“Not surprisingly, Bishop Pearson is viewed as a heretic by fundamentalist Christians who aren’t into friendly, trendy, radical inclusiveness. This lengthy critique of Pearson’s hell-free theology calls him the charismatic bishop of heresy. …”

:: sigh ::

I hate to shut comments down on a post, but it does appear there’s nothing of substance being added any longer.

What is it?

Is it not to take what God has established and say it no longer matters because we have ‘grace’ and we ‘believe’.

Try believing you are an American and then not following the laws of this country.

God is the original Law Giver.

To think one does not have to follow His laws but only ‘believe’ in Him is the greatest heresy.

please close this thread

Pretty please?

Seriously, you should write an article one day on all of the doctrines like this one that causes people to be distracted from the centrality of Jesus to our faith. Be it sabbath, tithe, abstaining, or whatever.

Yahshua never broke God’s sabbath laws, however, according to the 1000’s of laws that man added, He did, and that was the basis of their accusations toward Him.

How is it man now claims the sabbaths God has sanctified from the beginning to be of no value or done away with when very clearly they are observed by the apostles AFTER His death and resurrection, and will be the same ordained days in millenial reign and were to be observed from Creation? He even claimed a sabbath rest for Earth to lay fallow every seventh year.

Tell me, what is the seal He places in our forehead?

He told us what His seal is in Exodus 31.

He doesn’t change.

Maybe you aren’t aware of the ‘monking’ that has been done in order to have a Christian faith to remove itself as far away from the Truth as possible.

His covenant isn’t with any denomination or dogma, His covenant is with Israel and Judah and any that would be ‘grafted into the olive tree’ of Israel.

By your account, even Jesus fails your litmus test of obedience.

And, try as I might, I cannot see how anything you wrote has much to do with the topic of this post. Please do try to keep on point next time.

Regards,

The ONE thing our Creator asked of His people, the ONLY thing He asked of them as He lead them out of slavery and into freedom and prosperity was to keep His sabbath rest, the 7th day which HE ordained as set apart and to be kept as a day of no work but a day to rest the body and commune with Him and think upon His word.

The only thing He asked was the one thing that was refused.

His 7th day shabbat, His 7th day to be taken as rest and relaxation for the body to regenerate its self, a day to think on His Name, a day to let Him reveal Himself to you, is the one day the world screams, Let’s go __________.

Observing His sabbaths, doing as He says on days He has called set apart, is His seal on us, His mark HE places on us because obedience to HIS word causes HIM to call US, natural or adopted, HIS PEOPLE.

Exodus 31:13-18
13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: FOR IT IS A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND YOU THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATIONS; THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT I AM THE LLORD THAT DOTH SANCTIFY YOU.

14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

17 IT IS A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FOR EVER: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

He established His 7th day sabbath at Creation and it is for all eternity! It is NEVER done away with.

Israel wandered the desert for 40 years with every day a miracle .. no sickness, famine, or thirst .. shoes never wore out .. but they would NOT keep the sabbath day set apart.

You’re right, God is not a Christian, He has nothing to do with them.

They don’t keep His set apart days, their calendar is not His calendar, their set apart days have nothing to do with His. He stands outside the church door and knocks but it’s locked on Saturday and Sunday He isn’t there. So who is? Who is the god performing the miracles for the sold out business preachers? The same one that Simon Magmus worked for and attempted to buy the gifts of the Holy Spirit because even he recognized the power .. but it can’t be bought. However, there is one that can be, the same one that offered our Messiah the wealth of the world if only He would bow down and worship him.

The only commandment that begins with “Remember” is the one concerning His sabbath .. He did not have to say “Remember do not steal” or “Remember do not commit adultery” .. but the one thing He said was to REMEMBER to keep HIS SABBATHS set apart as He said.

If one has set themself in the office of minister, and does not keep the days our Creator has commanded be kept, then they by default work for the one that once heard, Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God.

Satan is a Christian .. and every other religion that has dogma other than what He commanded be done.

Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

The sabbath is continued in the millenial reign, it’s not ‘just a day’ that’s to be kept as we see fit, it’s THE day HE set apart and is to be kept as He said.

It’s the seal He places on us.

His covenant is with Israel and Judah, not Pentacostals or Christians.

I must say as sad as it was to realize how very misled so many people are … it made me realize that there is an entire other realm to be concerned with. So, since this blog is closing soon, let me just add my three cents.

The most common thread is that we all love Jesus, obviously. The decisive fact then, is whether we believe we actually have to “believe” on our own that Jesus came and that if we don’t we will go to hell.

So what has this blog and my review of the entire matter taught me? This … Carlton Pearson as much as I truly love him, as far as I can tell from his interviews and from his followers who have added; it seems that those who turn to this view are doing so because they truly do not understand “Grace”. That is, Christianity as I know it to be, You accept Jesus into your heart and you are saved. Period. If you go nuts after that, it does not really matter as long as you do not consciously decide in your heart that Jesus is unnecessary … and that is the rub.

If one beleives that belief in Jesus is no longer necessary than how can he fully acknowledgde the salvation power of Christ. (I don’t know the answer) But this is what I do know. If Carlton’s Grandparents had accepted Jesus into their hearts and then went on to “backslide” as in, sin and drink, whatever it is Carlton was referring to, then guess what? — they are still saved, but Carlton seemed to think they were not, thus he could not imagine them in hell. But perhaps that thought process happened because his salvation was conceptualized through “works” rather than “Grace”.

Take for another example how he stated that he was on the plane and grew weary of telling others about Christ because, in his words, “he can’t possibly save them all” ??? Did he think he actually had to “save them all” It seems to me that perhaps Carlton was measuring his salvation by whether he was actively witnessing; thus; “works” rather than “Grace.” Likewise his Grandparents would certainly remain saved even though they backslid. I hope that the Holy Spirit will reveal to him what Grace is, and then perhaps he may rethink the entire matter. That is of course if he has the humility and integrity to constantly “work out his salvation” with fear and trembling, as it is so difficult, all of these issues.

But just for the record, I believe it is not by works, it is by Grace. Jesus’ Grace. We can do nothing to change that, however we can denounce Christ in our hearts, or refuse to ever accept him, — then we go to hell. And in the event that we just plain never belived in Christ, then we would be subject to the Old Testament law only, (which we have alll already failed) but that is considering we, as gentiles were even permitted to partake.

God Bless you all. Jesus is a live and real, so is the devil, just look around.

Hopefully my three cents will do some good in someone’s heart even if just to help them work out their own salvation. Take care and keep praying that the HOly Spirit reveal the truth to all of us and whatever we have wrong be refined in the fire. :)

Rich.
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