Posts Tagged ‘truth’

HERETICAL NAZNET HANS DEVENTER’S BOSS TALKS

March 2, 2010

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet moderator Hans Deventer divulged on Dave McClung’s site that Deventer’s Nazarene District Superintendent had contacted him.

I had communicated with the Netherlands District Superintendent regarding Deventer’s heresies blatantly posted on the supposed “friend”-to-Nazarene web site.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

These heresies included Deventer not believing in the Bible, holding that unsaved souls are annihilated at death, that souls go to an “intermediate state” upon death, and that there is no immediate entrance into heaven upon death for saved souls.

Further, Deventer was quite enthusiastic about the emergent church’s fuzzy teachings, mainly that one does not need “objective truths”—that is, moral absolutes—as long as one has sweet Jesus. Moral absolutes get in the way. Hugging Jesus is the all-in-all. Deventer stated: “I don’t believe the Bible. . .”

Deventer also aggressively pushed for a worldwide infant baptism acceptance throughout the Church of the Nazarene, though no infants are ever mentioned being baptized per the New Testament. Deventer expressed that he just could not understand why Nazarenes did not get the message that infant baptism was far more superior than infant dedication. Infant dedication is the traditional mode in that denomination.

Deventer definitely leaned in the ritualistic-liturgical “high church” direction of Anglican/Episcopalian when it came to worship style. He delighted in referring to “communion” as the “Eucharist,” the latter term not traditionally used in the denomination. “Communion” is the preferred term.

His theology was old-time liberalism cloaked in his own confused entanglement phrases. Deventer’s communication style was the more unclear the more posh, typical of emergent church proponents.

Deventer stated on NazNet that his boss had received ten emails in two days concerning Deventer’s various anti-Bible posts, none in keeping with the historic Church of the Nazarene.

The District Superintendent told me that he would speak to Deventer about matters. Apparently the boss followed through.

The Church of the Nazarene Board of General Superintendents, Nazarene Theological
Seminary and Nazarene Bible College administrations and faculties have also been informed of NazNet’s theological liberal positions, Deventer’s in particular.

The question then comes down to this: How does Dave McClung, founder/owner of the site, permit these gross theological distortions propagated especially by his two prime moderators—Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff?

McClung is a wealthy businessman who has held prestigious positions on various denominational boards as well as being one-time President of Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA.

Read “Naznet’s Dave Mcclung’s Cronyism Ups Emergent Devilment” at http://www.articlesbase.com/blogging-articles/naznet039s-dave-mcclung039s-cronyism-ups-emergent-devilment-1903633.html

Why then does he advertise his site as a “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene when he allows constant anti-Bible moderator positions expressed? Some individuals have reached the conclusion that McClung was in fact creating his own Internet church in competition with the Church of the Nazarene.

Read ” Naznet Hans Deventer’s Boss ‘Will Discuss Questions’” at http://www.magic-city-news.com/J_Grant_Swank_61/Naznet_Hans_Deventer_s_Boss_Will_Discuss_Questions13076.shtml

WHY DOES NAZNET SHUT DOWN SITE TO ME?

February 14, 2010

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

As of February 14, 2010, NazNet forbids me to get into NazNet. Why?

Every avenue to the site has been cut off to me.

Logic says NazNet Founder Dave McClung and staffers Scott Cundiff and Hans Deventer do not want me to expose their heresies any further.

Moreover, NAZNET DISTORTS http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/ exposes detail upon detail regarding NazNet’s anti-Bible, anti-God postings.

In addition, NAZNET DISTORTS has exposed former NazNet staffer Chaplain Barbara Moulton’s refusal to witness publicly concerning God’s abhorrence of homosexual practice. Moulton stated she would not perform “wedding ceremonies” for same-gender duos but she would not witness publicly to the biblical prohibitions of same either.

Since that exposure, Moulton has left NazNet as a staff member and her name and email address no longer appear on the NazNet masthead; however, she continues to post comments throughout NazNet.

The latest revelation regarding NazNet has been Alvin, Texas Church of the Nazarene Pastor Scott Cundiff’s refusal to accept the Bible as the infallible Word of God. He, a NazNet moderator, has stated that the more one researches the Bible, the less one knows God. Deventer agrees. McClung does nothing to expunge this anti-Church of the Nazarene position from NazNet.

As soon as Cundiff’s lack of faith in the Bible was posted on the Internet on February 13, 2010, NazNet was cut off to me. I have been forbidden access following that exposure.

Nevertheless, as of February 14, 2010, South Texas Church of the Nazarene District officialdom has been informed of Cundiff’s NazNet statements concerning his disbelief in the entire Bible as divine revelation.

One wonders how far NazNet will go in its splintering of the Church of the Nazarene before McClung as Founder will apologize to the Church of the Nazarene for propagating heresies.

Then Cundiff needs to confess at least to his local congregation that he does not have faith in the entire Bible as God’s error-free Word.

Deventer needs to make exit from NazNet for he is exceptionally brash in his forthright denial of eternal damnation. He does not believe the Bible per his own confession on NazNet. Yet McClung permits this moderator to continue posting anti-Scripture opinions.

All the while McClung repeats that NazNet is a “friend” of the Church of the Nazarene. It is not. It is a prime enemy and has been for some time.

Read NAZNET DAVE MCCLUNG IS IRRESPONSIBLE AS ‘CHRISTIAN’ at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3472

In addition, the denomination’s General Superintendents have been informed all along of NazNet’s heresies push. Specific details have been sent to the Superintendents every time NazNet heresy exposures have been placed on the Internet.

I have sent to McClung, Cundiff and Deventer the following article detailing faith in the Bible as the infallible Word of God; however, NazNet’s power clique continues to hold to the Bible being laden with errors.

Read “Yes, you can believe in the Old Testament God” at RenewAmerica.com http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/100209

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

TRUTH RE MOHAMMED: RAPE, MURDER, MOLESTATION, BEHEADING

December 3, 2009

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Mohammed was “a psychopath (with) Allah (as) nothing but his own alter ego,” according to Ali Sina, ex-Muslim, webmaster of FaithFreedom.org. Visit http://www.faithfreedom.org/index.htm .

Islam’s prophet Mohammed (various spellings are given to his name, some being “Muhammad”) was the David Koresh and Jim Jones of his time.

Mohammed’s Allah’s religious activism prescribed for his disciples? “Fighting is prescribed for you. . .it is good for you.” Koran 2:216.

That is the baseline of Islam: killing, fighting, slaying, murdering, slaughtering, leveling, conquering, overcoming for the bloodletting. The baseline includes Muslim slaying Muslim such as in “honor killing”—slitting the Muslim female’s throat if Muslim males conclude she has dishonored the clan.

Read the daily news to see the killing cult enveloping the globe. Millions upon millions are in this marching “Islam world rule” army. They threaten every democracy.

And who is Allah? Allah is Satan for he is the antipathy to the Bible’s loving God. When analyzing the Koran’s god, one discovers the devil as described in the Bible: “father of lies,” murderer, hater, insane, King of the Pit, Beelzebub, “that old snake,” the Book of Revelation’s “dragon,” overseer of the lake of fire and brimstone.

Mohammed was “a psychopath (with) Allah (as) nothing but his own alter ego,” according to Ali Sina.

“Muhammad invented this bugaboo deity to fool people and ride them. Allah is no god. Muhammad was a deranged man. He concocted this whole lie to fool people. He was no different from Charles Manson.

“Muhammad was a ruthless man and a false prophet. He made people hate each other. He divided them so he could conquer them. He separated sons from their fathers and daughters from their mothers and even encouraged them to kill their own fathers and brothers if they do not submit to his sick claim.

“Allah was only a convenient tool in the hand of a psychopath. It was this pathological narcissist who craved to be loved and respected.”

Mohammed robbed, massacred, raped, raided. He “assassinated poets for composing poetry that he did not find flattering. He tortured people whom he captured in his ambushes to make them reveal the whereabouts of their hidden treasures.”

All this in the name of a demonically imaginative deity named “Allah.”

And what did Allah promise his devotees for their surrender to his dictates? He promised forever orgies with fresh virgins for Muslim males. Also, young boys for those desiring such recreational sex, though Muslims on Earth execute homosexuals. Females are consigned to hell. All this was the workings of a debauched Mohammed mind proclaiming a “religion.”

“Unless you go forth, Allah will punish you with a grievous penalty.” Koran 9:39

Ali Sina explains: “These are the teachings of a demon who wants to create hate among us humans and destroy us. He is helpless and powerless but he can lie and he can deceive and he can use the fools to do his demonic work.”

Mohammed’s disciples brought him women for his own lustful appetites.

Mohammed beheaded men so he could have sex with their wives in the same night. “He fooled his followers to such extent that one of them allowed him to sleep with his 9-year-old child.

“Muhammad had sexual feelings for Aisha when she was only 6-years-old. Abu Bakr, the history’s grand fool, begged Muhammad to wait for a few more years until she matured. But Muhammad, this sick monster, could not wait more than three years and when Aisha was nine he took her to bed and entered her in the same forenoon.
Muhammad was not a human. He was the most evil creature who ever walked on this planet.”

And so this prophet is lauded as the head of a “noble faith?” These were the words of US President George W. Bush as he placed the Koran for the first time in the White House. The celebration was a dinner for Muslims.

Prince Charles says he is “fond” of Islam.

There are over a billion mortals on the planet who regard Mohammed as the righteous prophet of a “peace religion.” Has the world population lost its mind totally?

Much of the Muslim population is ignorant of the truth regarding their cult. That is why I get scores of emails from Islamics informing me that I am incorrect. And so they attempt to defend what they have been brainwashed as the real facts.

These are extremely sheltered individuals who are caught up in a cult leadership such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). There are 4000 Muslim web sites propagandizing to Muslims and non-Muslims. Visit http://www.mpac.org/

What the sane, civilized world faces today is a threat far greater than Nazism. This Islamic cultic spread has 1400 years backing it.

The facts in summation are: Islam’s deity is Satan, the Koran written by a demon-possessed “prophet,” and is taught by demon ordered mosque clerics.

Some argue that I am too severe when I describe Allah as Satan. I am not. When one reads the Bible, there is no other conclusion that one can reasonably conclude.

Those who disagree are not theologically biblical. They are theological liberals who twist the Bible to read whatever they want it to read. They slice out passages and add words that are not there. Such persons cannot be trusted with their biblical “research” for it is not sound research. One must take what the Bible says and not as theological liberals give it, not as theological opportunists do rewrite it.

Then someone emails me to say that in the Old Testament God prescribed death penalties for certain disobedient acts. True. That was because God was building a sane society from a barbaric people.

Therefore, stiff penalties meant that Hebrews were to line up with the holy law. Weak penalties would have tempted Hebrews to be lenient with themselves, disobeying God easily.

When Jesus came, the Old Testament rule of king was long gone because foreign powers overtook the Hebrews. Therefore, Hebrews, in the first century known as “Jews,” were under Roman control.

Consequently, Jesus told His followers that it was no longer “eye for eye, tooth for tooth.” He said, “I give you a new law. Love your enemy. Pray for your enemy. Do good to those who persecute you for righteousness.”

Read BIBLE HARSH PENALTIES & CHRIST’S ETHIC at http://grantswank.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/21/bible_harsh_penalties__christ%E2%80%99s_ethic.thtml

Therefore, Christians for the last 2000 years-plus have followed the love teaching of Jesus, no longer adhering to the Old Testament prescriptions for penalties for broken statutes.

Yet I get emails telling that down through the past centuries Christians murdered this public or that public. So how are killing Muslims any different than killing Christians?

No. People must not confuse “Gentiles” with “Christians.” Because a person is not a Jew he is automatically a Gentile. Each mortal is one or the other.

But being Gentile does not make one Christian. One is only a Christian if one follows Jesus as Savior and Lord, living His love ethic as provided in the New Testament.

There are many church persons who are not Christians. There are many Gentiles who not Christians.

Therefore, don’t call “killing Gentiles” “killing Christians.” They are killing Gentiles—period. Christians who are genuinely Christians don’t kill, maim, steal, plunder and so forth. By their deeds they shall be known. Jesus said by our fruits we are known as good or bad. It is in the life. It is in the deed.

Presently, realizing the cult known as “Islam, ” it is the old confrontation of good versus bad, righteousness versus evil, God versus Satan. It is not a new conflict. It is the same warring that has gone on for centuries but now garbed in Muslim fanaticism.

The worst a free person can do is to tolerate that which is the enemy attempting to overthrow our republic.

The Islam creed has Islam world rule as its chief aim. Islam knows nothing of peace, love, community, civility and understanding, no matter what the propagandists write on their web sites or in literature passed around a community.

An example of Islam world rule is evidenced with Hamas beginning with Israel by demanding Israel redesign its flag. How brazen to start global dictate by starting with Israel!

“Hamas leader said that Israel must change its flag. ‘Israel must remove the two blue stripes from its national flag. The stripes on the flag are symbols of occupation. They signify Israel’s borders stretching from the River Euphrates to the River Nile,'” according to Arutz Sheva

“Israel’s national flag, a blue Star of David set between two blue stripes was designed to resemble a Jewish prayer shawl which traditionally has stripes.”

Yet there are pro-Islamic apologists in our American universities and colleges, in our pulpits and inter-faith associations. They are in our journalism departments and trying to be elected into our officialdom.

Once they get that kind of overall foothold, they will bring in their sharia, the latter being their devilish “judicial” system grounded in the killing and maiming passages of the Koran. They will bring in their mosques and sleeper cells to blow up our schools, churches, town halls and community centers. They will turn on our neighborhoods and undo all civilization until Allah is crowned planetary demon-deity.

Then realize what the liberty world is up against.

Don’t try to compromise that. Don’t try to rationalize its legitimacy. Don’t try to accept Islam as a religion among world religions.

It is a killing cult with a deranged Mohammed.

SPIKE LEE RE B. H. OBAMA: HOW WRONG CAN ONE GET?

November 24, 2009

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Looking back on the pre-presidential election days can be quite interesting. Take this:

Filmmaker Spike Lee said that God put Barack Hussein Obama in the Oval Office. He is certain that Barack Hussein Obama will walk into the White House
because heaven ordained it to be so.

Lee says that he can feel it. It is without question. There is such certainty in Lee’s conviction.

However, Lee is not known for his biblical sensitivity or theological learning. Lee is not considered a spiritual advisor of excellence.

Nevertheless, that did not stop Lee from publicly pronouncing his soul witness endorsing Barack Hussein Obama as deity’s choice for America’s President.

Per Jeff Poor of Business & Media Institute, “Lee revealed he thought the economic difficulties that are presently plaguing the country were ordained by God to help get Barack Obama elected president.”

Therefore, add to the Lee certainty that God has placed Barack Hussein Obama on Pennsylvania Avenue that God also planned the nation’s financial mess. In other words, thank you, God, for two weird blessings wrapped in one package.

“Lee appeared on ‘Morning Joe’ and, in an interview with co-host Joe Scarborough, he made the revelation.

“‘I’ve always believed, and it seems naive, that God had a hand in America,’ Scarborough said. ‘And I get a real sense you feel that God has had a real hand in this.’

“‘So many things have happened – all of a sudden, the economy goes south at that moment, and then McCain,’ Lee replied. ‘There were so many things.. It was almost a movement that had to be ordained, I think.'”

So there you have it. Lee the prophet. Lee the advisor for future events and analyzer for past happenings.
This is Lee the film designer giving forth the Holy Spirit’s messages to his own spirit.

What is so odd is that Lee’s testimony does not square with God’s Word. And of course if Lee is speaking for the Bible’s God, then what he states as divinely ordained should square with divine revelation.

However, it does not.

Lee’s idol, Barack Hussein Obama, is pro-choice for womb killing mothers. This is not God sanctioned.

Obama desires homosexual activity to be permitted throughout America as a legitimate pastime. This is not God sanctioned.

Obama states that reading the Koran was a poetic, aesthetic experience for his own soul experience. This is not in line with the Bible as divine revelation in comparison to the Koran as demonically scribed.

Obama holds that all religions are one. That is not sanctioned by the Bible’s God.

Obama embraces Islam as a legitimate religion, holding a long history of being pro-Muslim so that many suspect him to be a mask Muslim. That is not
God sanctioned.

Lee obviously speaks for other than God. If he sincerely means that a spirit spoke to his spirit, that spirit would have to be a satanic spirit, not the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit cannot contradict His own inspired Word. The Holy Spirit cannot cancel out biblical ethics. The Holy Spirit cannot endorse an immoral agenda such as that proposed by Barack Hussein Obama.

Lee, check out your spirit. It does not appear to be in line with the Holy Spirit, therefore, your analyses are suspect, evidently.

NAZNET MODERATOR HANS DEVENTER: NAZARENES GOOFED ON DEFINITION OF HELL

November 16, 2009

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet website Founder/Moderator Dave McClung makes this statement at the site’s outset:

“NazNet is proud to be a loyal supporter of the denomination and its world wide mission — to respond to the Great Commission of Christ ‘to make Christ-like disciples in the nations.’ This is a Nazarene friendly site and our purpose is: ‘building community among Nazarenes and friends.’”

Not so. In fact, far far from it.

NazNet undercuts Church of the Nazarene historic theology. One of the site’s prime voices is Moderator Hans Deventer, unfortunately.

McClung should absent Deventer from any posts on the site if McClung wants to be honest in his opening statement of support for the Church of the Nazarene.

Deventer propagates heresies that will never be acceptable to Wesleyan holiness teachings of the Church of that Nazarene, that is, unless this denomination transgresses its spiritual journey in disobeying God. And that in fact is happening as I type. If it continues, the Church of the Nazarene will implode under God’s wrath.

For example, NazNet reader Ian Gentles states to Deventer: “I believe in eternal torment. Oh trust me, I don’t like it, but I believe it. Can the church have misunderstood all these centuries?”

Deventer answers: “THE church has had different opinions, and THE church has never felt the need to express itself in the early creeds on this topic. Hence, it is an issue where differences of opinion are allowed.”

Gentles responds: “Did the Nazarene church misunderstand?”

Deventer says: “Yes. Hey, we can’t have everything right, can we?”

Gentles continues: “Did i misunderstand the Bible?”

Deventer again: “Yes.”

Yes?

Gentles states he believes the biblical Christ’s teaching regarding eternal torment being just that.

Deventer redirects him to the “truth according to Deventer.” Sadly Deventer does this repeatedly throughout the site.

Deventer tenaciously believes in infant baptism, contrary to the traditional Nazarene infant dedication and adult believers’ baptism.

Deventer teaches that there is no “eternal torment.” Deventer states that “annihilation” is the proper reality.

Deventer teaches that there is no such entity as “eternal life.” “Eternal” is not meant to be everlasting but merely the content, not duration for the saved.

Deventer does not hold that the Bible is the infallible, inerrant Word of God. He believes that the more doubt one holds to, the more one comes upon truth. Moderator Scott Cundiff agrees. NazNet Founder Dave McClung does nothing to correct these heresies.

I emailed Deventer regarding his misuse of Scripture. His email to me let me know that I am his “enemy.”

If am his enemy, I am God’s friend. Deventer destroys the biblical truth; I support biblical truth.

Deventer seemingly has no fear of appearing before the Judgment Seat of Christ for he writes his own holy writ by flying by the seat of his pants.

That’s actually not the way to carry out biblical research, especially for the benefit of inquirers on a site that advertises itself as friend to Nazarenes.

What say, McClung?

Read more: NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

NAZNET = BIBLE NOT THE WHOLE WORD OF GOD

November 15, 2009

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

That is correct.

Site overseers such as NazNet Manager Scott Cudliff and Moderator Hans Deventer champion those who doubt the Bible as a reliable revelation from the Christian God. (See footnote for further detail at NAZNET DISTORTS http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/ .)

Yet the Bible states in 2 Timothy 3:16-17: “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto good works.”

“All Scripture. . .is profitable for doctrine. . .”

When God inspired those words, He meant it. Not just what is convenient Scripture or that which is pleasant to you, but all Scripture. Not just what liberals pronounce as condoned, but all Scripture. That means from Genesis to Revelation, all Scripture is God’s infallible communication.

Does NazNet’s deity have flawed communication skills? Obviously, for Cudliff and Deventer applaud same. NazNet Founder and Moderator Dave McClung must go along with this heresy for he never disciplines his overseers or counters their anti-God views.

By the way, McClung is not a theologian. He is a successful businessman.

Why then does he found and head a primarily religious site, advertising it as Church of the Nazarene-friendly? He is not doctrinally astute. He is not theologically trained. Yet he is forming a seminary-on-Internet and Internet competitive “denomination” against the holiness Nazarene history.

McClung delights in his ego aggrandizement in watching particularly the young follow his Pied Piper musical dance into God’s wrath. McClung is proud. He is conceited. That is why he has molded this NazNet grouse that entices the unknowing into his dark web.

Yet all along he boasts that NazNet is a support system for the Wesleyan holiness Church of the Nazarene. It is just the opposite.

For instance, Cudliff states on NazNet that he is mesmerized by C. S. Cowles’ address regarding the emerging church. In that address, Cowles esteems a liberal theologian who destroys faith in the Bible for ongoing doubt.

Cudliff lifts high that quote from Cowles and states for the world to read that such an heretical view encourages Cudliff’s “Wesleyan perspective.”

That is a lie. It cannot be. Cowles’ quote has nothing to do with endorsing Wesleyan theology and the holiness interpretation of the Word. In fact, that quote enables atheism, not Wesleyan doctrine.

Time and again, such deceit weaves its way through the discussion slides on NazNet. There is much there that is cotton candy; but there is enough to damn. And McClung knows that; but he is so enthralled with his own ego enlargement by this site that he continues to “gospel” lies.

“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. . .”

That includes the flood in Noah’s day. That flood is scuttled by Cowles and thereby by Cudliff by the latter’s own confession on NazNet.

That divine inspiration includes the slaying of various peoples in the Old Testament period. Such is submerged by Cowles and therby Cudliff.

What these liberals do is to transplant their own divine personality mold upon the Bible—mostly sugary sweet deity images. If the Bible does not support that persona, the biblical verses are scrapped. Of course, Psalm 23 is left. And I Corinthians 13. However, the more difficult passages are yanked out as logically and theologically unsound.

However, God has stated: “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. . .” It is not there for us to scissor out at our whim. Scripture is not provided for us to critique. It is there by “inspiration of God.” God!

Therefore, if you cannot stomach that God, don’t claim Him.

However, the likes of Cowles, Cudliff, McClung and Deventer want to claim Him to get to heaven; but they disown His ability to give us a responsible revelation. Such hubris. Yet it is there on NazNet while that site witnesses to being a companion to the Church of the Nazarene.

Will the General Superintendents do anything about this?

I don’t know. But I have emailed to them various NazNet samplings to let them know the facts about that site.

If they do nothing, then they have no spines. They are mandated by Christ to tell the truth, defend the truth, and particularly care for the holiness biblical trust of the Church of the Nazarene. Time will tell what they do about such demonic inroads as NazNet.

Some time ago, I wrote about the difficult sections of Scripture in the light of God’s persona. I did not have to slide God off the charts. I instead discovered in the study of those venues that this God I serve is most respectable. It is because of his just and merciful holy nature.

What the rebels such as overseers on NazNet have done is to overweigh God on the love side of His persona and neglect His justice side. One cannot do that.

Holy God is the eternal, perfect balance of justice and mercy. When realizing that truth in both Old and New Testaments, one comes upon a perfect deity, in no need of NazNet’s surgical knives.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

Read BIBLE HARSH PENALTIES & CHRIST’S ETHIC at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3256

NAZNET REFUSES BIBLICAL STANDARD RE EMERGING CHURCH

November 13, 2009

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet highlights the topic on its site. But officially it does not take a biblical stand against the Emerging Church.

Naturally that could not happen, for NazNet settles for an errant Bible. That is, the Word of God is not granted us by a deity who knows how to perfect His communications skills.

Therefore, NazNet sets forth the Emerging Church topic and lets it fly. Relativism counts most.

Why does not a site that boasts on being a friend to the holiness Church of the Nazarene declare biblical convictions concerning Scripture and the bogus Emerging Church?

One, of course, cannot expect that kind of bold declaration from the overseers Founder and Moderator Dave McClung, Moderator Chaplain Barbara Moulton, Moderator Hans Deventer, and Manager Scott Cundiff.

These persons waffle when opportunistic. They are not grounded in biblical insight. They pose as experts concerning biblical faith but in fact they are amateur pied pipers luring the unsuspected reader.

These individuals have created a site that has no sound scriptural base. It is more in league with theological liberals than evangelical, holiness scholarship.

Now here is a biblical definition of the Emerging Church that can be trusted:

Once you proclaim that there are no absolutes, you put yourself outside Christianity.

Christianity is constructed on the biblical absolutes or it’s not Christianity.

There are all kinds of prostitutions of Christianity; but God knows Christianity when He sees it. And when He sees the real thing, it’s based on His absolutes as set forth in divine revelation.

The Emerging Church basically is the throwback to hippies with religion tagging along somehow somewhere.

The Emerging Church won’t say anything absolute about homosexuality or abortion. That means it’s a cowardly conclave that wants more of self than God’s truth.

God’s truth is set forth in Scripture. Regarding homosexual practice, God abhors it. Regarding killing womb babies, God abhors it.

Therefore, when the Emerging Church plays chicken on such ethical concerns, it sides with the dark powers. God is light. The Emerging Church cohabitates with compromise and that lifts it outside the genuine company of believers.

The Emerging Church is a fad. It is a giggle kind of group that is self-centered in that whatever plays best for the constituents is what goes.

Christians are not on Earth to play best for self. Christians are here to live out the inerrant biblical ethic—period.

The Emerging Church boasts of its swing dance group, its happy hour, its hiking clubs and so on and so on. Whatever serves self’s giddy get-up this Friday works for the Emerging Church.

That’s a far cry from biblical commissions to live out holiness, go into all the world to make disciples of Christ, and be separate from worldliness unto God’s impress.

The Emerging Church is touted among some today as The Latest in religious zeal, even at times including the term “evangelical” in its description.

All this is so much untruth in advertising.

This Emerging Church self-based flimflam will dissipate for it has no actual substance. Its little candle will light itself dry. However, while it sputters, it will destroy truth in some quarters and thwart the gospeling of the Earth.

The world is crazy. Yes. And part of that nuthouse stuff is the Emerging Church.

With that, farewell to those who pride themselves on having discovered something new. It’s nothing more than the old hippie bag with a religion of self-preoccupation.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/