And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word. (1 King 18:21, ESV)

In commenting on my article Rob Bell and the Emergent Myth when it appeared at the original Slice of Laodicea, a young man named rob advances the warped and toxic points that will follow. Men and women, as humbly as I know how, one of the teachers the Master used in training me was Dr. Walter Martin (1928-1989). Not exactly known for his tact, Dr. Martin was the foremost authority in the world on religious cults having their origin in the United States. Following him as he followed Jesus I labeled this Emergent Church as a postliberal cult months ago. If anyone had any doubt left that this rebellion against the authority of the Bible, which is the inerrant and infallible Word of the one true and living God, has now grown into a cult–complete with its own leaders–they need only read these tragic words from rob.

Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, “Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?”

“Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, ‘Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols…’ ”

What Is It Going To Take To Open Your Eyes?

Now here is what this poor young man, whose mind has been confused by these Emergent vipers had to say about my article. The response I posted to him at Slice will follow. This is presented with the prayer that we will finally rise up O men and women of God and say: Enough! Enough of this Emergent rebellion against the authority of the Bible being allowed to operate within the walls of our Lord’s Own Church!

May God use this to inspire us to continue to stand against the false teachings of seducing spirits like Brian McLaren and his friend Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster as well as Emerging Church leaders Rob Bell and Tony Jones with their own things taught by demons such as:

I believe that people have been missing the point of the bible and rob bell has brought it back in a new way. That new way is seeing scripture through jewish eyes. He is reinventing how to do church. Being a theology major, Rob bell has been a big inspiration on how to bring the text alive and get rid of a fundelmentalist view of the bible that causes hate in are world. When something is new people are scared and don’t want to listen. It won’t be long till the post modern church will arrive and when it does I believe you will see a new kind of Christian not one who judges and hates but one who loves and devotes his life to God in any way possible. The revolution is coming and YahWeh is on its side just how God was on the side of your churches when they started. New times call for new ways to experience God. We can thank Rob Bell for many of these new ways. rob

rob,

My heart is so sad to hear you express the foolishness you have just stated. I know it’s not your fault; it’s what you’ve been fed. But this is exactly the thing that I have been trying to alert the church to and a huge part of the Emergent myth. Any of us who have a working knowledge of Hebrew can tell you that your view of Bell is incorrect. Rather the Bible judges him here:

For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions. (1 Timothy 1:6-7)

Yes, Bell does a lot of “seeing scripture through jewish eyes,” but you need to understand that one must be born again to actually understand those Scriptures. And in Bell’s prattle he pulls from a lot unregenerate views of the Holy Scripture.

Rob you say: “Being a theology major, Rob Bell has been a big inspiration on how to bring the text alive and get rid of a fundelmentalist view of the bible that causes hate in are world.” You probably won’t believe what I am about to tell you, but is the very reason I so hate this Emergent rebellion! O how I am grieved that these deceivers are brainwashing bright young people to believe this kind of rubbish.

When one of dear young people makes this statement: “It won’t be long till the post modern church will arrive and when it does I believe you will see a new kind of Christian not one who judges and hates but one who loves and devotes his life to God in any way possible. The revolution is coming,” how can our hearts not break when listening this McLarenese skubalon. Bohemian nonsense that people like you, who just don’t know better are swallowing hook, line and sinker?

And finally rob you say: “We can thank Rob Bell for many of these new ways.” No my friend, all Bell and the deceivers are doing is talking you right back to repainted liberalism and reimagined Gnostic mysticism, with a twisted universalism because they don’t have the guts to stand for the true Gospel.

And I tell you in the Lord that it is a pathetic shame that more evangelical leaders with clout are also so spineless that they are simply watching this kind of thing happen. Rob, there’s no animosity on my part toward you, only compassion. I pray the Lord will open your eyes and if I could wake you myself, believe me I would.

Test This Emergent Cult By The Bible

Men and women, the Lord is my witness that I have been specifically trained in counter-cult apologetics and I ask you to please make the time to look more closely at what rob had just said above. And you need to know that there are a few of us in this discernment camp who can also testify that what you have just read is hardly an exception. We have many dialogues each day with those who are following this Emergent rebellion against sola Scriptura. We would get letters and comments like this every single day at SoL, and most particularly this is the identical reaction every time any of us dare touch their golden Buddha Rob Bell.

In fact Rob Bell himself is quoted as saying of his critics:

“But I love everybody and you’re next!” he says, giggling. “That’s how I respond to criticism.”

Bell is and does the unexpected. Then again, he says, so does God. (Online source)

Yes, Rob; He does. And I love my Lord and since He hates what you’re doing, so I guess I’m next. You see, as a pastor-teacher Jesus tells me to – Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter (Proverbs 24:11). So it might just wipe that smirk off his face when I tell Rob that this is no game with me because little rob says things here that should be shocking to anyone who cares for young people at all:

I believe that people have been missing the point of the bible and rob bell has brought it back in a new way. That new way is seeing scripture through jewish eyes. He is reinventing how to do church. Being a theology major, Rob bell has been a big inspiration on how to bring the text alive and get rid of a fundelmentalist (sic) view of the bible that causes hate in are world.

The Designs Of A Neo-Liberal Cult Comes Emerging

Beloved, I ask you; can’t you see Satan’s hate for God’s Word and the blatant attack on Reformed theology here? I tell you in the Lord that now is the time to put down silly differences over petty labels and hear what has just been said. Just look the influence of cult leaders like Brian McLaren and Rob Bell here: “people have been missing the point of the Bible.” Yea, hath God said? The absolute first thing any cult leader does is to kick out the authority of the Bible. What do think you just read? “Rob Bell brought it back in a new way.”

See the circular reasoning here. Says who? And the reply from someone caught in this cult will be to appeal to one of its leaders and say e.g. “Rob Bell has brought it back.” All he’s doing is repainting the highly subjective neo-orthodox existential view of Scripture. But this will only lead right back down the same old broad road of liberalism to the Fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the neighborhood of “I pick and choose the parts of the Bible I happen to like.” And even if I have to stand alone, I defy any of these leaders of the Emergent Church of postevangeliclaism to pick up their Bibles and refute me.

Not that they will ever win that argument which is actually with the Lord and not me anyway, but they will also have to argue with Dr. Martin’s work in Christ as well. Author of The Kingdom of the Cults, the classic book on cult apologetics, Martin also said on page 12 of his The Rise of the Cults:

A cult, then, is a group of people polarized around someone’s interpretation of the Bible and is characterized by major deviations from orthodox Christianity relative to the cardinal doctrines of the Christian faith,…

It should be obvious to anyone God has granted eyes to see that Rob Bell and Guru Brian McLaren and the Emerging Church fit the above definition perfectly. And forget the Emergent howls of their classic hue and cry: “But we’re so divisive.” Rubbish! Because before there was “diversity” there was a day when this Emergent rebellion first began. Consider this from Herescope:

Do not be deceived. The “emerging church” movement did not spontaneously erupt. It was a well-funded and well-organized movement from its very inception. It appears to have been fashioned by a handful of corporate business leaders who wished to create a counter-cultural evangelical movement. The intended purpose appears to have been identifying and recruiting potential young leaders for comprehensive indoctrination. One of the chief outcomes has been the further degradation and deconstruction of traditional Christianity. (Online source)

I’ll have more on the rotten root which gave birth to this Emergent menace to the Body of Christ another time but for now, if you really wish to understand how a young man like rob got twisted this way then you need to focus on the neo-orthodox (at best) view of Holy Scripture most–if not all–of these new breed of so-called “Christian” mystics have. I tell you the absolute Truth, while on paper these vipers may give lip service to the authority of Scripture, they should know that they only fool themselves because the Lord knows that in practice it is not unlike the teachings of apostate Roman Catholicism: Experience=tradition; and spiritual experience=interpretation for these new Gnostics in The Ecumenical Church of Deceit.

Perhaps you think these words are too harsh. I wonder what would the average Christian today would have said to John the Baptist? Men and women, you should know that what I have just taught has already more then been backed up by numerous other fine ministers of the Gospel, though they would not choose to speak with this much vitriol. However, this is no concern of mine because I know Who sent me. Also I am already on record e.g. Take Off The Gloves that there’s no time to play spiritual patty-cake while having pointless “conversation” with people who only reinterpret what is said.

And not only that but they also deny that anyone can know with certainty what God has said in Scripture anyway. So why in the world are we wasting any more of the Master’s time with such a fruitless tactic? Today I offer this as a plea for us to finally throw these unregenerate rebels out of God’s House!

It’s Time To Go To War

“When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.” Abraham Kuyper

In closing–for now–I remind you of the great respect so many of us have for Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Then let me ask you: Why do you think these new white-washed tombs and leaders within the Emergent rebellion have such disdain for powerful men of God such as a Spurgeon? Brothers and sisters, you must awaken to the times in which you live and come to recognize these false prophets are walking in another spirit. So just what do you suppose Spurgeon would have say about this New Downgrade No-Controversy? Come here, I’ll show you:

At the present day, I am afraid that nine people out of ten do not believe in the God Who is revealed to us in the Bible. I can point you to newspapers, to periodicals, and also to pulpits by the score in which there is a new god set up to be worshipped–not the God of the Old Testament; He is said to be too strict, too severe, too stern for our modern teachers.

They shudder at the very mention of the God of the Puritans. If Jonathan Edwards were to rise from the dead, they would not listen to him for a minute; they would say that they had quite a new god since his day. But, brethren, I believe in the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob; this is my God–aye, the God Who drowned Pharoah and his host at the Red Sea and moved His people to sing, “Hallelujah!” as He did it; the God Who caused the earth to open and swallow up Korah, Dathan, and Abiram and all their company.

A terrible God is the God Whom I adore–He is the God and Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, full of mercy, compassion, and grace, tender and gentle, yet just and dreadful in His holiness and terrible out of His holy places. This is the God Whom we worship, and He Who comes to Him will take Him to be his Instructor, and so shall he learn aright all that he needs to know. (At the Master’s Feet, July 18)

I’ll tell you what you can do for Christ; take up your Sword of the Spirit and follow me. O the Lord be praised; we’re finally going back up to Mount Carmel!

As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith.

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions. (1 Timothy 1:3-7, NASB)