EO Responds To Emails
08-31-08
(EMAIL) I am a Catholic, but would like to find out why do the Jehovah witness believe that anyone else of a different religion are unbelievers? And why do they address God by the name Jehovah when its proven his name is Yahweh?
Answers to these questions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
The JWs believe as they do because of what their headquarters in Brooklyn, NY (false prophets) have taught them. They have been deceived into believing their headquarters is “Jehovah’s Organization.” That elite group exalts “Jehovah” as God’s name, even though in some of their own literature they exalt “Yahweh”!!!! They also teach their own group is likened unto “Noah’s Ark,” which one must be in for spiritual safety and to prevent destruction. They also teach taking in accurate knowledge is necessary for salvation and think ONLY their group leaders can do that. Hence, you must be a JW to have salvation. They sometimes have a different message which states people will have a second chance after death.
There are various similarities between the JWs and Catholics, even though you probably don’t realize it. A past pope has said “ex cathedra” that one must be in submission to the Roman Pontiff to have “salvation.” In other words, ONLY Catholics can be saved. That is NOT the current message of Catholicism, which would sometimes state that even Christ-rejecters, such as Jews and Muslims, can have salvation!
I was once a scapular-wearing, rosary praying, statue-kissing Catholic. As a young child I was taught ONLY Catholics would not be damned and I believed it too. When I started to read the Catholic Bible, I became a Christian. Lk. 18:9-14 was the key passage for me. (Jesus taught the man who got forgiven went DIRECTLY to God without going through a priest.)
PLEASE PLEASE for your own SOUL stop trusting in the sacraments, Mary and being a Catholic and place ALL 100% OF YOUR TRUST IN JESUS for salvation. The faith in Jesus needed for salvation is a SUBMISSIVE faith. PLEASE read the New Testament FOR YOURSELF and change accordingly.
Have you read this important material? http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/catholic.htm
GOD BLESS YOU. Remember Luke 11:27,28.
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(EMAIL) I just wanted to say thank-you so much for your ministry...This is always what I have believed about the scriptures for a long time...OSAS teaching is Death to millions around the World...I hope and pray that you will start an on-line Bible College or School of Ministry...to offset the Ray Comforts of this world...Also I hope and pray that you will plant churches that teach the CSOTB...I use to be a Calvary Chapel Pastor but I am no longer with them...Thank God for leading my away from them...I know of a man and woman that are living together in sin and still going to Calvary Chapel _________. The pastors know about this and do nothing about it...because the are just going to loose their rewards...Calvary Chapels have sent many people to Hell with there false teaching...Thank God for all that you are doing to get the truth out...
God Bless you Greatly!
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
Thank you for the compliments. Eternal security is the devil’s masterpiece doctrine. He has so duped church people with Bibles that they think eternal security is related to grace and is part of the gospel! The truth is, it is a HERESY that has spread like poison in one’s blood stream. It is cherished, embraced and defended because it allows for wickedness, worldliness, sloth, etc. There are hundreds of Scriptures which refute it, yet many people think the Bible teaches it. Hard to believe, but part of this DARK day.
We have noticed that MANY pastors, who reject eternal security, teach that King David retained his salvation in adultery and murder. By saying such, they are still teaching a license for immorality. This King David question will smoke out those who want to hide and please everyone first instead of God.
... PLEASE be vocal. The souls you are to watch over will constantly hear that HERESY taught over radio and TV. Hence, pastors need to be very vocal and constant in exposing/refuting it. If not, it will creep into the congregation and start to ruin it. We know a congregation that had that happen. It started small and spread.
It takes lots of money to do the things you suggest. May God help us before our departure time comes. Many say they love our books and ministry but VERY FEW send in any financial support. Comfort, on the other hand, has big money and much influence, yet the tracts he provides are weak and watery. I haven’t seen all of them, but have seen several and was greatly disappointed.
Rough days are ahead for the faithful. We must get prepared for trouble and suffering. OSAS and pre-trib rapture have totally deceived church people to where the VAST MAJORITY are NOT ready for the days ahead.
Please remember 1 Tim. 4:16 and 1 Cor. 9:27. GOD BLESS YOU. (Let’s stay in touch.)
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(EMAIL) Just reading your emails, one in particular about KJV. Just wanted to share my testimony. I had read KJV since being “saved” at age 7. It really did not speak to me. A few years ago someone gave me a copy of the ________ edition. It is hard to find in this area... When I first read it I said “Oh, that’s what that means!” When I read it, it is like the Lord is speaking directly to me and I just weep with emotion. KJV never moved me to tears. I now truly know the Lord! They have tried to keep the language simple, and the texts accurate. Just thought I’d share this. I know you are reading good translations also. God bless and keep up the good work for the Lord!
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
I’m sure glad you are not a KJV onlyite. After leaving the Catholic Church I was told the most accurate translation was the KJV. So I read it for years. It was WONDERFUL to get away from those strange incomprehensible words [in the KJV]. My understanding of Scripture shot up like a rocket after reading the NIV. The NIV has some problems but it is one of the better translations along with the NASB, ESV and NRSV. The KEY is changing according to what we read ...
GOD BLESS YOU. 1 Cor. 2:9.
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(EMAIL) I read the arguments that people use for pre-trib rapture. Some I’ve heard of and some I haven’t. But there are two very powerful ones you failed to mention;
1) the words of Jesus in Rev 2:20-23 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. 21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. 22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. 23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
If these people repented as Jesus said will they still go through the great tribulation? At the end of each message to each church Jesus said to hear what the Spirit has said unto the churches, churches being plural or every local church. 2) The lesson Jesus taught in Matthew 25 about the ten virgins. The five wise went in and the door was shut. The five foolish were not allowed to inter in. Could these five foolish virgins possibly be the saints mentioned in the tribulation? Do you think it is a coincident that a Jewish wedding lasted for seven days or one week? By looking at these two powerful pre-trib rapture arguments, it gives some of the others you mentioned more merit.
I believe in the pre-trib rapture but no matter if I am right or you are right neither one of us are going when we want to, but, when Jesus comes.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
The Scripture you cited in Rev. 2:22, which refers to great tribulation, is NOT the same “great tribulation” referred to around the return of Christ.
The 5 foolish virgins in Mt. 25 were NO LONGER SAVED. How can we be sure? Jesus said he did not “KNOW” them (Mt. 25:12). Such is the language of salvation (John 17:3; etc.). NOTE: He didn’t say to them “I never knew you” but instead “I don’t know you.” They were previously saved, but were NO LONGER SAVED.
You are right that wanting the rapture to occur at a certain point will NOT make it occur. Even though we believe in a POST trib rapture we certainly hope we are wrong in this and the PRE-trib rapture people are right, but Scripture states otherwise.
Please consider signing up for our weekly email teachings, updates, etc. If interested, you can do that here http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/contact.htm
GOD BLESS YOU. Heb. 3:14.
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(EMAIL) Thank you, Brother in Christ. you are the only one that called a spade a spade.
My name is __________. I am a Trinitarian, I believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Three distinct persons of One Almighty Lord God of Israel. and I been debating with a Jehovah witness for a year, I am shocked He debated with me so long, they are told not to do that. He thinks jws are Christians, but to be a Christian, you have got to believe in Jesus Christ, they believe Jesus is Michael the Archangel, so they do not believe in Jesus Christ.
But the reason I am writing you is this, we all know as Christians that Jehovah witnesses are pagans, most mean well, but they have been deceived by Satan....
The oneness believers, everyone I talk to says, well they believe in the Lord. They truly Love the Lord, they tell me ease up on them, your splitting hairs.
But Brother in Christ, I see it much different than they do, these people walk around screaming Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, only in the name of Jesus....
Jesus talked about or to His Father over 200 times in the bible, the Father spoke to His beloved Son from Heaven. Jesus said if he beared witness of Himself, what is that, but there is Another who beareth witness of Him. His Father.
Jesus said the witness of two is true. Jesus said about the Holy Spirit, that He would send Another Comforter one like Him, that would proceed from the Father, and would testify of Him....I do not have a PHD, but I know how to read, it's not that hard, what’s really going on. They are cults.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
When a person is taught something that sounds true and then that same person makes a stand for that doctrine, it is usually hard to change them. It takes HUMILITY to admit that one has been deceived. PRIDE is a horrible sin. It blinds the heart and keeps one from the truth.
The JWs have been horribly deceived in many areas. The “Jesus Only” people are wrong about Jesus being the father but even worse, they think you have to be water baptized in Jesus’ name and talk in tongues to have salvation. Some also think if you believe in the Trinity you are unsaved just for believing this.
Then we have the eternal security people who think there are Christian drunks, Christian criminals, Christian adulterers, etc. The Bible is CRYSTAL CLEAR regarding this issue but they believe the devil’s first lie to the human race and continue to cleave to sin while professing salvation!
Christians have their work cut out for them. GOD BLESS YOU. Heb. 3:14.
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(EMAIL) Very much appreciate this audio about Padre Pio. Think this is of basic monumental importance and should be covered in an extensive text essay.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
Thanks you for the kind words about our audio teaching on Padre Pio. It is a teaching that is very rare in our ecumenical and DARK day. There are MANY Catholics that would respond to the truth IF they would only hear it, but very FEW are speaking the truth for the sake of Catholics finding salvation.
Are you aware of our book for Catholics entitled, “Is This The Mary Of The Bible?” http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/marybook.htm
Please tell your Catholic friends about our ministry. GOD BLESS YOU. Heb. 3:14.
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(EMAIL) Hi Folks,
That oft-heard assertion that Matt [Slick] presents, that we will endure because we are saved, is, as you suggested, absurd. We have debated this with others, those who think that we are no longer agents of free will once we become Christians. In other words, despite what the Bible repeatedly tells us, they believe that once we are saved we are automatons and are no longer free to decide anything. If that were true, then it would make a parody of the concept of Judgment, and would defuse the words of Christ, Paul and a large portion of the New Testament.
There would be no race to run, no good fight worth our time, and Jesus telling us that those who endure to the end will be saved would be wasted words.
Would Jesus say something unnecessary? The eternal security people are strangely irrational.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
Well stated. The eternal security people want desperately to believe in eternal security and are willing to read into the Scripture (to their own destruction) things that are not there and close their eyes to the mountain of compelling evidence of a conditional security. The sooner people drop this false concept the better it will be for them.
GOD BLESS YOU. Heb. 3:14.
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(EMAIL) ... I am 53 yrs old and have studied the bible all my live. If you are letting yourself be in bondage to a sinful habit you are a very miserable Christian or you were never saved in the first place. If the aforementioned you will be convicted by the Holy Spirit no mater how many years it takes he will not give up on an individual. No one who is really saved believes that they can do as they wish.
Also, what Paul is referring to as our good works is what kind and loving things we do for others, not what sins we have or have not committed. I apologize if I offended you. Its just that my heart goes out to anyone and everyone who does not really understand the depth of Gods love and what he will do for us make us feel loved. We all as Christians have had to ask God to help us with our pride. I could read you book but it will not change my mind. I know that God himself has helped me to find truth.
God Bless. I hope you are not as fearful as most people I have met that believe as you do, never knowing whether you have done something bad enough to loose your salvation.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
You wrote: “If you are letting yourself be in bondage to a sinful habit you are a very miserable Christian or you were never saved in the first place.” You have cited no Scripture for your eternal security belief manifested in that wrong statement. That is what that statement is—eternal security teaching. Your belief never allows for a righteous person to die spiritually, which is taught all through the Bible.
Furthermore, your statement would agree with the DEVIL in Gen. 3:4 and reject God’s warning in Gen. 2:17. Please read this over http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/wrongtwochoices.htm
God does give up on certain people, as Romans chapter 1 teaches. He turns people over to shameful lusts, etc. (Again, it is apparent that you are JUST REPEATING WHAT OTHERS HAVE TAUGHT YOU. You are not as acquainted with Scripture as you think. You do not understand salvation, how God deals with sin, etc.)
God’s love will NOT allow a spiritually dead or impure person into his kingdom. Since sin can do this to Christians, then Christians can get back on the road to hell. You are not a lover of truth. You embrace the security-in-sin “gospel” (eternal security) and refuse to let go of this heretical belief even after hearing/reading God’s truth. What is the problem? Is it some favorite sin? Are you in an illegitimate marriage? What is it? Whatever the reason—NO SIN IS WORTH GOING TO HELL OVER. You can and will get the victory over sin when you DIE TO SELF. Read Romans 6 carefully.
Finally, you are wanting me not to be fearful, when I am commanded TO BE AFRAID because God can and will cut me off, if I become unbelieving (Rom. 11:19-22). See also Mt. 10:28. Again, the source of your doctrine is anti-Bible.
Please drop ALL preconceived ideas about what the New Testament says and read it again and believe whatever it says. That is the ONLY HOPE you have. Please also consider signing up for our weekly email teachings, updates, etc. If interested, you can do that here http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/contact.htm
GOD BLESS YOU.
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(EMAIL) Hello, I want to thank you for the latest newsletter, seeing that I am sharing the gospel with a couple of JW ladies. They are trying so hard to prove to me that Jesus is not God, and trying to discredit the Trinity. It has already gotten to the point where the Holy Spirit told me to tell them that they will never know God the Father unless they go through Jesus, and they said they had. When I asked them if they had called out to Jesus and asked Him for forgiveness of their sins, they said no. I said Jesus says He is the truth, the way, and the life, no one goes o the Father except through Him. So thanks for the info I just got, it is great.
Also about Ray Comfort, I feel that what he preaches about eternal security is wrong, because they are basically saying you can live just like you did before you got your sins forgiven. I don’t believe in that teaching, but I do believe in the teaching that says that we have the righteousness of God. Before I was born again on Nov 4th 2005 I was dead in my sins and trespasses and I belonged to satan. Boy people don’t want to hear that, but I tell them that that is the truth and that is what the Scriptures teach. I also have another verse that maybe you can help me with, because not many people can answer this one, and I’d like to see your interpretation of it. If there is a book that our name is not written in prior to being born-again and that same book gets our name written in after we are born-again what does Jesus mean in Rev 3:5 “He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before my Father and before His angels.” Jesus clearly says that He can blot that name out. Please reply.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
Thank you for the encouragement. The JWs are constantly busy spreading the Watchtower (death) message to others. It is very sad, but even worse is that so few Christians can stand up under their attack on the deity of Christ, trinity, etc. Several pointers: (1) when you say to them you believe Jesus is God, in their mind they think you are saying Jesus is the Father (which is false). You are NOT saying that and need to tell them. (They have been taught that is what you believe! The Watchtower misrepresents our beliefs.) (2) Discuss SALVATION, not the deity of Christ or the Trinity. Give them verses like 1 John 5:12,13 and ask: “Do you have Jesus or not”? They will answer they have Jesus. Then show them the verse says if that is true then they do have (PRESENT TENSE) “eternal life.” Show them also John 5:39,40. Please read over these articles written to help JWs out of their false doctrines http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/jehovah.htm
Ray Comfort, like Dave Hunt, Charles Stanley, John MacArthur, Hank Hanegraaff, etc. all have a DEATH message because they mix eternal security in with their teachings. Woe to them and all the multitudes they have stumbled into hell by denying the righteous can die spiritually.
The Scripture you asked about is plain. Just believe what it says. See Also Ex. 32:33 and Psa. 69:28.
PLEASE read this article for new converts http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/newconverts.htm
Please consider getting our 801 page book refuting eternal security entitled, “The Believer’s Conditional Security.” There is MUCH in it that can help you better understand this salvation related subject. http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/whatsnew.htm
This book is the most exhaustive and comprehensive refutation to eternal security ever written.
Remember Gal. 6:8,9 is a SALVATION passage not a rewards passage. GOD BLESS YOU.
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(EMAIL)...The Bible says if you offend in one point you offend in all. If you can lose your salvation then all you have to do is commit one sin and it’s gone. Please interpret scripture correctly.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
Please notice the Scripture you referred to:
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. (James 2:10) For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. (James 2:11)
Verse 11 explains verse 10. It shows there is more than 1 way to become a lawbreaker, that is, by committing adultery OR murder. It does NOT teach all sins are the same as you have been taught by the eternal security teachers.
All sins are not the same in their effect on our souls. Some sins are greater than others (Jn. 19:11). One type is eternal (Mk. 3:29), while others are not. Another type of sin is uniquely against our bodies, while other sins are outside our bodies (1 Cor. 6:18). 1 Jn. 5:16 declares there is a sin that does not lead to death while there is a sin that leads to death. Sins such as worry (Phil. 4:6), unthankfulness (Col. 2:7, 3:15; Lk. 17:11-18) and not being completely humble and gentle (Eph. 4:2) are not included in any of the lists of sins that will send people to the lake of fire, even if they were once saved. However, other sins certainly will send any person to hell if they die unrepentant, even a person who was once saved. (See 1 Cor. 6:9,10; Rev. 21:8; Gal. 5:19-21; Eph. 5:5,6; Jude 7; Rev. 22:15; etc.).
GOD BLESS YOU. 1 Cor. 15:2.