3/20/06 David Cloud: C.H. Spurgeon's Beliefs Dangerous to Bible-Believing Churches

David O. Cloud, from his website www.wayoflife.org, SOME MAJOR FALSE DOCTRINES THAT ARE A DANGER TO BIBLE-BELIEVING CHURCHES TODAY, dated November 3, 2005 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org.

The following are some of the major false doctrines that are a particular danger to Bible-believing churches in our day and a concise biblical refutation of them. We use the following to train our church members. (emphasis added)

1. The false teaching that salvation is by grace plus works (Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Church of Christ, Roman Catholic Church)

2. The false teaching that Jesus is not God (Jehovah’s Witnesses)

3. The false teaching that God is not a Trinity (Jehovah’s Witnesses)

4. The false teaching that baptism is necessary for salvation (Church of Christ)

5. The false teaching that infants should be baptized (Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist)

6. The false teachings of the Pentecostal-Charismatic Movement (Assemblies of God, etc.)

7. The false teaching that death is a sleep and not a journey (Seventh-day Adventists)

8. The false teaching that Hell is not eternal torment (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists)

9. The false teaching that Sabbath worship is for the churches today (Seventh-day Adventists)

10. The false teaching that the Prophecies of Matthew 24 and Revelation 6-22 are not for the future but are being fulfilled today (Roman Catholic, most Protestant denominations such as Presbyterian and Lutheran, etc.)

11. The false teaching that God is finished with the nation Israel; that the church has replaced Israel (Roman Catholic, most Protestant denominations such as Presbyterian and Lutheran, etc.)

12. The false teaching that God chooses who will be saved and that only those who are chosen can be saved (Calvinism)
13. The false teaching that the believer can only eat certain things (Seventh-day Adventist)

14. The false teaching that there should only be one church in each village and city

Did you see that? Did you hear what you said, David Cloud? You placed calvinism, a doctrinal system held by:

C.H. Spurgeon, Martin Luther, John Hus, William Tyndale, John Bunyan, John Knox, the Waldenses, Johnathan Edwards, George Whitfield, Matthew Henry, the Puritans, Roger Williams, John Newton, B.B. Warfield, J.L. Dagg, John Gill, et al, et al, and ME,

on par with:

Roman Catholics
Seventh Day Adventists
Jehovah Witnesses
Pentecostal
Charismatic
and Assemblies of God.

Did you really mean to say that?

3/8/06 "Love, Age, Logic, and Trials make it harder to keep the faith"

From the January/February 2006 issue of "The Baptist Magazine", published by Longview Baptist Temple, Longview TX; an article entitle "Keeping the Faith" by Dr. Bob Gray:

"The truth is it is not always easy to keep the faith. It becomes harder as one grows older. You love more deeply and desire to offend less. Age makes it harder to keep the faith. You want to be loved more as you grow older and it makes it harder to keep the faith. Your logic improves and it is easily captured by your vanity, which makes it harder to keep the faith. Trials multiply and tempt you to doubt, making it harder to keep the faith. You feel less secure and wonder more about your financial future as you grow older and it becomes harder to keep the faith."(emphasis added)

Isn't the real problem that as we age, we begin to see the truth of things which we have heretofore denied, and we, in our old age, are faced with confessing our errors? Isn't it our desire to validate our past that makes "keeping the faith" hard? Isn't it truely our VANITY, and not logic, that stands in the way of the "peace of God that passes all understanding"?

3/5/06 "God exists in order to bless man"

The following statements were made by Adrian Rogers, on his television program "Love Worth Finding", Trinity Broadcasting Network, channel 18 on the Comcast Sourth Jersey system, on Sunday, 5 March 06, approx 12:50 p.m.

(1) "God exists to bless you".

(2) "Your decision determines destiny".

Mr. Rogers is to be admired for his many good works of faith. But did he really intend to say those things? Do they make sense to you?

J.D.