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Swank has BA and MDiv degrees with graduate work at Harvard Divinity School. Married for 49 years with 3 adult children. Author of several books and thousands of articles in various Protestant and Catholic magazines, journals, web sites, and newspapers. Writer of weekly religion column for PORTLAND PRESS HERALD newspaper, Portland ME. |
Wed Feb 24, 2010
NAZNET’S SWEET JESUS EMERGENT CRUCIFIES JESUS AFRESH
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Emergent mess-up guru Brian McLaren says that “objective truth” is to be discarded for a Jesus all-in-all love fest.
Does McLaren think this kiss up to Jesus is pleasing to Jesus?
McLaren stands on extremely dangerous ground when he makes Jesus is to be the Nice Guy Max so that Jesus’ own divine revelation can be canned. In other words, someone needs to warn McLaren that there’s a hell.
To make this whole diabolical scheme worse, a holiness denomination is in danger of imploding via NazNet, a web site founded by a political opportunist named Dave McClung.
NazNet, unofficial “friend” to the holiness Church of the Nazarene, endorses via moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff in particular the sidelining of Scripture. Deventer states outright that he does not believe the Bible. What then is important to Deventer? Jesus only.
Does Deventer do Jesus a kindness with that devil’s doctrinal blasphemy? Obviously not.
Cundiff goes so far as to state on NazNet that the more he reads the Bible, the less God comes into focus. God fades out the more biblical research is engaged. In other words, invite dust to cloak the Scriptures while God goes fish.
Both Deventer and Cundiff disparage Scripture to such a hellish degree. And all the while McClung baptizes these moderators as legitimate.
From what I read in the Bible, McLaren and clique sidelined, Jesus does not like that kind of religiosity. In fact, Jesus considers it hypocrisy.
Jesus is, frankly, angry this moment because of the McLaren crowd, including Deventer, Cundiff and McClung.
Judgment Day is coming down on this wayward crew. They will burn and burn some more forever, though none of them admit even the existence of an eternal hell. Deventer dismisses hell completely, unabashedly. The others do so by companionship with the heretics.
There is no Sweet Jesus apart from Scripture. There is no Nice Guy Jesus apart from divine revelation.
And for McLaren, who claims all religions are under the Jesus umbrella if one wants them to be, Jesus is not in agreement with that “exegesis.” It was Jesus who stated no one goes to God the Father but by Jesus, that HE is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
Holding to Jesus is an exclusive cling, not a swing-and-sway your way with Jesus and Buddha and Confucius.
Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/
NAZNET’S DAVE MC CLUNG’S CRONYISM UPS EMERGENT DEVILMENT
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
NazNet’s founder Dave McClung furthers the emergent church fracas by way of his ongoing ecclesiastical power cronyism within the Church of the Nazarene.
McClung is wealthy as a successful businessman. At the same time, he has been a stroked layman placed on denominational prestigious boards, even serving as past-president of Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy MA.
That political opportunism permits McClung his favored status as NazNet founder in upping the emergent evil. McClung’s web site states he wants to foster “community.” He says NazNet is a “friend” to the holiness church.
Bosh.
NazNet squashes holy community within an evangelical church that is founded upon God’s call to the holy life.
NazNet does not enhance holiness of heart and life. The site disclaims biblical holiness by endorsing the emergent church’s claim that the Bible is sidelined while sweet Jesus is all that’s necessary. One can even bring under the Jesus tent all world religions, embracing whatever in Jesus love.
This is a blatant prostitution of the Jesus reality.
Do you see how far flung McClung’s cronyism within the Church of the Nazarene has brought the denomination into heresy via NazNet? It is blasphemy. It is diabolical.
Will the denominational leadership bring McClung to a “come to Jesus” agreement to expunge NazNet of heresies posted especially by moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff? If those denominational leaders do not do that, God will take care of the Church of the Nazarene in a most severe disciplinary manner. God being God, He is justice as well as mercy.
The emergent mess says that eternal absolutes are foolish, in the way, a nuisance. Emergent fuzz guru Brian McLaren states: “I believe people are saved not by objective truth, but by Jesus. Their faith isn’t in their knowledge, but in God.”
By “objective truth” he means “eternal, biblical absolutes.” In other words, McLaren and disciples believe in moral relativism—situation ethics. There are no “object truths.” None. Religion is all about being subjective—whatever you make “truth” to be, it is.
That is anti-Bible, antiChrist, anti-scriptural Christian theology. That is in-your-face old-time theological liberalism believed by Unitarians and all others disclaiming the Bible as the Word of God.
McClung’s site actually encourages this widespread devilment. How does he get by with it to this very moment? Why has he not been brought to task?
Remember: He is one of the power structure’s cronies. It’s politics, not truth, that counts with McClung and his clique.
That is being Pharisee groupie present-tense. McClung and colleagues stubbornly stand fast against God’s divine revelation.
I think there will be numerous Nazarenes standing quite stark naked, frosted in fear, at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Yet today they claim to be “holiness people.”
Such is the confusion of the times when it comes to holiness as defined by Scripture.
Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/
OBAMA BEHEADS AMERICA
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama is carrying through with Islam World Rule by destroying the most powerful nation on Earth.
He does this by beheading America financially. Our economic head is being cut from the neck and it is going on every day and night via Obama’s czar shadow government.
Congress’ Dems join in the beheading by siding up to Obama, not realizing that they themselves are losing their heads.
Muslim slaying of infidels does not have to be a physical beheading. Obama has taken it to the more subtle level. In any case, once the head is gone, death is the vogue.
Americans daily wonder about their future. They question Washington’s ability to govern. They worry about their wallets and their health coverage.
In other words, America is feeling the awful pain of being beheaded by those in power to see through the act.
Obama knows exactly what he is doing. So do his henchmen from yesteryear who attend to his every command. Dems bow and scrape to be party to the atrocity.
Common sense politics is nowhere to be found in Washington. Civility has been tossed. Insanity, particularly regarding budgets and deficits, is the mode. Put it together and one has the beheading of the Republic.
This will last as long as Obama continues double-talking, breaking promises, lying as an Islamic virtue, and getting by with time served in the White House. After all, he has three more years to last as resident of the Oval Office.
Obama is the most exemplary Muslim on the planet in that he has reached the pinnacle, weighs in against grassroots intelligent citizens and threatens with the most caustic retaliations if one crosses his plots.
Read the KORAN at http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/12/koran.html
