BlogRodent: Pentecostal Rumination & Review

Hmmm… looks like there’s more than one version of his book on Amazon. This one ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/0979168902 ) is ranked #6,960. Still not a top seller by any means, but selling more respectably (unfortunately) than the version you had referenced.

Clay.

For once I agree with Carl :: Rolls eyes:: but not for the reason he thinks. A few months back I called Pearson a heretic for his “All Are Saved” point of belief and dismissing Hell, I’m sticking with that. If I remember the debate right the last time, the only ones sticking up for Mr. Pearson where heterosexual Christians.

The Bishop had some interesting things to say after the whole Larry Craig debacle - he sent in a written piece to Orato, the first person citizen journalism website shortly after the whole thing went public. I’ll leave the link to the original story (The Shame And Sham Of Senator Larry E. Craig, and a reaction piece that followed (All Hell Breaks Loose And A “Heretic” Stands His Ground).

Hope someone finds them interesting …

Robyn

Hmm… C Pearson heresy. I was intrigued by the definition and its exclusionary thrust. It is either denial of years of conventional wisdom or just a position that does not sufficiently meet current standards. Once there were religious beliefs and doctrinal ideas that kept society in check. These beliefs existed for centuries prior to a certain birth. Then, seemingly a single man taught a view of life, faith and redemption that can only be described as heresy- an idea in conflict with conventionally, long established beliefs. This man was ostracized by his own, cast out by friends and associates, denied by religious peers and eventually punished by community leaders. Is Carlton Pearson on par with Jesus, no, not to the best of my knowledge but his torturers are very much similar to those persecutors from thousands of years ago.

How is it that one religious strand that found its beginnings in a teaching not meant for it come to dominate the thinking of a vast majority of people from around the world? It was itself a heresy by its own definition. A little religious tolerance rather than fear and ruination might go a long way in allowing all of Gods children to have enough faith to enter the pearly gates.

A core problem with Carlton Pearson’s excommunication is that Jesus died for of our sins and we are therefore cleansed at birth. To imply that thousands of years later, Jesus died for some sins, only those commited by those of certain faiths seems problematic. GOD created man, all men, all animals, all things of earth that we use use to create continual life. He did not allow another to create the bad. Mankind creates the bad through its actions not through some travel to and commitment to hell. GOD could only create things that are good and therefore could not create bad, evil, deestructive behavior. Biologically, man was created with the capacity to do both good and bad. And without the ability to fully understand why we can kill, covet and destroy; the creation of Hell and satan was required from a human point of view. Again GOD is absolute and perfect and did not create the imperfect. Man’s limited understanding of its abilties, good and bad, had to create the type of world where we spiritually confine the evils of life- Hell.

The Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth-

Oh, by the way, those who want to ruin anyone with contrarian view may want to do some reading. Is there there a possibilty that the Bible was a compilation from the Council of Nicea?

Because we want, no, need to, understand our world, having views that may challenge conventional wisdom is not in and of itself bad. Punishing a man who goes from preacher to teacher is only following in steps of another man called a “rabbi” (teacher). Are we ready to continue the persecutions?