to properly understand that the Bible teaching egalitarianism.  Well, this article from The Gospel Coalition provides excellent evidence for the complementarian understanding of roles.

To end today’s edition of RA&H (an abbreviation a commenter used - which I like) I will point to some articles about the Mormon Church.  First, it appears the LDS is revising more of their previous teachings, this time to say that they really can’t be sure what “becoming like God” means, even though historically it has been understood to mean that a man can become a god of his own planet.