God knows my heart that I have nothing personal against Moody Bible Institute.
My own father was a graduate of Moody, who is now in Heaven with the Lord. One
of my favorite preachers, Dr. Hank Lindstrom (who went to be with the Lord in
2008), taught at Moody Bible Institute for 11 years. Some of the greatest Bible
teachers of the 20th century were staff members at Moody at one time, years ago.
But things have horribly changed. When Dr. Harry Ironside (1876-1951) pastored
the Moody Memorial Church between 1930 to 1948, Moody was the best!
Today, Moody Publisher's prints Dr. John MacArthur's books. Respectfully, Pastor MacArthur is an unsaved reprobate, who denies that Jesus' blood is on the Mercy Seat in Heaven, who teaches that children cannot be saved because salvation it is an adult experience, who says that it is HARD to be saved. Use the search feature on my websites and read much more about Dr. MacArthur's heresies! My friend, Mr. MacArthur is a false prophet of the worst sort, because he masquerades as a preacher of the Gospel, but he preaches another Gospel of grace plus human effort. What does that say about Moody Publishers for printing MacArthur's wicked books? Is anybody listening? Dr. MacArthur also uses and promotes the corrupt modern Bible PERversions. Our holy God cares about His Word, more than His own name Psalms 138:2. That's because just as a man is only as good as his word, so also is God only as trustworthy as His Word.
Having said that, I looked at Moody Bible Institute's Statement of Faith today, and cringed as I read the hypocrisy of their beliefs. Here is their statement of faith, as of June 2017, which you can read for yourself. I also think it is horrible that no mention is made about the precious blood of Jesus. Here is a portion of their beliefs on the Word of God...
The Holy Spirit guided and controlled the writers of Scripture, who used their own vocabularies and styles but wrote only what the Holy Spirit intended. This is true only of the original manuscripts, not the copies or translations. Although the original manuscripts have been lost to us, God has preserved the biblical text to a remarkable degree. [emphasis added]
What? God has only preserved His Word to “a remarkable degree”? Are they joking? Why wrote this garbage? Our great God PROMISED to preserve His Words unto every generation. Psalms 12:6, “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.” Did God only kind of preserve them? Only to a remarkable degree, but not completely? Does that sound like our omnipotent God, flaky and lackadaisical, doing a half job? Do you know why Moody says “God has preserved the biblical text to a remarkable degree”? It is because if they adamantly and confidently declared that God has preserved His Word faithfully, then the natural question would be raised... WHICH BIBLE VERSION IS THE ONE??? Since there are literally HUNDREDS of Bible versions, and they all say something different, Moody would make enemies quickly if they involved themselves in the Bible debate. So they do the cowardly thing, by bowing out of the battle, leaving the fighting to faithful fundamentalists like me. Numbers 32:6b, “Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?” Yes, Moody Bible Institute and Bob Jones University are sitting idle on the sidelines, staying out of the battle, and by doing so are pulling on the same rope as the Devil, as Evangelist Billy Sunday said a century ago.
Since Moody Bible Institute and Bob Jones University are cowards, going along to get along with mainstream apostate evangelicalism, they avoid being dogmatic on the Word of God. This one, that one, who cares, right? My friend, we have God's inspired, preserved, perfect, inerrant, infallible, pure words today in the beloved KING JAMES BIBLE!!!!!!! The psalmist said he loved God's Word because it is “VERY PURE.” Psalms 119:140, “Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.” David wouldn't have loved the Bible if it were only pure to “a remarkable degree,” but not “very pure.” Is it any wonder why young people today don't love the hundreds of modern corrupt Bible versions? Don't you dare tell me that the great and omnipotent God of the universe, wasn't big enough to preserve His pure words for us today!!! And all of the Alexandrian, Egypt, texts which came to us through Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort (two unsaved Anglican bozo ministers who denied Jesus' deity) in 1881 are straight from the Devil, the god of this evil world.
Kindly, Moody Bible Institute goes on to say on their website...
The Bible is verbally inspired. This means that the words of the Bible, not just the ideas, were inspired. What is more, this is true of not just some, but all the words of the Bible. As a result, the Bible is free from error in what it says. Moody Global Ministries believes strongly in the factual, verbal, historical inerrancy of the Bible. That is, the Bible, in its original documents, is free from error in what it says about geography, history and science as well as in what it says about God. Its authority extends to all matters about which the Bible speaks. It is the supreme source of our knowledge of God and of the salvation provided through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. It is our indispensable resource for daily living. [emphasis added]
What bull! Here's a classic example of how the modern Bible PERversions totally contradict the King James Bible. That is, the Alexandrian Greek manuscripts totally contradict the Textus Receptus Greek texts...
http://www.lovethetruth.com/bible/ERV/hard_to_enter_heaven_lie.htm
By the way, ALL of the modern Bible versions which originate from the Alexandrian texts use the same exact Greek as the Jehovah's Witness' New World Translation (NWT). Notice in the preceding earlier first quote from Moody's statement of faith on the Bible, that they admit “the original manuscripts have been lost to us.” That is correct, we have no original autographs today!!! But God promised to preserve His words in Psalms 12:6-7. Look how the modern Bible versions change and butcher God's Word, changing God's promise to preserve His words for every generation. Now the newer Bibles PERversions merely say that God protects the saints! What wickedness!!! And Moody Bible Institute, Bob Jones University, and wicked Baptist (and other denomination) churches go along with this filthy wickedness and dire evil. GET RIGHT WITH GOD AMERICA!!!!
What up! Rise up Oh Christian!!! 1st Corinthians 15:34, “Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.” The new Bible versions are leading people away from God, by leading them away from truth. All of the modern Bible revisions corrupt and redefine what it means to repent, and thus corrupt the Gospel. The modern Bible versions are CURSED by God. Galatians 1:9, “As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” Dr. John MacArthur is cursed. Evangelists' Ray Comfort and Paul Washer are cursed. Pastor Charles Lawson is cursed!!! Shame on independent Baptist pastors from the Moody and Bob Jones camp, and anyone else, who support this debauchery and blatant assault on the truth. I CARE!!! Do you my friend? God is watching. God searches every heart. Does God know that you care about the truth? Do you care about the purity of His words? I DO, and I'll preach against the Devil's Bible PERversions until the Lord decides to silence me. Truly, the Devil is deceiving the whole world today, even most of the churches, as foretold in Revelation 12:9. Ephesians 5:14, “Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”
Look again my friend at the second quote I provided from Moody Bible Institute, They say that “the Bible, in its original documents, is free from error in what it says.” Well then we've got a big problem, because we DON'T have the originals. So how can we live by “every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4), if we don't have every word? We couldn't! I believe we have those VERY PURE WORDS today, in English, in the 1611 authorized King James Bible. And may I say, the King James is not a “version,” it is God's inspired Word!!! Dr. Jack Hyles (1926-2001) used to say that he doesn't sign versions, he signs the Holy Bible. If you had anything other than a King James Bible in your hand, he rightly wouldn't sign it. I say AMEN AND AMEN!!!
My dear friend, Moody Bible Institute is sinfully compromised and wrong. God hasn't merely preserved His very pure words to “a remarkable degree,” but remarkably to the fullest degree. We have God's very pure words in the inspired King James Bible!!!
