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Hi Butterfly,
So let’s review your spiritual journey so far to this current date in time. First you mentioned that were involved in Christian Science. Therefore, do you realize that Christian Science is a known cult and certainly not Christian? In fact, here is a quote from Christian Research and Apologetics Ministry by Matt Slick that verifies this:
Is the Christian Science religion Christian?
by Matt Slick
CRAM Article
Of all the biblically-based cults in America today, Christian Science is one of the most interesting. Not only does it deny the essential doctrines of Christianity, but it has completely reinterpreted the Bible. It drastically redefines the Bible’s culture and terminology and rips thousands of scriptures out of their historical and biblical contexts. The result is a non-Christian mixture of metaphysical and philosophical thoughts. Christian Science is so foreign to the Bible that, if it didn’t use words like Jesus, Trinity, Love, Grace, Sin, etc., you’d never suspect it had anything to do with the Bible at all. Additionally, the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which is the Christian Scientist’s mainstay of spiritual knowledge, reads with a rhythm of pseudo-logical statements that has the tendency to dull the senses when read long enough. Is Christian Science Christian? Definitely not.
Next, you mentioned your involvement in the Word of Faith movement. That movement is at best an aberrant form of Christianity because it mixes its true founders, E W Kenyon’s teachings, with Christian theology. This is a statement by John Kennington, on E. W. Kenyon’s that directly links him to Christian Science (what you came out if) as well as the Spiritual Metaphysical cults.
“One of the things that puzzled me in those days was the similarity between what he [Kenyon] taught and what was taught in Christian Science. We discussed the similarity at that time. And he acknowledged the similarity. I can remember him saying, ‘All that Christian Science lacks is the blood of Jesus Christ.’ . . . In doing so he became a source for a form of Pentecostal Christian Science even though Kenyon was not a Pentecostal….I can hear him yet talk about the philosophical roots of Christian Science and Hegelian thought, or about some international lawyer who on an ocean voyage influenced Mary Baker Eddy. He admitted that he freely drew the water of his thinking from this well.
John Kennington, "E. W. Kenyon and the metaphysics of Christian Science", unpubl. written statement, Portland, Ore., July 8, 1986.
E W Kenyon mixed not only Christian Science (CS) with Christianity, he mixed New Thought Metaphysics in as well.
New Thought – History Link. New Thought Metaphysics roots is involved with taping into spiritual laws, power of mind, power of the will, basically old divination under a scientific logic guise. Instead of spirits to conjure – one taps into spiritual laws for health and wealth and control. A prevailing theme of the early 20 Century New Thought people was the concept of making a super race or superior race that rules the masses.
Kenyon mirrored the popular notion prevalent of this pre and post WW I philosophic thought concerning the need for a superior race. In Kenyon’s eyes, he wanted to create Christian Superman and claimed so in his own writing, ‘Identification’, where even wrote of this intent ‘(his teachings) will make spiritual supermen quoted below which mirrors New Thought ideas:
From E W Kenyon works - Identification wrote:Conclusion
When these truths really gain the ascendancy in us, they will make us spiritual supermen, masters of demons and diseases. This is an unveiling of what we are in Christ, how the Father sees us in the son. It will be the end of weakness and failure. There will be no more struggle for faith, for all things are ours. There will be no more praying for power, for He is in us. There will be no more awful bondage of sin consciousness, for we are the righteousness of God in Christ.
See Kenyon’s Conclusion in His own words
Now the next granddaddy of the WoF movement is Kenneth Hagin. Mr. Hagin blatantly plagiarized Kenyon’s works – word for word and ushered in these teachings now known as the Word of Faith movement. These teachings reached their heyday during the very years of your (Butterfly’s) involvement. Therefore, please read this article for evidence for this:
A Different Gospel, by D.R. McConnell
The Word of Faith (WoF) movement has shipwrecked many people’s faith. Its fruit is bad as your own involvement and testimony about your parents indicates and proves, correct?
The Word of Faith is merely a mix of Christian Science, New thought Metaphysics (ie New Age) as well as Unitarian thought that E W Kenyon brought together to Christianize in order to create spiritual Christian supermen and women (his own recorded words). In fact Kenyon began a
New Covenant Baptist Church in Seattle Washington. Where you aware of this?
Kenyon may have been the silent founder of the New Covenant church movement but that still needs further verification and fact check. The NCC name used to be associated with his group so I find interesting that you next ended up in a New Covenant Church (NCC) on your journey. Through research, it appears His branch of NCC became Unitarian during the early parts of 20 th Century as he himself became or evolved into. However…
Let me state clearly, nowadays not all Covenant Churches are like this. Some NCC are true blue sound orthodox Christian, other NCC are of the shepherding discipleship/control model groups, but others follow after Kenyon’s developed form of Unitarianism which evolved into progressive liberal theology to distance themselves from Kenyon. The later sounds like the one NCC group you were involved in Butterfly.
So you went from Christian Science, to its kiss’n cousin Word of Faith, and ended up in liberal theological circles, then fell from that all together; then into some form of metaphysical spiritually new ageish philosophic system that your blog suggest.
Please Note: Liberal theology and progressive liberalism attempts to distort and water down the gospel and weaken the bible in order to replace it with a new man/woman liberated from superstition into a new – well lack for a better term enlighten or superior class that rule with the goal to dash the old social order to pieces and rebuild a new order from the ashes (Chaos Theory – Butterfly effect – Marxist Didactical thought to be more precise).
Kenyon’s model and the New Thought model goal were to create an enlightened or superior class that rules. So only you know, Butterfly, that if have that same goal or a form of it and are using it here on this Christian Forum. I am not sure, but maybe you still have some of that same super person model of CS, WoF, and liberal theology at work in you, seeking to further a new quest: Dash the existing social order of Christianity to the ground. Only you know the real answer as does God.
So here is my point – truth:
Cannot you see that your ideas about Christianity stem from blatant falsehood, bad warped doctrine and not the real deal?
So we have a direct link connecting you to bad theology, which indicates clearly that all your premises about the bible and Christianity is skewed toward error and propagating more error as how can your translation of Christian, the bible be correct since you drew only form polluted wells and not the real deal?
Therefore, your conclusions and arguments about the bible, Christianity, and biblegod are all based solely on error. You and your husband Spock need to realize how your own biases are based upon error and not truth – even concerning the golden rule.
Here what Jesus said "
Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. Mat 12:33 NIV
The fruit of your ideas were built upon the wrong foundations which have warped your ideas about God and the bible. These are mental strongholds and prevent you and your husband to ever actually see reason, or understand spiritual matters as it is written:
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit 1 Co 2:14 NKJV,
So why are you really here on this Forum?
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