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Big time Preacher Rob Bell teaching Universal Reconciliation
Foxx:
Quotes from less than one week of posts from various pastors, authors and journalists who have not even read Rob Bells book Love Wins...this is truly disgusting, I spent very little time researching and this just pops up like crazy so I thought I would include this to see what Bell has been receiving for his supposed "evil efforts".
Justin Taylor vice president of Editorial at Crossway
- "he is moving farther and farther away from anything resembling biblical Christianity"
- "I think that the publisher’s description combined with Bell’s video is sufficient evidence to suggest that he thinks hell is empty and that God’s love (which desires all to be saved) is always successful,"
- "If Bell is teaching that hell is empty and that you can reject Jesus and still be saved, he is opposing the gospel and the biblical teaching of Jesus Christ."
- “It is unspeakably sad when those called to be ministers of the Word distort the gospel and deceive the people of God with false doctrine.”
Pastor Joshua Harris of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland,
- Bell's statements in the video alone are "concerning enough to be challenged"
- "Hell is what our sin deserves."
- tweeted "There's nothing loving about preaching a false gospel. This breaks my heart. Praying for Rob Bell.
Author Donald Miller
- tweeted "satan's at work for sure."
Sean Lucas - Reformation21
- "Without a truth-core that centers on the grand facts of divine holiness, love, grace, sin, judgment, hell, Christ, salvation, and heaven, there is no Gospel."
- "if there is no Gospel, then we are most to be pitied and ignored. No matter if you are David Swing or the contemporary rock star of evangelicalism."
Pastor John Piper Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, MN
- tweeted "Farwell Rob Bell"
Katrina Douglas Gather.com
- "The problem is that without hell, there is no need for war and conflict; therefore, there is no need for pastors.
- "It is a nice concept, but is Rob Bell just playing to the need of humanity not to worry about their deeds."
- "Bell's concept means that murderers, drug dealers, and terrorists sit beside angels in heaven, and everyone can do as they please.
- "If what Bell is teaching in his new book is true, everyone should go out and party hard."
All this animosity and anger in less than a WEEK towards a person and a book that has yet to be released! Just at the implication that God would dare to save all his creation creates such hate. I will most likely pick up the book and I'm not expecting to gleam any new insight that I haven't gotten here at Bible Truths (although it is possible) but I think this is a perfect example of how judgmental, unloving, hateful, carnally minded, and resentful of the word of God the Christian church truly is. I'm not even going to bother to post the thousands upon thousands tweets, comments, replies, etc that have been made in regards to Rob Bell and his supposes "heresy". This is truly incredible and I am so thankful to God for bringing me here and showing Ray's site because it is so sad that all these people have no idea of what the love of Jesus truly is.
Christianity Today / The Gospel Coalition / Huffington Post
Kat:
Hi Arion,
--- Quote ---You got to have that 'mark' in order to buy and sell in Christendom.
--- End quote ---
I agree with this. These are symbols; selling is when someone offers, hawks or dispenses something to others. As buying are those receiving or obtaining something from the one selling. All people have the mark of the beast to start with in this life.
Rev 13:12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
v. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
v. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.
v. 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
v. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
v. 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
v. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
We all take part in this carnal worldly beastal system, this is the mark of the beast. We are raised up in it and naturally participate in the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. The church is of course an extention of the worldly system.
God draws us out of the worldly system and sells us the TRUTH.
Rev 3:18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
When we come out of this world and we receive the truth from God, then we have another mark.
Eze 44:4 Also He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple; so I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD; and I fell on my face.
v. 5 And the LORD said to me, "Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears, all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD and all its laws. Mark well who may enter the house and all who go out from the sanctuary.
When we no longer buy into and agree with their traditions, dogmas, and heretical teachings of their religious systems, then you do not have their mark or stamp of approval. You will be cast out, ostracized and accused of being heretics and they certainly will not allow anyone to sell the TRUTH to their membership
Isa 55:1 "Ho! Everyone who thirsts,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money,
Come, buy and eat.
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.
v. 2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
John 6:35 And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Dave in Tenn:
"Bell's concept means that murderers, drug dealers, and terrorists sit beside angels in heaven, and everyone can do as they please.
- "If what Bell is teaching in his new book is true, everyone should go out and party hard."
And another heart gets revealed. :'(
I spent enough time with the 'universalists' contingent at Facebook to know that I am not a "universalist". I seriously doubt he is going to present the same message that his knee-jerk detractors indicate, but I am also cautious about the whole package. Whatever it is, I have no doubt that the Lord will free some people, and cause other people's hearts to be hardened. He's been doing that since Egypt, at least. Poor souls quoted above don't know THEY are Pharaoh.
What I'm praying is that contact between Ray and this preacher occurs.
chav:
Hi
--- Quote ---What I'm praying is that contact between Ray and this preacher occurs
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Now wouldn't that be something.
--- Quote ---I spent enough time with the 'universalists' contingent at Facebook to know that I am not a "universalist
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Likewise I don't particularly like that label either.There's a huge range of ideas and beliefs amongst those who say they believe in the 'salvation of all' which can be very confusing at times.
Dave
dave:
There is money in religon and the more givers the better for the takers. Dont know nothing about the guy, but if he is a "big time" preacher then for me he is already not worth looking into. Thats just me, I hope I am not to calloused, I leave it to the Lord.
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