Universalism

Real Roots of the Emergent Church Documentary: Updated!

April 28, 2014 By ELLIOTT NESCH

Here is the 3-hour Updated Director’s Cut of The Real Roots of the Emergent Church documentary:

Because diversity characterizes the Emergent Church movement, it is difficult to paint everyone in the movement with a broad brush. Some have observed that defining the Emergent Church is like nailing jello to a wall. All participants agree on their disillusionment with the institutional church, but do not all agree on where the church is destined to go from here. They share a common concern with many evangelicals over the state of the modern church, especially the mega-church phenomenon and “seeker-friendly” churches. For this reason, many evangelicals who observe the Emerging Church are fascinated by it, drawn to its creative approaches to worship, genuineness of many of the leaders and desire to reach Gen Xers. However, these evangelicals fail to look beyond it to understand its underlying theology, or lack thereof. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bill Hybels, Bob Buford, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Prayer, Emergent Church, Eschatology, Feminism, Gay Agenda, Gospel, Hell, Homosexuality, Islam, Jay Bakker, Judgment, Kingdom of God, Mark Driscoll, Meditation, Mysticism, New Age, Peter Drucker, Postmodernity, Prayer, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Roman Catholicism, Salvation, Sin, Tony Campolo, U2/Bono, Universalism, Willow Creek, Women

Pope Francis says Good Atheists Go to Heaven

May 24, 2013 By ELLIOTT NESCH

We read the following account in the Gospel of Luke 9:49-50: “And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us. And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.” While the disciples wished Jesus to prevent somebody from ministering in the name of Jesus who was not in their camp, Jesus exhorted them that whoever “is not against us is for us.” Here Jesus’ teaching would discourage denominationalism within the body of Christ.

Paul the Apostle taught similarly along these lines when he said to the church in Corinth: “For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?” (1 Corinthians 1:11-13) The true body of Christ is not divided and divisions are carnal.

But Pope Francis the Apostate of the Catholic Church puts a new spin on Jesus’ teaching to include atheists in Christ and in heaven. Not only does Francis reword what Jesus taught to “Just do good,” but also suggests that atheists can go to heaven by doing good. Atheists do not minister or cast out devils in Jesus name and cannot be lumped into the category of the one addressed in Luke 9 who “casting out devils in thy name.” Atheists are against Christ and Jesus’ teaching of “he that is not against us is for us,” cannot include them as Francis does. Jesus was instructing the apostles to receive somebody who was in Christ but not in their camp. Atheists are not in Christ. John 3:36 addresses atheism directly saying: “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” This from the Apostate Catholic Church:

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The Holy Father is full of surprises, born of true and faithful humility. On Wednesday he declared that all people, not just Catholics, are redeemed through Jesus, even atheists.

However, he did emphasize there was a catch. Those people must still do good. In fact, it is in doing good that they are led to the One who is the Source of all that is good. In essence he simply restated the hope of the Church that all come to know God, through His Son Jesus Christ.

Francis based his homily on the message of Christ to his disciples taken from the Gospel of Mark. Francis delivered his message by sharing a story of a Catholic who asked a priest if atheists were saved by Christ.

“They complain,” Francis said, “If he is not one of us, he cannot do good. If he is not of our party, he cannot do good.” He explained that Jesus corrected them, “Do not hinder him, he says, let him do good.”

The disciples, Pope Francis explained, “were a little intolerant,” closed off by the idea of possessing the truth, convinced that “those who do not have the truth, cannot do good.” “This was wrong… Jesus broadens the horizon.” Pope Francis said, “The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.”

“Even them, everyone, we all have the duty to do good, Pope Francis said on Vatican Radio.

“Just do good” was his challenge, “and we’ll find a meeting point.” (source)

Filed Under: Apostasy, Roman Catholicism, Universalism

HATH GOD SAID? - EMERGENT CHURCH THEOLOGY

May 21, 2013 By ELLIOTT NESCH

The labels Emergent Church, Emerging Church, Emergence Christianity, and New Christianity all imply innovative and progressive understandings of Orthodox Christianity. Like nailing jello to a wall, many have attempted to understand and define the Emergent movement only to be frustrated and confused.

At the heart of the Emerging movement is the worldview of postmodernism which teaches that truth is relative and subjective. This book by Elliott Nesch demonstrates how postmodernism is incompatible with a biblical worldview of absolute truth and the authority of the Scriptures on various topics including feminism, homosexuality, hell, mysticism, eschatology, Jesus Christ and the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and more.

In Hath God Said? - Emergent Church Theology, the teachings of the Emergent movement are exposed in light of Scripture. Also by comparing early Church writings with Emergent writings, it becomes evident that the Emerging Church is not preaching the faith once delivered to the saints. This book is currently available as a free PDF, or available for purchase as paperback or e-book.