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Are Virginia Baptists (BGAV) Promoting Islamic Dialogue?

Editor — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:32:05 +0000

In Virginia Southern Baptists Encouraged To Embrace The Emerging Church, Apprising Ministries revealed the backgrounds of the co-editors of The Parish Paper (TPP) which the BGAV / Virginia Baptist Mission Board “is proud to provide copies of the Parish Paper free of charge to members of our constituency!”

In 2003, Co-editor Dr. Cynthia Woolever was welcomed on staff as Professor of Sociology of Religious Organizations at Hartford Seminary.

Now, World Net Daily reports that Christian churches are being fed ‘Islam lite’ with the help of Hartford Seminary:

“…organizations such as Hartford Seminary are sending imams “to condition members of the area churches to believe the light version of Islam.”

Steve Emerson, director of the Investigative Project for Terrorism, concurred.

“Hartford Seminary is a place that has been compromised by the Muslim Brotherhood, and then there’s the Center for Christian and Muslim Understanding at Georgetown University. The center is a de facto arm of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Emerson said. “

See the rest at Watcher’s Lamp.

Luxury And Ed Young Jr

Editor — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:28:59 +0000

The latest on this still developing story here.

Progressive Christianity’s Quantum Lie

Editor — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:27:14 +0000

A 4-DVD lecture series with Bob DeWaay and Warren B. Smith

The church and the world are being offered a new Christianity, and millions of people are buying into it. But when the outer layers of this New Spirituality are stripped away, what lies beneath is the Quantum Lie that started in the Garden of Eden. This deception will play out as the Bible predicts until the return of Jesus Christ to a world that has become completely deceived into believing that God is in everything.

DVD 1-Bob DeWaay: How Eastern mysticism has been repackaged and presented as a new way to know God.

DVD 2-Warren B. Smith: The Big Picture/A Wonderful Deception

DVD 3-Warren B. Smith: New Age Implications of The Shack, The Message and The Purpose Driven movement and the entrance of the Quantum Lie into the church

DVD 4-Bob DeWaay: Emergence Theory. How pantheism and panentheism have entered the church, convincing millions that this New Spirituality is exactly what the world needs to save itself

Visit Lighthouse Trails Publishing for more details.

Vatican Calls For “People-Centered Ecumenism”

Editor — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:05:15 +0000

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A Vatican official has floated the idea of a shared “ecumenical catechism” as one of the potential fruits of 40 years of dialogue among Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and members of the Reformed churches.

“We have affirmed our common foundation in Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity as expressed in our common creed and in the doctrine of the first ecumenical councils,” Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, told representatives of the churches.

…He called for “a people-centered ecumenism” that would support and give new energy to the theological dialogues.

…The symposium was a follow-up to the publication in October of “Harvesting the Fruits,” a book complied by Cardinal Kasper and his staff summarizing the results of 40 years of official Catholic dialogue with the Anglican Communion, the Lutheran World Federation, the World Methodist Council and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

Editor’s note: The emerging body of evidence reveals that the man-centered gospel of the Purpose Driven and the Progressives is designed to bolt Evangelicals on to the Roman belief system. See former Roman Catholic priest, Richard Bennett’s book: Catholicism -East of Eden.

Chosen Before the Foundation of the World

Mike Ratliff — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:59:03 +0000

The more I deal with those who “resent” the doctrines we hold to here at Possessing the Treasure, such as the doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone, the doctrine of Regeneration, and the doctrine of Election, among many others, the more I have prayed for God to show me why it is that so many reject what is clearly presented in His Word. The answer to those prayers seems to be that those who have a problem with Paul’s presentation of the Sovereignty of God in Ephesians 1 & 2 and Romans 9, for example, have that issue because they are somehow centered in their pride while looking at the Sovereignty of God as some sort of insult to it. It is as if they are demanding “their rights,” and see the Sovereignty of God as something that violates those rights. The Apostle Paul did not have this issue and neither should we.

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Ed Young Jr Says He’s Setting Things Straight

Editor — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:31:30 +0000

An Insider Leaves The Emerging Church

Editor — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:14:09 +0000

Today someone who’s been on the inside of the emerging church informs us why they’ve left it. You’ll find the link in this piece.

Is Dallas Willard A Christian?

Editor — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:21:39 +0000

Startling evidence from a recent Fighting for the Faith program of CRN contributor Chris Rosebrough which you can listen to here gives real reason to ask this question concerning the spiritual formation guru.

The False Gospel of the Hermeneutic of Humility

Mike Ratliff — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:36:05 +0000

The lack of tolerance within the visible church for the exclusivity of the genuine Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is rooted in the “Hermeneutic of Humility.” Even amongst some pretty solid Christians that I am close to, I have noticed that pained or shocked look on their faces when they hear me succinctly define the Gospel the way our Lord Jesus did and the way the Apostle Paul did. These reactions are rooted in the “Hermeneutic of Humility,” which is a way of looking at our faith and interpreting the very Word of God through a filter that sees certainty as a product of pride and uncertainty as a virtue. It looks so humble to these people when they hear a Christian leader say that they don’t know the full truth about this or that, but as far as they know, “blah…blah…blah.” These people contend that to be certain divides people while uncertainty creates an environment of unity. I have been accused of being filled with pride over the last several years so many times by some people because I will not agree with their interpretation of scripture or whatever. My brethren, our God does not give us His truth in shades of gray. He tells us succinctly what is truth and what is not. The Gospel, for instance, is very well defined and those who insist on a variegated version of it do so because they view certainty as divisive and uncertainty as being truly humble and uniting.

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To Be Light in a Dark World

Mike Ratliff — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:12:10 +0000

Probably the quickest way for a Christian to discover the truth of the incredible depth and breadth of spiritual darkness in this present world is to stand firm on God’s Truth, and within that firm stand, tell that truth boldly to professing Christians. It will not take very long for those who hold to a version of Christianity that is apostate to make the reality of their spiritual darkness known in ways accompanied by fiery darts from our enemy. However, we are commanded by our Saviour to let our ‘light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.’ The believer who cowers from this or backs away from the firm stand to be that light, φως, is revealing the reality that they are ashamed of the Gospel. So how are we to be this φως in this present σκοτια (darkness)?

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