B. Neo-pentecostalism broke out in many of the liberal churches. In 1973
there was a shakeup at Highland church in Abilene. E. R. Harper, the
preacher there when “Herald of Truth” started, and who along with Bro.
Yater Tant conducted the first public debate on the issue, was fired and
one of the elders, W. F. Cawyer, resigned. Others later resigned. There
was “tongue speaking” in the church! Because of this, many hundreds of
churches discontinued their support of “Herald of Truth”.
Dec. 1988, “the Nashville meeting”. Hundreds of “institutional” and
“non-institutional” brethren met to hear a program of representative
speakers on “the issues”, and to ask questions. From the more liberal
speakers there emerged a plea for a “new hermeneutics” (a new set of rules for interpreting the Bible). For these ultra-liberals, direct statement, apostolic example, and necessary inference, for establishing authority, can no longer be accepted.
1. The “expanded role for women” was introduced and
pushed. Now there are women filling the pulpits and women elders are
beginning to be installed. All this is an avenue to pure, classical
modernism. More and more of the Bible is being discarded as the verbally
inspired word of God. A young Ph.D., Andre Resner, of Abilene Christian
University, in an article entitled, “Christmas at Matthew’s House”,
wrote that Mary was a sexually questionable woman, and called Matthew,
sneaky! This is pure modernism!
2. The Nashville Jubilee (Inc.), which is really from its incipiency a corporation, had its beginning in 1989. Associated with its name in the beginning was the Madison church of Christ, and Rubel Shelley. Max
Lucado’s services were employed in the 1994 Jubilee to enhance
interest. 10,000 were expected for attendance. Change agents were
employed to conduct seminars. The leaders of the Jubilee also have been
editors and writers for the publication, “Wineskins”, which promotes a constant barrage on conservatism.
Mike Cope boasts
1989-and-churches-of-christ1989 was an interesting time in Churches of
Christ. Three books had just been published that stirred the
conversation: Discovering our Roots and Illusions of Innocence by Leonard Allen and Richard Hughes, and The Worldly Church by Leonard, Richard, and Michael Weed. (In 1990 Leonard’s The Cruciform Church would come out; and in 1996 Richard’s Reviving the Ancient Faith: The Story of Churches of Christ in America would be published.)
Let the truth of these words by Allen and Hughes (Illusions) set in:
“The restoration perspective has worked in American life in two
important ways. Some Americans have enshrined first times as an ideal
to be approximated and even as a kind of transcendent norm that stands
in judgment on the ambiguities of the present age. In this case, the
myth of first times has been a beacon summoning Americans to perfection.
On the other hand, some Americans have fully identified their
religious denomination or even their nation itself with the purity of
first times. The illusion thereby fostered in the minds of these
Americans is that they are an innocent and fundamentally natural people
who, in effect, have stepped outside of history, thereby escaping the
powerful influences of history, culture, and tradition. These Americans
therefore have often confused the historic particularities of their
limited experience with universal norms that should be embraced, they
have thought, by all people in all cultures and all times.”
In May, I did the opening night keynote at Pepperdine, introducing the
book of Exodus. I called it “One Thing Worse Than Bondage.” (Want to
guess?) Oliver Howard taught a packed house in Smothers Theater on the
topic, “Maintaining Unity in the Face of Divisive Controversies.”
Another major class, taught by Randy Mayeux was entitled, “A Local
Minister Responds to the Warnings of The Worldly Church.”
Then in July, I gave the opening keynote of the first Nashville Jubilee —
again on fellowship (and again a topic that I was asked to speak on).
That time, some Nashville church — or perhaps it was a few churches —
took out an ad in the Nashville paper (I kid you not!) to attack my
speech. For reasons I still don’t understand — though I think just
because it was such a large gathering of a group that doesn’t normally
have “conventions” — there were summaries of that message everywhere
from Christianity Today to the New York Times. Again, I kid you not.
I mentioned these three books. However, the discussion had begun a few
years before. The real shot across the bow came from a Nashville
preacher. It was entitled I Just Want to Be a Christian. Anyone remember that?
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MARKS OF THE BABYLON MOTHER OF HARLOTS
Revelation 17-18
From Clay Tablets onward there have been TWO STREAMS of religious
merchants (selling learning at retail or prostitutes says Paul). The
Abilene Kingdom claims to have received 'a' spirit which lets them see
beyond the sacred pages and call its writer a liar. The
"personified" spirit is named Abaddon or Apollon and it appears that
he-she has been unleashed with the locusts or muses (Richard Beck didn't
know that)
X.Mem.1.6.13 Xen. Mem. 1.6.13
To this Socrates
replied: “Antiphon,
it is common opinion among us
in regard to beauty and wisdom
that there
is an honourable
and a shameful way of bestowing them.
For to offer
one's beauty for money to all comers is called prostitution;
But we
think it virtuous to become friendly with
a lover who is known to be a
man of honour.
So is it with wisdom. Those who offer it to all comers
for money
are known as sophists, prostitutors of wisdom,
But we think
that he who makes a friend of one whom he knows to be gifted
by nature, and teaches him all the good he can,
fulfils the duty of a citizen and
a gentleman.
Sophis-tēs
, ou,
o(, A. master of one's craft, adept,
expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49;
of poets, “meletan
sophistais
prosbalon”
Pi.I.5(4).28,
cf. Cratin.2;
of musicians, “sophistēs
. . parapaiōn
khelun”
A.Fr.314,
cf. Eup.447,
Pl.Com. 140;
sophistē
Thrēki
(sc. Thamyris) E.Rh.924,
cf. Ath.14.632c:
with modal words added, “hoi
s.
tōn
hierōn
melōn” [melody in the holy place--a death sentence for any Levite]
HO, every one that thirsteth,
come ye to the
waters,
and he that hath no money;
come ye, buy, and eat; yea,
come, buy wine and milk
WITHOUT MONEY
and WITHOUT PRICE.
Isa 55:1
2 Cor. 2:17 For we are not as many,
............ which
corrupt the word of God:
............ but as of
sincerity, but as of God,
............ in the sight
of God speak we in Christ.
kapēl-euō,
A. to be a retail-dealer, drive
a petty trade Hdt. 3.89
ta
mathēmata
sell learning by retail, hawk
it about, Pl. Prt.313d
, 2 Cor. 2:17, of prostitutes,
Plat. Prot. 313d
For among the provisions,
you know, in which these men deal, not only are they themselves
ignorant what is good or bad for the body, since in selling they
commend them all, but the people who buy from them are so too, unless
one happens to be a trainer or a doctor. And in the same way, those who
take their doctrines the round of our cities, hawking them about to any
odd purchaser who desires them, commend everything that they sell, and
there may well be some of these too, my good sir, who are ignorant
which of their wares is
[313e]
good or bad for the soul;
and in just the same case are the people who buy from them, unless one
happens to have a doctor's knowledge here also, but of the soul. So
then, if you are well informed as to what is good or bad among these
wares, it will be safe for you to buy doctrines from Protagoras or from
anyone else you please: but if not, take care, my dear fellow, that you
do not risk your greatest treasure on a toss of the dice.
"No man sings and plays an instrument unless he is drunk, perverted or
just having fun" as in the MARKING of the Galli or dogs around the
suffering Savior.
Cyrus was told how to NEUTER captives to keep them under control. Power grabbing preachers who want to be MASTERS (Authoratative Teachers) have KEEPING THEM UNDER CONTROL is absolutely necessary less they grasp that Jesus died to pry the burden laders off our backs: the Laded Burdens are types of repeating songs which perform the act of WITCHCRAFT with a boiling pot of frog yes.
Grant, then, forgiveness to the
Lydians, and to make
sure of their never rebelling against thee, or alarming thee more,
send and forbid them to keep any
weapons of war,
command
them to
wear
tunics under their
cloaks,
and to put buskins upon their legs,
.........and make them bring up their sons to cithern-playing (Kitharizein),
and singing
(psallein),
..........and shop-keeping (Hucksterism). [Corrupting the Word]
So
wilt thou soon see them become WOMEN instead of
men,
and there will be no more fear
of their revolting from thee."
Any
kind of performing music when Jesus told us to SPEAK that which is
written INTENDS to bring glory and more "Authority" to THE Alpah Malel.
-[4]
Ludoisi de
sungnômên echôn tade autoisi epitaxon, hôs
mête aposteôsi mête deinoi toi eôsi: apeipe
men sphi pempsas hopla arêia mê ektêsthai, keleue
de spheas kithônas -[khiton David's garment] te hupodunein toisi
heimasi kai
kothornous hupodeesthai, proeipe d' autoisi -kitharizein te kai psallein kai kapêleuein [prostitutes, petty
trade, playing tricks,
corrupting] paideuein tous paidas. kai tacheôs spheas ô
basileu gunaikas ant' andrôn opseai gegonotas, hôste
ouden deinoi toi esontai mê aposteôsi."
The
word kitharizo means to
PLAY THE CITHARA and does not include singing.
- -Kitharizô 1 [kitharis] to play the
cithara, phormingi [Apollo, Abaddon, Apollyon] kitharize Il., Hes.; lurêi eraton kitharizôn Hhymn.
(so that there can have been no great difference between the kithara,
lura, and phorminx ); kitharizein ouk epistatai, of an uneducated
person,
-
-Kithar-isis , eôs, hê, playing on the
cithara, Pl.Prt.325e; k. psilê, i.e. without the
voice, Id.Lg.669e, cf. Pae.Delph.15;
aulêsis kai k. Phld.Mus.p.23 K.
The PSALLO word used to GRASP POWER is an Abaddon word from plucking the Bow String to kill you or plucking the Lyre to mollest you.
-Arassô ,of any violent impact, with collat. notion of
rattling, clanging, as of horses, hoplais, pound in a mortar, strike with a shower of stones.
a). kitharēn strike the lyre, Orph.A.382; humnon, melos, etc., Nonn.D.1.15,440, etc.
2. c. dat.
modi, arassein tina oneidesi, kakois, assail with reproaches or threats,
II.
Pass., to be dashed against, dash one against the other
Pound in a mortar, “holmō a.” Nic. Th.508
Croesus
thought the Lydians
would even so be better off than if they were sold for slaves, and therefore gave the
above advice to
Cyrus, knowing that, unless he brought forward some notable suggestion, he would not be able
to persuade him
to alter his mind. He was likewise afraid lest,after
escaping the
danger which now pressed, the Lydians at some
future time might revolt from the Persians and so bring themselves
to
ruin.
