EO Responds To
Emails 11-23-08
(EMAIL) The information on your web page http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/scapular.htm is incorrect especially with regard to the sabbatine privilege. The Holy Roman See and the Carmelite Order have disavowed the sabbatine privilege though many Catholics world wide still cherish the tradition. All the other arguments directed against Marian tradition within the Catholic Church are easily refuted but not worth my time clarifying to you. I applaud your devotion to Christ and love you as brothers and sisters in Christ, but your theology is flawed. Yours in Christ and Ad Majorum Dei Gloram!
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
It is good to hear that at least some Catholics reject the “Sabbatine Privilege.” Too bad they all don’t, along with the brown scapular, rosary, miraculous metal, bowing before images, Pope, etc.
You stated that all the arguments against Marian tradition are easily refuted. I don’t believe this. To just mention one, what do you do about the clear contradiction in the Fatima visions regarding the personage representing Mary who said, she will be our refuge and “the way” that will lead us to God? John 14:6 says JESUS is “the way” to God. The Catholic authorities have endorsed that satanic vision which points us to Mary instead of Jesus. This is very serious and will damn precious souls. Please, please read the New Testament and change accordingly. Your SOUL is in the greatest danger.
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GOD BLESS YOU.
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(EMAIL) Thank you for your skull and crossbones update. Just one observation. What scripture do you use to confirm the people of Sodom, Judas Iscariot etc. are now in hell fire? Solomon says
1 The spirit returns to God who gave it---no time gap.
2. The dead Know NOTHING Ecc 9,5
3. the dead can NOT assist the living or have anything whatsopever to do with what happens on earth. ECC 9 ;6----
4 NO ONE ( MAN) has ascended to heaven Jn3;13 ,
5 David has NOT ascended to Heaven acts 2;34
When Solomon says the DEAD KNOW NOTHING this can only mean that the SPIRIT goes back to God who gave it and the SOUL ( EGO , contiousness , life ,) waits in the grave for Christs return Soul and spirit can NOT be the same thing or else we wre NOT “made in Gods image” If david is not yet ascended ; then NEITHER IS ANYONE ELSE.! Ecc. DISCOUNTS immediate presence with the Lord....
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
It seems that you have been adversely affected by the Jehovah’s Witnesses and/or the Seventh Day Adventists. Also, it seems that you are not really interested in an answer, but ask those questions only to “teach.” Hence, you are not open like you need to be to be helped. We know the people from Sodom are in hell fire because of Jude 7. Judas is there too (Mk. 14:21; John 17:12). (If you had read over the article carefully the rationale and references are cited.)
None of the Scriptures cited from Eccles., Acts or John support either there is no literal place of fiery torment for the wicked dead or soul sleep. Solomon wrote Eccles. from the point of view as a secular humanist. Among other things he also said all is vanity and money is the answer for everything! Is that what you teach too? Both concepts are shown darkened in the NT.
David wasn’t ascended at the point of his writing Psa. 110:1, “The Lord said to my Lord: ‘Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet,’” yet declared those truths. It is not saying David’s spirit never ascended! Look at 2 Cor. 5:8, etc. David’s BODY “slept,” that is, his body died. His soul and spirit were not unconscious.
Please read this http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/eternaltorment.htm
Do you think you must be associated with the Watchtower Society for salvation? Do you recognize The Watchtower leaders and Ellen G. White as false prophets, as you should? Have you read our materials on these groups?
If someone asks you about salvation, can you answer like Paul and Silas did in Acts 16:30,31? WHY NOT? How can you claim to be in the same “light”?
GOD BLESS YOU.
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(EMAIL) Rev. 2:11 - He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. What’s the second death? Hell Who overcomes? 1 John 5:5 - Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? So let’s put 2 and 2 together and see what we get: I believe that Jesus is the Son of God = I don’t go to hell.
Not sure if I can agree with your book when there’s pretty straightforward scripture like that. I read your O.T. references (Gen., Ezekiel, etc.) and those don’t really help your argument. They’re just as easily refuted as they are proposed.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
The second death is the fiery lake of burning sulfur (Rev. 21:8). NOTE: the word “believes” is a CONTINUOUS tense in 1 John 5:5. Jesus taught some stop believing during the test of persecution (Luke 8:13). Also, if we had all the overcoming we need at the point of getting born again, WHY would Jesus tell the Christians in Rev. 2:10,11 about that type of overcoming to avoid the lake of fire? THINK. Don’t just listen to the eternal security teachers.
Eternal security people don’t like Old Testament Scriptures UNLESS they can use them somehow to support their doctrine. Then it is okay to use the OT. Otherwise, they tend to say it is law and legalism. We believe that we are saved by grace (Eph. 2:8,9) but we can fall from grace (Gal. 5:2-4). We are justified by faith (Rom. 5:1) but our faith can become shipwrecked (1 Tim. 1:19,20) and cease to exist (Lk. 8:13; Rom. 11:19-23). We are not under the law (Rom. 6:14,15) but if you live according to the sinful nature you will die (Rom. 8:13). Paul taught against legalism (Gal. 5:3,4) but he also taught that no immoral, impure or greedy person has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God (Eph. 5:5-7). We are not saved by works (Eph. 2:8,9) but to reap eternal life and not destruction you must sow to please the Spirit and not the sinful nature (Gal. 6:8,9). God is faithful to us (1 Jn. 1:9; 1 Cor. 10:13) but we must be faithful to him to the very end of our lives to escape the lake of fire or second death (Rev. 2:10,11). God surely loves us (Jn. 3:16; Mk. 10:21; Rom. 8:35-39) but those who inherit the kingdom of God love God (Jam 2:5; 1 Cor. 2:9) and to love God means to obey his commands (Jn. 14:15; 1 Jn. 5:3). We have freedom in Christ (Gal. 5:1) but this freedom is not to indulge the sinful nature (Gal. 5:13; 1 Pet 2:16). You need our books.
GOD BLESS YOU. Heb. 3:14.
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(EMAIL) ...I just attempt to read, understand and follow the Bible to the best of my conscience. That means I will never take this or that denominations word for anything if it seems to contradict Scripture, but I am indeed willing to listen to interpretations of Scripture and through the use of prayer and God-given reason determine what I can believe in with good conscience. Hence, I am not really interested in Evangelical pamphlets denouncing Catholicism. Or Catholic pamphlets denouncing Evangelicalism, for that matter. I will, however, consider signing up for your newsletter.
But back to the problem. Elisabeth does say “the mother of my Lord”. That does not seem to indicate the human aspect of Jesus to me. When you write “that is how Elisabeth meant it”: how can you possibly know what Elisabeth meant? You also write that “it is impossible for God to have a mother”, but we learn from the Bible that nothing is impossible for God (which is actually stated, by Mary, just a few verses prior to the quoted ones). I believe it would be more correct to say that God doesn’t need a mother and that He certainly didn't need one to exist in the first place. But can He, by His own decision, have a mother when He takes human form? I don’t see why that would be impossible. Blessings,
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
The passage you are referring to is:
In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! (Luke 1:42) But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” (Luke 1:43)
The context is clear that Elizabeth is referring to the “child” in her body. That can not have any reference to Mary being the “mother of God” because God pre-existed long before Mary. (A mother is always older than her child.) The Lord Jesus became a “man” through his birth in Bethlehem.
Furthermore, if Mary really was the “mother of God” or had any kind of exalted role, as Catholicism declares about their Mary (which is not the Mary of the Bible), the New Testament would reveal at least some trace of this. However, that is not the case. There is no hint of such. Please read through the New Testament for yourself and you will see. Did you read the article I pointed you to? http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/motherofgod.htm
Hope that helps you. GOD BLESS YOU.
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(EMAIL) ...How badly corrupted is the Roman Catholic Bible? I know it is from the Latin Vulgate. Is it a useful tool for witnessing to catholics? I will be seeing some catholics outside the abortion mill I am going to on some saturdays, and I’d like to share the truth with them. I printed a tract for catholics but it uses the RCBible and seems to be saying it is a good translation. Thanks - God bless you guys.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name ....
The Catholic New Testament is, for the most part, sound and reliable. (I got saved by reading and acting on the message of the Catholic Bible in Luke 18:9-14.) But in the same breath I must say there are also SERIOUS problems with the Catholic Bible. First, the Apocrypha is NOT inspired by God and should be trashed, but they think it is the word of God when it is NOT.
It is also important to know there are different Catholic Bibles and editions of those Bibles!!!! Some Catholic Bibles HERETICALLY say in Gen. 3:15 “SHE will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” (They imply Mary is the “she.”) It should say “he” referring to JESUS.
Furthermore, in some Catholic Bibles, instead of the word “repent” they have the word “penance.” (Penance in the RC church is confessing your sins to the priest and him telling the confessor to say a number of prayers plus to make a good act of contrition to get forgiven.)
To use a Catholic Bible can be the best way to win certain Catholics. Other Catholics won’t be so strict and will listen to any Bible ....
GOD BLESS YOU.
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(EMAIL) On Jer 10:1-3 does it appear to you that the “trees” people put up around the holidays are heathen in origin??? I have personally been convicted to stop celebrating Dec. 25th.......However we are to remember the Lord’s Supper until He comes again.....I told everyone not to buy me anything for the December 25th holiday and I choose to work on that day.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
Jer. 10 does not refer to a Christmas tree. It is about idols and false gods. The tree is cut, shaped with a “chisel,” adorned with silver and gold, etc. This is not to say that we advocate Christmas, especially with their Santa god, who is all-knowing to be aware if the children have been good or bad .... May God bless and help you. Heb. 3:14.
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(EMAIL) I read your articles on Calvinism, and how you extolled Michael Servetus for opposing John Calvin. Well, here\’s something you may not know about Servetus. The real reason Servetus was executed was not because of his opposition to Calvinism, but because he DENIED THE HOLY TRINITY. Servetus claimed that Jesus was created by God in the womb of the Virgin Mary. Now, we know that Jesus is co-eternal with God, but Michael Servetus claimed that Jesus was created. According to him, the doctrine of the Trinity actually taught that there were three gods, which we know isn\’t true. Calvin\’s heretical ideas pale in contrast to those of Servetus. If I had a choice between supporting Calvin or Servetus, I would have supported Calvin, for I feel that his ideas were the lesser of the two evils. Now, I\’m not sure if you were merely unaware of Servetus\’s dangerous ideas, or if you were aware but were concealing them. If the latter is true, then shame on you. You shouldn\’t be promoting a heretic because he opposed a lesser heretic. That\’s like supporting a dictator because you disagree with the ideas of another dictator he opposes. Sincerely,
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name.
You have NEVER read from us that we teach Calvin murdered Servetus because he opposed Calvinism. Servetus was murdered because he opposed infant baptism and the Trinity. Servetus was right about infant baptism but wrong about the Trinity. The point we made was John Calvin burnt Servetus at the stake over doctrine! Calvin was in violation to God’s word to do this. Calvin had a DARK side that few know because of the widespread Calvinistic influence in our apostate day.
Remember all 5 points of Calvinism are demonic, the worst being the 5th point, “the perseverance of the saints.”
... This book [The Believer’s Conditional Security] 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.