For a very long time I have needed to write about the religious icon, Billy Graham. On several
occasions over the past 15 years I have personally seen and heard him utter
words that no Christian could ever say. I did further research and my heart sank at
what I found. I have never written about
the man, but the time has come. I take
no pleasure in it – quite the opposite, but God’s standards apply equally to
all. I will let the words of Christian
ministers stand in place of mine.
John
MacArthur -
A Wideness in God's Mercy? (10 minutes)
(About Billy Graham)
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher, Jan 8, 2009 at www.ApprisingMinistries.com
The message you’ll see below from Billy Graham is
supposedly consistent with the one preached by Jesus Christ and His Apostles.
Apparently this is what Acts 17:6 tells us was the teaching that upset the
world and would get Christ crucified and each of His Apostles, save John,
killed.
Below is a clip from an appearance by Billy Graham on
Robert Schuller’s “Hour of Power,” program #1426 entitled Say “Yes” To
Possibility Thinking, which was originally broadcast May 31, 1997. The
following is from the transcript:
Schuller:
Tell me, what do you think is the future of Christianity?
Graham: 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. 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. 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.
Schuller:
What, 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?
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.
Schuller:
I’m so thrilled to hear you say this. There’s a wideness in God’s mercy.
Graham:
There is. There definitely is.
Truly amazing; Graham announces, and he’s far from
alone in this, “everybody that loves Christ, or knows Christ, whether they’re
conscious of it or not, they’re members of the Body of Christ.” Zow-ee; now we
even have salvation via osmosis with none of that nasty ol’ preaching of the
Gospel.
Of course there are those of us who will wonder: Can
you love and/or know someone and not be conscious of it; and then, inadvertently
end up a member of a Body you aren’t even aware of? God has said that to be
saved one must call on the Name of Jesus; and I wonder, can you really do that
without knowing it?
And is Graham, whom I had such great respect for—and
who is thought of as one of the greatest evangelists ever—really as obtuse as
his answer to Robert Schuller’s speculation makes him appear? Schuller hopes
that “it’s possible for Jesus Christ to come into human hearts and soul and
life” without the Gospel having been preached to them:
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.
Really? The Bible says merely believing there is a God
essentially qualifies one to be a demon —
Even the demons believe that—and shudder (James 2:19). And from over twenty
years of study in Comparative Religion and non-Christian cults I can tell you
that virtually all religious structures have people who try to live a so-called
“good life” and believe in God.
Well, at least this’ll all give us more time to head
out to another conference and afterward go knock back a couple of brews with
the boys at the pub while we have our pseudo-intellectual conversations about
Scripture we’re told that we can’t understand anyway. Sola evangelicalism
gloria.
----- The above article, along with a 1-minute video
of Billy Graham, is HERE.
And Then
There's This:
There is much more available. I have loved Billy
Graham the same as others have over the years. But he must be publicly called
to account – he is a media figure worldwide. The public always loves to hear
heresy....itching ears, you know.
Oh, and also, Billy is a 33rd Degree Mason.
"For the time is come that judgment must begin at
the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them
that obey not the gospel of God?” 1 Peter 4:17
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NOTE: The Deceiver did not want this written. Due to a
variety of unusual errors in the software it took me four hours to do this
10-minute blog. (Of course, once I discovered how impossible it was going to be
to get this blog done, nothing on earth could stop me. :-)
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