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THEOLOGICAL BUTCHERS – AMBROSE CHRYSOSTOM AND AUGUSTINE

March 24, 2024 Chugley Chimp Comments 2 comments

THE TOXIC FRUIT OF REFORMED THEOLOGY PART THREE THOLOGICAL BUTCHERS AMBROSE, CHRYSOSTOM AND AUGUSTINE By Kelleigh Nelson One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. Abba Eban As I go around Israel, I see a country that has taken every curse thrown against it and turned it into a blessing, by leading the fight against terror, by becoming world experts in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, by bringing disaster relief wherever it’s needed. I see a country and a people that have shown the world what it is to choose life. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speech at ‘Closer to Israel’ at Trafalgar Square, 2013 Anti-Semitism has no business infiltrating American politics, it has no business infiltrating our college campuses, and it has no business in the halls of Congress. Lee Zeldin The church has been led into error time and time again by letting the doctrines of men become the final authority of Scripture rather than allowing the Scripture to be the final authority of man’s doctrine. Using philosophical arguments, unbiblical allegory, and highly charged anti-Semitic reasoning, these “fathers” of the church were determined to sever the covenants that forever bind the Jewish people to the God of Israel. Their system was simple, reinterpret the Hebrew Scriptures in favor of the church and condemn the despised deicide race to God’s irreversible judgment by every tactic they could manufacture to make God’s people undesirable. This is the crumbling bedrock upon which the seemingly impregnable lies of replacement theology are forged. The bishops of the fourth and fifth centuries wielded supreme power over the church and the impact of their caustic sermons lingers on in the writings of both protestant and Catholic amillennialists. Because…

THE TOXIC FRUIT OF REFORMED THEOLOGY Pt 2

March 19, 2024 Chugley Chimp Comments 0 Comment

Kelleigh Nelson continues to explain the complicated issue of “Reformed Theology”. I am sure my readers will be interested in this subject, handled in such a scholarly way. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley THE TOXIC FRUIT OF REFORMED THEOLOGY PART TWO By Kelleigh Nelson THEOLOGICAL BUTCHERS ORIGEN AND TERTULLIAN We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, on Hitler’s evil. The devil is not fighting religion. He’s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.- Vance Havner You can’t love God without loving the Jewish people. Corrie Ten Boom Amen to Corrie Ten Boom who lost her sister and father in the concentration camps, but survived to tell the story of how her family saved Jewish brethren and then ended up in the camps simply for loving God’s people. She is considered one of the Righteous Among the Nations.” So many Christians are on a collision course with God. Many evangelical believers, to their utter shame, are joining ranks with the enemies of Israel in attempting to “lift Jerusalem.” Surely, the ugliest and most pernicious partnerships ever witnessed in the history of Christianity, is the joining together with, and marching arm in arm with, those of false doctrines, including the likes of liberal protestants, Islamists, humanitarians, secularists, politicians and a host of other ungodly rubble…

THE TOXIC FRUIT OF REFORMED THEOLOGY

March 14, 2024 Chugley Chimp Comments 0 Comment

Thanks again to Kelleigh Nelson and her zeal for truth. In this series she tackles the controversial issue of “Reformed Theology” and its toxic fruits. This subject can be more difficult than learning rocket science, but Kelleigh does a good job of unravelling some of the misunderstandings. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley THE TOXIC FRUIT OF REFORMED THEOLOGY PART ONE REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY Kelleigh Nelson Wherever replacement theology has flourished, the Jews have had to run for cover. Thomas Ice When the Ark of the Covenant was being brought up to Jerusalem, King David could be seen “leaping and dancing before the Lord” with “all his might” (2 Samuel 6:14-16). This evoked strong displeasure from his wife, Michal, who was left barren for having despised the joy of the Lord in her husband’s heart. How full the church is today of Michals who despise those who are rejoicing in the nacham (comfort), racham (compassion), and chesed (loyal covenant love) of God toward His people. How spiritually barren the church is where love for Israel is absent. Paul Wilkinson, author, Israel The Inheritance of God If God has not spoken in His Word about replacing, fulfilling, retelling, enlarging, redefining, nullifying, reconstituting, universalizing, reinterpreting, incorporating, renewing, or even “Christifying” Israel, then how are the church to speak this way! Andrew Robinson, Israel Betrayed Volume I: The History of Replacement Theology. There is a preciseness in the exegesis of the above-mentioned books, along with Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum’s approach to teaching the scriptures. It is a preciseness that many decades ago resonated with my soul. As a youngster, I was raised in a Jewish neighborhood, grew up with Jewish friends, dated Jewish men, and always had an affinity for both Israel and her people. It was no surprise then, that a Jewish man led me to the…

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