Flaming Heretics are Real - J Chace Gordon

Flaming Heretics are Real (eBook)

J Chace Gordon (Autor)

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2023 | 1. Auflage
246 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
978-1-6678-8281-9 (ISBN)

This book is all about Hell. Well, technically it is also about flaming heretics. But it is mostly about Hell. Because frankly, if you do not fear God, you should fear Hell. If you do not feel guilt, well, that makes you a sociopath-and sociopaths go to Hell too. Perhaps mercifully, you can read the contents of this sarcastic (but also sincerely concerned) narrative and have your conscience awakened, or in some cases, resurrected. Hell is real, and it's found at the end of a long slippery slope of willful blindness to the clear warnings of Scripture. Endorsements:"e;Clearly this author is being hyperbolic and metaphorical to convey the point that flaming heretics actually do not exist, and everyone is universally correct about everything."e;-Donald Mueller, Neo-Christian Metaspiritualist "e;I read the book and have come to the conclusion that the author does not exist, because if he did, God would not be a God of love."e;-Bishop Carly Pershoms, Uniclusivarian pastor"e;This book is a flaming dumpster fire. Anyone who says different is just trying to control you!"e;-Karen Shrieker, Facebook prophetess, Universal Disassembly Church Movement"e;The author is quite legalistic. Thankfully, I am redeemed from the curse of the law!"e;-Joey Queen, friendship evangelist, CEO, Coworkers of Iniquity Foundation

CHAPTER 1

FLAMING HERETICS ARE REAL

SO,1 FOR EXAMPLE, why does someone decide one day after growing up as a self-described Christian who has gone to church for years—why does this person one day say, “You know what? There is no Hell.”

Let’s start with the lie: because love, or so they say.

In fact, love is the go-to talking point for any number of heresies, such as the commonly associated heresy of Universalism. N.T. Wright summarizes the Universalist (cheap-substitute) view of salvation this way:

There are two Biblical ways of looking at salvation. One says that only Christian believers will be saved: the other says that all men will be saved. Since the latter is more loving, it must be true, because God is love.2

That about sums it up. We take the subject of love, filter it through our feelings and subjective experiences without consulting any time-tested objective standard. Then, we redefine the world through the post-modern lens of make-it-up-as-you-go-along because the last person to arrive on the world scene is the most evolved and therefore, the smartest and most qualified to address and interpret the problems of the universe. No historical understanding or Biblical literacy required, just brazen narcissism dressed up in the spirit of the age.

How ironic then, that those who say, “there-is-no-Hell,” could often be characterized as full of scorn for truth, rebellious against the authority of the Word, and contemptuous of the Church?

Take the appropriately expelled Word of Faith preacher, Bishop Carlton Pearson, for example. Does this man have some scorn? Consider his words in a sermon he preached entitled, “To Hell with Hell” where he challenges the historicity of the story of Noah’s Ark:

It takes a lot of guts for me to say that the God of the Bible is made up as a sociopathic, sadistic, angry, manic-depressive . . . and maybe even, even . . . psychologically . . . demented because He is so angry. He has deep anger-manage[ment] problems . . . because this God . . . does the flood, and says, next time we will use fire. That’s in the Bible!3

In addition to offering a dozen-plus blasphemous adjectives for God in the event that the story of Noah’s ark is literal (as well as Hell), Carlton Pearson went farther in a 2019 Facebook post4 approving (defending?) women who get abortions: “Your God committed millions of abortions when He massacred the world in the story of Noah’s ark!”

Just saying there may be some anger issues with the exiled bishop, as seems typical among those who shake their fists at God in the name of love, and then reinvent God in a more socially acceptable manner according to their own fanciful imaginations (see “golden calf”).

In fact, the “there-is-no-Hell” argument is usually framed in such a manner as to appeal to the carnal appetites of the willfully depraved. Out with the doctrine of SOLA SCRIPTURA and in with the doctrine of SOLA FEELS!

Consider these emotion-based pull-quotes I came across from another false teacher:

If you do not accept Christ you will go to Hell. That is not good news. That is bad news. Hell is bad news. Nobody wants to hear about this.5

Heretic conclusion: Since Gospel means “good news” and going to Hell is bad news, Hell is not Gospel because going to hell doesn’t make me happy. Um, okay. Pretty sure the Gospel is not “Go into all the world and . . . tell them to be happy.” It’s actually a message of repentance and faith in Christ. The good news is there is a way out of the sin and mess you are in. The good news is not God likes your mess and everything is just peachy. Here’s another quote:

Jesus Christ wants you to be free. He wants you to be happy. He wants you to be creative. He also wants you to be progressive . . . the world is getting better, and better, and better! It’s so beautiful. Fine, the pandemic . . . fine (He’s talking about Covid-19. This pull-quote was from 2020). It’s still going to get better . . . that is the good news! There is no bad in the good news. Grace wins. Be free from Hell.6

Great message (except in a not-so-good way)! Sort of reminds me of when the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy:

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word [as an official messenger]; be ready when the time is right and even when it is not [keep your sense of urgency, whether the opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable, whether convenient or inconvenient, whether welcome or unwelcome]; correct [those who err in doctrine or behavior], warn [those who sin], exhort and encourage [those who are growing toward spiritual maturity], with inexhaustible patience and [faithful] teaching. For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold.7

So obviously, preachers are supposed to have a loyalty to the truth, and the truth is sometimes uncomfortable; but you cannot appreciate the Good News if you filter good through your feelings and limit news to “happy-talk-loosely-based-on-a-fantasy-ofhow-I-wish-reality-actually-worked”. When preachers do this, the Bible says they are ear ticklers, and the people who follow this kind of preaching: error hoaders.

So, this is just a glimpse of what kind of delusion we are dealing with here. The “There-is-no-Hell” crowd is a tough nut to crack. You might wonder, what then is Hell . . . if there is no Hell?

Well, supposedly, Hell is:

•A garbage dump called Gehenna

•A spiritual metaphor for a literal place (metaphor, hyper-bole, allegory, symbolism, really anything else not real)

•A literal place metaphor for another literal place but not a spiritual place (lots of symbolism here for all things not actually Hell)

•A spiritual metaphor that is actually just a physical place (Hell is just a piece of geography or something that modern scholars discovered, like a place in Michigan no one wants to live that makes people think of a spiritual place that doesn’t actually exist)

•The destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD (of course, the Bible could have just said that, it would make things a lot easier)

•Just for the Jews (that’s all you need to know!)

•Something fulfilled in the distant past (old stuff for religious fuddy-duddies)

•An irrelevant old covenant concept (see previous point, or don’t, you are too evolved to look back anyway)

•Something man-made by the church to produce guilt and fear so they can control you (silly obedience to God peddlers!)

•Good for business (yeah, the church is all about money—that’s why I’m always obsessing about keeping mine away from them)

•Something stolen from Greek philosophy or some other pagan idea

•Something sensationalized by Dante to fill up the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages (always play the anti- Catholic card when you want to win a theological debate)

•Something everyone goes through, but nobody ultimate goes to (it’s a smart point because it rhymes, boom goes the dynamite!)

•It’s actually just a grave

•It’s actually not in the Bible at all

•It’s actually something almost nobody really believes in but if they do they are either ignorant or are in denial

•It’s actually an idea that just makes people feel like hell

•It’s actually what people experience metaphorically when they observe the Law (gasp!) of the Old Covenant (eek!) and are Pharisees (no! I don’t want to be one of those!)

So that is a drippingly-sarcastic overview of what these flaming heretics contend. Now on to something a little more substantive. Let’s talk about hermeneutics from Hell.

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.3.2023
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	1-6678-8281-3 / 1667882813
ISBN-13	978-1-6678-8281-9 / 9781667882819

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