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theology
"When a well-packaged
web of lies has been sold gradually to
the masses over generations, the truth will seem
utterly preposterous and its speaker a
raving lunatic." - Dresden James
"The best theology would need no advocates: it
would prove itself." - Karl Barth
Nation of Islam - white
humans originated through genetic
experiments performed by
scientists.
Jehovah's Witness -
blood transfusion will contaminate
the soul and 3 does not equal 1.
Kabbalah - red string wards off the
evil eye and the
Torah is the name of
god.
Scientology - After spending years and tens of thousands
of dollars sycophants reach Theological Level III were they learn about Xenu
the galactic warlord, who 75 million years ago was in charge of 76
overpopulated planets. Xenu brought trillions of these alien beings, Teegeeack,
to Earth on spaceships and placed them in select volcanoes. Xenu then vaporized
the Teegeeack with hydrogen bombs, scattering to the winds their souls, called
thetans, which were then rounded up in electronic traps and implanted with
false ideas. Corrupted thetans attach themselves to people thus corrupting them
and leading them to drug and alcohol abuse, addiction, depression and other
psychological and social ailments that only Scientology classes and "auditing"
employing e-meters can cure. L. Ron Hubbard founded the
Church of Scientology after a break
with Anton Szandor LaVey the founder of the
Church of Satan.
Imperial Christianity
disregard the peaceful aspects of Jesus and focus on the return of a
supernatural Jewish messiah leading an avenging
army of angels that will sweep away all non-believers and law breakeers aside.
They righteously guard the hate in their hard hearts for those that fail to
believe that it is this supernatural god's will that
they torture and
kill the evil
doing blasphemous
heretics, anyone who disagrees with their version
of reality, in the name of their
evil supernatural
god - whom others name as Lucifer, Satan, Baphomet,
hermaphroditic Goat of Mendes, Beelzebub, Iblis. (Imperial Christians, Zionist Christians and One
World Order Christians believe themselves to be followers of Jesus but their
words and acts reveal them to be worshiping the anti-thesis of
Jesus.)
Fanatical Islam -
satiation of physical desire in
death.
Zoroastrian - everything that
exists is either
male or female, dark or light,
good or evil,
black or white.
Lifespring Inc - modification of
self image through
deep cathartic psychological
insight by experiencing completely every
feeling and
living only in the present
moment which brings lasting
happiness and
self-realization through the
grandiose delusion of the ultimate
limitlessness of an
individual's
power.
University Network - exceedingly
complex mythology that includes the Pyramids,
Atlantis, Roswell UFO's, Stonehenge, Amityville poltergeists, Nikola Tesla, the
Bermuda Triangle, The Spear of Destiny and even the Philadelphia Experiment
while preaching that a adherent's path to heaven
and position in heaven is dependent upon the
amount of money contributed to
William Eugene Scott to use however he
pleases.
Mormon - Jesus appeared in
America after his death on the cross;
God is made of flesh and
blood, is married to a heavenly
Mother and is fully comprehensible; 3 does not
equal 1; there is a secret handshake and everybody gets to wear itchy
underwear.
Søren
KierkegaardDanish
philosopher Søren Kierkegaard
asserted that the best religion was the most
ridiculous. Søren Kierkegaard
believed one cannot have
faith unless one is capable of
transcending one's own
rationality. Søren Kierkegaard
believed that the
individuals that betray
religion are the ones that try to make
rational sense
of it, such as ‘creation
scientists' who assert that the
Bible is a
scientific
theory.
"Søren Kierkegaard was
convinced that Christianity must be
life centered and so resisted
passionately any tendencies that might
make it thought centered." - Vernard Eller
theocratic
absolutismTheocratic absolutism has been around longer than
theory, and its effects have been far more
deadly.
You do not need to
believe in God to have a
theocracy; some theocracies are atheist.
A
system based on theocratic
absolutism has these
characteristics:
In theocratic
absolutism there are 'sacred writings', a scripture whose
word is inerrant and may not be
doubted, which has such
absolute authority that it trumps
all other authority. Everything, even the
discoveries of
science, must be
judged against what scripture says, and if
there is a contradiction, scripture
wins. This scripture might be the Bible, it might be the
Q'uran, it might be the works of
Karl Marx or it might be "words" of the "apostles" of the "New Apostolic
Reformation".
There are 'Doctors of
Theology', theocratic absolutists,
"apostles", "prophets", "think tank experts" who interpret the
'sacred writings, the 'holy book'
or the current up-to-date-cutting-edge market data needed to make decisions in the
fast paced volatile market of ever changing
"real world conditions" and make pronouncements on what it all means -
predictions. It might be Saint
Augustine, it might be the ayatollahs, it might be
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - "Lenin" or
it might be Milton
Freidman.
There is a priesthood
with special powers and privileges, there is
close control of the
news media
through manipulative press
releases, frenetic condemnation of
ideas not fitting neatly within the parameters
of the accepted dogma and new
initiates are "sold on
the product" fanatics.
The Roman Catholic
Church of the Counter Reformation invented the word 'propaganda'.
"All Americans,
regardless of individual
religious affiliation, or absence thereof, are
gravely threatened by this fundamental
undermining of the separation of
church and state in our beloved democracy." -Abraham Entin
Any
state religion must sanction
war, or it will be quickly replaced with
another that does.
Christianity took up
the sword once it was
adapted by the Roman Empire.
There is no turning of cheeks among imperial Christian rulers - and there hasn't been for 1600 years.
Yet the Words of Jesus are still there for
those who wish to return
to the pacifist tradition witnessed by the
spoken Words of Jesus.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be
called sons of God." - Matthew 5:9Attempts
have been made from time to
time to return to the original pacifist
tradition of Christianity but they have always been rejected
as "unrealistic". "We better kill them before they kill
us," "might makes right," "the
evil doers must be preempted and
punished" and "if your not with us you must
be against us."
"I was part of
a delegation to San Quentin in September 2005. Our day ended with a visit to the
death chamber. We had a final
discussion with the captain who had been our escort for the
day, who is also pastor of a fellowship in a
nearby community. We asked him how he could preach the love of Jesus on
weekends and be part of this killing process
during the week. He stunned us with his reply: "You have to leave your
faith at the gate to
work in this place"."
- Father George Horan
co-director of the Office of Restorative Justice of the Catholic Archdiocese
of Los Angeles
For 1600 years, imperial Christians have been by far the most
barbaric of the Earth's major religions. Starting with the
Roman Empire,
imperial Christians
got their biggest break with Constantine and have never looked
back, slaughtering all unbelievers by
blade, fire, crucifixion, impalement, iron
maidens and devices made strictly to kill in as
agonizing a fashion as possible. Imperial Christians used Norse berserkers to lead in
crusade battles.
Infighting between Imperial Christians cults
lead to the inquisitions and
methods of torture mentioned previously.
Ancient scientific pioneers were ruthlessly
exterminated. Giordana Bruno was
burned at the stake in 1586 for claiming the
Earth revolved around the
sun. Other early
scientific pioneers,
Nicholas Copernicus,
Galileo Galilei, et. al, work nearly cost them their
lives as they were
viewed as heretics. And of course the only thing that has
changed 2000 years after the birth of Jesus is
that the imperial
Christians do not publicize torture campaigns (foreign newservices do though!)
and heretics, those who
fail to accept the social culture of
the imperial
Christians, are written off as nut
cases while being forced to take
mind altering
medication!
The
dogma that traps men is used by
unscrupulous
religious leaders to
destroy
critical thinking.
Imperial
Christian's believe:
There is
a war between good and evil in the supernatural realm in
progress;
The State cannot commit
evil acts as it acts in
god's place;
The
State is invested with force instituted and
ordained by god;
The
State has received the
sword it weilds from the
hand of god;
The
State can kill people because it acts in
god's place;
Any
individual that defies the
State defies god;
If one acts in the name of
god then it is not a
sin;
People become
wealthy because they a righteous in the eyes of
god and the State;
At some time
Jesus will lead an
army of avenging angels to
destroy the evil-doers and it is in the interest of
sycophants to hasten the End Times;
A pantheon
of supernatural entities
exist which includes
god, archangels, angels, saints, satan and demons which can be controlled by
exorcists. (see
polytheist)
The words written in the
Bible are uncorruptable, accurate,
truthful and are all to be taken literally and
individualy unless a self-proclaimed apostle says otherwise;
If there appears to be a
contradiction in scripture the sycophant is told that
god will make everything clear after
death,
The most important aspect of
imperial Christianity
is the continuation of the ego after
death were everything the sycophant missed
in life will be given.
Assuming the
Lord will grant imperial Christians a
heavenly reward
after life is an
egocentric way of looking at
Jesus and God. The need
for a heavenly reward after life is
based on the desires of the
ego and of flesh to a continued
existence. The promise of a future
heavenly reward
was orginally designed to give the
individual strength through
hope and free the individual from a debilitating
fear of death.
After
many renditions, renewels,
remakes, reformations and revivals a
beautiful and wonderful
way of
living based on
Jesus' Words has been
defiled and corrupted into imperial Christianity -
an evolved Hellenistic
religion based on a
literal belief
in fantastic
supernatural happenings centered
on the glorification of the individual
ego which is physically embarked upon a
journey to
conquer the
supernatural
evil penetrating natural reality, this world, as
seen in the Kingdom Now/Dominion/Joel's Army,
British Israel and in the
Manifest Sons
movements.
The
emphasis on individual
ego calls on the
individual to do nothing more than
believe and spread the
dogma - the mark of all false religions.
A true religion frees
the disciple of detrimental
emotional baggage, teaches the
disciple how to live life in a way that is beneficial to both the
disciple and to every other
individual that comes into contact
with the disciple. Any
religion that fails to do this is a false
religion.
"Jesus
Christ commissioned his
disciples to go to the ends of the
Earth and tell everyone how they could achieve
eternal life. As we advance around the
Earth we'll be shortening the
time needed to fulfill that Great Commission.
Then, the Bible says,
The End will come."-
James Davis, Global Pastors
Network
"Our
whole purpose is to has hasten
the End times" - Bill McCartney
co-founder of the charismatic Promise
Keepers movement.
"We are the generation that will probably see
the rapture of the church. In
Christian theology, the first thing that
happens when Christ returns to
Earth is the judgment of nations. Twenty-five years ago, I
called a meeting of (neo)evangelists to
discuss such an effort, and the conversation didn't last an hour. This
time, I called and they all came and stayed. And
when the meeting was over, they all agreed to speak up for
Israel." -
(neo)evangelist
John C. Hagee -
founder of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, President and C.E.O. of Global
Evangelism Television which broadcasts in America on 120 full power
television stations, 110
radio stations and three networks" - has helped
12,000 Russian Jews move to
Israel, has donated several million
dollars to Israeli and wears a
Jewish prayer shawl. (The Russians
émigrés made it possible to build the wall between the
Palestinians and the Israelis as the Russians were willing to provide the
physical unskilled labor that the Palestinians once provided.)
You Tube -
John Hagee: Israel, Iran & Iraq
"I truly
believe
John Hagee is at
once a daring, beautiful
person - and quite
." - Orthodox Rabbi Brad
Hirschfield.
"I'm grateful for
all the wonderful Christian (neo)evangelists wanting to help us.
Christians are now
Israel's best
lobbyists in
America." - Gershon Solomon, spokesman for
Jerusalem's Temple Institute.
The International Christian Embassy
Jerusalem (ICEJ) is the largest Christian Zionist organization but other
influential Christian Zionist organizations form a broad coalition: The
American Messianic Fellowship (AMF); Bridges for Peace (BFP) ;the Evangelical
Sisterhood of Mary; and the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ);Christian
Friends of Israel (CFI); the Church's Ministry Among Jewish People, also known
as The Israel Trust of the Anglican Church within Israel (CMJ or ITAC);
Intercessors For Britain (IFB); Jews for Jesus (JFJ); The Messianic Jewish
Alliance America (MJAA); and, Prayer Friends of Israel (PFI). Leading
contemporary Christian Zionists include Charles Dyer, Mike Evans, Jerry
Falwell, Dave Hunt, Hal Lindsey, Pat Robertson and John Walvoord.
The
Christian Zionist by his unequivocal support of Zionism and Zionist Israel
believes he is helping God fulfill His prophetic plan. In reality Christian
Zionists have fallen for an evil deception. Rather than helping God fulfill His
plan they are helping the syndicate of the soulless fulfill it's plan for
mankind which does not put Jesus upon the throne of the New World Order but
instead seats the anti-christ as the head of the New World Order. (Although
Christian Zionist adherents profess to follow Christ their actions indicate
that their allegiance lies elsewhere.)
"We should examine our
faith constantly in the sweet
light of human reason
rather than believing, as the White Queen said
to Alice, "six impossible things before
breakfast." Faith is only an
approximation, like memory; I am never sure I
have the real
thing in my grasp. If I could, I'd
return to early
Christianity, before it became a
state religion under
Constantine; before its
connection to the
state, when it was a company of friends
whose inspired leader once said that the one
without sin should pick up the first stone." -
Nora
Gallagher During the past 160 years,
imperial Christians
trumpeting laissez-faire capitalism have
routed out every area where they desired to run their form of
economy, even the drug economy
beginning with the
Opium Wars in 1846. Although many of the
imperial Christian
nations do help others in times of
need, the G7 have used the IMF, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank as
economic hit men.
"The (neo)evangelists don't pay much attention to
New Testament
teachings such as those found in
Matthew that focus on social
justice. Instead they rummage around in the
Old Testament for passages that
support their political agenda, which is out of
sync with New Testament
principles." - John Rossmann
Imperial Christianity is based on the
Old Testament way of
thinking, ‘an eye for and eye' and
‘we are the chosen ones'. There
is only one book in the
New Testament that supports
imperial Christianity,
Revelation.
Biblical scholars
believe that
John the presbyter, a
priest, not John the Apostle wrote
Revelation.
Revelation uses
archetypal symbolism and a lot of numbers (numbers were
thought by some to have
magical properties at the
time - Kabbalah) in what appears to be a
hallucinogenic
dream to predict the return of the
Jewish Messiah. At one point the
Roman Catholics rejected the
writings of John the presbyter but
later decided to reinstate them into Catholic cannon as they allowed the
Roman Empire to commit
imperial action in the name of their
bloody imperial
god - Thanatos.
Imperial Christians need
to reject the false teachings of "prophets" and "apostles", stop basing
religion on a few scriptual verses and start
to carefully study the Words of the One they call
their God - Jesus.
You Tube -
Lay hands
Kingdom Now/Dominion/Joel's
Army mythology, a resurrection of early
imperial Christian
mythology, harkens back to the time when
Rome was still expanding and
Roman gods, especially
Thanatos, still walked the
Earth.
The basic premise of Kingdom Now/Dominion/Joel's
Army mythology is that man lost
dominion over the
Earth when Adam and Eve succumbed to
Satan's temptation in the
Garden of Eden. The
Father "lost
control" of the Earth
to Satan at that time, ("serpent seed" occurs - Cain spawn of Satan)
and has since been looking for a "covenant people" who will be the
Father's "extension," or
"expression," on Earth and take
dominion back from
Satan.
"Overcomers" who yield themselves to the
authority of the Father's
apostles and
prophets for the
Kingdom Age, will take
control of the kingdoms of this world. These kingdoms are defined as all
social institutions, such as the "kingdoms" of education, the "kingdoms" of
science, the "kingdoms" of the arts,
and so on. Most especially there is the "kingdoms" of politics or government. This
naturally implies the concentration of
military and police power in the
hands of the
apostles and
prophets who pass out
the various "kingdom" fiefdoms during
the "Kingdom Age". (Sounds
suspisciously like existent
corporatism, Vatican heirarchy and
George W. Bush's cronyism.)
According to
Jesus the Kingdom of God is within (or among)
people unlike Kingdom
Now/Dominion/Joel's Army mythology.
Jesus' Kingdom of God is approached through
understanding and is entered
into through the acceptance of God's Law
as reality with the awe of a child - this is
spiritual rebirth
within the will of
God.
The truth is this:
If all people learned to treat others as they wish to
be treated then human
life on Earth would
live in a Kingdom of God, as close to
Paradise as organic human beings could create. For this to happen all
individuals would have to be able
see themselves as - to empathize with -
every other unique individual
life. Empathy
becomes possible when we suspend critical judgement and see every unique
life as valuable in
and of itself.
Another truth is
this:
The proponents of
Kingdom
Now/Dominion/Joel's Army mythology would like
to make every human in the world
conform to their
ideology.
In so doing they are
attempting to return to the time of the attempted
unification of the Roman Empire through religious unification.
Will
they resort to the same methods that the Spanish Inquisition,
New Spain's Inquisition and the
Roman Inquisition adhered to in the attempt
to assure conformity of
religious thought?
In starting a war,
religious or otherwise, there is always the
possibility that the assumption of impending victory is false.
Hitler's
Germany,
Mussolini's
Italy and Hirohito's
Japan are
good examples.
Are the proponents of
Kingdom
Now/Dominion/Joel's Army mythology ready to
bend the knee and accept the tenets of Islam?
If the world becomes of one
religion why would anyone expect their
chosen religion to carry the day?
"As
history shows, there is absolutely
nothing to gain from immature playground mentality of charging into battle
because "my god is better than
your god". - Ellen Brown
Are the proponents of
Kingdom
Now/Dominion/Joel's Army mythology ready to
martyr themselves like those of the Inquisition?
If they are then why have
they not started carrying out suicide bombings to prove their
ability to martyr themselves in the name of their
imperial god,
Yahweh?
"There is no such thing as 'Christian'
soldiers. They may call themselves
'Christian', but those who follow the teachings of Jesus strive to love
their neighbor and do not kill." - Barbara AquinoAfter all Saudi
nationals took out the Twin Towers so why haven't the proponents of
Kingdom
Now/Dominion/Joel's Army mythology taken out
the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building (phallic symbol), on
Earth? (Apparently unlike their
Wahhabi brethern they spent all their
money on broadcast
airtime!)
Current
Kingdom
Now/Dominion/Joel's Army mythology seems to
exclude the Identity dogma.
In 1960,
Earl Pearly Paulk founded
"Harvester Ministry", a non-profit corporation, with his wife, his brother
Donald, and his sister-in-law Clareice in an area of Atlanta called "Little
Five Points."
In 1972, the fellowship became
known as Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at
Chapel Hill Harvester famed for combining visual
arts, particularly the dance team, with a liturgical style.
Earl
Pearly Paulk neoevangelic television
and radio programs were seen and heard on Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Earl Pearly Paulk was a
semi-regular guest on Trinity Broadcasting Network's
"Praise the Lord."
In 1982,
Earl Pearly Paulk was
ordained as a bishop in the International Communion of
Charismatic
Churches, a non-profit corporate
institution.
Earl Pearly Paulk has been
involved in many sex scandals spanning several
years.
Cindy Hall claimed
Earl Pearly Paulk kissed
her, intended to "make love" to her and told her that
they had a "special gift of love outside holy
matrimony".
Tricia Weeks, a biographer/ghostwriter for
Earl Pearly Paulk,
claimed she had a two-year affair.
Mona Manning Brewer, a Sunday School
teacher featured regularly as a soloist on television, claimed that Earl Pearly Paulk
felt "'impressed of the Lord' to get to know her
better" after there had been a "word of
knowledge" claiming that she was about to enter a new
relationship that would benefit her.
Earl Pearly Paulk preached
"when you are in despair, the Lord will
send you a resurrection", later claiming
that Mona Manning Brewer was his resurrection.
Jessica Battle, a
member of the dance team, accused
Earl Pearly Paulk of
molesting her between the ages of 7 and 11, and
later of forcing himself on her when she was 17.
Donnie Earl (D.E.) Paulk, nephew of
Earl Pearly Paulk and
senior pastor of the Cathedral at Chapel Hill, informed the congregation that
he is actually the biological son of
Earl Pearly Paulk, and
not the son of Donald Paulk.
A court-ordered DNA test confirmed this
and Earl Pearly Paulk was
forced to resign as archbishop of the International Communion of
Charismatic
Churches (ICCC).
In 2006
Earl Pearly Paulk swore
in a deposition that the only woman he ever had sex with outside of marriage
was Monica Manning Brewer. As part of the same lawsuit 8 women testified thay
had sex under duress with
Earl Pearly Paulk. In
2008 Earl Pearly Paulk
was found guilty of lying under oath, a felony. By 2008
Earl Pearly Paulk's Bible
College was closed and television show
canceled.
"Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be
called sons of God." - Matthew 5:9
"History's moral
tragedies were often accompanied by
clergy who were timidly and quietly complicit with the
destructive
government policies of their day. Reasonable
people no doubt differ on how to
identify and solve
today's moral issues. It is, however, unreasonable to
claim that Jesus and the
other
prophets do not have something to say
about a doomed, unjust, immoral
war; state
sanctioned torture; international
silence in the face of
genocide and
state sanctioned
murder through the
death penalty."- Ed Bacon, Rector,
All Saints Episcopal Church Pasadena
"If converting to Islam is all it takes to get the
terrorists off our backs,
then all I have to say is, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. And the best part:
nothing would really have to change. We're not asking
Americans to disrupt something
essential in their daily lives, like changing
your e-mail address. We'd be Muslims in name
only, instead of what Americans are now -
Christians in name only. I mean, look around,
we don't care for the poor, or defer to the meek, or avoid
judging people - it's not like we're that
committed to Christianity." -
Bill Maher
Word of faith is a fast growing
movement. Two distinct yet
closely related factions are involved: the Norman
Vincent Peale/Robert H. Schuller
Positive/Possibility fellowships, with their roots in the
New Thought of William Essek Kenyon, and the
Kenneth E. Hagin/Kenneth Copeland Positive Confession
word of faith fellowships, which have their
roots in both William Essek Kenyon's
New Thought and William Marrion Branham
Manifest Sons/Latter Rain
dogma.
"High achievers spot rich opportunities
swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow
these principles and you can make your dreams
come true." - Robert H. Schuller
Word of faith dogma
includes the following ideologies
Christians are "gods" who can use their own divinity to "speak"
things into
existence, those that are not healthy and
wealthy lack faith, faith is a "supernatural force"
capable of being used for good or
evil, use of negative words and thoughts
release Satan's
power, while positive words and thoughts
release the Lord's
power.
Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth E. Hagin,
Benny Hinn,
Paul Crouch,
Oral Roberts,
Richard Roberts, John
Avanzini, Reinhard Bonnke, Rodney
Howard-Browne, Morris Cerullo, Robert Tilton and almost all the
celebrities on Trinity
Broadcasting Network practice word of
faith.
YouTube - Kenneth Hagin & Kenneth Copeland: Pentecostal
Bedlam
"You are as much the incarnation of
god as Jesus
Christ was." - Kenneth E. Hagin
"Did you know that from the
beginning of time the whole purpose of
god was to reproduce
himself?... And when we stand up here,
brother, you're not looking at Morris Cerullo; you're looking at
god." - Morris Cerullo
"Being poor is a sin. The only
time people were poor in the Bible is when they were under a curse." - Robert
Tilton
Robert Tilton bought 5,000 hours per month of broadcast airtime
for his Success-N-Life television
program which was broadcast in all American
broadcasting markets until it was
discovered Robert Tilton threw away prayer requests without reading them,
keeping only money and valuables sent to him by viewers which garnered him an
estimated $84 million per year.
YouTube - Robert Tilton Preacher Israel S1
The Lesser Key of Solomon suggest Robert
Tilton to channeleth Berith, a mighty and terrible duke. Berith
can turne metal into gold, Berith can grant celebrityhood, Berith
speaketh wth a very clear & subtile voice, Berith is a great lier
and not to be trusted.
![Berith he can turne all mettals into Gold, he can give dignity & [can] confirm them to Men, he speaketh wth a very clear & subtill voice, he is a great Lyer and not to be Trusted](image/berith.gif)
Exorcists wear this
symbol on their panties to
control Berith
"You don't have a god in you, you are one!" -
Kenneth CopelandKenneth Copeland is a
word of faith
television neoevangelist and the founder
of a religious
institution called Kenneth Copeland Ministries, a non-profit
corporation.
In the 1960s,
Kenneth Copeland was a pilot for
Oral Roberts. When
Kenneth Copeland was thirty years old he
enrolled in Oral
Roberts University, a non-profit corporation, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Kenneth Copeland later became a member of the
Oral Roberts
University Board of Regents.
Kenneth Copeland later became acquainted with
Kenneth E. Hagin, founder of RHEMA Bible
Training Center (RBTC), also known as
RHEMA Bible College, which is located on 110
acres in Broken Arrow suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The curriculum RHEMA Bible
Training Center, a non-profit corporation, is taught from a
Charismatic/Pentecostal
viewpoint. RHEMA Bible
Training Center is not accredited.
YouTube - Kenneth Copeland describes a religious
experience
the .
Trinity Broadcasting Network
(TBN) is the largest religious
television network on
Earth. Trinity Broadcasting Network was
founded by Paul Crouch, Jan Crouch, Jim
Bakker, and Tammy Bakker in 1973. Trinity Broadcasting Network
currently is the ninth largest broadcaster in America. The network now has a larger
American audience than its three main
competitor networks combined - followed by Daystar Television Network
and The Inspiration Network. Trinity Broadcasting Network is
carried on over 275 television stations in
America and on thousands of other cable
television systems around the
world in 75 countries, where its programs are
translated into eleven languages. Trinity Broadcasting Network, a
non-profit corporation, owns 23
full-power television stations and 252
low-power rural stations in America.
On
Trinity Broadcasting Network's Spring, April 1999
"Praise-a-Thon," Benny
Hinn related his dream of being visited by
Elijah who handed him his rod that could turn
rivers into streams of blood.
Benny Hinn asked fellow guest
Marc Chironna to interpret his
dream after proclaiming Marc Chironna to be a
prophet. Marc Chironna
agreed that Benny Hinn had
received "the spirit of Elijah and the
essence of the Elijah ministry."
Benny Hinn went on to use
the new authority to get people to send in a double tithes to Trinity Broadcasting Network claiming they would not
survive the coming year if they did not double their tithes.
Trinity
Broadcasting Network "Praise-a-Thons" have used
Elijah over and over again to put fear of the
retribution of Elijah into those who might use
their Social Security checks to pay the rent instead of handing it over as
tithes. The "prophets"
excuses for their failures are getting more and
more clever. When a "word of knowledge"
turns out to be proven wrong, they won't admit their
connection to the
supernatural
failed - just that they
mistakenly interpreted God's word.
"Man, I remember when the
Lord would give me
words of knowledge back when I began in this
ministry. I missed nine out of ten. Nobody knew it except me. 'Well,
Benny Hinn', I
thought, 'when the
holy ghost' - saints, the
holy ghost is using an imperfect vessel.
Are you listening? We're not infallible. Or when you give a
prophecy sometimes you can be way off,
you have to be open enough to say I blew it.
Prophets blow it all
the time. Paul blew it; Moses blew it; even Elijah blew it! They all blew it. Maybe not with
prophecies, but they
blew it in all kinds of things …When the
supernatural spiritual
gift begins it begins rough, but then as
you keep going with it you just get better and better and cleaner and purer
with it. So today with the "word of
knowledge" - I'm just being open with - I rarely miss anymore. Why?
Because I recognize how to operate in it."
- Benny Hinn
Benny
Hinn says his children don't recognize him and are in fact afraid of him
when he is "in the
anointing".
YouTube - Benny Hinn: Let the Bodies Hit the Floor
YouTube - Suzanne Hinn: Holy Ghost Enema
John Avanzini is billed as a recognized
authority on biblical economics. The
truth is that John
Avanzini is an authority on perverting Scripture as a means to picking the
pockets of acolytes. John
Avanzini has honed his craft into such an art
form that when word of faith teachers need
money, they call on "Brother
John ." Armed with a bag full of
Bible twisting tricks,
John Avanzini tells the unsuspecting:
"A
greater than a lottery has come. His name is Jesus!" - John Avanzini,
Trinity Broadcasting Network
"Praise-a-Thon"
"I turned on Trinity Broadcasting Network, and some of the very people
that turned me off, all of a sudden I looked at them with different eyes,
because I had repented, and I looked at them with different eyes and they
ministered to me and I broke and wept in my living room before the
Lord. The Lord touched my heart. And I had to humble myself down like a
little boy and learn again to receive from the Lord. I had to learn to receive from people
again." - John
Kilpatrick
"Brother Kenneth E. Hagin
and Brother Kenneth Copeland have done an
excellent job along with others on teaching us about the authority of the
believer." -
John Kilpatrick
John
Kilpatrick was pastor of the Brownsville Assembly of
God.
"In the so-called monotheism of today, in addition
to God there is also an acknowledgment of
many transcendent beings capable of influencing
reality: The son of God, the mother of God, the
devil, angels and demons immediately come to
mind." - R.H. Joseph YouTube - Three year old with the Holy
Ghost.......
Most
Christians claim to be monotheistic but a
large percentage of those who claim to be monotheistic have a
belief system that is polytheistic. This
harkens back to the polytheism of
the Greeks and Romans which replaced the
monotheism of the
Jews, who believe in only one God, with an imperial
Christian ideology with a
heirarchy of supernatural
beings.
Polytheistic "Christians"
believe that God,
Jesus and the Holy Spirit - three separate entities - are
one.
Conceptually it is
metaphorically possible to make three forms of
God unite into one God.
Even if these three forms of God unite in God to make one
God then where does God's arch
enemy Satan fit in?
One
definition of a god is a
supernatural entity that can
modify reality.
Does
Satan have the
power, as God
does, to modify reality?
Does
Satan modify the world physically through materially altering the
natural and
physical laws that
God has set in place?
Or does
Satan modify
human reality spiritually by generating the temptation
of unfulfillable desire based on a
mistaken image of self coupled with a
need to satisfy and fulfill the fantasy desires
of that mistaken self - a
self-centered ego which does not
adequately
comprehend it's actual place in
the scheme of things.
Those that
believe that
Satan exists and acts on Earth to prevent humans from
walking with God are polytheists.
Typically those that believe in
Satan also believe in a legion of demons and an army of angels that can modify
reality.
For monotheists if there are
only three aspects of the living
God and Satan is believed to exist then Satan being not God, the Father, or
Jesus, the
Son, must be the
Holy Spirit.
Are those that are possessed by the
Holy Spirit, "speaking in tongues", in
reality possessed by
Satan?
Traditional
polytheist Christian fellowships find many of
the behavioral practices of the
Pentecostal
revival movements - Healing, Latter Rain, Toronto, The Call, Charismatic, New Apostolic
Reformation, the Apostolic
Culmination, Manifested Sons -
disconcerting, unnerving and unsettling.
Many polytheistic
Christian traditionalists see fits of uncontrollable
"holy laughter" - and all other "supernatural spiritual gifts"
- during a Bible reading as mocking
God's Word and actually being a
deceptive ploy perpetrated by the
deceiver
Satan.
When members of a
fellowship are seen to behave like
animals many polytheistic
Christian traditionalists see this as
Satan mocking
human beings, and lowering them to the status of
animals.
Many polytheistic
Christian traditionalists believe
Pentecostal
revival movements to be a ploy
by Satan to gain ever greater numbers
of deceived swooning foot soldiers by
the day, foot soldiers who believe that they
have sworn allegiance to God only to have
actually enlisted in a supernatural war on the side of
Satan.
Question: What do you call someone who
believes in God but not Satan?
Satan only gains
power over us if we grant
evil the power to
exist in our hearts and souls.
God, on the other hand, remains firmly in
control of natural reality whether we wish it to be so or not.
Satan deceives us into
believing we will be given
supernatural spiritual
"rewards" - that we will be endowed with
supernatural power
to control others, perform
miracles and become as
Jesus, a Manifest Son - such
supernatural spiritual
"rewards", we are told by false religious
teachers, come from the Holy Spirit.
These
supernatural spiritual
"rewards" may come as "speaking in tongues, "prophecy", "slain in the spirit", "holy laughter",
barking like a dog,
shaking like a leaf in a
storm, visions of people and places
described on live television with
outstanding skills of oratory and rhetoric - these are
manifestations, to be sure, but
there is no evidence that such behavior is an outpouring of the
Holy Spirit.
Jesus cast out "demons."
Jesus healed
people that exhibited erratic behaviors that were attributed to "possession by
demons."
The individuals that
Jesus healed
exhibited the same types of behavior that is now called an "outpouring of the
Holy Spirit."
"In proportion as mind and heart are fixed upon the glorified
Lord Jesus Christ, we may count on the
Holy Spirit's enabling. But if we make the
Spirit Himself the object of our
aspirations and worship, some false spirit may
counterfeit the true and take us for a
prey." - Sir Robert Anderson
Isolation is a solid
weapon of witchcraft.
Witchcraft wants to separate you from
your friends, your family, or anyone
whom it perceives can speak truth into your
life.
People operating in
witchcraft are
masters at pitting people
against one another in order to separate and
isolate them.
The spirit of witchcraft likes abnormal attention, but most
importantly, attention behind the scenes.
People operating in
witchcraft don't want to share your
attention with others but want to keep you totally for themselves.
If
need be, witchcraft will even get
super spiritual in its
effort to manipulate you.
People who walk in witchcraft have an
uppity air of spiritual superiority
about them.
(Claims of
spiritual fatherhood
fall into this category.)
The force of
witchcraft will cause people to lose their
individual identities.
Those influenced by
witchcraft begin to wonder who they
are.
Sickness is a key weapon of
witchcraft.
When you are battling
witchcraft, you might start getting severe
headaches or feel like you are choking and can't breathe.
I have met
many people, especially intercessors, who
felt sick and got headaches when witchcraft
was attacking them. (Or perhaps God was
trying to give them a message that went unheeded!)
Witchcraft drains the life (energy) right out of you.
Witchcraft controllers spend abnormal amounts of time with
their victims (disciples).
Witchcraft will go out of the way to
control and waste your time.
Witchcraft is a master at diverting attention
away from itself by turning it toward you.
Witchcraft makes others
think that you are
the one with the problem.
People operating in
witchcraft are
masters at taking the focus off of
themselves whenever they are about to be discovered.
The spirit of witchcraft seeks a legitimate front.
Witchcraft uses sexual soul ties to control
its victims (disciples).
If a
witch can hook your
emotions, then he or she can gain a
soul tie with you.
If he or she can form a
soul tie with you, then he or she can
control you.
Sexual
relations in marriage generate a healthy soul
tie, while sexual relations outside of marriage
create unhealthy soul ties.
Apostle Jonas
Clark, Spirit of Life Ministries, Hallandale Beach, Florida USA
In 1484 Pope Innocent the VIII, issued a
proclamation that decreed all cats as evil and
involved with Satan because the
Egyptians had venerated cats. As result anyone
seen talking to a cat was charged with witchcraft
and burned at the stake. Any cat found was
killed. The Black Death, the bubonic plagues that swept Europe, were caused by
the systematic extermination of cats. Bubonic plague was spread to
humans from the bites of fleas that rode
on the backs of rats. Without a stable cat population to
control the rats, the fleas spread everywhere
and carried the infected fleas with them.
Every American
woman that has a cat talks to it! They all must be witches worshiping pagan
Egyptian
gods and trafficking with
Satan! Burn the lonely old
witches in the name of
god!
"It was exhilarating, thrilling,
reviving,
rewarding - everything an angelic warrior was
made for!
The Host of Heaven had waited so long and had built up such
fervor that when the signal finally came, they broke over the crests of the
mountains on every side like a violent, shimmering
ocean wave and showered down like hail upon the
dark cloud of demons in the valley, scattering them like dust before the
wind, routing, battling, swinging, and pushing
down, down, down toward the Summit Institute.
Tal, at the crest of the
wave, dove like a hawk, his wings straight back,
his sword a needle of
light at the end of his outstretched arm. His war
cry could be heard above all the tumult, and his
sword was the first to
strike. They flew into the heart of the black cloud, like piercing a black,
boiling thunderhead. The swords of spirits clashed,
wings slapped and fluttered, red smoke fogged the air.
Tal kicked, cut,
spun like a scythe, and fought his way downward, downward. He could hear the
roar of Guilo, the Strength of Many, just above and to the left, batting at
demons and mowing them down, flipping them sideways to meet other blades,
kicking and grabbing what hides he could find, cutting a widening swath,
gutting the cloud at its core." - Frank E. Perretti - author This Present
Darkness
Strategic-level
spiritual warfare,
popular in the New
Apostolic Reformation , often involves going to the highest place in a city
or region, like a mountain top, with attempts to bind "territorial spirits,"
the "high-ranking demons" that
rule over specific geographical regions. The
idea is that - if their
demonic grip is broken - then the people who
live in that region will respond en masse to the
word of God, and they will be
freed of sinful strongholds, like
evil magic,
lust and greed.(Good magic and
self-righteous
pride are acceptable though!)
Many
fellowships have eagerly adopted
strategic-level spiritual
warfare, believing it's the key to
fulfilling the "Great Commission" which will usher in the "Kingdom Age". Adherents take part in showy ceremonies,
where they seek to directly confront territorial spirits by name.
Apostles of the
New Apostolic Reformation
anoint
adherents with specific
supernatural
powers. John Arnott
anoints
adherents with a "new anointing" he calls
the "Sword of the Lord"
or "Warrior Anointing"
which brings supernatural
power.
The
apostles of the
New Apostolic Reformation
sell a form of supernaturalism that is
suspiciously similar to fantasy video games.
Just like the fantasy hero adherents are
anointed with
supernatural
powers so they may attack greater and larger demonic forces. Just like
video game manufactures charge consumers for their games,
New Apostolic Reformation
adherents are charged a fee to receive the next new "anointing." (And if you
could not attend the "conference" you can
purchase a DVD of past events and past training sessions for a nominal fee. If
you have faith then you too will receive
the "anointing!")
Supernatural spiritual
warfare comes dangerously close to shamanism which may culminate in the
belief that an
individual can
control and be controlled or possessed by supernatural entities - angels and
demons in polytheistic neoavangelic cults and
animals in shamanistic cultures.
Kansas City fellowship was
founded in 1982 by Mike Bickle after he
received a prophecy and "heard an
audible voice" in Cairo,
Egypt.
Bob Jones debuted in 1983. In 1984,
Bob Jones and another member of
Kansas City fellowship claimed they "heard the
audible voice of the
Lord" telling them that in 10 years the
"new wine would be poured out" just like the butler (cupbearer) was restored to
his position serving Pharoah (Genesis 40:13).
John Paul Jackson debuted in 1985. In 1986
Kansas City fellowship founders and elders form
Grace Ministries, an umbrella non-profit
corporation designed to facilitate the emergence of
end-time
prophets.
YouTube - We're Living in the Final Hour - John Paul
Jackson
The various ministries eventually included Apostolic
Teams, City Churches, The House of
Prayer (now IHOP), The Joseph Company, The Israel
Mandate, Ministry Training Center and Shiloh Ministries. In
2000 Mike Bickle handed over senior pastorship
of Metro Christian fellowship to
Floyd McClung, former Youth with a Mission international director.
"During my five-year tenure at Kansas City
fellowship I was an eyewitness to the teachings and
experiences of Bob
Jones and John Paul Jackson, as well as the lesser
known "prophets" and "seers."
What I am concerned about is those who are being led astray by his unscriptural
teachings." - Timothy Smith
"I believe
you could divide up the history of the
Kansas City fellowship into five eras. The
first was late 1982 to 1985, the Formative years. The second was 1985 to 1990,
the Hijacked years. The third was 1990 to 1996, the Languishing years. The
fourth was 1996 to 2000, the
"valiant-attempt-to-make-a-comeback-but-not-knowing-how-to-do-it" years. The
fifth are the "IHOP-Shiloh" years, 2000 to
present. Even when the leadership wanted in the worst way to do the
will of God, ignorance at the
very least, if not the temptations
to fame and popularity, kept them from seeing what that
will of God was. " - Don
Clasen
Harvest Rock began in Maryland in 1982
with the common vision of
Ché Ahn and
Lou Engle.
"The year is 1982. I am in Maryland, and
Ché Ahn is pastor
of a fellowship. Ché
Ahn has a dream. In the
dream a black
man is saying, "Come to Los Angeles. There is going to be a great
revival. There is going to be a
great harvest." Then Ché Ahn woke up -
and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
Ché Ahn began to
seek confirmation and to seek council from the leadership of People of Destiny
International (PDI)." - Lou
Engle
Ché Ahn prayed that
Larry Tomczak,
co-founder of PDI would ask him to plant a new fellowship in Los Angeles as a
confirmation of the dream. Six months passed
before Larry Tomczak
asked him out to lunch - a lunch during which
Ché Ahn was
certain Larry Tomczak
would ask him to establish a new fellowship.
Larry Tomczak preferred
that the new fellowship to be closer to Maryland than the site of
Ché Ahn's
dream but elders of PDI were open to
Ché Ahn's request
that the fellowship be established in California, but they asked him to seek
further confirmation. (People of Destiny International changed it's name
to PDI Ministries in 1998 and to Sovereign Grace Ministries in
2003. All non-profit corporations.)
While "seeking the
Lord"
Ché Ahn spent a
few days in a condominium in Ocean City, Maryland.
Ché Ahn had an
"impression" to turn on the television to
see if Pat Robertson's "700 Club" was on the
air. Ché Ahn
surfed the channels and came to Pat
Robertson's show just as Pat Robertson
was giving a "word of knowledge": "There is
a pastor who is asking the Lord for a
confirmation about planting a fellowship. The Lord says this of him. 'And if you go out in
unity and harmony, the
Lord will give you great
success.'"
Ché Ahn convinced
the pastors and elders that he had heard from the
Lord. In 1984 twelve persons from PDI,
including Ché Ahn
and Lou Engle left for
Los Angeles as the black man in the
dream instructed. They had been reading a book by
Frank Bartleman, the reporter who made
Pentecostal history
with his first-hand account of the
Azusa Street
revival, and felt "called" to settle in
Pasadena to await a fresh move of the
Spirit in the greater Los Angeles area.
The next ten years were
difficult ones for Ché Ahn. A
widespread "spiritual
drought" occurred in 1980s and the rapid growth
experienced in the 1970s due to the
Jesus movement was fast becoming a
memory. Despite prayer, fasting and active
neoevangelism, there was no sign of the expected
revival. Over the years
Ché Ahn's
fellowship grew to about 500 people, but it was not the
revival of
Ché Ahn's
dreams. Luckily
Ché Ahn was able
to attend Fuller Theological Seminary at this
time were Ché Ahn
studied psychology while earning
a Master and Doctorate of Divinity.
"On other fronts, we did everything
possible to evangelize during that decade. We did open air preaching at
California State of Los Angeles. We went door to door witnessing. We did street
theater. We went into the ghettos. We held special meetings. We brought in
special speakers. Yet we saw little fruit. It was a far cry from
revival." -
Ché Ahn
During the "spiritual
drought" experience of the 1980s and
early 1990s Ché
Ahn and Lou
Engle's vision for
revival was nurtured by
dreams, visions,
and prophecies.
Lou Engle had a
vision that the mantle of Frank Bartleman would
be his. Ché Ahn
described this period as "the eighties from Hades."(poor cash
flow?)
"Therefore hearken not ye to your
prophets, nor to your
diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your
enchanters, nor to your
sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying,
Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon." - Jeremiah 27:9
"During this
season I picked up this book by Bartleman again, and the
Lord began stirring in my
heart that this is what he wanted to do in
Los Angeles again. One night - I think I had
been fasting and praying (or drinking) - I just cried out. I cried, "Give me
the mantle of Frank Bartleman. I want to see
revival - I want to see
revival in Pasadena." "The next
day a brother comes up to me - someone with whom I had covenanted (soul ties)
and with whom my heart is knit. He didn't
know what I had been praying for, but he
said, "I had a dream of you last night, and in
the dream I saw a black book. On it I read the
word 'revival' on the cover. I turned to
the inside and saw the image of a guy's face, and
it said 'Frank Bartleman.' I was looking at his face, and it turned into your
face." - Lou
Engle
Ché
Ahn received a boost when he met the black
man of his dream. It was during a clergy
gathering in 1992 that Ché Ahn spotted the
black man who in a dream a decade earlier said, "Come to Los Angeles.
There is going to be a great revival. There is going to be a
great harvest."(Does the "black man" have a
name?)
Ché
Ahn approached the black man and asked
him if he had been praying for revival. The
black man replied that he had begun praying
for revival in Los Angeles in
1982 when we heard a Paul Yonggi Cho speak about how he had prayed for
revival in Korea. This
encounter provided a fresh encouragement for both
Ché Ahn and
Lou Engle .
"We felt this was a sign that
Azusa Street still
lives." - Lou
Engle
Problems between the fellowship in
Pasadena and the parent People of Destiny International were brewing
during the years of drought and came to a head in 1993. It was during that time
that Cindy Jacobs called
Ché Ahn and told
him that 1993 would be the hardest year of his life and that he would be leaving the fellowship he
founded, "but not until 1994."
"The leaders accepted my resignation as
senior pastor, but asked for me to stay on for a one year transition period. I
agreed. I stepped down as senior pastor, and became a staff (neo)evangelist. A
pastor whom I had raised up became the new senior pastor. Now the young man to
whom I was a pastor while he was in seminary became my new pastor and my boss.
My salary was drastically reduced, and to say the least, so was my
pride. Yet the real pain I was facing was deep
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