{"id":1784,"date":"2006-01-18T20:27:03","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T18:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2017-10-20T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:20:55","slug":"a-fundamentalist-baptist-church-and-sermonaudio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"A [Fundamentalist] Baptist Church and SermonAudio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Note: Due to an apology from the Baptist pastor, he and his church have been anonymised. 20 Oct 2017.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you want an example of a church that teaches hate instead of love, a church that doesn’t follow the commands and example of Christ, and a church that is an embarrassment to Christianity, it is the [fundamentalist] Baptist Church.<\/p>\n

\"AngryThey recently published a sermon online at\u00a0SermonAudio.com<\/a>, a Protestant website for sermons.\u00a0 It was really nothing more than a smear campaign to misrepresent the Catholic Church.\u00a0 The\u00a0sermon, entitled “The Second Coming of Judas Iscariot,” [no longer available on the site]\u00a0takes the thoughts of a few people regarding Judas Iscariot, and uses them to malign the Catholic Church in a way that no objective person could call honest.<\/p>\n

Firstly, those thoughts do not represent Catholic teaching.\u00a0 Catholics come up with all sorts of ideas – and on a large number of topics, there is no official answer, and there is no reason why people cannot speculate.<\/p>\n

Secondly, if God is a God of love, it is perfectly reasonable to speculate about the eternal fate of Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Christ.\u00a0 It’s not something I am prepared to come to a personal answer to either way, but those who do want to contemplate this issue are entitled to.<\/p>\n

Not so, says\u00a0Pastor X, of the [fundamentalist] Baptist Church.\u00a0 If you don’t phrase things right, you’re a devil, and damned to hell.<\/p>\n

Judas, according to Pastor X, is a devil, and the antichrist, and is assigned to the lake of fire prepared for Satan and his angels.\u00a0 (Mat 25:41 KJV)\u00a0\u00a0Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.<\/span><\/p>\n

And anyone who doesn’t state their belief in the exact words chosen by Pastor X, is also an antichrist.\u00a0 That is why\u00a0he called me a devil.<\/p>\n

I agreed\u00a0with 1 John 4:2 by saying: “Yes, I believe that Jesus is God in the flesh<\/em>”<\/p>\n

1 John 4:2 (KJV) says:\u00a0Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps Pastor X and his flock\u00a0are KJV-onlyists, a group of Protestants, mainly Baptists, it seems, who believe that the King James Version of the Bible is the single inspired English text of the Bible.\u00a0 They do not use other versions, and some even go so far as to say that you cannot find salvation in other translations.\u00a0 You don’t find non-English speaking Christians believing such nonsense.<\/p>\n

Obviously, my wording was not good enough for him.\u00a0 It was not the word of God, it was the word of a papist, and it doesn’t matter that it means exactly the same thing as the wording of the KJV, it just doesn’t cut it, and that makes me a devil, according to him.\u00a0 See his post entitled, “Stephen Korsman is a DEVIL!!!!”<\/p>\n

The way the\u00a0pastor\u00a0responded to my criticism is not Christian.\u00a0 He defends it, saying that Jesus commanded us to hate.\u00a0 He seriously needs to take a look at what the Bible teaches.<\/p>\n

This type of Christianity is based on legalism.\u00a0 Not the legalism you find in parts of the Adventist church, where some people say that if you don’t keep the Sabbath, you can’t be saved.\u00a0 Rather, this legalism is the type that says that if you don’t agree with me, if you don’t phrase the words the way I say you must phrase them, you are a devil.\u00a0 They spend their time condemning people to hell for using incorrect words, and for disagreeing on minor issues.\u00a0 They don’t permit freedom of expression of one’s faith – the Pastor is God’s Messenger, and you do as He says, or else!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately,\u00a0SermonAudio.com<\/a>\u00a0is host to a large number of this type of Christian.<\/p>\n

People accuse Catholicism of not allowing freedom of thought – they are so, so wrong.\u00a0 There are so many different ways a Catholic can experience or practise his\/her faith, so many opinions that can be held on a huge number of issues.\u00a0 NO denomination exists that has total freedom of doctrinal belief.\u00a0 ALL denominations require assent to certain issues.\u00a0 You can’t claim to be a real Baptist without believing Jesus is God.\u00a0 You can’t claim to be a real Adventist without believing that Jesus died and rose again for our sins.\u00a0 This is not the same way groups like [fundamentalist] Baptist Church act.<\/p>\n

The [fundamentalist] Baptist Church\u00a0is not a church – it’s a tyranny, where hate is preached, other faiths have lies told about them, and the flock is told how to say their prayers.\u00a0 With people who phrase things the wrong way being labelled as devils, the congregation probably doesn’t question the decisions of Pastor X, their shepherd.\u00a0 This is more cult-like than a lot of religions often labelled as cults.<\/p>\n

I must stress the following:<\/p>\n