EVANGELICALS: ROB BELL PREACHING FALSE GOSPEL

Two months after popular pastor Rob Bell released his book about heaven and hell, it is still stirring debate in Christian circles.

Bell's new book Love Wins challenges the biblical definition of hell and who will end up there. The book earned him a spot on Time Magazine's annual list of the most influential people in America.

"It surprised me that there isn't a widely held understanding that we are disciples of Jesus. And so, we are learning and we are growing," Bell said.

   

The pastor of the 10,000-member Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Mich. told CBN News he was surprised by all the controversy - despite the fact that it challenges fundamental Christian beliefs about the afterlife.

"Actually, hell is very easy for me to grasp," he told CBN News. "I see rape, abuse, genocide in our generation. We have seen financial scandals. I have sat with people deep in the throws of hardcore drug addiction with the vacant, empty look in their eyes."

"I see hell all the time around me through all sorts of destructive choices that we make," Bell said.

Bell's definition of hell brought criticism from popular ministers like John Piper, who quickly tweeted, "Farewell Rob Bell."     
    
Another pastor said, "There is nothing loving about preaching a false gospel." 
   
Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, told CBN News that scripture "presents hell as a necessary dimension of God's judgment."

"The Bible's words on hell are spectacularly clear, and they are meant to be a warning to us," he said.  "We do not do the gospel a service -- for that matter, we do not do a kindness to lost people if we minimize the reality and biblical reality and threat of hell."

Dr. Vinson Synan, former dean of Regent University's School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Va., also took a dim view of Bell's theology.

"The question of justice -- people do horrible things, and if they die and don't get judged on this earth, there must be justice somewhere," he reasoned.

"To say that there is no heaven or hell means there is no meaning to existence," Synan told CBN News. "The Bible clearly teaches that there is a hell for the unrighteous who die persistently in sin and do not repent, and there is a heaven for the righteous to be forever with God.  

"I will take my chances with the Bible," he concluded.

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I PITY THE FOOL

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE SOMEONE SOMEWHERE THAT HAS NEGATIVE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT FATHER GOD, HIS SON, AND HIS CHILDREN. IT IS GETTING REAL OLD REAL FAST! 

NOW, WHAT’S SAD IS THIS INTELLIGENT MAN HAS IT IN FOR FATHER GOD BECAUSE HE IS SUFFERING WITH A DEBILITATING DISEASE AND HE HAS NOT RECEIVED HEALING. I AM TALKING ABOUT STEPHEN HAWKING. HE IS NOW SPREADING THE LIE THAT “THERE IS NO HEAVEN AND THAT HEAVEN IS A FAIRY TALE STORY FOR THOSE WHO ARE AFRAID OF THE DARK”. HE ALSO STATED IN AN INTERVIEW WITH THE GUARDIAN PUBLISHED ON MONDAY THAT HIS VIEWS WERE PARTLY INFLUENCED BY HIS BATTLE WITH MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE.

                                                          STEPHEN HAWKING

YOU WOULD THINK THAT HE HAD BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN TO TRY AND TRASH FATHER GOD. A ROOT OF BITTERNESS HAS SET UP IN HIM, AS WELL AS UNFORGIVENESS,  AND HIS HEART IS HARDENED BECAUSE HE IS WONDERING  IF THERE IS A GOD THEN WHY CAN’T HE HEAL ME, OR WHY HASN’T HE HEALED ME. THE BIBLE IS SPECIFIC ON THESE ISSUES AND IF ANYONE WANTS TO RECEIVE ANYTHING FROM FATHER GOD THEN YOU MUST BELIEVE THAT HE EXISTS AND THAT HE CAN DO WHAT AND ALL THAT HE SAYS THAT HE CAN DO. WHAT MANY FAIL TO REALIZE IS THAT IT TAKES FAITH TO MOVE THE HAND OF GOD.

HEB 11:6-BUT WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD FOR HE THAT COMETH TO GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS AND THAT HE IS A REWARDER OF THOSE WHO DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM

HEB 12:15-LOOKING CAREFULLY LEST ANYONE FALL SHORT OF THE GRACE OF GOD LEST ANY ROOT OF BITTERNESS SPRINGING UP CAUSE TROUBLE AND BY THIS MANY BECOME DEFILED

ACTS 8:22-REPENT THEREFORE OF THIS YOUR WICKEDNESS AND PRAY GOD IF PERHAPS THE THOUGHT OF YOUR HEART MAY BE FORGIVEN YOU

ACTS 8:23-FOR I SEE THAT YOU ARE POISONED BY BITTERNESS AND BOUND BY INIQUITY

FATHER GOD DESIRES THAT ALL BE HEALED AND BE IN HEALTH BUT UNFORGIVENESS, BITTERNESS, ANGER, DOUBT  AND UNBELIEF CAN HINDER ANYONE FROM RECEIVING HEALING.

EXOD 15:26-FOR I AM THE LORD GOD THAT HEALETH THEE

1PETER 2:24-WHO HIMSELF BORE OUR SINS MIGHT LIVE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS BY WHOSE STRIPES  YOU WERE HEALED

BUT ONLY A FOOL WOULD SAY IN HIS HEART THAT THERE IS NO GOD AND THAT HEAVEN OR ANYTHING THAT FATHER GOD HAS CREATED DOES NOT EXIST.

THE EDENIC LIE

IN ORDER FOR THE HUMAN RACE TO BE CORRUPTED NOT ONLY DID ADAM AND EVE HAVE TO VIOLATE THE DIRECT COMMANDMENT OF FATHER GOD BUT THEY ALSO HAD TO COMPLETELY REVERSE THEIR GOD ORDAINED POSITIONS.

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY SATAN WENT TO DECEIVE EVE IN THE GARDEN AND NOT ADAM? IT WAS ALL APART OF HIS SINISTER PLAN TO REVERT THE ORDER OF GOD. GOD MADE MAN TO BE HEAD OVER THE FAMILY BUT SATAN CAME TO REVERT THE ORDER SO THAT THE WOMAN WOULD BE THE HEAD.

 

SATAN CAME INTO THE GARDEN TO BEGUILE EVE FOR THE PURPOSE OF INTRODUCING HIS SUBTLE CLEVER PLAN OF REVERTING THE ORDER OF FATHER GOD FROM MAN BEING THE HEAD TO THE WOMAN BEING THE HEAD. THIS STARTED HIS UNSUSPECTING PLAN OF DECEPTION. THIS INTRODUCED “FEMINISM” INTO THE WORLD. 

FEMINISM WAS SATAN’S DIABOLIC PLAN TO HAVE WOMEN BE EQUAL TO MEN. IN A BOOK CALLED CHANGING OF THE GOD’S: FEMINISM AND THE END OF TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS BY A FEMINIST AND A WITCH BY THE NAME OF NAOMI R. GOLDENBERG SHE WROTE: “GOD IS GOING TO CHANGE…WE WOMEN ARE GOING TO BRING AN END TO GOD. AS WE TAKE POSITIONS IN GOVERNMENT, IN MEDICINE, IN LAW, IN THE ARTS, AND FINALLY IN RELIGION…WE WILL BE THE END TO HIM(GOD). WE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD SO MUCH THAT HE(GOD) WON’T FIT ANYMORE.” SHE ALSO WENT ON TO WRITE: “EVERY WOMEN WORKING TO IMPROVE HER OWN POSITION IN SOCIETY OR THAT OF WOMEN IN GENERAL IS BRING ABOUT THE END OF GOD. ALL FEMINIST ARE MAKING THE WORLD LESS AND LESS LIKE THE ONE DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE AND THUS HELPING TO LESSEN THE INFLUENCE OF CHRIST AND JEHOVAH ON HUMANITY.” NOW HER CONCLUSION WAS: “CAN WE PREDICT ANYTHING ABOUT THE NEW GODS OF THE NEW AGE, EXCEPT TO SAY THERE WILL BE MANY OF THEM?”

                                                              NAOMI R. GOLDENBERG

 WOW! THIS WOMAN WHO IS A PRACTING WITCH WANTS TO BRING AN END TO FATHER GOD WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH! SATAN REALLY HAS HER DECEIVED! THIS GIVES US A PRETTY CLEAR PICTURE OF WHAT SATAN WAS TRYING TO DO. NOW BACK TO ADAM AND EVE. EVE’S ROLE IN THE SERPENT’S PLAN WAS TO INTRODUCE REBELLION AND DISOBEDIENCE INTO THE WORLD THROUGH THE SEDUCTION OF HOW SHE COULD BE HER OWN GOD, AND THUS TAKING THE LEAD(HEAD OVER ADAM). IN THE BIBLE THE BOOK OF GENESIS GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF EVE BEING SEDUCED BY THE SERPENT INTO BELIEVING THAT SHE WAS NOT GOING TO DIE IF SHE ATE THE FRUIT, AND THAT ONCE SHE ATE FROM THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL THEN SHE SHALL BE AS GODS KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL. ONCE EVE BELIEVED THIS LIE IMMEDIATELY THE TREE BECAME ENTICING TO HER AND SHE BELIEVED THAT SHE WOULD BECOME WISE AND SHE THEN GAVE THE FRUIT TO ADAM TO EAT , AND HE DID EAT WITH HER. DO YOU SEE THE DECEPTION NOW? INSTEAD OF ADAM USING HIS AUTHORITY AS BEING THE HEAD OF HIS FAMILY. HE ALLOWED EVE TO TAKE CHARGE AND HE FOLLOWED HER AUTHORITY.

GEN 3:1-NOW THE SERPENT WAS MORE SUBTILE THAN ANY BEAST OF THE FIELD WHICH THE LORD GOD HAD MADE AND HE SAID UNTO THE WOMAN, YEA HATH GOD SAID YE SHALL NOT EAT OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN

GEN 3:2-AND THE WOMAN SAID UNTO THE SERPENT WE MAY EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREES OF THE GARDEN

GEN 3:3-BUT THE FRUIT OF THE TREE WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN GOD HATH SAID YE SHALL NOT EAT OF IT NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT LEST YE DIE

GEN 3:4-AND THE SERPENT SAID UNTO THE WOMAN YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE

GEN 3:5-FOR GOD DOTH KNOW THAT IN THE DAY YE EAT THEREOF THEN YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED AND YE SHALL BE AS GODS KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL

GEN 3:6-AND WHEN THE WOMAN SAW THAT THE TREE WAS GOOD FOR FOOD AND THAT IT WAS PLEASANT TO THE EYES AND A TREE TO BE DESIRED TO MAKE ONE WISE, SHE TOOK OF THE FRUIT THEREOF AND DID EAT AND GAVE ALSO UNTO HER HUSBAND WITH HER AND HE DID EAT

FATHER GOD CREATED MAN FIRST AND IT IS FATHER GOD’S DIVINE ORDER THAT HE BE HEAD, AND THAT THE WOMAN WAS CREATED FROM MAN.

GEN 1:27-SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD CREATED HE HIM MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM

GEN 2:22-AND THE RIB WHICH THE LORD GOD HAD TAKEN FROM MAN MADE HE A WOMAN AND BROUGHT HER UNTO THE MAN

EPH 5:23-FOR THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE EVEN AS CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH AND HE IS SAVIOR OF THE BODY

BASICALLY WHAT SATAN WAS IMPLYING TO EVE WAS THAT KNOWLEDGE(ENLIGHTMENT AS MANY CALL IT) WAS THE KEY TO GODHOOD AND IMMORTALITY. THIS WAS SIGNIFICANT RIGHT HERE BECAUSE IN PAGANISM THE GODDESSES(WOMAN) WAS ALWAYS MORE POWERFUL THAN THE GODS(MAN). IN THE BIBLE THERE ARE SEVERAL WOMEN THAT USURPED AUTHORITY OF THE MAN AND ONE BEING AHAB AND JEZEBEL. NOW AHAB WAS THE MOST WICKEDEST KING TO EVER RULE OVER ISRAEL AND JEZEBEL HIS WIFE WAS A WITCH AND A WORSHIPPER OF THE MOTHER GODDESS. BOTH AHAB AND JEZEBEL WERE REBELLIOUS AGAINST THE LORD. AHAB WORKED WICKEDNESS IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD WHICH HIS WIFE STIRRED UP AND HE PROVOKED THE LORD TO ANGER. HE PRACTICED IDOLATRY AND WORSHIPPED BAAL AND NOT ONLY THAT AHAB’S LINEAGE WAS IDOLATROUS, REBELLIOUS, AND WICKED.  JEZEBEL HIS WIFE A PRACTICER OF WITCHCRAFT AND IDOLATRY BECAME HIS GOD. THIS IS WHY REBELLION AND WITHCRAFT ARE LINKED IN THE SCRIPTURES.

1KINGS 16:30-32-AND AHAB SON OF OMRI DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD ABOVE ALL BEFORE HIM. AS IF IT HAD BEEN A LIGHT THING FOR HIM TO WALK IN THE SINS OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, THAT HE TOOK TO WIFE JEZEBEL THE DAUGHTER OF ETHBAAL KING OF ZIDONIANS, AND WENT ANS SERVED BAAL AND WORSHIPPED HIM.
 

HE ERECTED AN ALTAR FOR BAAL IN THE HOUSE OF BAAL WHICH HE BUILT IN SAMARIA. AHAB MADE AN ASHERAH(IDOLATROUS SYMBOL OF THE GODDESS ASHTAROTH), AND THEY WORSHIPPED BAAL AND THIS ANGERED THE LORD.

1KINGS 15:13-ALSO MAACAH HIS MOTHER REMOVED FROM BEING QUEEN MOTHER, BECAUSE SHE HAD AN IMAGE FOR(THE GODDESS)ASHERAH. ASA DESTROYED HER IMAGE, BURNING IT BY THE BROOK OF KIDRON.

1KINGS 16:33-AND AHAB MADE A GROVE AND AHAB DID MORE TO PROVOKE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL TO ANGER THAN ALL THE KINGS OF ISRAEL THAT WERE BEFORE HIM

2KINGS 9:22-AND WHEN IT CAME TO PASS WHEN JORAM SAW JEHU THAT HE SAID , IS IT PEACE, JEHU? AND HE ANSWERED, WHAT PEACE, SO LONG AS THE WHOREDOMS OF THY MOTHER JEZEBEL AND HER WITCHCRAFTS ARE SO MANY?

1KINGS 21:25-BUT THERE WAS NONE LIKE UNTO AHAB WHICH DID SELL HIMSELF TO WORK WICKEDNESS IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD WHO JEZEBEL HIS WIFE STIRRED UP

1SAM 15:23-FOR REBELLION IS AS THE SIN OF WITCHCRAFT AND STUBBORNESS IS AS INIQUITY AND IDOLATRY BECAUSE THOU HAST REJECTED THE WORD OF THE LORD HE HATH ALSO REJECTED THE FROM BEING KING

AHAB AND JEZEBEL WERE SO REBELLIOUS UNTIL THEIR WHOLE LINEAGE WAS REBELLIOUS AND CURSED. EVEN JEZEBEL’S  DAUGHTER ATHALIAH WAS REBELLIOUS AND SHE WAS THE WIFE OF JEHORAM THE FIFTH KING OF JUDAH. ATHALIAH USURPED THE THRONE AND REIGNED SIX YEARS OVER THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH AFTER THE DEATH OF HER SON AHAZIAH. SHE ATTEMPTED TO KILL ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY AND SHE SUCCEEDED IN DESTROYING ALL BUT ONE. JOASH WAS THE ONLY INFANT THAT SURVIVED AND HE WAS HIDDEN BY THE HIGH PRIEST. ATHALIAH WAS A WORSHIPPER OF THE FERTILITY GODS AND GODDESSES. 

2CHRON 22:10-BUT WHEN ATHALIAH THE MOTHER OF AHAZIAH SAW THAT HER SON WAS DEAD SHE AROSE AND DESTROYED ALL THE SEED ROYAL OF THE HOUSE OF JUDAH

2CHRON 22:11-BUT JEHOSHABEATH THE DAUGHTER OF THE KING TOOK JOASH THE SON OF AHAZIAH AND STOLE HIM FROM AMONG THE KING’S SONS THAT WERE SLAIM AND PUT HIM AND HIS NURSE IN A BEDCHAMBER. SO JEHOSHABEATHE THE DAUGHTER OF KING JEHORAM THE WIFE OF JEHOIADA THE PRIEST(FOR SHE WAS THE SISTER OF AHAZIAH) HID HIM FROM ATHALIAH SO THAT SHE SLEW HIM NOT

2CHRON 22:12-AND HE WAS WITH THEM HID IN THE HOUSE OF GOD SIX YEARS AND ATHALIAH REIGNED OVER THE LAND

REBELLION AND WITCHCRAFT IS THE MAIN ROOT OF THIS WHOLE PLAN OF SATAN. HE HAD TO GET FATHER GOD’S PEOPLE TO DISOBEY THE INSTRUCTIONS OF FATHER GOD AND CAUSE PEOPLE TO BELIEVE THAT THEY THEMSELVES ARE GODS. REBELLION IS REBELING AGAINST SOMEONE OR SOMETHING. THIS IS WHAT NIAOMI GOLDENBERG SAID IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS POST ABOUT HOW WOMEN WE GOING TO BRING AN END TO GOD. 

DEUT 13:4-YE SHALL WALK AFTER THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND FEAR HIM AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, AND OBEY HIS VOICE, AND YOU SHALL SERVE HIM, AND CLEAVE UNTO HIM

                                                            MIRIAM STARHAWK

NOW, LET ME SHOW YOU SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT A PRACTICING WITCH NAMED MIRIAM STARHAWK WROTE IN HER BOOK CALLED “THE SPIRAL DANCE”. STARHAWK REVEALS THE DEMON OF WHO WITCHES TRULY WORSHIP WHICH IS “PAN”(THE HORNED GOAT). SHE ASSOCIATES THE HORNED GOD WITH THE “GREAT REBEL” WHICH TO CHRISTIANS IS KNOWN AS THE OLD SERPENT(SATAN). STARHAWK CLAIMS THAT THIS GOD IS “ UNTAMED AND SEEKS NO MASTERS AND THAT HE IS A PROUD STAG WHO HAUNTS THE HEARTS OF THE DEEPEST FOREST, THAT OF THE SELF. HE IS THE STALLION, SWIFT AS THOUGHT, WHOSE CRESENT HOOVES LEAVES LUNAR MARKS EVEN AS THEY STRIKE SPARKS OF SOLAR FIRE. HE IS THE GOAT PAN, LUST AND FEAR, THE ANIMAL EMOTIONS THAT ARE ALSO FOSTERING POWERS OF HUMAN LIFE. YET HE IS UNTAMED, AND HE IS ALL THAT WITHIN US WILL NEVER BE DOMESTICATED, THAT REFUSES TO BE COMPOMISED, DILUTED, MADE SAFE, MOLDED, OR TAMPERED WITH. HE IS FREE”.

IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY PAN IS SHOWN AS HALF-GOAT AND HALF-MAN AND IS VIEWED AS THE GOD OF NATURE. THIS GOD WHO IS REALLY A DEMONS NAME MEANS “ALL”. AS THE HORNED GOD OF WITCHCRAFT HE IS SOMETIMES CALLED CERNUNNOS AND IS SHOWN AS HAVING A HEAD OF A BULL, THE TORSO OF A MAN, LEGS OF A SERPENT, AND THE TAIL OF A FISH. 

STARHAWK CALLS THIS GOD THE GOD OF THE WITCHES AND HE IS KNOWN TO THEM AS THE GOD OF LOVE. HE IS NOT IN ANYWAY ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRUE LOVE OF GOD(AGAPE) BUT IN FACT HE IS “EROS”, WHO IS IN FACT A DEMON OF LUST, VILE AFFECTIONS, AND SENSUOUS PASSIONS.

 THESE GODS AND GODDESS ARE ALWAYS ASSOCIATED WITH IMMORALITY. THE IMAGE OF ASHTORETH(BAAL’S WIFE) SHOWS A LARGE SNAKE COMING OUT OF THE GROUND BETWEEN THE GODDESSES FEET AND COILING AROUND HER LEGS, AND ITS HEAD ENTERING HER PRIVATE PART. THERE IS A HINDU COUNTERPART TO PAN THE HORNED GOD OF WITCHCRAFT KNOWN A “SHIVA”.   ALL OF THIS IS SATANIC BUT WITCHES DO NOT SEE IT THIS WAY. THE WORSHIPPING OF ANY OTHER GOD BESIDES THE ONLY TRUE AND LIVING GOD IS IDOLATRY. NOW, HERE IS SOMETHING ELSE MIRIAM STARHAWK STATED IN A TEACHING CALLED THE “REBIRTH OF THE GODDESS” SHE STATES THAT WITCHCRAFT IS IMPORTANT TO FEMINIST BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS THE REJECTION OF AUTHORITY THAT COMES FROM A PATRIARCHAL GOD. WITCHCRAFT ACCORDING TO STARHAWK TEACHES WOMEN TO LISTEN TO THE GODDESS LIFE FORCE WITHIN. IT TEACHES WOMEN TO REBELL AGAINST FATHER GOD AND NOT TO LISTEN OR KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. STARHAWK ALSO CLAIMS THAT THE GOD OF THE BIBLE IS AN INVENTION OF CHAUVINISTIC MALES WHO SOUGHT TO DESTROY THE INFLUENCE, POWER, AND POSITION OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY. WITCHCRAFT TO WITCHES IS A WAY OF BENDING OR SHAPING REALITY BY MEANS OF MAGIC. STARHAWK CALLS THIS THE ART OF CHANGING CONSICIOUSNESS AT WILL AND A CHANGED CONSCIOUSNESS IS A CHANGED REALITY. WITCHES BELIEVE THAT DEATH IS NOT AN END BUT IT’S A STAGE IN THE CYCLE OF LIFE THAT LEADS ON TO REBIRTH.  

THIS IS A LIE FROM THE PIT OF HELL!!!!!

DEUT 13:13-CERTAIN MEN, THE CHILDREN OF BELIAL, ARE GONE OUT FROM AMONG YOU, AND HAVE WITHDRAWN THE INHABITANTS OF THEIR CITY, SAYING, LET US GO AND SERVE OTHER GODS, WHICH YE HAVE NOT KNOWN

DEUT 18:10-THERE SHALL NOT BE FOUND AMONG YOU ANY ONE THAT MAKETH HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE OR THAT USETH DIVINATION, OR OBSERVER OF TIMES, OR AN ENCHANTER, OR A WITCH

SATAN PLAN OF SELF AND SELF LOVE AND THE DO AS THOU WILT AND THAT YOU ARE YOUR OWN GOD IS RUNNING RAMPANT AMONG THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT. HIS PLAN FROM THE BEGINNING WAS TO GET THE FIRST MAN AND WOMAN CREATED BY THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD TO REBELL AGAINST GOD AND TO MAKE FATHER GOD LOOK LIKE A LIAR, AND TO BECOME IDOLATROUS.


BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT SATAN IS DEFEATED AND HIS TIME IS COMING TO AN END.