Hank Hanegraaff on the Witness Lee Cult

As Austin Powers Would Say, They Are Frickin' Calvinists - Hank Hanegraaf, Charles E. Fuller, Richard Mouw, George Marsden and the Leeists.

Hank Hanegraaff (Bible Answer Man) from Christian Research Institute (staunchly calvinist) gives some positive comments on the lsm/lc cult, and the lsm/cult adherents are quick to report his comment others, but there is a problem.

The Money Grab Continues: Christian Research Institute (CRI) President Hank Hanegraaff gets another fat raise, along with wife, Kathy. Earnings of the duo top $410,000 yearly. Is CRI moving to Charlotte, N.C.? Despite Scandals of 2003, Hanegraaff begs for more than $500,000, claiming CRI is in the red. Meanwhile with the CRI Missionary budget cutbacks and employee lay-offs, Hanegraaff invests in a Multimillion Dollar Gated Community and Golf Course in North Carolina. http://www.cultlink.com/ar/kennedy.htm

What's the point of getting approval from another cult? Cult's approving cults is duplicitous. You need approval from spiritual Christians. I do not approve of the 6 major sins of leeism?

Hank is most known for his embracing partial preterism. This denies the millennial reign of Christ to come. It is a heresy for it says the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust was a millennial peace, yet Rev. 20.3 says the nations will not be deceived in the 1000 years. Hank is not a Christian.

Receiving approval from a preterist! The lsm/lc church must be desperate for the appearance of approval. First they sue in man's courts for $136 million to try to defend they are Christian, now they seek the approval of a money grabbing preterist. What's next? Crazy stuff!

The lsm/lc also sought the approval by the Fuller Seminary, but this is equally problematic. Fuller Seminary is a calvinist organization from its top onwership. http://www.calvin.edu/admin/provost/pubs/restpap/harvard.htm

"Fuller Theological Seminary president Richard Mouw; and historian George Marsden. All spent many years on the Calvin faculty." http://www.calvin.edu/admin/provost/accreditation/self-study_report/chap5.htm

"For Mouw, an ethicist and scholar steeped in the teachings of Reformation theologian John Calvin...Mouw, who has been president of Fuller for nine years, is an evangelical Presbyterian...Later, as a professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich.,...Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, rector at the University of Judaism, jokes that Mouw looks too happy to be a 'true Calvinist,' to which Mouw replies: 'It sure helps to know that in spite of all of my sins, I am forgiven by a loving God.'" http://www.fuller.edu/news/html/mouwlat.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Fuller - Charles E. Fuller "became a Baptist minister," which is partial calvinism if not full-calvinism.

"Even after studying new evangelicalism for a number of years, it is hard to grasp the giant step taken by Fuller in moving from the careful Calvinism of Harold Ockenga to the recurring revelations of David du Plessis. The new evangelicals, who could not stomach fundamentalists, had no trouble with charismatic ecumenicists." http://www.americanpresbyterianchurch.org/fuller_seminary.htm

Fuller Theological Seminary is run by Fuller who is a calvinist: having the pride of believing he was premade for salvation like robots out of total depravity (a false teaching). He believes in limited atonement. Luther used to believe in limited atonement in his earlier days, but then changed his mind to unlimited atonement. Yet he still could not repent from the false teaching of total depravity even though he believed in resistible grace. These two beliefs are, of course, incompatible and irreconcilable. Baptists are partial calvinists also which is nonsensical. You can't be on both sides, since they contradict each other as can be easily shown. http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/choosingatheology.htm

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:" (John 1:12). See the free-choice?

"Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and The New Evangelicalism" by George M. Marsden

George Marsden's fascinating work detailing the founding of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena California, its abandonment of biblical inerrancy, and its slow, spiraling demise into unorthodoxy. Marsden captures all the history behind Fuller's original intention to break from the shackles of separatism and legalism that characterized early 20th century fundamental Christianity in America. [I read elsewhere that he was trying to defend the false teachings of historicalism, the false teaching of the RCC]. He then tells the dramatic story about the various personalities on the faculty and all the tension, disagreements and feuds that arose between them due in part to the encroaching compromise of biblical truth by some of the professors. Eventually, we watch the total departure of the seminary from biblical inerrancy as those professors remaining loyal to the authority and integrity of scripture are squeezed out by those professors who willing reject those truths so as to maintain respect in the so-called community of scholars and academia. The book is emotionally wrenching to read, and I actually reached a point where it was difficult to turn the page out of sorrow, however, it is an excellent study that documents the serious ramifications upon our Christian faith when biblical inerrancy is rejected - a reader.

It should also be noted that some of these professors went to start a magazine called "Christianity Today". The reason I found this interesting is because the lsm/lc cult also has a particular quote from this magazine speaking positively about them, but again, it is the same problem. False teachers are giving positive comments about a cult, not understanding what is really going on or they just don't care. They operate very much in the world by trying to get on the good side of others while comprising the truth.

Next time [lsm] want to find compliments from others, don't pick the tares [calvinists] who try to look like wheat. However, there is a problem for the leeist. Real Christians would never endorse the lsm/lc cult.

Troy