The following article was included in yesterday's weekly e-mail letter from Midwest Christian Outreach apologetics ministry. This information definitely needs to be spread around.
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Several were surprised last week as they read about the seeming lack of discernment at Thomas Nelson Publishers. I have said for a long time that one of the most spiritually dangerous places a Christian can go to is Christian bookstores. It isn't because the bookstore owes are evil but because there is an underlying belief that the books which are published by so-called Christian publishers and sold in Christian bookstores have been reviewed and approved as theologically sound. It ain't the case. In addition to the ones mentioned last week, Thomas Nelson has published WND author Joe Kovacs' book, Shocked by the Bible. Kovacs is a follower of Herbert W. Armstrong and as such is anti-Trinitarian, holds to a non-physical resurrection and the God Family wherein we become of the same substance and stuff as God. WND in What's the most astonishing fact of the Bible? proudly quotes Joe Kovacs in an interview:
“I think the most important thing is the destiny of human beings,” said Kovacs. “A lot of people are aware that the Bible does promise eternal life for people who obey God; but the Bible does go well beyond that to tell us about an incredible, fascinating, fabulous future that we can barely conceive of and it uses the phrase ‘children of God’ and ‘sons of God’ and ‘daughters’ of God and it says that we will be above the angels, judging angels and judging the citizens of this world, and sitting down on the throne of Jesus Christ as the children of God.
“So that we will actually be born into the spirit world, not composed of flesh and blood anymore, but looking like yourself, composed of spirit just like God the Father and Jesus are composed of spirit, and be members of the actual Family of God; where yes, we’ll be immortal; and yes, we’ll be judging angels; and yes, we’ll be ruling from Christ’s throne. This is exactly what the Bible says and it calls us the children of God. God is having children. God is reproducing Himself after the God kind.”
Obviously Thomas Nelson can publish anything they want and if profit takes priority over orthodoxy at least they should be honest about that. WND though, is in the same boat. Joseph Farrah has been contacted on this issue more than once but has taken no steps to correct the problem.
