Latest Chosen Series Defense–“Not Produced By Mormons”–Misleading, Evasive, and Wrong

[Reader, if you have questions, doubts, or concerns about Mormon involvement in The Chosen series, please take the time to read this article.]

According to Lighthouse Trails:

Regarding the newest defense effort—”not produced by Mormons”—it is inarguable that the series is heavily influenced, financed, advertised, promoted, supervised, inspired—and produced by practicing Mormons. Thus, it is misleading, evasive, and wrong to say it is “not produced by Mormons” because that is purporting that Mormons have nothing to do with the creation and production of The Chosen.

While The Chosen may not appear to be a “Mormon production,” this series could not have been created, produced, promoted, and distributed without significant involvement from Mormons (who, by the way, are major shareholders (owners) of The Chosen, LLC.). (emphasis mine)

In his 2021 book, The YouTube Formula: How Anyone Can Unlock the Algorithm to Drive Views, Build an Audience, and Grow Revenue, practicing Mormon and Chosen’s Executive Producer, Derral Eves, openly admits his vital production role in the creation of The Chosen. He states: …continue reading article here….

Our Present Sufferings

Rick Becker writes in Famine in the Land:

Suffering is a sign that there’s something wrong in this world. What went wrong, is something called sin. Sin ruined creation, and one of the consequences is that suffering entered [the] world. Believers as well as unbelievers will share many of the same forms of suffering –  physical, mental or emotional pain, dreadful circumstances, physical death etc. These serve as a stark reminder that we are a fragile vapor, susceptible to the pangs of living in a temporary and fallen world. In the light of eternity, unless they repent, the suffering of unbelievers is a waste. This is not the case for believers (continue reading article)

Part 2: The Watchman and the Hunter

That blogger from the far North continues her series on biblical examples of watchmen and hunters. I’ve never seen this done before, this comparison. Really interesting reading.

An excerpt from the  More Books and Things article:

Nimrod, great grandson of Noah, was the very first hunter mentioned in the Bible, and we all know what he turned out to be. His name means ‘rebel’, and that is what he was. Nimrod built the tower of Babel and eventually founded Babylon, later used by God to judge his rebellious people, the spirit of which still lives on.

And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison Gen 25:27-28 … Continue reading…

Behold the Nano Bible

A blast from the past–the More Books and Things blog–is back with Behold the Nano Bible…

Warren Smith to speak at The Berean Call Conference

Warren Smith, Elijah Abraham, T.A. McMahon, and Carl Kerby will be speaking at the TBC conference this August 27-29. This is in Bend, Oregon. Read.

You can also sign up for the free online attendance here.

Warren Smith has fought the good fight with his books and articles about Jesus Calling, The Shack, The Message, the counterfeit Christ, and much more.

 

Arm yourself with knowledge

From Let Us Reason, various subjects, scroll down:

UPDATED Are you Passionate about the Passionate Translation p.2 The embellished ameliorate interpretations of the Passion Bible

Are you Passionate about the Passionate Translation p.3 Changed and added words that affect the meaning

Are you Passionate about the Passionate Translation  p.4 The Aramaic Error.  Is the Aramaic primacy justified over the Greek?

Are you Passionate about the Passionate Translation p.5 –  The Latter Rain, Mystical Interpretations and Teachings of Brian Simmons

Are you Passionate about the Passionate Translation p.6 –  Further mystical Interpretations and teachings of Brian Simmons

Apostles of Apostasy

The Unbiblical Openness of YWAM p.1- Update on YWAM’s experiments with the youth

The Unbiblical Openness of YWAM p.2 – My personal experience

The Unbiblical Openness of YWAM p.3 Then numerous influences and connections to the NAR

The Unbiblical Openness of YWAM p.4 Lou Engle and the Send

Zondervan producing heretical Enneagram documentary–

William Branham’s Occult connections – The Zodiac and the pyramids before the Bible, are equal to the Bible

Was man first made androgynous? The interpretative error of man being created both male and female in the beginning of creation

God gave Man a Woman, or Women? – On the subject of polygamy

Evangelicals that promote the mystical power of communion

The Triune God of Scripture -The eternal relationship of Father and Son

What of the Church needing to go through the Tribulation?

The necessary work of the Holy Spirit in the believer’s life – And to those called to ministry

The consequences of the Lack of Expository Preaching  

Why Jesus is not the Father

Who is God who made all things? Clearing up the confusion of persons

Noah and the Boat he built – A typology of – what was, will be again

The goal of man, the will of God – Lessons in Basic Christianity p.2

p.1 A Fortress of Solitude … Entering the SILENCE

p.2 Mans wisdom or God’s

pt.1 Are you being taken for a ride?  The popularity of  prophetic assumption’s

pt.2 You know my number, but do you know my name? The number of the Beast is whose name?

Knock, knock; whose there? It’s__________- What to do when the cults come to your door.

The Current Confusion Between what is false and what is true – Days of darkness have settled upon us.

pt.1 The false prophets of Covid19 – The Latter rain prophets are giving false words to the church like never before.

pt.2 The false prophets of Covid19

pt.3 The false prophets of Covid19

 Kenneth Copleand said what? The Virus is now gone by his prophetic utterance, do you agree?

Will the R.H. Browne river stop flowing?

Restoring the image of God in man

A ride on a donkey

Humility in our walk

Immediately AFTER the Tribulation

The tree and fruit of Psalm 1

How to conduct a proper and fulfilling Bible study 

The apostle Che Ahn, another Latter Rain promoter form the Vineyard

Who and what is a Jew

The big question of living again

A Time of Sorrows

Teach me to number my days– How do we spend our time we have on earth?

The rider on the white horse is?

Howling at the Moon– The blood moons inaccurate timing, application and theories

A sin offering – not an offering of Sin!

Jesus and the place called paradise– What happened after the death on the cross

pt.3 Out of context Christianity -We have a doctrinal emergency

Russia and the Jehovah Witnesses

Where are you when you are needed?– We have pandemic spreading, where are the faith healers?

Choosing which covenant to live by

What of those who claim they died (NDE- near death experiences) and returned? What is death, what is a resurrection?

Was Jesus was a socialist? p1 Trying to force Christianity into a Godless ideology

Was Jesus a socialist p2 – Answers from the Bible

The baptism command of Mt.28:19

 Satan cannot do miracles!- Does the Bible teach this?

A time to pay attention to Prophecy

The Serpent seed, a teaching “from the Serpent”p.1

Pt.2 Is Cain, the Devil’s seed?

Pt.3 Some Serpent seed refutes

Pt.4 The Serpent in the garden

What of our good works?

What is Cult Evangelism?

Out of context Christianity pt.1 How we got to where we are today?

Pt.2 out of context Christianity– The state of the church today

A different new covenant- Where did Jesus die for sin?- At the cross or elsewhere?

Our Adoption is what happened and will happen

Technological Advances Toward a Global Tracking System – A long list of technological advances that are the bringing us closer and closer to end times Biblical prophecy

The confused last days prophet– William Branham’s view on Adam and Eve.

Some things to consider on the unborn 

To All people

Engle’s Angle p.1- From the call to the Send what is Lou Engle really about?

Engle’s Angle pt.2 – past education and teaching on being a Nazarite

pt.3 Fasting and praying– 40 day fast

1. 4 To Dream a dream– How it all began

pt.5 The Shift — from thecall to the Send -YWAM’s involvement

 pt.6 The Send The mantle will fall- The Send and those involved. What are they are teaching?

False teachers copying the words from other false teachers p1.

False teachers copying the words from other false teachers p2.

What Mark 16 actually says- In context to the Scripture what does Mark 16 mean?

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones on “Be still, and know that I am God”

The Passion [Anti-] Translation: was Brian Simmons really translating from the Syriac Peshitta?

There is a reason why Brian Simmons, author of The Passion Translation, blocked Andrew Chapman from his Twitter account. Truth is being silenced everywhere these days, it seems.

You may remember Andrew Chapman from his email communications with the publishers of The Passion Translation. This drew a great deal of interest from The Word Like Fire readers. Now, in this recent article, Chapman exposes more of Simmons’ faulty and questionable translation. It is like watching a detective take apart a case, only this detective deals with Greek, Aramaic, etc. More importantly, Chapman has the ability to explain where Simmons went wrong in a manner that a layman (like myself) can understand.

When you are done reading, please share Chapman’s article, The Passion [Anti-] Translation: was Brian Simmons really translating from the Syriac Peshitta? 

 

 

The Message “Bible” erases Salvation in Romans passage

The Passion Translation by Brian Simmons is diverting many. And this is what Eugene Peterson’s The Message has done for decades, and continues to do.

Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the author of lies. (John 8:44, NASB)

The Message “Bible” is the unholy gift that keeps on giving the gift of spiritual deception. Millions of copies have been sold, and many in the visible church use The Message as their primary “Bible.”

And so we come to Romans 10:13. Let’s first look at the KJV and NASB translations:

For whosover shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. (KJV)

for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.” (NASB)

Here is The Message version of Romans 10:13:

“Everyone who calls ‘help God!’ gets help.” (The Message)

There is a vast difference between being helped and being saved. The Message “Bible” strikes again.

Related:

Beatitude twisted beyond recognition in The Message “Bible”

God’s Holy Name profaned in The Message “Bible”??

Further addition and deletion in The Message “Bible” (“salvation” removed again)

Beth Moore and The Message “Bible”

Bill Johnson’s “kenosis” a bridge to New Age?

Bill Johnson of Bethel Redding has an interesting teaching about Christ that can be seen as a bridge between the two belief systems—New Age and biblical Christianity.

Johnson believes in a teaching called kenosis, an unorthodox heretical belief that the Incarnate Christ laid aside His divine attributes and walked the earth as a completely limited, human man.13 According to Johnson, Christ “performed miracles, wonders, and signs, as a man in right relationship to God . . . not as God. If He performed miracles because He was God, then they would be unobtainable for us. But if He did them as a man, I am responsible to pursue His lifestyle. Recapturing this simple truth changes everything.”14

In other words, Bill Johnson believes the miracles Jesus performed came about because He, as a man, and only as a man, had access to the power of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, Johnson teaches that Christians should be capable of wondrous feats of healing and miracles due to our own relationship with the Holy Spirit.

Thus Johnson’s kenosis doctrine serves to reduce the biblical Christ and elevate man. As one apologist points out:

Jesus is no longer unique, but only a special enlightened one who could lead the way to many such enlightened ones in the future. Thus we have a New Age Christ.15

Kenosis comes from a faulty understanding of Philippians 2:7. It is proven false by the simple fact that Christ not only created the universe, but He holds it together. If Christ had given up His divine power and attributes and had operated only as a man until Resurrection, all creation would have come apart! (Colossians 1:17). Furthermore, when Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58), He was making an emphatic statement to a claim to be both God and man—present tense!

A Second Pentecost and Quantum Vibrations
Bill Johnson further believes that select, end-times Christians will be endowed with great power to work miracles, healings, signs, and wonders. These super-powered Christians—the Elijah generation—will supposedly bring about an unprecedented revival. Johnson states:

[A] generation is now forming . . . that will walk in an anointing that has never been known by mankind before, including the disciples.16

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Bonus: Reader, the best work you will find on Bill Johnson’s Christology (including kenosis) is over at the Crosswise blog. Start here and please be sure to scroll down to “Bill Johnson’s Christology Explained.”