I Never

 

really knew anything about the guy.

I did like what I did heard from him.

Charles Stanley, influential Baptist preacher, dies at 90

(I know, its a lil dated, 

I cant get to the library sometimes 

or when I did 

other things had a greater priority.)

"Stanley served two one-year terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1985 and 1986, at the peak of a time when theological conservatives were fighting to oust more moderate leaders from leadership roles in the convention and its seminaries, saying the church needed to be truer to Biblical authority."

“My election infuriated the opposition and ultimately revealed many of the underlying problems that had existed in the convention for a long time but had either been ignored or denied,” Stanley wrote in a 2016 autobiography. “All the liberal and moderate political forces of the Southern Baptist Convention were against me, which included seminary presidents and state convention newspapers.”

Lets be clear, sacking seminary presidents and other leaders, is nowhere near the same as having the blind lead the blind like some would want to do today. He knew what he was doing. I remember this time, my dad was a decon in a fairly large Southern Baptist congregation. I remember my dad saying to me: "They are going to try and tell you you have to think exactly like them or your not a Christian and it's just not true."

New Right Finally Gains Control Of Huge Southern Baptist Convention

June 14, 1986

"An eight-year power struggle within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has given the key figures in the new Christian right control over the nation's largest Protestant denomination and is likely to result in stronger ties between the religious body and the Republican Party."

(Merging religion and politics pollutes and corrupts both. Period. Look at where we are now and argue it's not the case. Pretty hard argument to make in my estimation. Emphasis on "the new Christian right", it simply didn't always exist.)

"The victory Tuesday of Rogers, a Memphis pastor, in a heated contest for the SBC presidency not only affirmed conservative domination of the elective offices, but it guaranteed success for the long-range goal of the denomination's right wing to take over the massive publishing and academic empire serving 14.5 million members."

Matthew 7:15 

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

The fabricated story is to have you believe 100% exactly like they do or they're gonna shew you out the door. I made this point earlier on here somewhere: There are about 36 million members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Do they go running around telling the other parts of the body of Christ that they need to have the Book of Enoch in their respective cannons?

Hey, I told you I liked what I heard from him, I didn't know he led the charge in the attack on leadership of Baptist Seminaries. I'm not trying to "go after" somebody who has passed away, but people need to understand what got us to where we are today, and that this played a big role, not just in the Southern Baptist Convention but for Christianity in America. It's a seminal moment and most have forgotten about it. And? 37 years ago, go figure, that's pretty close to 40. 40 is a big # still. If you can control the leadership of seminaries? (or any institution of higher learning for that matter). You can change the thought process of generations going forward.)

"We are not trying to tell any seminary professor what he must believe, or any denominational employe, that is between him and God," Rogers said. "But we are saying that those who work for us and those who have their salaries paid by us ought to reflect what we want taught."

(100% disagree. Outside of what is necessary for your souls eternal salvation? Believing in the blood of Christ for your souls redemption etc. Everything outside of that should be examined, studied, evaluated, reevaluated, discussed etc. Lil hard to do that if everybody already agrees with you on everything cause you ran everybody off.

"But thats what youre doing."

It's a lot different than the blind leading the blind. There's no blindness here, it was intentional.) 

The point I am trying to get at here

 is larger than Charles Stanley or the SBC, 

and it's this:

The falling away has happened.

And is currently continuing.

1 Timothy 4

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Thats (to me) 

(The falling away)

is different from the great apostasy 

for it speaks directly of:

"In the latter times

some shall depart from the faith"

Where as:

2 Thessalonians 2:3

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Speaks of:

"that day shall not come, 

except there come a falling away first"

Bookended if you will by:

"Let no man deceive you by any means"

"and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition"

It speaks to a larger audience today 

than just the church members it was addressed to, 

and that is because it was supposed to.

It's a living, breathing, mystical book from outside this time space continuum.

China is teaching high school students Quantum Physics. Were teaching LBGTQ history. How do you really think this plays out?

Any way:

The falling away?

Happened, 

Still happening:

Mans great rebellion against God?

(The great apostasy?)

Happening.

Right in front of you.

Deception?

Abounding.

Matthew 24:3-4

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? 

and what shall be THE SIGN of thy coming, 

and of the end of the world?

And Jesus answered and said unto them, 

Take heed that no man deceive you.

How much more deceptive does your world really need to get before you start believing what age we are about to enter into? (Social media, people living fake lives, AI etc?).

Anyway.

I like what I heard Charles Stanley say but I didnt know he led the attack on seminaries and leadership that helped get us to where we are today.

Be careful the people who only tell you what you want to hear A lot of times? It ends up being deceptive.

"Take heed that no man deceive you."

Look at the church and politics since the two started merging in the mid 80's and come tell me how good it was for politics, faith and your country. I got a chair at my table.

Long term Goal:

Answerable only to honey and God.

Period.