By David J. Stewart | July
2012
The Damnable MSG
Bible Max Lucado Quotes From
I recently read
Max Lucado's heretical booklet, “The
John 3:16 Promise” (adapted from his book “John 3:16: The Numbers Of Hope”).
In his writings and books, Max Lucado quotes from “The Message: The Bible in
Contemporary Language” (MSG).
I was glad to be sitting down when
I glanced through the MSG version of the Bible...
The Message: The Bible in Contemporary
Language was created by
Eugene H. Peterson and published in segments
from 1993 to 2002. It is a non literal translation, tending towards
paraphrase, of the original languages of the Bible.
SOURCE:
The Message
(Bible) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here's John 3:16 in the MSG Bible.
(By the way “MSG” also stands for “Monosodium Glutamate,” a food
preservative that gives a lot of people headaches. Well, the MSG Bible will
send you to Hell).
Here's some shocking comparisons
between the MSG verses the inspired and precious King James Bible Bible. The
street jingo, hip hop, Ebonics, “Get down and go daddy, yo hubba bubba”
language of the MSG is irreverent to God (not to mention as heretical as can
be)...
ISAIAH 7:14 - Can you
believe how Satan has butchered the Bible? Notice that the MSG version
attacks the virgin birth in Isaiah 7:14. Instead of saying that a virgin
shall conceive, the MSG says that a woman who is a virgin will get pregnant.
THAT'S WHAT ANY VIRGIN WHO HAS SEX DOES! There's a 100% difference between a
virgin conceiving verses a virgin getting pregnant. Notice how subtle the
wording is. They butchered Matthew 1:23 (which quotes Isaiah 7:14) the same.
There's a big difference between a virgin conceiving verses a virgin getting
pregnant. The reader is not led to believe in the virgin birth of Christ by
the poor wording of the MSG version.
ROMANS 10:13 - Notice how
the Devil butchers Romans 10:13 in the MSG. Instead of trusting upon the
Lord Jesus, now it's just asking God for help. Instead of being saved, now
it's just getting help. How lame. They've taken away salvation.
ACTS 2:38 - The MSG version
has butchered Acts 2:38, teaching the heresy of Baptismal Regeneration.
Also, since
when is changing your life a requirement for salvation? That is not what
repentance means. Eugene H. Peterson
is the sole author of the MSG perversion, which clearly follows the corrupt
Greek of Westcott and Hort (as do all modern corrupt Bibles). The
word “for” in the King James Bible is the Greek word eis and means “a
primary preposition; to or into (indicating the point reached or entered),
of place, time”; hence, the Bible commands us to repent and be baptized
because your sins have ALREADY been forgiven. You've already reached the
point of salvation; therefore, now you ought to be water baptized because
your sins are already forgiven in Christ.
MATTHEW 7:21-23 - The MSG
version perverts the Scriptures, teaching that the way of salvation is
“serious obedience.” In sharp contrast, the King James Bible teaches in John
6:40 that God's will to be saved is TO BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!
Serious obedience is a matter of discipleship, not salvation. Eternal life
is a free gift, which is freely received without any obligation.
ACTS 16:30-31 - Instead of
being saved, now it's just living the life you were meant to live.
JOHN 1:12 - Notice that the
MSG version adds the requirement of doing what he said to be saved. The King
James Bible simply says to receive the Lord, but the MSG version says you
must also do what he said (implying works salvation). Also, notice that the
phrase “to them that believe on His name” is removed completely.
GENESIS 1:1-2 - This is
just weird how the MSG version renders the Scripture passage. They added the
word “bottomless.” No where does the Bible say that the world was
bottomless!
JOHN 3:16 - The MSG version
totally denies the Biblical teaching of eternal life. They says that those
who believe on Christ can have a whole and lasting life. What? Any unsaved
heathen can live a whole and lasting life. Look at Playboy founder Hugh
Hefner, who has lived one of the most fulfilling, pleasurable and
trouble-free lives in history. Hugh is near 80-years old and shacking -up
with three sisters, having sex with all of them. He's a multi-millionaire.
In fact, he has hundreds-of-millions. Hefner was dating 7 women at one time,
indulging in more sex than most men could ever dream of, but Hebrews 13:4
warns “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but
whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” ...
"Hefner
then began to move an ever-changing coterie of young women into the
mansion, even dating up to seven girls at once, among them, Brande
Roderick, Izabella St. James, Tina Marie Jordan, Holly Madison, Bridget
Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson. The reality television series The
Girls Next Door depicted the lives of Madison, Wilkinson and
Marquardt at the Playboy Mansion."
SOURCE:
Hugh Hefner -
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ecclesiastes 8:12, “Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet
surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear
before him.”
My friend, the precious King James
Bible promises us EVERLASTING LIFE. The way the MSG is written subtly speaks
only of this earthly life. God's promise is for everlasting life that has no
end. Words are powerful and the arrangement of words
is critical to meaning. The MSG version rearranges words in such a way that
the Bible is no longer appears divine, but humanistic and manmade.
Also, please note that the MSG
version contains all the same corruptions as the New International Version
(NIV) and a bunch more. The MSG is a paraphrase from Hell. John 3:16 removes
the word “begotten,” claiming that Jesus is God's one and only Son. That's a
lie! John 1:12 says that every believer is an adopted son of God. My friend,
if you have an MSG version, throw it in the garbage. Pour maple syrup all
over it so no one else picks it up to read. Rip it up! Burn it at a
barbecue! Get you a King James Bible, which are God's inspired Words!
Frankenstein Ministers
Today's
ministers are sadly resemblant of Dr. Frankenstein, who took body parts from
various dead corpses and assembled them into one zombie, calling it life.
Today's Modernists and liberal preachers take quotes from different dead
Bible perversions and assemble them into Frankenstein-like New York Times
Bestseller books, falsely claiming they'll change your life. I'm not
interested in body parts from different corrupt Bible versions. The parallel
is disturbingly accurate. Today's ministers are like Dr. Frankenstein,
trying to create life from the butchered dead. You can't take body parts
from dead Bibles and attempt to create spiritual life in a church
congregation.
The
bottom line is that you'll starve to death spiritually reading Max Lucado's
book; but worse, you'll be led into the sinful Ecumenical Movement that
yokes born-again evangelicals with unsaved Roman Catholics. God commanded
the prophet Balaam (see Numbers chapter 22) NOT to allow God's children to
yoke together with the Devil's children in the world. Balaam today is known
as the infamous “prophet for hire,” because in exchange for the good life he
disobeyed God and brought the righteous together with the heathen, thus
polluting the land with idolatry, wickedness and apostasy.
Any
unsaved Roman Catholic would feel at home reading one of Max Lucado's books,
or listening to a sermon preached by Mr. Lucado. Read the following sinner's
prayer that Max Lucado uses to lead a person to receive Christ...
"Father, I believe you love this
world. You gave your one and only Son so I can live forever with
you. Apart from you, I die. With you, I live. I choose life. I
choose you."
SOURCE: 3:16—THE
NUMBERS OF HOPE, by Max Lucado; Nelson Publishers, pg. 129, 2007
That's it? That's what a person needs to pray
to be saved? Well, first of all, no prayer can save a person. According to
1st Corinthians 15:1-4 we are saved by believing in our heart that Jesus
died, was buried and rose from the dead, and trusting upon that (THE GOSPEL)
as payment for our sins. Jesus paid it all! That's Biblical salvation. We
are saved by grace through faith PLUS NOTHING!
Max
Lucado is a prophet for hire, as is Billy Balaam (Graham), attempting to
unite different religions through watered-down, milquetoast, apostate
mumbo-jumbo sermonettes and shallow books that don't take a stand for the
doctrines of Christ (such as the virgin birth, Christ's deity, Godhead,
Jesus' literal blood sacrifice, bodily resurrection, sinless life, et
cetera).
Mr.
Lucado also horribly fails to explain what he believes about repentance unto
salvation, because it is clear that he is a Church of Christ minister,
still. The church may have changed their name, but Max Lucado has NEVER
renounced his Church of Christ beliefs and faith. The Church of Christ is
sincere, no doubt; but they are of the Devil and sincerely on their way to
Hell in a false plan of salvation. Salvation is by grace through faith PLUS
NOTHING!
Who is
that man behind the curtain? What does Max Lucado really believe? In order
to maintain international superstar status, Mr. Apostate must continue to
remain secretive and hide his true views of the doctrines of Christ. For to
take any stand means criticism from one or more groups. It's tragic that a
minister can wallow like a pig in apostasy, never take a stand on core
doctrinal issues, and people will give him more money for teaching vague but
widely accepted cute Bible stories. 2nd Timothy 4:3, “For the time will
come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts
shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.” And so it
is with Max Lucado, Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, Pat Robertson, Benny Hinn and
other fakes on television and in the bookstores. Who next, the Antichrist?
You know, Christian books are priceless; but
Max Lucado's books in my opinion are dangerous, because they steer clear of
the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith.
I knew a Church of Christ (COC) minister
years ago. We debated frequently over the Bible. The man DIDN'T believe in
either a literal heaven nor hell. He believed a wrong view of repentance
which teaches a 'change of lifestyle' to be saved; instead of simply a
'change of mind' as the Biblical Greek teaches in Mark 1:15.
The minister also denied a literal 1,000-year
reign of Christ during the Millennium. And of course he didn't believe in a
Rapture either. Church Of Christ, Churches Of Christ, United Churches Of
Christ, International Church Of Christ... they're are messed up!
Church Of Christ followers are
taught that you have to try really hard to stop committing sins to be saved,
as does Ray Comfort and Paul Washer. This is their false understanding of
what repentance really means. This is not Biblical repentance unto
salvation; but rather, self-righteousness of the worst sort (deceitfully
repackaged as truth). Max Lucado is a wolf in sheep's clothing, wrapping his
false views on repentance, baptism and salvation in basic Christian
principles.
No Book Can Substitute For THE BOOK!
Please don't misunderstand, no Book compares to
our beloved and inspired King James Bible. No book authored by man is
inspired. Only the Bible is INSPIRED (God-breathed). Literally, God made
sinful men holy in order to prepare them to be PENS to write His Words. God
is the divine Author. For a much better explanation on this subject please
read, HOW WE GOT GOD'S
WORD. No book ought to be compared nor elevated with the GOOD
BOOK!
Albeit, God has blessed us with the wisdom and
knowledge of Christian men who've diligently studied the Word of God. The
great DANGER is becoming dependent (reliant) upon books written by man
instead of doing our own homework and study. Many people are being led
astray these days by corrupt Bible-teachers that arrogantly pervert the
truth into a lie.
The big problem with contemporary corrupt
Bible-scholars is that they all use contemporary corrupt Bibles. I just
wrote an article exposing the
Holman Christian
Standard Bible, which is published by the apostate Southern
Baptist Convention (SBC). It is based upon the same corrupt Greek
manuscripts of Westcott and Hort as the New International Version and
Bad News For Modern Man. If you have a corrupt Bible, then all the
fruit will be corrupt. The ONLY Bible that you can trust is the precious and
inspired KING JAMES BIBLE (often called the 1611 “AUTHORIZED VERSION”). The
most priceless Book is our believed King James Bible.
“I've
devoted my life to the distribution of books, Bibles and tracts and
anything that will help to further the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The reading of good Christian books is one of the best ways to challenge
and encourage Christians.”
—Larry Harrison (Christian
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