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Title: How the apostates take over
Source: One News Now
URL Source: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1558226
Published: Mar 16, 2012
Author: Michael Youssef
Post Date: 2012-03-16 17:39:25 by redleghunter
Keywords: None
Views: 7606
Comments: 22

The evangelical church is under constant threat to compromise its reliance on biblical truth. The human desire to be accepted, to not be seen as "outside the mainstream," can be overwhelming. But that desire is our weakness, our downfall. It does not always immediately destroy the dam we build to protect the waters of truth, but instead it leads to tiny fissures that grow until destruction is inevitable.

Twenty years ago, I experienced the painful demise of the Episcopal Church, which once was a bastion of biblical truth. It was not a pretty picture. It was a picture painted in the primary colors of relentlessness and deception.

The combination of those elements inevitably led some sincere folks to weariness, and willingness to compromise, and yes, ultimately to surrender. For those who sought peace at any price, conformity over conviction, and popularity over principle, capitulation seemed the easier way out.

The initial compromise, which caused the first cracks in the dike, seemed innocent enough at the time: the ordination of women.

But to truly understand how that initial compromise caused a wave of liberalism to overcome biblical boundaries within the Episcopal Church (and soon by the rest of the mainline denominations), we have to understand the different groups involved.

Sincere followers of Christ made up the first group. They believed in Jesus and the scriptures. To them, the effort to ordain women seemed genuine. But they ultimately bought into the secular argument that the ordination of women was merely an issue of equality, sharing power, responding to new realities, and gaining relevancy with modern culture. Those believers were most troublesome of all. Although they adhered to the secular perspective, no one could accuse them of having "departed the faith once delivered."

The second group, which pushed the breached even further, was comprised of people who were religious but biblically illiterate. They followed a simple faith not rooted in history. They were more willing to follow than to think.

The third group was made up of committed liberals, or as I prefer to call them, apostates. That group often worked behind the scenes. They hid in the shadows, preferring to steer the second group forward while putting pressure on the first group. They fueled the secular media with proclamations that the church was "hopelessly out of touch with the real world" or that the "male-dominated church is unwilling to share power with women."

The media -- which loves to denigrate the church and its leadership for refusing to adhere to a godless culture -- used its powerful megaphone to condemn the church. Of course, the media never understood that ministry in the Church of Jesus Christ is not about power. A pastor models himself after Jesus, who "did not come to be served, but to serve."

When apostate Christians and agnostics were allowed to set the agenda and define the arguments, the faint of heart self-consciously sought to surrender. Quickly abandoned were Martin Luther's words: "Here I stand. I can do no other."

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#1. To: redleghunter (#0)

The evangelical church is under constant threat to compromise its reliance on biblical truth.

The Protestant Evangelical/Fundamentalist church is one of the three major heretical, Satan-controlled death cults in the world, the other two being Islam and Judaism. Their Holy Sacrament is blood, death, and misery and their hate and blood lust have made a mockery of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who was the Prince of Peace, not a God of War.

The Protestant Evangelical/Fundamentalist church has twisted Holy Scripture to make themselves the subservient protectors of Judaism, whose validity ended when Jesus was crucified. They have willingly involved themselves and this country in the power struggle between the demonic death cults of Islam and Judaism, all the while falsely claiming that God commands it. They have turned away from God.

On a political level, they are as bad as the leftists when it comes to their desire to grow the size of government. The only difference between the two is where they want to spend the money, and even that difference is shrinking on a daily basis. They have no desire to shrink the size of government like real conservatives. They just want to move it around so that more money is spent on war (as opposed to defense) and the police state so that they can pay homage to Satan by increasing the amount of blood, death, and misery within these United States and throughout the world.

The good news is that good always triumphs over evil. As the death cults spread more and more misery in this country and throughout the world, people will begin to see them for what they are and will turn back to Jesus Christ.

Fibr Dog  posted on  2012-03-16   18:41:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Fibr Dog (#1)

Yeah. That's it. That's why virtually EVERY country Catholicism takes hold becomes a socially Marxist, economic basket case. Catholicism is codified pagan worship.

Rudgear  posted on  2012-03-16   18:44:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Rudgear (#2)

That's why virtually EVERY country Catholicism takes hold becomes a socially Marxist, economic basket case. Catholicism is codified pagan worship.

If you say so lefty. My days of defending the Catholic Church are done and gone.

Fibr Dog  posted on  2012-03-16   19:01:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Fibr Dog (#3)

That's funny coming from a Marxist dupe. Piss off, commie. Go work your beads elsewhere.

Rudgear  posted on  2012-03-16   19:05:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Rudgear (#5)

That's funny coming from a Marxist dupe. Piss off, commie. Go work your beads elsewhere.

LOL! Commie. Unfortunately for you words have meaning and I have an 11 year record on LP and FR as an advocate of small government.

Fibr Dog  posted on  2012-03-16   19:16:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Fibr Dog (#6)

That's funny coming from a Marxist dupe. Piss off, commie. Go work your beads elsewhere.

LOL! Commie. Unfortunately for you words have meaning and I have an 11 year record on LP and FR as an advocate of small government.

I'm an Evangelical, and I was likely fighting communists and the Left when you were in diapers. It wasn't the Evangelicals who promoted Liberation Theology and supported Left wing agendas, but Roman Catholics. Deconstruction is their middle name.

GarySpFC  posted on  2012-03-17   14:45:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: GarySpFC (#11)

I'm an Evangelical, and I was likely fighting communists and the Left when you were in diapers. It wasn't the Evangelicals who promoted Liberation Theology and supported Left wing agendas, but Roman Catholics. Deconstruction is their middle name.

Maybe so but that has nothing to do with the fact that you belong to a heretical, Satan-controlled death cult that dances in the blood of dead Americans in order to further Lucifer's agenda of spreading death, destruction, and misery throughout the world. Even worse is how your cult befouls the name of Jesus Christ by trying to associate his name with your evil.

The cult of Judaism is a heresy and has been since Jesus was crucified yet your cult has not only aligned itself with it in order to fight a competing Satanic death cult, you have proudly made yourself subservient to Judaism and twist Holy Scripture in order to justify your heresy by making the claim that the Old Testament commands you to protect the Jews. Which would be fine if by Jews you meant the people of Israel (which is what the Bible was referring to). However, it is clear that you do not mean the people of Israel, you mean the Jewish religion - which is a heresy.

Genetic testing has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that many of the Muslim and Christian Arabs who were living in the area for generations prior the founding of Israel (to include Palestinians), are as Jewish as the European Jews you claim the Bible orders you to protect. So your cult has taken the side of one group of Israelite's to the detriment of other groups of Israelites. On top of that, your cults demand that the US government attack Islamic countries has been instrumental in destroying Christian communities that have been existence since the time of the Apostles or soon after. A clear indication of Satan's hand. And please, spare me with your "I have x number of Phd's from the Cracker Jack Bible Institute." I am not impressed. I've read the scripture the death cults use to justify their blood lust. It is clear that the Old testament is talking about the Israeli's as a people, not as the Judaic religion. It is also clear that the Judaic religion is a dead religion and ceased to be valid the moment the veil was torn.

As far as "fighting the left" goes, if you are supporting a Republican other than Ron Paul then YOU ARE THE LEFT. You are just a minute fraction less left than the Democrats you claim to oppose yet have so much in common with. Every single one of the mainstream Republican candidates is far to the left of Ronald Reagan. They are all adherents of big government and they all champion a police state. As far as I am concerned they are text book examples of the left. So they are not as left as Obama is - big friggin' deal - they are still filthy leftists who are not worthy of the support of those claiming to be small government conservatives. As Bush and the Republicans have already proven, not only will the status quo Republican candidates NOT roll back anything that Obama and the Democrats have implemented, they will add to and expand it. Many of the people voting for the status quo claim they just want to keep Obama from being reelected, but by casting a vote for the status quo they are telling the Republican Party that they approve of their leftist agenda.

Fibr Dog  posted on  2012-03-17   18:26:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Fibr Dog (#14)

Maybe so but that has nothing to do with the fact that you belong to a heretical, Satan-controlled death cult that dances in the blood of dead Americans in order to further Lucifer's agenda of spreading death, destruction, and misery throughout the world. Even worse is how your cult befouls the name of Jesus Christ by trying to associate his name with your evil.

Since you are not forthcoming in telling us your church, I will have to assume you worship at the altar of Davey Jones:

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