Theological Faggoting: Liberation Theology and Theology of Integral Mission Environment Producing Gay Theology in Brazil

How to understand the development of the most advanced homosexual theology in Brazil

By Julio Severo

Introduction

When I had already finished this report, a bombshell came: Toni Reis, the founder of ABGLT, gave a speech in a sex education class in the Evangelical College of Paraná, Brazil, in late April 2015. ABGLT, the largest homosexual organization in Brazil, has today consultative status in the United Nations system. Reis filed complaints in 2013 against Rev. Silas Malafaia, the most prominent Assemblies of God minister in Brazil, and against Julio Severo in 2007. Both complaints were about “homophobia” and were filed with federal prosecutors. Reis has been active in pressing the Brazilian government to support his efforts to impose homosexual indoctrination on Brazilian children. The Evangelical College of Paraná, which hosted Reis as a speaker, is supported by several Protestant churches. His presence in an evangelical institution shows that the Evangelical Church in Brazil needs urgently to know the dangers of gay theology, ideology and activism. With this report, I want to help churches to refrain from inviting to their institutions radical ideological militants intent on homosexualizing children and persecuting Christians.

Gay Theology and Its Liberal Roots

Homosexual theology? In Brazil it exists only in non-recognized “churches,” founded by individuals who apostatized from the Gospel and left recognized churches (Assemblies of God, Baptist Church, etc.). Those individuals were not, in their activism, accepted in recognized churches and so they had to establish their own independent theologies and churches.

Only in the U.S. there is the phenomena of a homosexual theology advancing in recognized churches, as the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. and other major mainline Protestant denominations. All of these churches have an old common problem: the Social Gospel, a liberal and leftist theology that began to affect them in the 1870s.

The homosexual theology only became reality among these recognized churches after theological liberalism spread and became solid for over 100 years.

So liberalism and leftism eventually become father and mother of the homosexual theology.

Gay Theology in a Non-Recognized “Protestant” Church

In Brazil, the most important homosexual theological paper of a non-recognized Protestant church comes from the Metropolitan Community Church in Rio de Janeiro. This non-recognized church was born from the Metropolitan Community Church in the United States, the first and largest homosexual denomination in the U.S., which spread to 37 nations.

In its paper “Algumas verdades que os gays precisam saber sobre a Bíblia” (Some truths gays need to know about the Bible), made available in the early 2000s, the Metropolitan Community Church in Rio de Janeiro destroys the main Bible passages that clearly condemn homosexual sin, saying that the condemnations are not by God or the Bible, but by alleged theological misinterpretations.

Among its many endorsements of the homosexual behavior, the paper says:

“Sexual orientation is part of you as the color of your skin or the spots in a leopard. You cannot change or renounce what you were created by God to be.”

“Sexual orientation, both for heterosexuals and homosexuals, is not something chosen by an individual. Some recent studies suggest that sexual orientation has a major genetic or biological influence. So probably it is determined before or immediately after the birth.”

“Because homosexuality is not a disease or deviation, there is nothing to be healed.”

Yet, I cannot make these quotations without respecting the explicit warning in the document, which says: “In the total or partial copy or reproduction of this material credits to the authors should be mentioned.” So, respecting the warning, I reproduce the authorship recorded in the document: “Escrito por Pastor Marcos Gladstone e Ciro D’Araujo” (written by Pastor Marcos Gladstone and Ciro D’Araujo).

Gladstone was the “minister” of the Metropolitan Community Church in Rio de Janeiro. Ciro is the son of Caio Fábio, formerly the most renowned leader in the Presbyterian Church of Brazil. Caio was also the most prominent and shrewd Theology of Integral Mission (TIM) proponent in the Evangelical Church in Brazil. A father in TIM eventually produced a son in gay theology.

TIM was inspired in Brazil by Rev. Richard Schaull, an American Presbyterian missionary who was a professor, in the 1950s, at the largest theological seminary in the Presbyterian Church of Brazil. Schaull was a Social Gospel adherent and advocate.

Gay Theology in a Recognized Protestant Church

Even though TIM is common among Presbyterians, its brazen official acceptance is much more common in the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil (ECLCB), which has prominent Liberation Theology leaders and prominent Theology of Integral Mission leaders.

Any minimally intelligent individual should conclude that if the Social Gospel (which is TIM’s mother) eventually produced a pro-sodomy theology in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., what would this “gospel” produce in Brazil?

In 2006, HTS (Higher Theology School), the largest ECLCB theology seminary in Brazil, hosted guest speaker Luiz Mott, the Brazilian homosexual movement’s patron.

But HTS’s homosexualist slides did not stop here.

HTS professor André Sidnei Musskopf presented in 2008 his dissertation at HTS on Systematic Theology. His dissertation, for theology graduation, is explicitly entitled “Theological Faggoting: itineraries for a queer theology in Brazil.”

The dissertation says, “The main argument of this Dissertation is that theology needs to walk other paths. Although this calling is directed to all theologies which are based on a heterocentric matrix for the construction of theological knowledge, it is especially directed to Latin-American Liberation Theology, which the reflections of this Dissertation are understood to be in continuation with.”

Brazilian Lutheran Theologian Learning Gay Theology in the U.S.

Musskopf claims that what was critical for him to have an encounter with homosexual theology was his experience with liberation theology and with a feminist theology present at HTS in the 1990s. His direct encounter with the homosexual theology happened in the United States, where he was an exchange student in liberal Lutheran churches in several U.S. states. There, he knew the book “A Gay Liberation Theology” by Richard Cleaver. Musskopf admits that Cleaver’s book “was the first writing he found” which perfectly answered his longings nourished by Liberation Theology. The American experience introduced him to a radical theological homosexual activism.

He says about “A gay liberation theology”: “To know that there was something called ‘gay theology’ was comforting and, and at the same time, promising, since, in my country [Brazil], I had never heard about it.”

His interest then is that the U.S.-born gay theology may spread in Brazil and throughout Latin America. He says, “If the starting point is the homosexual-gay-queer theology produced in the United States, the question containing the (re)building of this found and inhabited panorama is about the existence of such theology in Brazil and Latin America.”

He adds, “My discovery of a Gay Theology in the United States is also helpful as a way to share a knowledge produced in other settings, but important for establishing itineraries for a queer theology in Brazil or in another setting.”

Because gay theology in America is the most advanced and powerful in the world, it is a homosexualist threat to Christian churches in the whole world. In fact, America is in the forefront of the global homosexualist infection, spreading and imposing the gay agenda virus around the world.

When the U.S. had an advanced gay theology, Brazil and many other nations had no such theology. My book “O Movimento Homossexual” (The Homosexual Movement), originally published by the Brazilian branch of Bethany House Publishers in 1998, warned that the spread of gay theology, ideology and activism in the U.S. would eventually reach Brazil. Yet, the predictions of my book, based in the U.S. reality, were often rejected or even mocked in the late 1990s. Many readers thought that it was crazy to suppose that Brazil could become like America in homosexual activism. Today, Brazil and its socialist government are consistently following the U.S. reality.

The Most Important Gay Theology in Brazil

Musskopf makes a journey describing the birth and expansion of Gay Theology in Brazil, even revealing, “In 1998 Pastor Orellana was ordained as the ‘first openly gay minister’ in Brazil by Rev. Nehemias Marien of the Bethesda Presbyterian Church.”

Coincidently, with his dissertation, André Sidnei Musskopf has become the most important theologian of the Gay Theology in Brazil.

The gay theology of Marcos Gladstone and Ciro D’Araújo is short and simple, but the gay theology of Musskopf is comprehensive, profound and detailed.

“Theological Faggoting,” by André Sidnei Musskopf, is a work with an extensive bibliography of American books, making evident that without American sources, it would have been nearly impossible for André Sidnei Musskopf to have written a work that, looking like a serious research, destroys everything God speaks in the Bible against homosexuality and builds a homosexuality allegedly accepted by God.

The ideal environment for the birth, development and expansion of the Gay Theology is the environment where Liberation Theology and the Theology of Integral Mission proliferate. In fact, Musskopf explains, “The LGBT groups and churches resemble to the Base Ecclesial Communities where Liberation Theology appeared in the 1970s.”

In his dissertation, he explains also that other Latin American theologians opening themselves to the homosexual theology had first had an experience with Liberation Theology, whose Protestant version is, according to Protestant socialists Robinson Cavalcanti and Ariovaldo Ramos, the Theology of Integral Mission.

Homsexualist Infection in Theological Institutions

He says, “Even so, siding with active leaders in LGBT Christian groups and churches, there is an increasing number of theologians developing academic studies and who are major voices for the development of a Brazilian and Latin American homosexual-gay-queer theology. Several master’s and doctor’s degree dissertations have been made in the recent years focusing on these issues. In 2001, Mário Ferreira Ribas presented his master’s degree dissertation at the Methodist University of São Paulo with the title ‘Scripture, tradition and reason in the homosexual debate in Anglicanism.’”

Musskopf stresses the importance of the “increasing contact with U.S. gay theologians, a life experience in LGBT Christian groups, the contact with homocultural studies, a greater immersion in the LGBT movement and a search for recognition in the Brazilian theological academic institutions.”

He tells how he helped organize the Gay Parade in São Leopoldo, city of the HTS headquarters, in 2006. He reveals also that there is a group of militant homosexualists within HTS.

Because ECLCB and HTS are recognized evangelical institutions, other evangelical institutions in Brazil also keep a relationship with HTS. In September 2014, HTS held its 2nd International Congress of HTS Colleges, where the opening speech was delivered by a Mackenzie Presbyterian University professor. This professor lectures also at the Methodist University of São Paulo, one of the most leftist evangelical institutions in Brazil, along with HTS.

Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo, Brazil, is not homosexualist, but in 2013 it invited Congressman Jean Wyllys, one of the most prominent gay activists in Brazil, for a debate with an evangelical lawyer. The students of this Protestant university booed the evangelical and cheered the gay activist.

This Mackenzie professor would never deliver a lecture in the Metropolitan Community Church in Rio de Janeiro. But he delivered a speech at HTS.

The Metropolitan Community Church in Rio de Janeiro, “Rev.” Marcos Gladstone and Ciro D’Araújo are free to defend a homosexual theology and any other perverse theology. Their church and works, even though D’Araújo’s father was formerly the greatest Presbyterian star in Brazil, do not enjoy any recognition in the evangelical world. So they have no legitimacy.

Yet, whether you like it or not, HTS has official recognition in the Brazilian evangelical world.

The recognition by a large historic Protestant denomination as the Lutheran church gives Musskopf many opportunities, including in the Brazilian Congress. He is the author of several books and takes part in national and international events to share his militant theological view in defense of the gay agenda.

Musskopf is the author of “Talar Rosa: Homossexuais e o ministério na igreja” (Pink Cassock: Homosexuals and Church Ministry), a book advocating the gay ideology from a Bible misinterpretation. He is the author also of the chapter “Queer Theology and Bible Hermeneutics” in the book “Imagem & diversidade sexual: Estudos da Homocultura” (Image and Sexual Diversity: Homocultural Studies [2004]), organized by Denilson Lopes, a homosexual activist who wrote the pro-pedophilia article “Amando Garotos: Pedofilia e a Intolerância Contemporânea” (Loving Boy and Contemporary Intolerance), denounced by me in 2007.

His influence is not limited to HTS. Musskopt was a speaker at the 10th LGBT Seminary, held in the Brazilian Congress in 2013. The big homosexual seminary was sponsored by the ruling socialist Workers’ Party.

When all the Brazilian leftist groups signed, aided by Ultimato magazine, a manifesto against the appointment of Congressman Marco Feliciano for the House Human Rights Committee presidency, Musskopf was a signatory. Nothing more natural than “Christian” gay activists and leftist evangelicals working together.

Feliciano is an Assemblies of God minister and most “Christians” opposed to him were traditional Protestants (Presbyterians, Lutherans, etc.) adherents of TIM.

As a Lutheran, Musskopf spent years in the church being influenced by the Theology of Integral Mission and Liberation Theology. The result? Theological faggoting. If he had lived in an evangelical environment open to the deliverance offered by Jesus Christ — and there are many charismatic churches in Brazil that give freedom for Jesus to deliver and save people enslaved to the homosexual sin —, Musskopf would hopefully have been delivered from his faggoting and, instead of praising it, he would be praising Jesus Christ the Savior.

However, instead of Jesus, his denomination prioritizes TIM’s theological liberalism, and the result is members, ministers and theologians who have not been set free.

The theological faggoting of the Metropolitan Community Church in Rio de Janeiro, “Rev.” Marcos Gladstone and Ciro D’Araújo has never been accepted in the Brazilian evangelical world, because their church and theology have no recognition among evangelicals. In short, they are not evangelicals.

Lutheran Church: In the Forefront of Liberation Theology, TIM and Gay Theology

Yet, HTS and ECLCB, along with their love for TIM, Liberation Theology, feminist theology and homosexual theology, are traditional Protestant and are a part of the traditional Protestant world. Thanks to HTS and ECLCB, Musskopf and his theological faggoting are a part of the Lutheran world and can, sooner or later, corrupt the Brazilian evangelical world, beginning in the academic world of theology professors.

ECLCB has international liberal leaders. Rev. Walter Altmann, a former ECLCB president, is the moderator of the World Council of Churches and he is an international theologian renowned for defending Liberation Theology (LT).

Another prominent ECLCB leader is Rev. Valdir Steuernagel, known in Brazil as a TIM activist and internationally known for his leadership roles in the Lausanne Movement and in the World Evangelical Alliance.

From this pro-LT and pro-TIM liberal environment, what can result? A homosexualist theologian called Musskopf.

With Altmann, ECLCB is in the Liberation Theology forefront.

With Steuernagel, ECLCB is in the Theology of Integral Mission forefront.

With Musskopf, ECLCB is in the Gay Theology forefront.

Of course, Steuernagel is not more prominent in TIM advocacy than Calvinist Ariovaldo Ramos and Caio Fábio.

Notwithstanding the serious threat of theological liberalism, from TIM to homosexual theology, the bigger worry of traditional Protestant churches in Brazil as ECLCB has been the “theology” (or its lack!) of charismatic churches that, with all their flaws, are not open to theological liberalism or to homosexual theology.

In those churches, a homosexual militant has no room and has to leave them if he wants to get involved in homosexual activism.

In contrast, in ECLCB a homosexual militant can write theological books and much more. André Sidnei Musskopf, who is a HTS theology professor, is a testimony of the liberal spaces that the Theology of Integral Mission eventually opened for homosexual activism in one of the largest traditional Protestant denominations in Brazil.

They began at TIM and Liberation Theology and today they are in the black hole of theological faggoting.

Musskopf’s language is filled with jargons of ideological professionals, in contrast with Jesus’ language, who used the most basic examples to show that he was near people. He talked about breads and other everyday things, while TIM theologians have a language so high that reach just theologians and activists.

If you have time to waste in gay philosophy and theology babbles, the reading of Musskopf’s “Theological Faggoting” is indispensable.

Witchcraft and Homosexuality

In his dissertation, Musskopf recognizes that witchcraft and spiritualism are more open to homosexuality and its adherents.

His dissertation has 36 positive mentions of Umbanda, 19 positive mentions of Candomblé and no condemnation. Candomblé, which is a Brazilian form of Santeria, is not much different of Umbanda. His dissertation says, “God is in the church, but also in the terreiro [place where Afro-Brazilian witchcraft is practiced, such as Macumba and Candomblé].”

Brazil is the most spiritualist nation in the world. Musskopf explains that as the Brazilian gay theology had its origin in the U.S., so the Brazilian spiritualism (which is favorable to homosexuality) also had its origin in the U.S. He says:

“In the Brazilian context ‘spiritualism’ appeared in the 19th century. Born in the United States in the late 1840s and developed as ‘science’ especially in Europe in the 1850s, the first séance in Brazil happened in 1865 and in 1884 was founded the Brazilian Spiritualist Federation. From this time spiritualism quickly spread throughout Brazil and got huge publicity in the 1950s through the ‘spiritual healings’ of Dr. Fritz and, chiefly, through Chico Xavier because of his hundreds of writings and because he became an example of sainthood.”

Musskopf says that even though in its origin spiritualism was a “science,” in Brazil it became a religion.

The spiritualist spark in the U.S. became an uncontrollable fire in Brazil.

What is worrying is that if a spark can provoke so much havoc in other nations, what will happen to other nations now with the U.S. exporting the homosexual theology and other theological fires?

In a general way, Brazilian spiritualism is open to the homosexual agenda. It can explain the reason not only for the homosexualist policies of the Brazilian government, but also the support that the Brazilian government has given the U.S government in its efforts, including in the U.N, to impose homosexuality around the world.

Spiritualism and witchcraft walk together with homosexuality.

Luiz Mott, whose homosexual activism criticizes conservative Christianity and praises Umbanda and Candomblé, is mentioned 41 times favorably in Musskopf’s dissertation.

Denilson Lopes is quoted 15 times in an equally favorable way. Both Mott and Lopes are homosexual activists accused of defending pedophilia. Lopes is the author of the article “Amando Garotos: Pedofilia e a Intolerância Contemporânea” (Loving Boy and Contemporary Intolerance).

Musskopf stresses that the Catholic Church and the historic Protestant churches have traditions against homosexuality. But you can understand in his work that both churches did not know how to deal with spiritualism and witchcraft, which have much room for homosexuality. Even though both Liberation Theology and the Theology of Integral Mission are hostile to neo-Pentecostalism, Musskopf says: “But who did this articulation in a perfect way was neo-Pentecostalism, because, in addition of being more accepted among the poor, it ‘represents a theological movement in contact with worldviews never touched before: the worldview of the European Reformed Protestantism and the worldview of the new world with the Catholic Brazil anchored in African and native traditions.’”

Presbyterian Liberalism

In fact, there are examples of historic churches that do not know how to deal with spiritualism. Rev. Marcos Amaral, of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil (PCB), has become famous for joining Afro-Brazilian religious leaders to fight “discrimination” against witchcraft.

Another PCB leader, Rev. Marcos Botelho, wrote an article entitled “LGBTT Rights and Christian Faith,” in the Presbyterian magazine Ultimato, where he said that the “blame” for gay activists wanting to impose a homosexual tyranny on the Brazilian population is “because we Christians are not doing our part and fighting for everybody’s right: the right to choose freely their sexual option.”

Botelho is one of the directors of Jovens da Verdade (Youth for Truth), a group that has a theological college (FLAM), headed by TIM advocate Ariovaldo Ramos, exclusively for TIM engagement. Youth for Truth sponsors TIM events.

As an example that Christians should fight to advocate the homosexual cause, in his Ultimato piece Botelho had mentioned that divorce in the Catholic Brazil was legalized by a Presbyterian congressman. Botelho, a TIM advocate, has never been rebuked for his theological liberalism. Another PCB leader, Rev. Luiz Longuini, has been divorced four times and he has a book, published by Ultimato, advocating TIM.

If Botelho were an Assemblies of God minister, he would be unlikely to escape discipline or expelling for his pro-homosexuality words.

The Catholic Church in Brazil, which is the largest Catholic nation in the world, is almost completely dominated by Liberation Theology. And the historic Protestant churches (where Musskopf’s ECLCB ranks high) are increasingly dominated by the Theology of Integral Mission. No one of those churches expels demons or considers demonic components in homosexuality or other perversions.

What If Musskopf Attended a Charismatic Church?

In comparison, as admitted by Musskopf, Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal churches reach people directly, know how to use what is useful in the Reformation traditions and know how to deal with traditions of spiritualism, Umbanda and Candomblé and their connections with homosexuality. In short, those churches, which usually are not open to Liberation Theology and the Theology of Integral Mission, understand homosexuality as a sin and, where necessary, expel the appropriate demons.

Musskopf would be unlikely to be able to attend a neo-Pentecostal church as Igreja da Graça (Grace Church) the way he does in ECLCB: a Protestant homosexual activist.

Musskopf would be unlikely to do in a neo-Pentecostal church as Igreja Bola de Neve (Bola de Neve Church) what he does in ECLCB: to promote a gay theology.

A neo-Pentecostal church would be unlikely to fail to give him what ECLCB and other historic Protestant churches do not give: ministrations under the power of the Holy Spirit and even expelling of demons.

In a big neo-Pentecostal church as Igreja da Graça or Igreja Bola de Neve, Musskopf would have to leave the church to profess openly his “Christian” homosexual militancy and his gay theology. In ECLCB, which is the largest Lutheran denomination in Brazil, he can occupy spaces, resist what is left of conservatism and “produce”: gay militancy, activism and theology.

Theological “Wisdom” in the Service of Homosexual Sin

In fact, Musskopf said his dissertation “is organized in three moments — ‘occupy, resist, produce’ — one of the most well known slogans of the Landless Workers Movement (MST).”

He and his group are already “occupying, resisting, producing” in HTS and in the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil.

As usual among liberal Protestants, Musskopf does not like conservative environments. He likes environments of Liberation Theology and of the Theology of Integral Mission. It is only in this kind of progressive environment he and his theology have room to grow and blossom.

Aided by Liberation Theology and the Theology of Integral Mission, he expects his theology eventually to “occupy, resist, produce” in many theological centers in Brazil.

Where these liberal theologies have room (especially traditional Protestant churches), there will be a cursed “hope” for the gay theology to be accepted. Where these liberal theologies have no room (especially charismatic churches), gay theology will have a very hard time to be accepted.

“Theological Faggoting,” by André Musskopf, exhales theological, philosophical and sociological depth, but with no commitment to God’s truth. It is a work of human wisdom in the service of gay theology, crazily twisting God’s Word to satisfy a depraved sexual vice. By reading it, I was reminded:

“Scripture says, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will reject the intelligence of intelligent people.’ Where is the wise person? Where is the scholar? Where is the persuasive speaker of our time? Hasn’t God turned the wisdom of the world into nonsense?” (1 Corinthians 1:19-20 GWV)

In contrast, God’s Word is perfect for the simple, not for those who consider themselves theologically “wise”:

“The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.” (Psalms 119:130 NKJV)

“The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.” (Psalms 19:7 NKJV)

What God’s Word says about man having sex with man?

“You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.” (Leviticus 18:22 NKJV)

“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10 NKJV)

Of course, Jesus can save simple sinners who want to be set free from their sins. But he cannot save theologically “wise” sinners who love to justify theologically their sins.

Gay theology is just a way to hinder homosexual sinners from accepting Jesus’ redemption.

Those who love the kingdom of theological Sodom will not enter the Kingdom of God.

Portuguese version of this article: Viadagens teológicas: ambiente da teologia da libertação e TMI produzindo teologia gay no Brasil

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Justin Peters in Brazil: God Does Not Speak to You Today Through Prophecy and Revelation

By Julio Severo

There was a lot of confusion among some experts on Christian apologetics in Brazil early this year about whether Justin Peters preached or not cessationism when, as a VINACC guest speaker, he taught against prosperity theology preachers by calling them “heretics.”

Justin Peters

Actually, he wanted also to call believers in supernatural charismatic gifts of “heretics,” but he was hindered from doing so in his VINACC public meetings.

He was prevented from teaching his cessationist gospel in VINACC.

How did Peters become an intransigent cessationist?

Apparently, after attending several meetings of prosperity theology proponents and receiving no miracle, Peters, who is a disabled man, let his bad experience create a bad theology: If he received no miracle in these meetings is because God gives no supernatural gifts in our days.

Today, he is an avid cessationist — a theological jargon to design adherents of the theory that says the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit ceased 2,000 years ago and that they are no longer available today. In fact, his non-healing experiences have been used by Calvinist theologian John MacArthur to back his anti-Pentecostal “Strange Fire” conferences, where Peters is one of the speakers.

In Campina Grande, Brazil, where the VINACC meeting was held, Peters was recorded as saying,

“Anytime somebody says God has spoken to me and has given me a word, has given me a new revelation, has given me a prophecy, that you automatically write that person off as a false teacher as a false prophet. And we could talk for an hour at least about how God does or does not speak to people. Hebrews 1:1,2 pretty clear: God long ago spoke through the fathers in the prophets in many portions in many different ways, but in these last days has spoken to us in His Son Jesus who is the final speaking of God. We have the perfect, inerrant, infallible and sufficient record of that. So God is not giving certain individuals special revelations, special insight into His future plans. He’s not doing that anymore. Everything that we need is right here in the Word of God. We’re the dwell of the Spirit who illumines the meaning of this Word in our hearts and minds. That’s all we need. The second thing: anybody who claims to be an apostle or a prophet, write that person off immediately.”

After reading Peters’ words, Dr. Michael Brown, author of “Authentic Fire” (a book that exposes the fallacies of “Strange Fire,” a book by MacArthur), said to me:

“What a bizarre statement about God not speaking today. The Word plainly says that Jesus, by the Spirit, continues to speak. If I believe the Word, then I must believe the Spirit is still speaking today. It’s troubling to see how Mr. Peters terribly misuses the Bible to justify his claims and rather than dealing with the detailed scriptural evidence I provided in my Authentic Fire book, he dismisses it all because I accepted Benny Hinn’s invitation to appear on his broadcast and preach the gospel to millions of viewers.”

With his words, Peters showed that he has not a problem just with prosperity theology preachers. His problem is with all people professing Pentecostalism or charismatic experiences. In fact, his main foundation to attack Pentecostal leaders seems to be his fierce opposition to the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit today.

By the way, Brazil was a huge challenge for him, because most Brazilian evangelicals are Pentecostal. Brazilian evangelicalism is basically Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal.

Peters would get a good audience among followers of Bishop Edir Macedo, the founder of the Kingdom of God Universal Church (KGUC). Macedo also believes that God gives no prophecy or revelation today. He said, “In former times, God used to speak through dreams, visions or prophecies, because there was not His written Word. Today, He speaks through His Word.”

What is to be done to people today who say that they had a prophecy or revelation? Macedo answers, “If someone learns that there is a ‘prophet’ or ‘prophetess’ in KGUC, denounce it immediately to the minister and also to the regional leader, so that we may take immediate measures.”

It would sound ok for Peters, wouldn’t it? After all, this is his theology!

Macedo is relentless in his anti-prophecy stance. Incredibly, he is a neo-Pentecostal (neo-charismatic) leader who preaches the prosperity theology. Yet, whether or not you bring Macedo a prophetic revelation or God’s Word about the value of life, he remains fierce and equally relentless in his defense of abortion and birth control.

If Peters’ attacks were directed to this real strange fire (abortion, birth control, partial cessationism and the Gospel together), it would be fair. But his attacks are directed to other issues and against all Pentecostals. For Peters, all gifts of prophecy and revelations today are “strange fire,” are demonic. Of course, Macedo would say, “Amen!”

There are false gospels and false miracles, but you should never use the false gospels and the false miracles to disqualify the true Gospel and the true miracles.

Because I am charismatic Christian, should I accept all manifestations of supernatural gifts coming from Christians? No. Some years ago, an American preacher said that he received a prophecy about Brazil winning the 2014 World Cup and also about an evangelical woman getting elected as Brazilian president in the 2014 election. His prophecy was interpreted as God supporting Marina Silva, a socialist militant who began in the Catholic Church and today is an Assemblies of God member.

Brazil suffered its worst defeat in the 2014 World Cup. I knew that his prophecy was not correct, especially for its interpretation favoring Marina, who has solid socialist stances. While many evangelical leaders were supporting her because of the prophecy, I was, before the election, exposing Marina and her avid socialism. Eventually, she lost.

Apostle Paul, who had many charismatic gifts, never taught that you should reject prophecies, but that you should be free to prophesize and free to evaluate what each person says in prophecy: “Two or three people should speak what God has revealed. Everyone else should decide whether what each person said is right or wrong.” (1 Corinthians 14:29 GWV)

To reject all prophecies is not the Bible way. To accept all prophecies is not the Bible way. The Bible ways is freedom to prophesy and freedom do evaluate.

In Campina Grande, Brazil, Justin Peters lambasted prosperity theology preachers. He also lambasted the VINACC organizers because he wanted to teach cessationism (the strange doctrine that says God no longer grants supernatural gifts today), but they did not allow him. Even though several VINACC speakers are cessationist Calvinists, its public is mostly Pentecostal. Peters’ cessationism would have been extremely offensive to this public.

Peters’ declarations against prophecy and revelation were recorded in an interview with him in Campina Grande and show how eager he was to teach the VINACC public to reject “heresies,” misinterpreted by him as an acceptance of prophecy and revelation for today.

In his recorded declarations, Peters also attacked Dr. Michael Brown, a Jewish charismatic leader who has been prominent for his defense of the Gospel and Israel. He said,

“A lot of pastors will have invite questionable people to come to their churches to preach. They will go on to questionable or maybe I should say questionable because it could sound like mad, television programs associated with false prophets. One good example is Dr. Michael Brown, who is considered to be one of the intellectual leaders of the charismatic movement. He blasted the Strange Fire Conference that was held at John MacArthur’s church, because he claimed that the Strange Fire Conference plained all charismatics with raw brush and it was really as if the Strange Fire Conference should talk about the strange time fringe of the charismatics. He said that is not who we are. So he blasted the Conference and then three months later he goes on Benny Hinn’s television program and records five programs with Benny Hinn who is one of, if not the world’s most infamous bad influence, that’s the bad way influence in believers. If you can’t tell Benny Hinn is a false teacher then something is really wrong. And so associations pick volumes about who we are and what we believe.”

In answer, Dr. Michael Brown clarified that, because Peters tried to misrepresent him in Brazil, he is open to a public debate about these issues. The debate could happen in Brazil. Brown said,

“1) I invited Pastor MacArthur to private discussion or public debate on numerous occasions, but he refused to engage in private or in public; 2) I would debate Justin Peters in a heartbeat as to what the Bible says about divine healing; 3) I exposed false accusations made against Benny Hinn by Justin Peters; 4) my appearance on Benny Hinn’s show is not an endorsement of his theology any more than my appearance on Piers Morgan. Instead, I was able to reach his audience with the message of Jesus the Messiah. Is this wrong? 5) I have exposed errors in the Charismatic church for decades, and I continue to do so to this day, but I am Charismatic because of the plain teaching of Scripture and again. I would gladly debate what the Scriptures say with any qualified non-Charismatic leader.”

Dr. Brown is willing to debate John MacArthur and Justin Peters, in Brazil or in the U.S., about their stance against prophecy, revelation and other supernatural gifts for today. He said:

“I invite Mr. Peters to have a formal, moderated debate with me on what the Bible says – not what people say – about the gifts of the Spirit, including healing and prophecy, being promised by God in His Word for today. Let’s not engage in rhetoric. Let’s look at the Word.”

I do not know if Brazilian charismatics are prepared for such debate.

CPAD, the biggest Pentecostal publishing house in Brazil, has published several books by anti-Pentecostal Calvinist John MacArthur, but it has not published “Authentic Fire,” by Dr. Brown. In contrast, cessationist Calvinist publishers in Brazil will never publish any book by Dr. Brown or by any other charismatic, even though there is no anti-Calvinist Pentecostal version of John MacArthur in Brazil.

CPAD belongs to the Assemblies of God, which has over 12 million members in Brazil. The Presbyterian Church of Brazil, the first Calvinist denomination in Brazil, has 1 million members, but not all of them are cessationist.

MacArthur’s “Strange Fire” has been published in Brazil by Thomas Nelson. Both Thomas Nelson and Zondervan, the two largest Protestant publishing houses in the world, belong to HarperCollins, which publishes the Satanic Bible, by Satanist Anton LaVey.

So the publisher and promoter of “Strange Fire” in Brazil is owned by HarperCollins, which publishes and promotes satanic books. This is satanic fire!

Yet, the publisher and promoter of other books by MacArthur in Brazil is Pentecostal giant CPAD. Does it make sense?

A schizophrenic contrast. Brazilian Pentecostals promote MacArthur. MacArthur does not promote Brazilian Pentecostals. MacArthur uses and abuses the Gospel to attack Pentecostals. Brazilian Pentecostals do not use and abuse the Gospel to attack MacArthur. Are Brazilian Pentecostals spiritual masochists who love to be labeled “heretics” for believing in supernatural gifts for today?

There is a real strange fire when “Strange Fire” and the Satanic Bible are published and promoted by the same source.

There is a stranger fire when books of an anti-Pentecostal Calvinist author are published and promoted by the biggest Pentecostal publisher in Brazil.

Portuguese version of this article: Justin Peters no Brasil: Deus não fala com você hoje por meio de profecia e revelação

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Armenian President Warns about Danger of Genocide Denial, Brazilian Congressman Marco Feliciano Denounces Genocide of Armenian Christians

By Julio Severo

Armenian President Serge Sargsyan warned Wedsnesday about the danger to the world of the denial of the genocide of over 1.5 million Armenians by Muslim hordes of the Ottoman Empire.

Armenian genocide

The national day for the remembrance of this massacre, which hit especially Armenian Christians, will be held in Armenia next Friday.

“Genocide is a failure of the international community and its impunity is the premise for its repetition,” said Sargsyan in his opening speech in an international forum on the genocide, held in the Armenian capital.

Sargsyan will pay homage to the dead in the massacre Friday, in a ceremony that will include the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President François Hollande.

The Armenian president made several references to Turkey, but without mentioning it directly.

“Genocide denial contains components of a new wave of national hatred and it is followed on many occasions by intolerance and a justification for the genocides committed,” said Sargsyan.

Sargsyan stated that Armenians have a moral obligation, but also a right to remember the death of over 1.5 million people, the suffering of other hundreds of thousands in deportations and the extermination of the material and spiritual legacy accumulated over millennia.

Armenian genocide

The president remembered the Russian, European and American missionaries, diplomats and businessmen who helped the persecuted Armenian and saved several lives.

The genocide anniversary is stained by the Turkish denial, because Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insists on saying that Turkish Muslims did not commit any genocide against Armenian Christians.

So far, just 22 nations have recognized the Armenian genocide, among them France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Greece, Russia, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Bolivia.

The United States, the largest Protestant nation in the world, and Brazil, the largest Catholic nation in the world, have never recognized the Armenian genocide in order not to make Turkey “angry.” And now under Barack Obama, it is much harder for the U.S. government to recognize it, because Turkey is one of the main allies of the U.S. policies in the Middle East.

By officially recognizing the Armenian genocide, Germany, Canada and Russia took the lead over the U.S. and Argentina, while Chile and Venezuela took the lead over Brazil.

Even with the resistance of the Brazilian government, in the Brazilian Congress a voice has risen to remember the genocide of Armenian Christians. In April 22, 2015, Congressman Marco Feliciano shouted from the Congress floor:

“From this floor I declare my solidarity with the Armenian People for the occasion of the centennial commemoration of the genocide committed by Turks against their defenseless population in the Ottoman Empire, where 1.5 million lives were destroyed.”

“This the first genocide in modern history left lasting scars among Christians around the world, because the overwhelming majority of the victims in this massacre were Christians descended from the first groups converted to Christianity around the third century AD.”

“Yet, as taught by Jesus, His followers will experience suffering, but not in vain. Today the courageous Armenian people maintain their culture, language and customs and, most importantly, a free homeland, and they commemorate this event in order to hinder its repetition and so that the world may more and more recognize the inhumanity committed against them.”

That same day, Feliciano, who is also an Assemblies of God minister, sent an official letter to the Armenian Embassy in Brazil, saying:

“It is with great honor that I express my solidarity with you and with all the Armenian people for the occasion of the centennial commemoration of the genocide committed by Turks against your people.”

“It is important in this centennial commemoration, with its sad memory, for us to fraternize with one another in one ideal of faith and forgiveness to build a better world for our children and so that deplorable facts such as this may never happen again.”

It is worrying that with the non-recognition of the genocide of Armenian Christians, the Brazilian government shows more interest in the feelings of Turkey’s Muslims, particularly since Turkey has plans to advance Islam in Latin America.

With the recognition of the Armenian genocide, Congressman Marco Feliciano shows that he cares about the feelings of Christians in Armenia and Brazil.

With information of Terra, EFE and Marco Feliciano.

Reviewed by Don Hank.

Portuguese version of this article: Presidente armênio alerta para perigo de negação de genocídio, Dep. Marco Feliciano denuncia genocídio de cristãos armênios

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Conservative Babylon in “Persecuted”: Hybrid Televangelist Framed by Pagan Neocon, and the Free Speech or Patriotic or Equality “Gospel” Replacing the Gospel of Jesus Christ

By Julio Severo

At last, a conservative movie! Days ago I enthusiastically watched “Persecuted,” a movie that, according to leftist Dorri Olds, is “made up of mostly real-life conservatives.” Olds, who watched its premiere last year, adds that it “was pure religious right propaganda” and that it is a “A Movie For Christian Conservatives Only.” So it is just for me!

Televangelist John Luther with his rosary and gun

According to WorldNetDaily, “‘Persecuted’ tells the story of evangelist John Luther’s life-and-death battle to preach the gospel without compromising its message to a political agenda motivated by greed.”

MovieGuide says, “‘Persecuted’ is a suspenseful political thriller about a renowned evangelist who finds himself being targeted by a secret conspiracy to limit religious freedom in America.”

A Framed Telelevangelist

James Remar plays John Luther, a nationally acclaimed Christian televangelist whose fame and influence make him an essential political tool for Senator Donald Harrison (Bruce Davison) in his efforts to get his “Faith and Fairness Act” through Congress. The ill-defined bill, having something to do with providing equal standing to all religions, doesn’t sit well with the televangelist Luther, who refuses to cooperate, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Since the action takes place in the sort of cinematic Washington, D.C., where political conflicts are resolved through heinous criminal acts, Luther soon finds himself abducted, drugged and photographed, in racy photos, with a young girl in a plot, executed by nefarious Secret Service agents, where the senator orders him, to destroy his credibility and ensure passage of the senator’s bill, to be framed for the rape and murder of the innocent teenage girl, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Luther escapes and becomes a rosary-carrying version of Harrison Ford’s character from The Fugitive, according to Jon Webster in the Examiner. He becomes a wanted man with his face all over the media. So he uses a classic disguise — dark sunglasses and a hoodie. To watch the trailer, go here: https://youtu.be/vurFMz8bfNY

He attempts to find the evidence that would prove his innocence, while trying to avoid the police and government agents and while his ministry is being taken over by its opportunistic vice-president (played by conservative Christian comedian Brad Stine).

A Televangelist and His Father, a Catholic Priest

Vulnerable and desperate, he cries out to God for direction. Luther’s father is Fr. Charlie Luther, a Catholic priest, played by Fred Thompson. The priest helps his son, but he knows that big forces are against them. The senator sends government operatives and assassins after them. Fr. Charlie is killed.

MovieGuide says, “the movie also implies that the President of the United States is in on the schemes to get the evangelist out of the way, but that plot twist could use more clarity. Finally, the movie as now edited doesn’t explain how exactly the evangelist could have a father who’s a Catholic priest.”

There is no explanation on how a traditional Catholic priest became the father of a popular televangelist. Even though the movie has no malicious innuendo, there was obviously a breach of the Catholic celibacy. But because father and son are very conservative, no suspicion was raised about the hybrid televangelist who loves the Bible and the rosary.

MovieGuide says that “Persecuted” “gives a warning to the Christian Church, the Body of Christ, to be careful about getting in bed with the government. In the movie, the new law offers churches and religious groups a special tax benefit to entice religious leaders into supporting the new law. When the evangelist gets framed for the girl’s murder, his right-hand man convinces the organization’s board of directors to support the new law so they can get more financial donations. This leads to an intense confrontation between the evangelist and his board of directors, including his right-hand man who clearly wants to take away leadership of the group from the evangelist.”

MovieGuide labels “Persecuted” as “a provocative political thriller from a strong Christian, and somewhat conservative or libertarian, perspective.”

The Hollywood Reporter says, “By the time the film reaches its violent conclusion, Luther, armed with rosary beads and a gun, is forced to take matters into his own hands.” This for me is Babylon, a word that means “confusion.”

In many respects, I liked “Persecuted.” It has no foul language. I am very tired of U.S. movies with dirty language, even from supposedly Christian actors.

Yet, even though Luther was almost murdered because he did not put his support behind legislation to unify people of all faiths, “Persecuted” gives the message that the Catholic faith and the evangelical faith are equal.

Free speech: a problem only in Russia and China, not America and Saudi Arabia

The movie also seems to suggest that the most important value is free speech and, fully satisfying the will of neocons, Luther tells about his worry that America could become a “Russia, China or Iran,” with repressive laws against free speech.

This is exactly what neocons want to hear. Yet, if free speech is so important, why not include Saudi Arabia, which is as Islamic as Iran, but much worse in Christian persecution? In Saudi Arabia, no churches and Bibles are allowed, and this is the most important Islamic ally of the U.S. Why not expose it?

Russia does not persecute people who express their views against abortion and sodomy. What about America? How should we measure free speech in these critical conservative cases?

About China, why complain about them? America has been the main financial feeder of China, which is building the largest communist army in the world through massive investment from U.S. companies in Chinese soil.

Besides, while Protestantism in America, the largest Protestant nation in the world today, is shrinking, in China evangelical Christianity is increasing and it is poised to surpass the Protestant population in America in the next few years. That is, China will be the largest Protestant nation in the world.

America has free speech. China has not.

Protestantism in America is shrinking. In China, it is increasing. What does it tell us?

True Christianity grows under persecution. The early Christian church had no free speech, but she increased.

Free speech is not essential for Christian survival. The preaching of the Gospel is.

In an interview with Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network, “Persecuted” producer Daniel Lusko said, “John Luther is the hero of our story. And he becomes a major evangelist at the level of a Billy Graham, at a time when America becomes an unwelcoming environment for the Gospel.”

My mother was converted to Christ through Billy Graham’s Gospel message. She had her rosary. But after accepting Christ, she understood that a rosary is not necessary to pray to God, who hears us through Jesus Christ. Yet, John Luther’s example seems sometimes to suggest that a nationalist conservative lifestyle is more important than a Gospel lifestyle and that you can be a hybrid Catholic-evangelical-non-denominational conservative, with no spiritual loss.

We can gain the whole world to conservatism, but if conservatives do not know Christ in a personal way, what is it good for?

“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?” (Matthew 16:26 ESV)

Fundamentalists Yesterday and Today

Jon Webster said, “To sum up, this is a film that fundamentalist Christians will be drawn to.”

If these fundamentalists are like the original fundamentalists, they will certainly not like “Persecuted.” The original term for fundamentalism was used for evangelical Christians who developed and followed “The Fundamentals,” a massive theological book, edited by R. A. Torrey, to confront liberalism, ecumenism, socialism and heresies among Protestant churches in the early 20^th century.

“The Fundamentals” rejects many of the Catholic doctrines as incompatible with the Bible. It encouraged U.S. Protestants to avoid the hybrid Christianity of John Luther.

Among Brazilian evangelicals, a rosary-loving evangelical would be labeled a confused and disturbed Christian. In fact, they would not understand why their American counterparts see no problem in such evangelical.

I am not be worried about Catholics or Orthodoxies with rosaries. But an evangelical televangelist? A “Billy Graham” with a rosary? Could John Luther be representative of what is happening to U.S. evangelicals?

The ministry of the hybrid televangelist Luther is named “Truth,” a bold name requiring bold words and attitudes. So it is very appropriate to tell the truth about this movie.

“Persecuted” does not attack Islam, the single greatest persecutor and murderer of Christians today and for many centuries. But it attacks the geopolitical enemies of the United States: Russia, China (a special trade partner, a muy amigo “enemy”) and Iran. This greatly pleases neocons.

“Persecuted” does not attack the complete ban on free speech in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic dictatorships that are allies of the United States. This greatly pleases neocons.

Pro-Family Union, Yes, Hybridism, No

“Persecuted” pleases Catholics and evangelicals by creating a hybrid Catholic-evangelical conservative: a “Billy Graham” with a rosary. Why not a hybrid Catholic-Orthodox-evangelical-Jewish conservative? My worry is that this dangerous trend can lead to a future hybrid Muslim-Christian-Hindu-Buddhist conservative, and all of us know how America is prone to “diversity.”

I am not against a pro-family union among Catholics, Orthodoxies, Jews and evangelicals. But, in a very profound spiritual level, do we need to create hybrids? Do we need a genetically (in a spiritual way) modified televangelist?

Sometimes, John Luther seems more nationalist conservative than an evangelist. Other times, he seems more evangelist than a nationalist conservative. This is confusion. This is Babylon.

Conservatism is important, but it is not the Gospel and it cannot replace the Gospel. I talk as an evangelical to evangelicals.

Let Catholics be Catholics. Let Orthodoxies be Orthodoxies. Let Jews be Jews. Let evangelicals be evangelicals. Let them be united in conservative pro-family efforts. But why use the Gospel to break differences among Christians and create hybrids for the sake of a nationalist conservatism? Why create a strange “ecumenism” in the name of conservatism, patriotism or nationalism?

In the WorldNetDaily article, Daniel Lusko said, “Once you have put all that trust into an institution that cannot replace God, then it becomes a trap. That’s why this story is so essential because he could have been a believer in any kind of faith.”

I could also add, “Once you have put all that trust into in nationalism or patriotism, which cannot replace God, then it becomes a trap.”

Take away his rosary, and “Persecuted” will be perfect. If Lusko wanted a hero with a rosary, he should let the Catholic priest be the only hero.

Take away also his nationalist criticism only of nations not aligned with the U.S., and “Persecuted” will be perfect. Saudi Arabia deserves to be criticized for its complete ban on free speech.

And why not praise Russian laws banning homosexual propaganda to children? If America is better than Russia in free speech, why in Russia Christians can criticize sodomy, and in America cannot they do it? Why Russia protects children from the gay agenda, and America does not?

Introduce this Russian example, and “Persecuted” will be perfect.

It is remarkable that John Luther (two Christian names combined; one right from the Bible, the other from Martin Luther, the father of the Protestant Reformation) fights for a new reformation.

Yet, while the original Luther fought corruption in the Catholic institution 500 year ago, modern John Luther is an American patriot fighting the dark forces of the U.S. government as represented by Senator Donald Harrison (Bruce Davison) and a cartoonish white-haired corrupt president (James R. Higgins) of the United States who looks like Ted Kennedy and sounds like Bill Clinton.

Patriot evangelical hybrid Luther opposed the “Faith and Fairness Act,” supposed to protect all religions and give them equal free speech.

Religious Freedom Above the Gospel

In the WorldNetDaily article, titled “Trust in God or government?” Fred Thompson, who played Fr. Charles Luther, said “Quite frankly, any religion people should feel the right to practice what they believe in. That’s why I think this movie is central to anyone who has ever felt that freedom of speech or religion is under attack in any shape or form.”

Concisely, is not this the “Faith and Fairness Act”?

So the father of the hybrid televangelist eventually betrayed his son and his movie.

Yet, on the other hand, John Luther is a mirror of the “Faith and Fairness” with his hybridism that equals the Catholic faith and the evangelical faith. Somewhat, he opposes something that he lives. This is confusion. This is Babylon.

An evangelical minister with a Bible and a rosary is also a betrayal, not to Catholics, who follow these traditions, but to R. A. Torrey and all American evangelical leaders who defended their faith against what they saw as unbiblical Catholic traditions.

Lusko said, in a ChristianPost piece, that he is a pastor’s kid and that he has grown up around megachurches and preachers — both the good ones and the charlatans. I wonder how many of these preachers prayed to God with rosaries.

In all my lifetime, I have never seen a televangelist or any evangelical using a rosary in his desperation and troubled times. Why would an evangelical seek God this way?

Is to preach patriotic religious hybridism to save the national honor more important than to preach the Gospel that offends trust in religious objects, but saves eternal souls?

Sometimes, “Persecuted” shows the correct Gospel. Other times, it shows confusion. It shows Babylon.

In the end, “Persecuted” shows a John Luther tired of corruption in the U.S. government, of ministry filled of opportunists eager to go to bed with government and he seems to want only to preach the Bible — with or without a rosary?

What is happening to evangelicals in the U.S.?

“Persecuted” was screened at the February 2014 National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville, Tennessee and March 2014 at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C, becoming a model for evangelicals and conservatives.

What’s a real Christian?

“Persecuted” producers committed the error of inviting liberals to attend the film’s world premiere in New York City last year. One of them was pro-abortion feminist Dorri Olds, who wrote about her talks with “Persecuted” actors and producers.

“Much of our culture is eroding,” actor and producer James R. Higgins told her. “There aren’t as many real Christians as there used to be.”

Olds asked, “What’s a real Christian?”

Higgins replied, “Somebody who will stand up for what he believes in and will not back down.” He praised the Luther character, saying, “Whenever people are willing to die for their cause, I think that is really special.” As recorded in TheBlot, Olds added, “Yeah, that’s it. Let’s all become suicide bombers!”

She also remarked, “When Higgins voiced how important it is to protect our right to freedom, I asked if he thought women should have the freedom to do what they want with their bodies. He said, ‘Oh boy, that’s a tough question. That’s what I call a social issue.’”

To defend freedom and free speech in a Christian society, as happened in the U.S. 200 years ago, produces freedom. In contrast, to defend freedom and free speech in a morally decaying nation today produces freedom for abortion, sodomy and other evils.

In Higgins’ definition, as written by Olds, even radical Muslims can be “real Christians.” But is such definition correct?

If feminist Olds had asked me, “What’s a real Christian?” I would have answered: “A real Christian is a man who knows and follows Jesus Christ. His passion is to preach the Gospel to every creature to give them an opportunity to know that Jesus can rescue and save their eternal souls from the eternal hell.”

Preach free speech to feminists like Olds, and they will use it for abortion. Preach the Gospel to them, and they can be delivered from their sins, including abortion activism.

To preach the real Gospel, regardless free speech, produces freedom, here and forevermore.

The power of Jesus and his Gospel have never been dependent on free speech. Just ask Chinese Christians.

With information from MovieGuide, WorldNetDaily, Hollywood Reporter, The Blot and Examiner, ChristianPost, CBN and Wikipedia.

Portuguese version of this article: Babilônia conservadora em “Perseguição”: Televangelista híbrido cai em armação de neocon pagão, e o “evangelho” da liberdade de expressão, do patriotismo ou igualdade substituindo o Evangelho de Jesus Cristo

Source: Last Days Watchman

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