Page 10 of 16

 

* PENTECOST*

20/20

THE WORLD'S GREATEST HOLINESS PREACHER!

A New Light Dawns!

      TRULY HUMAN

   BUT WITH TALENT!

HAS INSPIRED SOME TRULY

GREAT FANATICS

THE FIRST OF GREAT IMPORTANCE BEING OF COURSE

L

Saul of Tarsus

aka "Apostle Paul"

AND MUCH MORE RECENTLY

AT FOSTER CHURCH IN ASHEVILLE

BILL LIVERSIDGE

WHOSE LIFE IS NOW DEDICATED TO

RESTORING THOSE ADVENTISTS WHO HAVE SOMEHOW OR OTHER TRIED TO BETTER THEIR OWN LIVES AND THOSE OF OTHERS BY CLEAN LIVING, GOOD SENSE, AND PAYING SOME ATTENTION TO THE WRITINGS OF ELLEN G. WHITE TO THE

LEVEL GROUND

AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS!

  A native of Melbourne, Australia, Bill Liversidge's biography includes 10 years as a missionary in New Guinea, pastoral work in several churches, and now he is or has been Ministerial Director of the Columbia Union of Seventh-day Adventists.

    He attended Avondale College in Australia, Andrews University in Barrein Springs, Michigan, and Fuller Memorial Seminary in Pasadena, California.

A native
 

People are generally so relieved to "find out" once again, from these FANATICAL PREACHERS who follow in Paul's footsteps and use his New  Testament writings and deceptive reasoning to promote TOTALLY FREE "GRACE" and an effortless ticket to

ETERNAL LIFE

(Especially so among Seventh-day Adventists, who rightly look askance at such obvious DECEPTION and IRRATIONAL preaching) that Bill Liversidge has to plan ahead to keep up with a SCHEDULE and is BOOKED far into the FUTURE by those who want to hear the

BAD "GOOD NEWS".

Bill Liversidge has the following SERMONS available

on his web site "Creative Media Ministries"

   Are You Loved?  By Faith Alone. Having the Mind of Christ. Cleansing of the Sanctuary.  Washed in His Blood. Joshua the High Priest.  Movement with a Message.  Etc.

Why do I have the brazen temerity to elevate Pastor

Bill Liversidge to the status of GREAT FANATICS

LIKE PAUL?  This happened while I was attending 

a Seminar on "Ephesians" at Foster Church.

 

He was having a great time assigning a text in

"Ephesians" to people in the class to read out

loud, then expound on.  After several had had

their opportunity to show that their idea of what

the text meant was far inferior to what Pastor

Liversidge saw as the meaning, he might call

on someone else on the other side of the room

to just extemporaneously "Praise Jesus" for

a few minutes, in the most superlative terms of

course.  Then grade them publicly on the quality

and quantity of their praise.

 

All this was of minor consequence, however.

when he dropped what to me was his emotional

bomb-shell.  His recent private conversation with his

mother, told to us all in confidential tones, barely

above a whisper. 

 

His mother had called him, he confided, to tell him

 that she had just decided that

"There is absolutely nothing I can do,

Bill, to be worthy of heaven. I'll just

have to depend on what Jesus has

done for me." 

 

Bill confided that usually when his mother calls,

 it's to remind him to exercise, or remind him

not to eat cheese.  Stuff that Bill Liversidge

considers to be of little or no consequence. 

 

 Now the PUNCH-LINE, the qualifying

GREAT FANATIC line.  Said Bill,

"I felt like praying to GOD to take my

mother just then, to let her DIE just then --

just after she had SAID what she SAID,

 "I'll just have to depend on

what Jesus has done for me."

 

For at that MOMENT she was READY for

HEAVEN, fully acceptable to be SAVED in

GOD's KINGDOM, and to live eternally."

 

 

James's Truth and Logic

Paul's Deceptive Illogic
James 2:21 "Was not Abraham our father justified by WORKS, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?  22 Seeist thou how FAITH wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?"

James 1:3 "Knowing this, that the trying of your FAITH worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her PERFECT WORK, that ye may be PERFECT and entire, wanting nothing."

James 1:22 "But be ye DOERS of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves."

James 1:26 "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is VAIN."

James 2:10 "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."

James 2:12 "So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty."

James 2:14 "What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath FAITH, and have not WORKS? can FAITH save him?"

Romans 4:2 "For if Abraham were justified by WORKS, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. 3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believ-ed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness."

Romans 4:4 "Now to him that WORKETH is the reward not reckoned of GRACE, but of debt. 5 But to him that WORKETH NOT, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungedly, his FAITH is counted for RIGHTEOUSNESS."

Romans 4:7 (Quoting David) "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are COVERED.8 "Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not inpute sin. " (This by David, a sinner)

Romans 4:13 "For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, came not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of FAITH. 14 For if they which are of the LAW be heirs, FAITH is made void, and the promise made of none effect." (this because the promise came sequentially before Abraham was circumcised in the Torah.)

 

JESUS CHRIST BECAUSE HE IS NOT GOD, AND NEVER WAS GOD, BUT A POLITICALLY MOTIVATED ESSENE "MESSIAH" WHO ALSO ENJOYED FAME AND APPROVAL AMONG THE GENTILES HE WAS NOT GETTING FROM HIS JEWISH ASSOCIATES, IS GOING TO ENCOURAGE, NOT STOP, FANATICAL PREACHERS SUCH AS BILL LIVERSIDGE FROM DELUDING WHOEVER THEY CAN GET TO LISTEN!

INDEED, HE LAUGHS AT THEM AND THOSE WHO LISTEN TO THEM.  IT'S SO AMUSING!  SUCH A LAUGH!

BUT HE DID WARN ELLEN G. WHITE, IN HER FIRST VISION IN 1844, THAT "GOD'S PEOPLE" WOULD BACKSLIDE, AND PEOPLE LIKE BILL LIVERSIDGE WOULD HELP THEM DO IT!  HELP THEM STUMBLE AND "FALL OFF THE PATH".

    

     Early Writings page 14 "--I raised my eyes,  and saw a straight and narrow path, cast up high above the world. (Definitely not the "level ground at the foot of the cross") On this path the Advent people were travelling to the city, which was at the farther end of the path.  They had a bright light set up behind them at the beginning of the path, which an angel told me was the midnight cry.  This light shone all along the path and gave light for their feet so that they would not stumble.  If they kept their eyes fixed on Jesus, who was just before them, leading them to the city, they were safe.  But soon some grew weary, and said that the city was a great way off, and they expected to have entered it before.  Then Jesus would encourage them by raising His glorious right arm, and from His arm came a light which waved over the Advent band, and they shouted, 'Alleluia!'  (The "Health Reform" and later "Celebration" movements in Adventism.). Others rashly denied the light behind them and sait that it was not God that had led them out this far. (Waggoner and A.T. Jones, the Brinsmeades, Bill Liversage, and all like them who preach a similar message of a Gospel completed at the cross 1900 years ago). The light behind them went out, leaving their feet in perfect darkness, and they stumbled and lost sight of the mark and of Jesus, and fell off the path down into the dark and wicked world below."
Early Writings page 46,47 "In this time of trial we need to be encouraged and comforted by one another.---If we overcome our trials and get victory over the temptations of Satan, then we endure the trial of our faith, which is more precious than gold, and are stronger and better prepared to meet the next.  But if we sink down and give way to the temptations of Satan , we shall grow weaker --"  

     "Oh that all could see these things in their true light and endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus! Then would Israel move forward, strong in God, and in the power of His might.

    "God has shown me that He gave His people a bitter cup to drink, to purify and cleanse them.  It is a bitter draught, and they can make it still more bitter by murmuring, complaining, and repining. But those who receive it thus must have another draught, for the first does not have its desired effect upon the heart.  And if the second does not effect the work, then they must have another, and another, until it does have its designed effect, or they will be left filthy, impure in heart."

"  "We must be partakers of Christ's sufferings here if we would share in His glory hereafter."

       

     So far as I can tell, this group of "bitter cups" is here designated for Seventh-day Adventists only, perhaps because they fell off the path of real righteousness, the path of holiness in 1888, and instead took the easier path, relying solely on Christ's righteousness, like the rest of the nominal Christian Churches, which include, of course, the Roman Catholic Church.  In effect, we were no longer "protesting", no longer Protestants.

     I count 4 of these cups, although this number is never mentioned in Ellen's vision.  They correspond to the 4 additional angels that Adventists never recognized in the series of angels in Revelation 14-19, the last (7th) angel of Revelation 19 being well "hidden" by being separated from the 6 angels in Revelation 14.

    And the bitter cups are not mentioned in Revelation 14 except the assumed "cup" of the 6th angel in which is contained the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture from the "cup" of His indignation.

    These 7 angels are first the three angels accepted by Adventists in their used-to-be logo

   In order the 4 angels that follow (the 4 bitter cups) are:

        4. The Real Israel (Jewish) becomes a Nation -

                May 14-15 1948

        5. The Rapture 88 Movement (Evangelical- Pentecostal)

                September 11-13, 1988 (40 years later)

         6. The Branch Davidian Compound burns in Waco,

                Texas (Mt. Carmel) "Elijah" Symbolism - 1992

         7. The Attack on the Twin Towers of the World

                Trade Center in Manhatten, N.Y.  Sept. 11, 2011

 

   

So What's Wrong with Paul's (Liversidges') GOSPEL?

  I think Holger Kersten said it best in his book Jesus Lived in India which I purchased in London, Great Britain, in 1994 on one of my trips to or from the Middle East, and read through on 11-15-1994 in London, finishing the book at 10 pm.  (I took better notes back then, almost exactly 20 years ago as I am typing this!)

      Page 232                Jesus or Paul?

  "Many faithful Christians may object that with the arguments I adduce in this book I am robbing Christianity of an essential element, an element that alone can give hope sand solace: redemption from sin (which causes the suffering in the world) by the vicarius sacrificial death of Jesus Christ, for all those who acknowledge his teaching.  But it is precisely this form of the doctrine of salvation in traditional Christianity that rests almost exclusively on the work of Paul, and was never taught by Jesus.  Paul taught that the whole function of Jesus centres on his sacrificial death, that through the shedding of his blood he has absolved the faithful of their sins and released them from chaos and the domination of Satan.  In fact, Paul does not relay a single syllable of the direct teaching of Jesus in his epistles, nor does he tell a single one of his parables.  Instead, he builds up a philosophy of his own on the basis of his own personal understanding (or misunderstanding) of Jesus' teaching."

      "PAUL insists that on account of the sin of Adam all people are subject to the wrath of God from the start (see Ephesians 2:3), and are LOST without exception (Romans 5:18; 1 Corinthians 15:18), for all are subject to SIN (Romans 3:9; Galatians 3:22; Colossians 2:14).  God has given his judgement of condemnation against all people (Romans 5:16)

     "Out of the Good News brought by Jesus, Paul has made news that is dark and threatening, from the menace of which only he can show the way out.  And this way out was the salvation of humanity through the sacrificial death of Christ: 'Therefore as by the offence of one, judgement came upon all men to condemnation even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life' (Romans 5:18).  And in the letter to the Collossians he describes Jesus as 'Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross' (Collossians 2:14)."

     "But the terrible thing about the doctrine of salvation according to Paul is his attitude that the individual can contribute nothing towards his salvation in his miserable life: not through any good works of his own, not through any change of lifestyle however much for the better, can the individual justify his being saved, reconciled with God (cf Romans 3:24, 9:16; 1 Corinthians 1:29, Galatians 2:16)."

     "For according to PAUL it is exclusively the grace of God which brings us to Salvation: 'For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.  Not of works, less any man should boast' (Ephesians 2:8-9)."

     "According to Paul a person may be saved merely by the single act of baptism, becoming a child of God and a completely new being.  Every claim to cooperating in salvation by one's own effort is, by this teaching, to be regarded as a belittling of the sacrifice of Jesus, as an attempt to save oneself that cannot but failk.  Conversely every person, however good and exemplary a life he may have led, must in this scema be considered lost if he fails to accept the sacrifice on the Cross for himself personally as his complete salvation.  Such ideas are totally alien to Jesus."

     "Most Christians are of the opinion that the greatness, the uniqueness, of Christianity stands and falls with this teaching.  Yet it proves to be a fiction, far removed from the ideas of Jesus.  Not even a hint of this so-called Christian doctrine of salvation is to be found in the Sermon on the Mount - the quintessence of Jesus' message -- or in the Lord's Prayer (the Our Father), or in the traditional parables told by Jesus!"

     "Jesus was not concerned with constructing a philosophy that might be based on his life and on his message that might free people from the sufferings of earthly existence -- he actually lived what he taught.  Toleration at all times, care for the welfarew and benefit of others (human and animal), giving and sharing, selflessness in helping others to carry the burden of their suffering, a universal and unconditional love for all - this is the way of perfection that Jesus demonstrated in his life."

Holger Kersten

 

 

NEXT  PAGE IN SERIES:

In which I both PROVE that Jesus Himself not only directed the writing of the New Testament Book of REVELATION but also was PRESENT at the Jewish "Grand Finale" at MASADA!

Click Here!

Quit and Return to Main Index