To Neil:
Billy Graham will personally answer to Jesus for the apostacy that he is responsible for bringing into the Body of Christ---Jesus Christ's Church.
Phelps is right on. Billy Graham is totally apostate. In fact, he was personally responsible for “Living Bible” being used by mainline Christianity
"Tyndale House Publishers was founded by Taylor for the purpose of publishing his paraphrase, beginning with the Epistles as Living Letters in 1962.[color=990000] In the following year the evangelist Billy Graham offered Taylor's paraphrase as a television premium on broadcasts of his popular "Crusades," and this brought the book into prominence[/color]
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
(Galatians 1:8-9).
[b]The inspired Apostle Paul condemns in the strongest terms possible those who teach another Gospel other than the biblical Gospel of Jesus Christ. This means that God’s Word itself passes judgment on the souls of men who unrepentantly continue in their errors and persist in teaching wicked lies and the cunning fables of men in place of the true eternal Gospel of grace. Based upon this clear and direct curse pronounced upon them by the inspired Word of God we must conclude that the false teachers of false soul-damning gospels are accursed.[/b]
[b]SCHULLER: Tell me, what do you think is the future of Christianity?[/b]
[color=990000]GRAHAM: Well, Christianity and being a true believer — you know, I think there’s the Body of Christ. This comes from all the Christian groups around the world, outside the Christian groups. I think everybody that loves Christ, or knows Christ, whether they’re conscious of it or not, they’re members of the Body of Christ. [How can anyone love Christ or know Christ and not be conscious of it (Rom. 8:9,16; 10:14; 1 John 3:24; 4:13; John 3:18)?] And I don’t think that we’re going to see a great sweeping revival that will turn the whole world to Christ at any time. I think James answered that — the Apostle James in the first council in Jerusalem, when he said that God’s purpose for this age is to call out a people for His name. And that’s what God is doing today, He’s calling people out of the world for His name, whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world, or the non-believing world, they are members of the Body of Christ because they’ve been called by God.[b] They may not even know the name of Jesus, but they know in their hearts that they need something that they don’t have, and they turn to the only light that they have, and I think that they are saved, and that they’re going to be with us in heaven.[/color][/b]
[b]SCHULLER: Well, what I hear you saying, that it’s possible for Jesus Christ to come into human hearts and soul and life, even if they’ve been born in darkness and have never had exposure to the Bible. Is that a correct interpretation of what you’re saying?[/b]
[color=990000]GRAHAM: Yes, it is, because I believe that. I’ve met people in various parts of the world in tribal situations, that they have never seen a Bible or heard about a Bible, and never heard of Jesus, but they’ve believed in their hearts that there was a God, and they’ve tried to live a life that was quite apart from the surrounding community in which they lived.[/color]
[b]SCHULLER: This is fantastic! I’m so thrilled to hear you say that! There’s a wideness in God’s mercy![/b]
[color=990000]GRAHAM: There is. There definitely is. [/color]
[b]If you’re not absolutely shocked by such sentiments then you’ve not been paying attention to God’s Word. Yet Billy Graham’s unbiblical ecumenical madness isn’t the recent product of a deranged and demented mind racked with age – on the contrary such blatantly false teaching has for decades consistently spewed forth from the pulpits attended by Graham.
It deeply saddens me to know that the man who became known as “America’s Preacher” is nevertheless guilty of turning his back on the The Risen Lord of Glory. And while we can rest assured that men will always disappoint us, I am filled with righteous indignation at the fact that not only has the dog returned to his vomit, but through his broad influence and shameless spiritual smut-peddling he’s guilty of causing countless others who have followed in his footsteps to commit grave error through his example of rank apostasy.
Billy Graham has led an entire generation of pastor-teachers down the slippery slope of doctrinal error and ”ends-justify-the-means” pragmatism and his well established pattern of spiritual adultery with the likes of anti-Reformer Robert Schueller is highly documented and irrefutable.
This article from WND is but one example of the clear and established pattern of compromise of Billy Graham. Graham’s words in the linked article are eerily similar to the utterly unbiblical non-position taken by the apostate, anti-christ, Word of Faith arch-heretic and mouthpiece of Satan known as Joel Osteen when he was quizzed about whether or not non-Christians can go to heaven on CNN’s “Larry King Live” television show:[/b]
[color=0000FF]KING: Because we’ve had ministers on who said, your record don’t count. You either believe in Christ or you don’t. If you believe in Christ, you are, you are going to heaven. And if you don’t no matter what you’ve done in your life, you ain’t.[/color]
[color=990000]OSTEEN: Yeah, I don’t know. There’s probably a balance between. I believe you have to know Christ. But I think that if you know Christ, if you’re a believer in God, you’re going to have some good works. I think it’s a cop-out to say I’m a Christian but I don’t ever do anything …[/color]
[color=0000FF]KING: What if you’re Jewish or Muslim, you don’t accept Christ at all?[/color]
[color=990000]OSTEEN: You know, I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know …[/color]
[color=0000FF]KING: If you believe you have to believe in Christ? They’re wrong, aren’t they?[/color]
[color=990000]OSTEEN: Well, I don’t know if I believe they’re wrong. I believe here’s what the Bible teaches and from the Christian faith this is what I believe. But I just think that only God with judge a person’s heart. I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don’t know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don’t know. I’ve seen their sincerity. So I don’t know. I know for me, and what the Bible teaches, I want to have a relationship with Jesus.[/color]
[b]In case that response was too “nuanced” for our dear readers please allow me to translate for you:
So long as you’re “sincere” you may get go to “heaven”…maybe. “Jesus” may work for some of people who call themselves “Christians” – like me Joel Osteen (*insert broad toothy grin*) – and maybe they’re right…uh…I mean…um…maybe I’m right, but I’m not too sure about that, in fact I really don’t know, but hey, I don’t want to drag you down or beat you up with the Bible! Just be encouraged, friend! Maybe Buddha or Baal or a tree or a rock or a cow or the “Great Nothing” or…whatever…works for you and if so, it’s all good just so long as you’re “sincere” about whatever religion (or lack of thereof) you may (or may not) profess because Gawd has a wunnerful plah-yun fer yer life!
Unbelievable! This is a supposedly Christian pastor who’s squirming in his seat and giving unbiblical non-answers when quizzed about whether or not practicing, non-Christian Jews and Muslims are going to heaven! A small child who’s paid any attention whatsoever during Sunday School could answer this simple and direct question! Was this not an opportunity to share the Gospel message? Is Osteen not a messenger of the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Read the transcript again and decide for yourself in the light of infallible scripture.[/b]
[color=0000FF]With these and similar consistent statements in mind and based upon the crystal clear teaching found in Galatians 1:8-9 the sad conclusion that is reached is that Joel Osteen, like Billy Graham, must be deemed as an accursed, apostate, false teacher and a rank heretic. We can see this clearly because in the singular moment that “Smilin’ Joel” had in which to decide if he should risk the vaporization his fawning media coverage and the obliteration his “seeker friendly” status by proclaiming the exclusive and narrow way of Christ, he chose obedience to his father the devil and sought after the praise of men instead of being faithful to the Risen Lord of Glory Jesus Christ and His eternal Gospel of grace.
Joel Osteen is a friend of the world, and we know from Scripture that whosoever is friends with the world is at enmity with God Almighty.
Based upon these exact same types of evidences we must also conclude that Billy Graham is in fact an enemy of the One True and Living God who has forsaken his first love. Unfortunately he is so iconic within the modern professing church that many, if not most, would prefer to turn a blind eye to his manifold errors than expose them, and this is perhaps the gravest disservice of all. For those who true are born-again believers in Jesus Christ are to exhort and correct our fellow professing believers, not enable them in the error of their ways. But since the body of Christ has become derelict in its duty and for decades has been more than happy to leave a fool to his folly we find that Billy Graham’s apostasy is older than you think.
Futhermore in this short audio file Pastor John MacArthur astutely and irrefutably links the apostate universalism espoused by the harlot Roman Catholic Church, Billy Graham, and Robert Schueller which is the exact same demonic pack of lies that is being parroted by the arch-heretic Joel Osteen in the CNN transcript quote shown above. These heretical and unscriptural teachings are undeniably present in modern day evangelicalism and they are just as spiritually deadly and poisonous as ever.
“For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.” (2 Peter 2:21)[/color]
[color=990000]From Biblical Discernment Ministries: Billy Graham – General Teachings/Activities
Fifty years of compromise have increased Billy Graham’s popularity but have resulted in a serious loss of spiritual discernment and Scriptural convictions. Fifty years of compromise have brought Billy Graham into close fellowship and cooperation with millions of those who preach a false gospel and teach dangerous, unscriptural doctrines. His refusal to warn about the false gospel preached by the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant churches is inexcusable and indefensible. His failure to warn about the dangers of the wildfire teachings of charismatic leaders opens the door for millions of believers to be deceived. Fifty years of compromise have even led Billy Graham into joining with leaders of pagan, heathen religions on the basis of a mutual search for world peace” (March- May 1991 Foundation, p. 16).[/color]
Continue reading BDM’s absolutely devastating article on Billy Graham’s copious history of damnably false and pernicious teachings here:
[url=http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/graham/general.htm]Billy Graham General Teaching and Activities[/url]
[url=http://defendingcontending.com/2008/11/03/billy-grahams-apostasy/]Billy Grahams Apostacy[/url]
Sincerely,
Walter
