May 2018 – Bonita Bible Mission

EVANGELISM AWRY.
The hidden humanism of the evangelical churches promotes the easy religion of do-it-yourself salvation. Much of this is achieved by twisting
1. God said it.
2. I said it.
3. I have therefore believed it.
4. I have automatically got it (irrevocable eternal life).

This is he humanistic psychology of New England Theology that pervades America and much of the global outreach in the third world after one hundred years of the Golden Age of Evangelism. Refined as faith by William James, the Father of American Psychology, in his Varieties of Religious Experiences in the 1850’s. This plague of easy religion that wet global in the 1948 B.G. Crusades is a complete distortion of the Reformation’s message of grace.

This easy religion offering unconditional acceptance into the Kingdom by SELF FAITH and automated repentance is justified by the moral majority who twist Romans 10:9 away from its context and bibliolatrously venerate it (& verse 13). Then the clergy of easy-religion use them to interpret all other Scriptures. This illogical hermeneutic becomes the arbiter of all New Testament truth and acts as a blocking filter to disallow both the effects of the curse and its legacy of ORIGINAL SIN to deny man’s utter dependence upon the endowment of grace to repent and believe the Gospel.
If the heart of man is as wicked and deceitful as the Psalmist, the Prophets and Jesus maintained, then only grace will enable ‘saving-faith’ unto regeneration, called the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH.
Only grace can turn worldly sorrow into godly sorrow (repentance).
Only grace can cause the wanton heart to seek the Lord wholeheartedly.
Only grace can awaken the deadened soul to hear the CALL OF CHRIST TO FOLLOW HIM.
Only grace will thereafter cause the awakened soul to HEAR AND LEARN OF THE FATHER.
Only grace can bring a person to face his/her failed and fallen SELF.
Only grace can show the awakened his sin and his RESURRECTED SAVIOUR.
Only grace can instil and infuse the HOPE OF REDEMPTION by opening the eyes of the awakened to Christ in the Scriptures, and INSTANTANEOUSLY regenerate him and translate him from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of HIS dear Son.
Grace has received a bad name from Christendom’s moral majority. Indoctrinators of sectarianism, especially right-wing evangelicals conveniently see only black or white: viz: Calvinism or Arminianism.
Today this allows them to dispense with ORIGINAL SIN, the weakened state of human faculties from sin and the disabled, dysfunctional conscience that universally leads men to WORSHIP SOMETHING OR SOMEONE rather than Christ. Some unwittingly end up worshipping worship itself in a form mystical mesmerisation, which can hold hypnotic sway over the indulging group. This especially takes place where expectation of signs prevail and physical aberrant behaviour is accepted without question.
Even religious worship is merely an expression of a natural universal inborn desire of humanity to worship ‘THEY KNOW NOT WHAT. whether they are born into a Christian or pagan culture. The apostle Paul saw this at Mars Hill, in Athens. It can be regularly observed in among agnostics, so-called atheists, and various religions including spiritism and animism. Worshipping the god of REASON is nonetheless a religion. This includes the sophists spawned by Thomas Aquinas etc.
Eve was brought into Eden’s paradise in a state of innocence (not righteousness) but she, unlike Adam, unwittingly worshipped a paranormal spirit incarnate in the Serpent. She led Adam to succumb to her worshipful desire for KNOWLEDGE of the gods. Part of the curse endemic to mankind, is the NATURAL BENT TO WORSHIP which when indulged will smooth the dying pillow of the indulger, thus placating any fears about life’s temporariness.
America turned away from the message of its Puritan Fathers when the lapsed evangelist Jonathan Edwards in 1746 wrote ‘The Freedom of the Will. He had not only rejected the Puritan Fathers, but re-echoed the humanism of Origen, Pelagius, and Jacob Arminius. What was their root problem that led them into Christian humanism? They rejected both the Genesis account and the Romans 5 description of hereditary original sin and were deluded by Rome’s notion of Adam’s original righteousness. The logical extension of this main error is to misunderstand the image of God in human creation, and then innately arm all humans with the faculty of preserved freewill and an active light of conscience. Implied in this heresy is the notion of a universal residual vestige of inner faith enabling receptivity to God’s overtures.
1. Adam was crated in a state of innocence from which he and Eve fell when they rejected God’s offer of grace through the tree of life by grasping for paranormal knowledge from the Tree of Knowledge.
2. Adam was made in the tripartite image of God with a body-soul-spirit. As such he was unique to the animal kingdom with his reflective capacity to confer with himself, internalize, rationalize and cogitate accordingly beyond mere instinct. Of the trinity God the Father; God the WORD; and God’s Spirit self reflection is manifest in the Scriptures in Genesis and In the Gospel of John etc.
3. God created Adam with a definitive difference. He gave him a LIVING SOUL unique among the animal kingdom.
4. When Adam and Eve fell from their state of innocence their souls ceased to live. From the deadening effect of the fall into ORIGINAL SIN decay and degeneration had begun. The conscience had been seared and cauterized. Where once its light was God centred, it now self righteously became self centred in its link to the corrupted power of FREEWILL. Where once at the beginning of creation it reflected and echoed the voice of God, now it merely became evil in its duplicity, reflecting self-interest and self centredness. This is why the apostle Paul called the conscience ‘evil’.
John 1:9, truly declares the truth that the inner light of Christ’s indwelling is the only light which lights up the recipients of the Gospel throughout the world. Without it the impenetrable darkness of sin’s deadening effect is thus described in the ensuing verses 10 etc. That caused both the world and ‘His own’ to ignore or reject Him (the LIGHT).
Instead of the Puritan Reformation return to biblical faith through grace, we have come the full circle and made access to divine grace through human faith (that Jesus, the apostles and the prophets said we lack in the sceptical human heart of unbelief.)

EVANGELISM AWRY

POPULAR HERESY OF EVANGELICALS SINCE 1948.
The hidden humanism of the evangelical churches promotes the easy religion of do-it-yourself salvation.

1. God said it.
2. You say it.
3. You have therefore believed it.
4. You automatically have it (irrevocable eternal life).

This is the humanistic psychology of New England Theology that pervades America and much of the global outreach in the third world after one hundred years of the Golden Age of Evangelism. This libertine right wing humanism was refined in a redefinition of faith by William James, the Father of American Psychology, in his Varieties of Religious Experiences in the 1850’s. This plague of easy religion that went global, in the 1948 B.G. Crusades, is a complete distortion of the Reformation’s message of grace.

In 1746 America turned away from the message of its Puritan Fathers with the lapsed evangelist of the First Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards. After reading the English philosopher John Locke, he wrote, ‘The Freedom of the Will. He had not only rejected the Puritan Fathers, but re-echoed the humanism of Origen, Pelagius, and Jacob Arminius.

What was their root problem that led them into Christian humanism? They rejected both the Genesis account and the Romans 5 description of hereditary original sin and were deluded by Rome’s notion of Adam’s original righteousness. The logical extension of this main error is to misunderstand the image of God in human creation, and then innately arm all humans with the faculty of preserved freewill and an active light of conscience. Implied in this heresy is the notion of a universal residual vestige of inner faith enabling receptivity to God’s overtures.

RE-EXAMINING THE CREATION RECORD.
1. Adam was crated in a state of innocence from which he and Eve fell when they rejected God’s offer of grace through the tree of life by grasping for paranormal knowldge from the Tree of Knowledge.
2. Adam was made in the tripartite image of God with a body-soul-spirit. As such he was unique to the animal kingdom with his reflective capacity to confer with himself, internalize, rationalize and cogitize accordingly beyond mere instinct. Of the trinity God the Father; God the WORD; and God’s Spirit self reflection is manifest in the Scriptures in Genesis and In the Gospel of John etc.
3. God created Adam with a definitive difference. He gave him a LIVING SOUL
4. When Adam and Eve fell from their state of innocence

Instead of the biblical faith through grace, it is now grace by human faith (that Jesus, the apostles and the prophets said we lack). Instead of seeking the Lord wholeheartedly with earnest pleading for the gift of faith hearers are told to use their own faith to claim what rightfully belongs to them so they can miss hellfire in the after-life. This DIY religion claims that:
A. God said it (Romans 10:9)
B. You believe it by saying it.
C. Once you say it too, you’ve got it
D. Now you have received the irrevocable gift of ETERNAL LIFE. (they are assured by the indoctrinator).

However, the psychology of positivist religious humanism can never be a substitute for radical, real, conversion.
Even when the church is apostate and in a state of Ichabod the method of easy religionists will gain converts. More so when the preacher is a powerful speaker full of charisma. But, one may ask: What sort of converts? And: To whom have they been converted? The preacher, the church, or a denomination? It is most doubtful indeed that they have been ushered into the kingdom and translated from the ‘kingdom of darkness’ to which they belong.

Evangelists compass land and sea to make one more convert, but in the above context make them twofold more the child of hell, Jesus claimed.

KNOWLEDGE and the TREE OF KNOWLEDGE has unwittingly been made a replacement for the TREE OF LIFE.
whether EVANGELICAL, LIBERAL, ORTHODOX, OR ROMAN the emphasis is SALVATION BY KNOWLEDGE of creed, doctrine, confession, or sacred writ of Scripture.

There is no doubt that God will use any avenue to attract and arrest souls for He is not willing that any should perish. But the best that can be expected from the evangelicals today is that one might be ARRESTED by the Spirit and awakened, though this rarely occurs where Ichabod prevails where personality cult pulpiteers lead an assembly. However, when such does occur it is unfortunately called conversion and the victim is rushed into indoctrination to such an extent that he/she is brainwashed.

Perhaps pastors, evangelists, and soul-winners should be reminded that there is a Holy Spirit ready to do the work of grace once they stop interfering.

1. The Father will arrest and draw the lost awakened soul towards Calvary and self discovery in the process
2. The Father will ensure that the arrested seeker will HEAR AND LEARN OF THE FATHER so he can later come to Christ.
3. Like the Twelve the lost soul who has heard the CALL TO FOLLOW will be drawn to self distrust, self revelation, and broken readiness for the eye opening ILLUMINATION of the WORD at the hands of the risen Christ Himself. John 20, Luke 24.

The arrested, and slightly awakened soul shows such earnest gravity in his seeking that this disturbs the comfort zone of the hirelings wearing fleeces, who are unaccustomed to such a manifestation. If they cannot soothe the dying pillow of the lost with false hopes they then call for the psychologist or psychiatrist to ease his disturbed mind, because apostate church pulpiteers today have never seen God work before in genuine conversion. They do not know the signs of the godly sorrow or the anguish that a smitten seeking sinner experiences. It is foreign to the religious Protestants of our day and cannot be counterfeited even by paranormal physical aberrations common to mystics and phenomena seeking assemblies who claim to possess the Spirit’s fulness.

THE HERESY OF EVANGELICAL MESSAGE TODAY