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⁵ If he who comes preaches ANOTHER JESUS whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it! ⁵ For I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles. ⁶ Even though I am untrained in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. But we have been thoroughly manifested among you in all things.
–2 Corinthians 11:4-6 (NKJV)–

The cowardly, UNBELIEVING, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone.
–Revelation 21:8 (NKJV)–

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SCOT MCKNIGHT’S “DECONSTRUCTION” IDEA IS JUST LIBERALISM

He says that people who see problems with clergy sexual abuse in Bible believing churches need to do the following things to stay strong Christians:

1. Stop equating being a Bible believer with being a Republican.

2. Tolerate gays in their homosexual lifestyle.

3. Christians really need to be involved with economic inequality issues.

4. Reject the Biblical doctrine of Hell. Become a universalist.

5. Reject the authority, inspiration, and inerrancy of Scripture.

6. Reject complementarian gender roles.

7. Let Christian youth watch Harry Potter movies. If you do, then you’ll be cool.

8. Reject original sin; and instead view all non-Christians as basically good people.

9. Reject young earth creation; and accept theistic evolution as the truth.

10. Listen to backsliders and be friends with them, because that’s what statistics say.

11. Worship the liberal, progressive “Jesus” instead of the Jesus of the Bible.

12. Completely reject lordship salvation. Embrace universalism and easy believism.

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Scot McKnight, “What Are They Deconstructing?” (Sept. 30, 2024). Scot is a pastor in the Anglican Church In North America (ACNA). I went to one once. I stopped because the elder I spoke with used the f-word openly in front of my kids. I didn’t bother going a second time.

Woodbury said he had experiences of the “baptism in the Holy Spirit,” and seems to be describing his “mystic” involvement in the 1950s Southern Baptist Convention. He later said that these “love” feelings were from the devil, because they never led him to repentance and faith in the cross. According to him, the pastoral circles he was associated with were into a sort of Christian universalism and ecumenism. As a result of this, they downplayed the authority of Scripture and there was absolutely no preaching on sin, righteousness, and judgment; no preaching on eternal punishment, repentance, or substitutionary atonement, which he eventually found was being preached in the Sword of the Lord IFB type churches that followed Dr. John R. Rice. He had used the NRSV Bible, adhered to neo-orthodoxy (Karl Barth, Reinhold Niebuhr), and theistic evolution. God was viewed only as Love, but not as a holy Judge that punishes the wicked eternally. There were a lot of smokers at the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. And then he went to Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, PA, which is an American Baptist school, which had cussing professors, who denied the deity, virgin birth, blood, and resurrection of Christ, preached universalism, and had a Jewish rabbi as a teacher. He said he never called Jesus “Lord” in prayer until after he was saved (1 Cor. 12:3). “I left the Southern Baptist Convention. I became an Independent Baptist preacher” (36:47), he said, because the SBC was filled with “modernism,” and this was in 1951: he said the SBC preachers didn’t really believe in the Bible as the Word of God. I’m sad to say, that I fear these sentiments are still alive and well in the SBC today, but there is some good among younger SBC pastors who look up to Paul Washer and Voddie Baucham. I fear that the same kind of liberal beliefs and attitudes are probably very alive and well in Assembly of God, Church of God (Cleveland), and the Pentecostal Holiness Church. I’d say that both Baptist and Pentecostal preachers that want to do right should not lose sight of Dr. John R. Rice and his Sword of the Lord materials. I’d also remain extremely wary of entering pastoral ministry at this point; and would be more inclined towards building an itinerant evangelistic ministry that feeds on the KJV Bible, Spurgeon, Finney, Wesley, Edwards, Whitefield, Ravenhill, Sword of the Lord, Kregel, and old books from Gospel Publishing House and Pathway Press. –J.B.

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R. A. Torrey, ed. The Fundamentals. 4 vols. (Baker Books, 2000).

Dr. Thomas C. Oden, After Modernity…What? (Zondervan, 1990).

Dr. Shelton Smith, Liberal Choices: Losing Causes (Sword of the Lord, 1997).

Carl Woodbury, How a Modernist Preacher Was Saved (Sword of the Lord, 1960).

J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism (2009). HAS AUDIO BOOK.

Roger Olson, Against Liberal Theology (Zondervan, 2022). HAS AUDIO BOOK.

Dr. John R. Rice, The Evangelist (Sword of the Lord, 1968).

Mack Tomlinson, In Light of Eternity (Granted Ministries Press, 2019).

Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was not what it had been. Then the Lord said to Jacob, “GO BACK to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”…If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.
–Genesis 31:2-3, 42 (NIV)–

Saul had a spear in his hand and he hurled it, saying to himself, “I’ll pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice…Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to kill David. But Jonathan had taken a great liking to David and warned him, “My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you. Be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hiding and stay there. I will go out and stand with my father in the field where you are. I’ll speak to him about you and will tell you what I find out.”…That night DAVID MADE GOOD HIS ESCAPE…When David had fled and made his escape, he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.
–1 Samuel 18:10-11; 19:1-3, 10, 18 (NIV)–

Dr. Susan Forward, Toxic Parents (Bantam Books, 1989), ch. 3.

Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments (Banner of Truth, 1965), 2.5.

William Gouge, Building a Godly Home, vol. 1 (RHB, 2013), chs. 11-12.

Part 1 refers to Charles Finney’s Lectures on Systematic Theology. Part 3 refers to Leonard Ravenhill’s Why Revival Tarries. Part 4 preaches against the overly simplified Four Spiritual Laws tract by Campus Crusade for Christ (8:00). He refers to Watchman Nee’s The Normal Christian Life.