|
Featured Product
The Fallacious Arguments of Neo-Universalists
by Sandy Simpson
The new Universalists are not as vocal about their Universalism ideas but are far more deadly to the Church as they are not rejected like classic Universalists were decades ago. The new Universalists would include Emerging Church leaders like Brian McLaren, Leonard Sweet, Spencer Burke, Alan Jones and others like Wycliffe, Society of Biblical Literature, World Christian Gathering of Indigenous Peoples, Richard Twiss, Daniel Kikawa, Terry LeBlanc, Rick Warren, Henry Nowen, YWAM, Tony Campolo, Robert Schuller, George Otis Jr., and even Billy Graham.
Go here for ordering information. |
Featured Discernment Ministry 
Don't forget to get ROKU today and sign up for the free Moriel TV channel for excellent teachings from Jacob Prasch, Bill Randles, Sandy Simpson and many others.
|
| Donate to the ACT Ministry! | |
|
|
|
DITC e-Newsletter
Volume 63, Issue 5 |
|
Dear Friends,
Many churchgoers today seem to want emotional content over biblical content.
Please continue your support for this ministry! Please follow the guidelines on the donation link if you wish to help support this ministry. You can order products by clicking on them below! As always, you can see the DITC e-Newsletter archive here and sign up to receive this newsletter or unsubscribe there as well.
|
|
|
by Mike Oppenheimer, 3/2/17 
Latter Rain adherents believe in a last day's revival unlike any other in history taking place today. This view is an outgrowth of the "kingdom now" restoration movement. It wrongly applies eschatological passages for Israel to the church today. To many, the nation of Israel is no longer an integral part of God's end time plan and rejected, despite the warnings in Romans 11:18-29 and Genesis 12:3.
|
| William Paul Young (THE SHACK AUTHOR) & His Connection with Panentheist Richard Rohr |
by Lois Putnam, 3/4/17 
LTRP Note: The Shack movie is about to be released. Millions of Americans will go to theaters to watch the movie. Most likely, the majority of them will be church goers and proclaiming Christians since The Shack book is vetted as a Christian story. Recently, a church contacted Lighthouse Trails and ordered 300 copies of Warren B. Smith's booklet The Shack and Its New Age Leaven. If you have family, church members, pastors, and friends who might be considering attending this movie, please pick up some copies of the booklet and pass them out. As you can see from the piece below by Lighthouse Trails author Lois Putnam, William Paul Young resonates with panentheists (God is IN all), and we know from our research that The Shack resonates with this concept too. Please do what you can to warn everyone you know. The false "Christ" of The Shack has big plans to deceive many. If you can't afford to buy the booklet, you can print the content from our blog; but we believe this very inexpensive booklet is a better way to go (in a published bound format, it helps give credibility to the material and the source).
Click here to read this article
|
| The Shack (Movie) |
by William P. Young
Reviewed by Mike Oppenheimer
The movie is done by the producer of the Life of Pi and the Blind side which almost guarantees some success. In human terms the emotion portrayal of this story on the big screen story may give people hope. Basic raw human emotions presented by the actors will move people to feelings and thoughts they may have not had before on God. But these will not be based on truth but a man's imaginary story of God with a modicum of truth.
We are told it is like an allegory. An Allegory can be presented in either a story, poem, or picture a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms;
It reveals a hidden meaning, typically a moral or spiritual, i.e. "Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey."
Writers or speakers use allegories as literary devices or to convey meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events, which together create a moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey.
However when it comes to God even allegories are to illustrate truth from the Bible not reinterpret it so it is a shell of its former substance.
The Shack as an allegory that compromises truth, it takes liberty to change the nature of God in the Bible.
|
This is Not a Review of "The Shack"
|
by Cedric Fisher, 3/7/17
I'm not going to write a review or detailed critique of William P. Young's book or movie both titled The Shack. The reason is because there are already a number of good reviews available. You can access plenty of information on Lighthouse Trails Research. What I will do is present a warning. First, I want to point out that there are some heresies and deceptions that one should not need a review to recognize and reject. The televangelist selling God's favor, which increases with the size of the donation, is one. Another one is a preacher smoking pot or getting drunk on video while claiming that it is the way to get closer to God. One more is the preacher that declares that God has entrusted only him with new revelation essential to understanding the Bible. Likewise, does anyone really need to inform a true Christian about what is wrong with The Shack? Now for the warning. God's word declares that the end times will be very dangerous for Christians. There will be many spiritually wicked individuals masquerading as servants of God. They will present heresies and other lies for the purpose of deceiving God's people. However, some professing Christians declare that it is impossible for Christians to be deceived and apostatize. If that is true, then who is Satan deceiving and who is apostatizing? The lost are already deceived and cannot apostatize from faith that they do not have. Obviously, the deception has to be very clever. If it were disguised as an orange, it would appear exactly as a genuine orange. Therefore, we can expect lies disguised exactly as truth. However, if people accept enough false oranges loaded with a mind-numbing drug, it stands to reason that false oranges will no longer be needed. Then whatever is being disguised by the falseness will be offered without pretense.
|
 Please support ACT's provision of free apologetics articles by purchasing our excellent materials!
| If you need apologetics tools, 
then click on the ACT logo to go to our current products page.
As you know, if you are a frequent user of the DITC website, we offer thousands of FREE articles archived or linked from our site. You can also search for articles on our site and other excellent discernment sites, browse by topic and find the latest articles for the past two months. We also offer many apologetics DVDs, CDs, books and other materials for purchase using PayPal or by check/money order by mail.
NEW INSTANT DOWNLOAD FEATURE!
 We now have a number of our DVD videos available for instant download via PayLoadz. To see which ones we have available you will find the following symbol next that item on the main pages of the ACT site as well as on the item order page. The DVD videos available with this feature are in MP4 format, playable on your computer or personal device as long as you have a program on it that can play back MP4s. Due to storage restrictions the instant download version of the DVD videos we have available in MP4 format are of slightly less resolution as the DVD version. However with this option you save shipping and handling and delivery time. The videos are $10. each and PayLoadz will send you to PayPal for payment. Just go to the page of the item you wish to download and if you see the logo above it will have a "Add To Cart" button where you can download the video immediately. So now you have a choice. I also now have downloadable MP3s available for the same MP4 videos at $3. each.
NEW!
|
|
|
May the Lord bless you as you continue to be a Berean!
In His hands,
Sandy Simpson
Apologetics Coordination Team
|
|
|
