The Truth About Billy Graham

[homwardbound]

I wonder what is wrapped up in your "expose' " as well. Quite a pattern you have there.

So tell me what is it are you here to divide and conquer and cause disharmony, if not maybe you might stop this division that you are maybe not trying to cause yet are and have with many here.
Are we not one in God those that do believe?
Romans 12:3 [ Serve God with Spiritual Gifts ] For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
Philippians 1:27
[ Striving and Suffering for Christ ] Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,
1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one
Spirit
Please quit in separating and causing divisions in Christ

1. 1 Corinthians 3:1
   [ Sectarianism Is Carnal ] And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.
   
2. 1 Corinthians 3:3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?
   
   And this goes for all that continue with instigation, in Judging back with flesh remarks as well please you all
   Maybe go to God and die with Christ all over again to the self, that is so insidious, and can't see afar off

 

[homwardbound]

Perhaps you should look at this short one. It doesn't have all the so-called "bashing" that some have mentioned.

It's funny how people get things stuck in their minds & believe it over God's word. Like this scripture:


I am sorry chosenbyhim are you maybe doing this yourself? Just maybe

 

[homwardbound]

Billy Graham believes in Universalism, that is, there's more than one way to Heaven. Universalism will be one, if not "the" religion that will call the Antichrist their Messiah. This is a wake up call more than an expose'. This no different than Rick Warren promoting Chrislam.

So then how is it any different you promoting KJV only? Hmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, open thine ears and eyes, and see and hear what the Spirit of God sayeth

 

[Stephen63]

So then how is it any different you promoting KJV only? Hmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, open thine ears and eyes, and see and hear what the Spirit of God sayeth

I DON'T.......... This was the most complete series I could find. I don't agree with the "extras" in it.

 

[Angela53510]

Interesting. I watched the whole initial video and commented on it. But no kudos for me for watching a man of God preach the gospel, and the slander that was the rest of the video?

Sometimes I feel like I just don't count. Of course, it is not about me, but about a man of God who tried his best to preach the gospel, and some ancient footage and the question of why the OP would even consider this video valid choice to post in this forum.

Billy Graham has been honest and open about his belief in Christ, his passion for the lost. If he became a universalist near the end of his life, it does not negate the tremendous value he was to the Kingdom of God in his early years. I think this kind of slander must stop in this forum.

It is unwarranted and unkind.

"Do to others as you would have them do to you" Luke 6:31

We all need to have this attitude of Christ, rather than attacking other Christians.

 

[Stephen63]

Protestant Church Life Magazine quoted Graham in its Sept. 29, 1956 issue, 'Referring to the Billy Graham New York Crusade scheduled for May, 1957, Dr. Graham said: "We're coming to New York not to clean it up, but to get people to dedicate themselves to God and to send them on to their own churches -- Catholic, Protestant or Jewish." This has remained the practice of Graham to this day. The Charlotte Observer reported on a press release of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, where Billy Graham lashes out at Southern Baptists who desire to evangelize Jews for Christ. Graham makes it clear that he firmly opposes "proselytizing" the Jews; Billy Graham's unbiblical teaching is that, if you are a Jew, you are already part of the Body of Christ, even if you reject Jesus.

 

[Stephen63]

Billy Graham said, "I found that my beliefs are essentially the same as those of orthodox Catholics. We only differ on some matters of later church tradition. I find that my beliefs are essentially the same as those of orthodox Roman Catholics" (Jan 1978, McCall's Magazine).

 

[Stephen63]

In "The Deadly Deception", by Jim Shaw, an ex-33rd degree mason (Masons are believed by many to be associated with the Illuminati, and to be the driving force behind the NWO) p. 104-105, Shaw relates how Graham was present at his ceremony initiating him into the 33rd degree. Only freemasons are allowed to attend these ceremonies. Huffington house refused to publish this book until after Grahams' name was removed, and in place a simple reference to "a well known evangelist" was supplemented. Robert Schuller (Crystal Cathedral/Self-help pulpit guru), Norman Vincent Peale (Positive Thinking apostle), and Oral Roberts (Godfather of the "seed-faith" doctrines in contemporary fundamentalist-charismatic Christianity) are all admittedly 33rd degree Masons. The rites of the Masonic order, the writings of Albert Pike and the requisites for Masonic initiates are distinctly and undeniably counter to Christian doctrine and faith.

 

[Stephen63]

In Erwin Wilsons book, "The Assimilation of Evangelist Billy Graham into the Roman Catholic Church" the renowned Bob Jones who wrote the forward said, " "Some of us who grieved over Graham's first downward steps toward compromise with apostasy and biblical unbelief knew that he was pursuing a direction from which there would be no turning back. While we grieved over him and prayed for him, we had to warn men against his ministry as we had warned Billy against his direction."

 

[Stephen63]

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[TD="width: 372, align: left"]I specialized in investigative reporting. Among other things, I discovered a secret $23-million slush fund kept by Billy Graham and I caught U.S. Rep. John Jenrette selling underwater land. Graham reformed his financial reporting, becoming the most open of all evangelists, a change he publicly credited to my reporting. Jenrette was subsequently caught up in a bribery scandal and served time in prison.[/TD]
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[Angela53510]

I just wonder what motivates this slander campaign?

 

[Stephen63]

1. 1. GRAHAM'S LONG-TERM APOSTACY​
      The reason Fundamentalist Christians like me had no difficulty whatsoever in believing Graham might be Freemason is that we have been sounding the alarm for years about his apostasy. Whenever anyone doubts Graham might be a counterfeit, I also ask them upon what basis they hold their opinion of him. They always say, 'his public Crusades". I am the first to admit that the simple Gospel Graham presents during his Crusades offers little to criticize. He seems to really present the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.
      Yet, acting upon Jesus' command to examine fruits [Matthew 7:16-20], we have been mightily troubled by Graham's actions apart from his public crusades. Consider very disturbing facts:
      1. As early As 1966 He boasted that he attended the WCC assembly in New Delhi in 1961, and he hoped he would attend the 4th assembly in Uppsala, Sweden in 1968 (which he did). He has attended all but two WCC assemblies ever since. This policy continues. The World Council of Churches is unabashedly devoted to bringing all the world's religions together in what has been called the Ecumenical Movement. New Age writers pronounce that the Ecumenical Movement is the forerunner of the Religion of their New Age Christ [Antichrist]
      2. As early as 1964 Billy Graham's Columbus, Ohio, crusades was sponsored by the modernistic Columbus area Council of Churches. This policy continues.
      3. As early as 1957 In the New York crusade, Billy Graham had Henry Pitt Van Dusen, President of Union Theological Seminary, take a place of responsibility and authority. U.S. News wrote that Van Dusen's school was "one of the most LIBERAL and LEFT-WING schools in America." Yet for all this, they wrote that "Dr. Van Dusen is considered by Graham as a GREAT RELIGIOUS LEADER." Graham has also used noted apostates in his B.G.E.A. work, notably Robert McCraken and Norman Vincent Peale. Peale was a noted Freemason, also.
      4. As early as 1963 He had United Methodist Bishop, Gerald B. Kennedy, as his Los Angeles Crusade Chairman. Kennedy wrote in one of his books: "I believe that the testimony of the New Testament, taken as a whole, is AGAINST THE DOCTRINE OF THE DEITY OF JESUS ..." Thus, we see that Graham was affiliating himself with apostate "Christian" Tares as early as 1963.
      5. As early as 1957 He sent ... 373 of his New York City decision cards to the apostate Marble Collegiate Church. This trend continues, sending decision cards to apostate Protestant churches, Catholic churches, Jewish synagogues, and elsewhere. Graham single-handedly revived modernist, apostate, Liberal Protestant churches, as well as giving the Roman Catholic Church new converts from his Crusades. These types of Protestant churches were going down in flames as so many members left rather than accept the new Liberal direction of their denominations. Without Graham sending them these new converts, Apostate churches would have closed their doors.
      6. In 1963, Mr. Graham had spoken at the Roman Catholic Belmont (NC) Abbey College. [Cutting Edge Commentary: Denying, in 1964, that Graham had spoken at any Catholic Church, when he had, in fact, spoken at Belmont Abbey College the year earlier, does not this qualify as an bold faced lie?!] In 1967 He again spoke at this college at the Institute for Ecumenical Dialogue, receiving his honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (D.H.L.) from them and saying that this was "... a time when PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS could meet together and greet each other as BROTHERS & " Today, Graham is regularly seen complimenting the Pope, whom Graham believes is the greatest religious figure of this century. In NEWS1052, we report that, in 1991, New World Order planners declared that the Pope would be their top religious leader in the religion of The Christ, thus making him the False Prophet. It is very revealing that Graham is closely cooperating with the future False Prophet.
      7. As early as 1959, in Christianity Today, it was reported: "Without elaboration, the evangelist [Graham] said his thinking [about Communism] had undergone some CHANGES ... and he indicated that his attitude toward EASTERN EUROPE is more open." Of course, Graham was speaking of Communism because Eastern Europe was under the Communist yoke at the time. In 1982 He visited the Moscow Peace Conference and said: "I saw no evidence of religious persecution in Russia." This was in spite of his visit to the Siberian Pentecostals staying in the American Embassy.
      8. In 1973, Graham said Communist Mao Tse-Tung's eight precepts are basically the same as the Ten Commandments. In 1973, he praised the Roman Catholic mass as a 'very beautiful thing', and in1978, he said Muhammed Ali's beliefs in Islam 'are something we all could believe'."
      9. In 1961, Dr. Graham said this of infant baptism: "I do believe that something happens at the baptism of an infant ... I believe that a miracle can happen in these children so that they are regenerated, that is, made Christian through infant baptism."
      10. Apostate Leslie Weatherhead Speaking On Billy Graham's Platform In London "In 1966, Dr. Graham said: 'I remember during our London Crusade of 1954, I preached a sermon ... Dr. Leslie Weatherhead sat on the platform that evening and to my surprise commended my sermon.' Dr. Weatherhead was a notorious blasphemer who wrote in his book, The Christian Agnostic, that the Lord Jesus Christ was born an illegitimate child, and that Mary was no virgin, but a temple prostitute." Note: this is typical New Age Luciferian doctrine.
      11. Billy Graham Doesn't Think The Heathen Are Lost "In 1978, McCall's Magazine reported Dr. Graham's 'updated' understanding of the way of salvation. 'I used to think that pagans in far-off countries were lost -- were going to hell -- if they did not have the Gospel of Jesus Christ preached to them. I NO LONGER BELIEVE THAT ... I believe there are other ways of recognizing the existence of God -- through nature, for instance -- and plenty of other opportunities, therefore, of saying yes to God."

[This information taken from "Billy Graham's 23 years of Theological Change" by Rev. Charles Emert, 1971.]

 

[Angela53510]

I wonder what Christ would think of this campaign against one of his servants?

 

[Stephen63]

I wonder what Christ thinks about people thinking with fleshly feelings instead of proving everything with Scripture?

 

[maxwel]

Stephen63,

I think it's fine to discuss any serious doctrinal errors of a famous preacher.
I have no problem with that, in as much as it's needful.

What I don't understand is this weird obsession to constantly beat on an old guy who doesn't preach anymore.
I'm being completely serious here;
why are we talking about him all the time?

He's retired.
Is there some reason this is relevant to talk about constantly?

 

[Stephen63]

@ Angela,
What do you have against me, anyway? You have friends on here that slander christians on here all the time, calling them heretics & blasphemers, & you've NEVER said anything to them! Is it OK for them to do it because you don't like the ones they're bashing? Is there a double standard?

 

[Tintin]

Someone can be famous and still be teaching a biblically-sound understanding of God's Word. It happens, not often but it does happen.

Stephen, we do call out those who just slander other Christians. Not just you. Chosen knows this well.

 

[Stephen63]

Stephen63,

I think it's fine to discuss any serious doctrinal errors of a famous preacher.
I have no problem with that, in as much as it's needful.

What I don't understand is this weird obsession to constantly beat on an old guy who doesn't preach anymore.
I'm being completely serious here;
why are we talking about him all the time?

He's retired.
Is there some reason this is relevant to talk about constantly?

Excellent question! Yes there is.
Whenever a famous person passes away, especially one the world loves, the world has an excellent track record for making them 10 times larger-than-life. His books, movies, sermons, etc, will sell by the millions. His false beliefs will spread like wildfire. Universalists, Chrislamists, Catholics, & Muslims will come out of the woodwork to pay homage to him. It will be a time where all of them will come together as one & it will be accepted by the church.

Remember when Elvis died? It will be very much like that.

Thank you for your question. It helped bring this to light.

 

[Stephen63]

Someone can be famous and still be teaching a biblically-sound understanding of God's Word. It happens, not often but it does happen.

Stephen, we do call out those who just slander other Christians. Not just you. Chosen knows this well.

You need to look a little deeper into this before you come to your conclusions.

 

[Stephen63]

I'm not asking anyone to take me at face value.

I'm not asking anyone to believe this just because I said it.

I didn't even post ALL the info. That's just SOME of it.

All I'm trying to do is provoke others to seek this out for themselves, like I did. You deserve to know the truth since millions have been fooled.

NO 33rd degree Mason will go to heaven unless he repents of his sins. They worship Lucifer. No man can have 2 masters.