David J. Stewart
“Fundamentalists don't change, people quit being fundamentalists!” —Pastor Jack Hyles
Monday, August 31, 2026
YouTube Should Remove Inflammatory Racist Channel “Black Robe Stories”
Sunday, August 30, 2026
The Corrupt Gospel According To Dolly Parton
A Gospel for Our TimeIn an increasingly polarized world, Dolly Parton transcended cultural divides, not by avoiding difficult issues but by leading with empathy. She reminded us that progressive Christianity must be both inclusive and deeply rooted in action. For pastors and ministry leaders, Dolly Parton’s faith offers a fresh lens through which to explore how to share the gospel—not just in word, but in deed. SOURCE
“We all believe in God, and we’re very close.” —Dolly Parton
“I know [trans people] and love them all, and I do not judge… And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are. I know how important [gender-affirming care] is to them. That’s who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there’s something to be judged, that is God’s business. But we are all God’s children and how we are is who we are.”
Saturday, August 29, 2026
Be Careful What You Pray

This chapter could be called, "Safety in Prayer," "Safeguards in Prayer," or "Don't Pray the Wrong Thing."
In a previous chapter we dealt with the great heart of God and how God wants and loves to answer our prayers. Now because He does have such a tremendous desire, we must be very careful for what we pray. We have such promises in the Bible as, Ask what ye will." This places a great responsibility on the Christian to be careful got what He prays. With a God Who loves us so much and Who in many ways almost places a carte blanche before us if we walk close to Him and abide in Him, we must take special care for those things that are best for us and for God's work.
There is an interesting story in Numbers 22, Balaam had been invited to do an unwise thing; that is, to leave the will of God and go to Moab. Balaam, being the faithful preacher that he was, went to God and asked God what he should do. God very plainly said, "Thou shalt not go with them." (Numbers 22:12) Balaam returned to the princes of Balak and said in verse 13, "The Lord refuseth to give me leave to go with you." Now that should have settled it, but Balaam was not careful in his prayer, for Balak became more insistent than ever. Balak sent more princes with more authority than the others, and again sought for Balaam's willingness to come to Moab. Balaam was again very emphatic when in verse 18 he said, "I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more," but he made a tragic mistake! In verse 19 he said, "Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more." The Lord didn't have to say anything more to Balaam! He had already told Balaam what to do, but Balaam did not build a safeguard around his prayers. He came back again, and for some reason known only to the great heart of God, God told Balaam this time to go ahead!
Why did God change His mind? Was He allowing Balaam to go ahead just to show him the consequences of doubting God's commandment? Was He trying to teach Balaam to be careful in the future? Did God acquiesce because He was weary? Was it that God wanted Balaam to have what he wanted? I don't know, but I do know that Balaam went to Moab and that an entire race was corrupted because of it! Tragedy came to thousands and thousands of lives because Balaam was not safe in his praying.
This same type of thing is found concerning divorce. God never wants any couple to divorce for any reason, but He does give a permission for divorce in the case of fornication. God is saying, "I want one thing, but I will permit another. I would prefer you not to divorce ever for any reason, but because your hearts are hard, I will allow you to do it for just one reason."
These safeguards in prayer that we will mention in this chapter are needful because God does tell us to ask WHAT WE WANT. Mark 11:24, "Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." John 15:7, "If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." Psalm 37:4, "Delight thyself also in the LORD; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart." Philippians 4:6, "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." John 14:14, "If ye shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it." All of these promises and others remind us that with such a blank check, we must be careful, very careful!
Of course, in prayer, as in salvation, we can come to God only through Jesus. Hebrews 4:14-16, "Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." John 14:6, "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me." Hence, all prayer goes through Jesus, or to use a figure of speech, passes across His desk before it goes to the Father. Of course, all prayer is heard by Him because He is sitting on the right hand of the Father all the time.
There are several different attitudes that Jesus could have concerning our prayers as they come through Him to the Father. He may approve them; He may endorse them; He may recommend them; He may even plead for them. Hence, you can see that He could show different degrees of enthusiasm. There are many Scriptures in the Bible that teach us that the Father seeks counsel from the Son. Isaiah 9:6, "For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." The word "counsellor" here deals mainly with the relationship that the Father has with the Son. Jesus is the wonderful counsellor. Especially is this true in His relationship with the Father. He counsels with His father; so as Jesus counsels with the Father, He may approve our prayer requests. He may be even more enthusiastic than that—He may endorse a prayer request; or He may go farther than that—He may recommend it; or He may even go so far as to plead for it. I wonder how many earthly parents love their children so much that they give them too much in response to the child's request. When one stops to realize how much God loves us, it is no wonder that we should be careful when we come to Him in prayer.
There are, thank God, some safeguards that we should remember concerning prayer.
1. Pray according to Bible principles. The Christian should know his Bible and know it well. This will lead him to pray according to the principles set down in the Word of God. This gives a great security, safety and safeguard to our praying.
2. Pray in the will of God. I John 5:14,15, "And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us: And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him." Notice how Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane. Matthew 26:38,39, "Then saith He unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with Me. And He went a little further, and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, O My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou wilt." He told the Father His will, but then He prayed for the Father's will to be done. It is commonly believed that Jesus was talking about the cup of death, the cup of suffering or the cup of becoming accursed for sin. No, no, no! Jesus wasn't asking the Father to keep Him from dying; He knew He was going to die! He came to die! His death was called "the glory that was set before Him." He set His face like a flint toward Jerusalem. He wanted to die for us. He gladly laid down His life for us.
When He was praying, "let this cup pass from Me," He was afraid that He was going to die then; that is, there in the garden of Gethsemane. He knew that it was not the plan of God for Him to die there. He knew that He was supposed to go to Calvary on the day of the Passover and become our Passover and in so doing, pay the penalty for our sins. He was saying, "Father, let the cup of death pass from Me now." Let Me wait for the cross. That is why I came." Then He says, "Nevertheless, not My will but Thine be done." He said, "Father, You know best. I want it to be done according to Thy will." Added light is thrown upon this in Hebrews 5:7, " Who in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared." A real safeguard in prayer is always to pray in the will of God.
3. Live a spiritual life. Psalm 37:4, "Delight thyself also in the LORD; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart." John 15:7, "If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." Psalm 1:1-3, "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in His law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." If we walk in the Spirit and live a spiritual-filled life, we will then pray in the Spirit. How dangerous it is for a Christian to get in the flesh, as perhaps Balaam did when he came the second time and sought for God's permission to go to Moab!
4. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you make your list of requests that you are to take to the Father. Romans 8:26,27, "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God." As is mentioned in another chapter of this book, the intercession that the Apostle speaks about in Romans 8:26 is the Holy Spirit making intercession TO the one praying. In other words, the Holy Spirit tells us what to pray. Ah, here is a blessed safeguard! Ask the Holy Spirit to help you make your prayer list. With His help and His leadership there is great safety, and we can avoid making foolish requests. In verse 27 the intercession means intercession WITH us. Once the Holy Spirit has made intercession to us in telling us what to pray for, He then goes to the Father with us and makes intercession with us before the Father. Actually the Holy Spirit becomes our prayer partner as we present our petitions to the Father. This is a great way to prevent making a prayer that is a foolish one and risking God allowing us to do something that is not His first choice, such as in the case of Balaam.
5. Pray from the will of God. Oh yes, pray in the will of God, but always pray from the will of God. Always be in His will. When we are praying from His perfect will or, if we have forfeited His perfect will, from His permissive or acceptable or improvised will, we are adding another ticket to the fence of protection against an unwise request.
6. Remember how the prayer worked out in the past. Stop to think if it was best before. Use the past as a pattern for the future.
Because we have a God Who loves us so much, Who delights in answering our prayers and Who has given us so many amazing promises, we must be careful what we pray.
Friday, August 28, 2026
Why Does God Allow Evil People To Keep Doing Evil?
Ecclesiastes 8:12-13, “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: But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.”
Proverbs 16:4-5, “The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.” The “day of evil” here means judgment.
The Bible teaches that God has made everything for His purpose, including the wicked for the day of judgment. This biblical truth emphasizes that even those who do wrong are part of God's overarching plan, which includes judgment and justice.
Pastor Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951) comments on Proverbs 16:4-5:
All things will result at last in the glory of God. Earth’s long tale of sin and sorrow will eventually result in magnifying His love and His holiness. Those saved by His grace will praise Him forever; but the wicked will also acknowledge His justice in the day of their condemnation. He detests pride; all who walk pridefully will be broken before Him, try as they may to resist His power. They will be declared guilty when He sits on the throne of judgment. How much better to bow in repentance now, while He is on a throne of grace! See His word regarding the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah (Jude 7; 2 Peter 2:6). SOURCEI was thinking today why God allows a rebellious wife to make her husband's life miserable, year after year, and there is little or nothing that he can do, except love and pray for his defiant wife.
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” —Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
1st John 4:4-5, “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Make America Godly Again
We must Make America Godly Again, before she can become “Great Again.” America was “great” when she was good, and she was good when she had great churches. I don’t even recognize the country that I grew up in back in the 1970s.
I assure you dear reader that things will only become much worse in the future, and President Trump fully knows it. The fraudulent Federal Reserve has bankrupt the U.S. economy and that wretched Satanic beast is not going away. Many concerned young people today blame capitalism, failing to understand that they’ve never experienced honest capitalism in America. All they have known their entire life is a fraudulent rigged economy controlled by private selfish banking interests (aka, the Federal Reserve). What we have in the United States today, since 1913, is called a Fractional Reserve Banking system, and it is not capitalism!
This corrupt system allows the U.S. federal government (same in Europe) to spend taxpayer money recklessly without accountability. The sinister banking institutions via the U.S. Treasury print the money out of thin air from nothing, to LEND to the public. Proverbs 22:7, “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”
Illegal immigration, deindustrialization of American industries and the corrupt Federal Reserve are DESTROYING our economy. This is all intentional by design, for I believe out of the chaos and ashes of the United States will arise the coming Antichrist, the Man of Sin. That is why it was blatantly obvious that President Joe Biden was allowing tens of millions of illegals to flood into the country between 2020 and 2024. And although President Trump is putting on a good show to make it look like there is justice, deporting some of the worst of the invaders, when all is said and done when Trump leaves office in 2029 there will still be TENS OF MILLIONS of illegal aliens residing in the United States.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if the next ungodly Democrat U.S. President makes the invaders all U.S. citizens. Perhaps Kamala Harris (she is talking about running and I think she will win if she does). Woe unto our nation when a woman rules over us! Isaiah 3:12, “As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.”
Also, I heard Kamala say that if elected she will lower the cost of living, and I think if elected she will, the only way that all Democrats know how to finance their programs, by further raising the National Debt. If Miss Harris gets elected, you can expect to see the national Debt skyrocket to $50 trillion in her time in office.
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Dolly Parton Was Turned Aside After Satan
'He's not jealous and I'm not jealous of him. He knows I flirt. He flirts too,' she previously said as she set the record straight. SOURCE
As a result of their many years together (Dolly and Dean wed in 1966), she shared that she’s often asked for the secret to a long marriage.
“I say, ‘Because I stay gone.’ And there’s a lot of truth in that — the fact that we’re not in each other’s faces all the time,” pointed out Parton. The fact that the couple feel fine about their frequent separations has helped rather than harmed their relationship, added Dolly. SOURCE
Parton was married to her husband, Carl Dean, from 1966 until he died in 2025; however, the couple never had any kids, with the singer often sharing in interviews that parenthood was not meant for her and her spouse.
'I Had Freedom'
In a 2020 episode of Apple TV+’s The Oprah Conversation, the “Jolene” singer told Oprah Winfrey that not having children allowed her the independence that ultimately allowed her career to thrive.
"Since I had no kids, and my husband was pretty independent, I had freedom," she said. "So I think a big part of my whole success is the fact that I was free to work."
'I Believed That God Didn’t Mean for Me to Have Kids'
Despite being together for decades, Dolly Parton and Carl Dean never had kids.
The late superstar admitted she made "sacrifices" over the course of her career, but believed there was a reason why her life panned out the way it did.
"I didn’t have children because I believed that God didn’t mean for me to have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine, so I could do things like Imagination Library, because if I hadn’t had the freedom to work, I wouldn’t have done all the things I’ve done,” she continued to tell Winfrey. “I wouldn’t be in a position to do all of the things I’m doing now."
Dolly Parton was 'thankful' she never had to feel 'guilty' leaving children behind.
In one of her final interviews, she opened up about the sacrifices she’s made, telling PEOPLE in 2025 that she’s grateful she never had to feel guilty about leaving children behind to do her job.
"You know, I have just been going so fast my whole life. And I just start thinking, 'How in the world did I even have a life? How did I even get it done?' I really realized when I was putting this book [Star of the Show: My Life on Stage] together just how much I had sacrificed in my life," she shared. "I never had children, so at least I didn’t have a guilty feeling. I’m thankful that I got to see my dreams come true." SOURCE
Dolly Parton's Ungodly 'Annual Gay and Lesbian Day'
Dolly Parton has a religious chapel at Dollywood. She sang Gospel and Christmas music frequently, yet also embraced the ungodly homosexual community...
Parton appears in gay publications, and her fans organize an annual gay and lesbian day at her amusement park, Dollywood, in her native east Tennessee. She said gay men in particular are drawn to her flamboyant appearance, highlighted by thick makeup, gaudy clothing and blonde wig.To the heathen unsaved world, the inspired King James Bible only has two words in it: “Judge not” (Matthew 7:1a). God never intended for Christians to calmly go along with, stay quiet about, and affirm the heathen world and their wickedness. Psalms 94:16, “Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?” This is why the Bible warns in 2nd Timothy 3:12-13, “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” The world loved Dolly because Dolly loved the world, and she perverted the truth of God's word to justify it (Romans 1:25).
SOURCE: Planet Out, Nashville Stars Reach Out On Movie Soundtracks, by John Gerome, Associated Press
I'm not condemning anybody, God forbid. I am taking a Biblical stand against the sexually-suggestive, worldly and often Satanic music and videos which many professed Christian singers promote today. For example: George Strait is one of my favorite Country singers, and he claims to be a Christian and I believe that he is, but he has a song titled: “Overnight Male.” That is terrible! What saith the Scripture? Proverbs 14:9, “Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.” If someone lives in personal sin, that is no one's business to condemn but God; but when someone parades and publicly promotes wickedness, Christians are commanded to expose the unfruitful works of darkness (Ephesians 5:11).
Dolly defends her admittedly whorish attire and bad behavior which causes lasciviousness (sensuality that leads to lust and immorality):
...This discussion of judgment made me think about some of the criticism Parton has faced throughout the years due to her intentionally flashy appearance. So what does she make of that?Is God shallow Dolly? Are all the God-fearing, faithful, people-loving, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching, uncompromising, Bible preachers across the world “shallow” for preaching that females ought to dress modestly? Dolly Parton is trying to justify her public lewdness, nudity and sensuality as a form of “glamour art.” The Bible calls it the sin of lust! 1st Peter 2:11, “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.”
“I’ve had, many times through the years, even in my early days, people would say, ‘Dolly, you’d be taken a lot more seriously as a singer/ songwriter if you didn’t look like a whore, or if you didn’t dress up and look like a prostitute,’” she recalls. “I said, ‘Well, you know what, the way I look comes from a very serious place. It comes from a girl’s idea of glamour, and I figure: If people are so shallow they can’t see beyond that, that’s fine.’”
SOURCE: NEWSWEEK - DOLLY PARTON TALKS ABOUT HER ‘JUDGE NOT, LEST YE BE JUDGED’ PHILOSOPHY
Dolly Parton's profession of Christian faith was as fake as her breasts. She spoke highly of her grandfather, who was a Pentecostal preacher in the Church of God. Pentecostals believe you can lose God's free gift of salvation, which means they think you must live a moral lifestyle to maintain it (works). I absolutely doubt the salvation of Pentecostals and Charismatics who think and teach that God's gift of salvation can be lost by sinful living and unfaithfulness.
"Everybody thinks of God as a different thing. To me, God is that greater, higher energy — that greater, wiser wisdom. It's that thing in all of us that we all have to draw from. I've always trusted God and trusted myself, which to me are intertwined. I'm a creative person, and what gifts I have come from that divine place that I try to tap into. So who have I got to be afraid of?"God is not a "thing in all of us." The only thing that we all have is a sinful nature. God is not in a person unless they have been born again (John 3:3). Jesus must be received by faith (Revelation 3:20; John 1:12). God is not merely some higher form of energy that we draw from. I heard Dolly say that she is not religious, but she is very, very spiritual. I am the same. My Christian father was right, “Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this world.”
Dolly further states in the 2002 interview, "...what gifts I have come from that divine place that I try to tap into..." What "divine place" is that Dolly? Try to tap into? Talk about New Age! Dolly Parton is teaching New Age, speaking of the "energy" within. The inspired Word of God condemns New Age teaching. Anytime you hear someone talking about energy, power or life's forces without mentioning Jesus Christ, you're talking to a Satanic New Ager. By the way, that "energy" Dolly speaks of is Satan (Ephesians 2:2).
In the same 2002 interview by Rick Clark, Dolly Parton gave strong indication that she is not a Christian:
"To me, God is that greater, higher energy — that greater, wiser wisdom. It's that thing in all of us that we all have to draw from. I've always trusted God and trusted myself, which to me are intertwined."That is New Age doctrine. God is not a higher energy in all of us that we draw from. Biblically, there is only one true and living God, who exists in the three individual unique persons of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:20; 1st Timothy 3:16; Colossians 2:2, 9; 1st John 5:7). Jesus Christ is Almighty God (John 1:1-3,14; John 10:33; Colossians 2:9; Philippians 2:6; Revelation 1:8 — NOTE: All Scripture citations are only to the trustworthy King James Bible). God is a person, whom we can communicate with, not an energy force that we draw from. Dolly was really messed up spiritually and doctrinally. It doesn't appear that she died in the Lord as a born again Christian. That is so sad.
Notice that Parton said, "I've always trusted God AND TRUSTED MYSELF." Those are dangerous words. Jeremiah 17:5, "Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD." We should only trust upon the Lord Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:26).
Dolly Parton fell into the same New Age heresy as Oprah Winfrey. Jesus Christ is God almighty (Revelation 1:8), and the ONLY Way to Heaven according to John 14:6. God loves sinners, but He hates sin with a passion and WILL punish those who die in their sins without Christ as Savior. God is a loving God, but the demand for justice and holiness supersede His love. No amount of God's love can excuse someone who dies in their sins without Christ; this is the unpardonable sin.
Kindly, but truthfully, here is solid evidence that Dolly Rebecca Parton is likely burning in Hell, fire and damnation: She stated in 2015:
“We’re all God’s children. No matter how we try to get to heaven, we all wanna go there. We just have our own routes to take, and that’s how I look at it.”What you just read by Miss Parton is Satanic heresy!!! We are not all God's children. Galatians 3:26, “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” Therefore, Judaizers are not God's children. Muslims are not God's children. Atheists are not God's children. Anyone who rejects Jesus as the Christ, the Messiah, is of the Devil, not God's child!!!
SOURCE: NEWSWEEK - DOLLY PARTON TALKS ABOUT HER ‘JUDGE NOT, LEST YE BE JUDGED’ PHILOSOPHY
Dolly Parton masqueraded as a Christian, but she clearly was not in my humble opinion. Sadly, she was a wolf in sheep's clothing. Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again. No amount of philanthropy, good works or spirituality can substitute for the required new birth to enter into God's Kingdom.
Martin Luther Was No “Hero Of Faith”
Tragically, in the vast majority of churches today (both fundamentalist and neo-evangelical churches alike) and Christendom as a whole, Martin Luther (1483-1546) is ignorantly praised as a hero of the faith. Case in point is this 1962 book titled 'Martin Luther: Hero Of Faith' by Frederick Nohl. And here is another book titled, 'Hero Of Faith: Martin Luther' written in 2012 by Edward C. Grube.
Indeed, Luther and the other reformers did challenge the Catholic Church that sold indulgences and offered a “works-based” type of salvation. However, just because Martin Luther protested against the Catholic Church doesn't mean that he was saved. Martin Luther often taught that salvation was based on faith alone, and not received based upon a person’s meritorious works; however, Luther’s idea of faith alone does not conform to the Biblical teaching that baptism is not required for salvation.
While it is understood that the opinions of men are in no way authoritative when it comes to God’s plan for salvation, it is nonetheless interesting to note that Martin Luther believed wholeheartedly in the necessity of water baptism as a prerequisite for salvation.
In his Large Catechism, Luther wrote:
[I] affirm that Baptism is no human trifle, but that it was established by God Himself. Moreover, He earnestly and solemnly commanded that we must be baptized or we shall not be saved. No one is to think that it is an optional matter like putting on a red coat. It is of greatest importance that we hold Baptism in high esteem as something splendid and glorious. The reason why we are striving and battling so strenuously for this view of Baptism is that the world nowadays is full of sects that loudly proclaim that Baptism is merely an external form and that external forms are useless.... Although Baptism is indeed performed by human hands, yet it is truly God’s own action (1978, pp. 98-99). [emphasis added]BLASPHEMY! Where does the holy Bible “solemnly command that we must be baptized or we shall not be saved”? From Luther’s own comments, it is clear that he required water baptism for salvation. This is called the heresy of Baptismal Regeneration. Many Protestant denominations today have been infected with Luther's damnable heresy. Sadly, most fundamental Bible-believing churches have also been caught up in the woeful Martin Luther deception.
SOURCE: Luther, Martin (1978), Luther’s Large Catechism, (Saint Louis, MO: Concordia)
Martin Luther was subtle, just as Satan—teaching that salvation is by faith alone, while simultaneously requiring baptism to be saved. Obviously, Luther didn't consider baptism a self-righteous work. The Word of God states in John 3:18, “He that believeth on him is not condemned...” I don't see any mention of “baptism” there.
Romans 11:6 plainly tells us that if salvation is by works then it is no longer by grace, “And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.” If you add anything to simple childlike faith in Jesus as the Christ, then you have corrupted the saving grace of God and the Gospel. Such is of the Devil. Martin Luther taught works salvation. Every hellbound Catholic today who speaks of faith also believes that salvation comes only through keeping the 7 Sacraments of the Church in Rome. Of course, that is a false view of the Gospel and a road straight to Hell, fire, and damnation.
The Apostle wrote 1st John to enlighten us how to KNOW we are saved. It is ludicrous for Charismatics to claim speaking in tongues as evidence of being saved. It is also ludicrous for anyone to claim that baptism is necessary for salvation. If this were the case, then John WOULD have mentioned it. Romans 4:5, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” There's NO mention of baptism.
What, then, would Martin Luther say to those today who teach that “faith alone” excludes baptism? Listen to Luther's own words concerning the Biblical doctrine of “faith alone”:
But our know-it-alls, the new spirit people, claim that faith alone saves and that human works and outward forms contribute nothing to this. We answer: It is of course true that nothing in us does it except faith, as we shall hear later. But these blind leaders of the blind refuse to see that faith must have something in which it believes, that is, something it clings to, something on which to plant its feet and into which to sink its roots. Thus faith clings to the water and believes Baptism to be something in which there is pure salvation and life, not through the water, as I have emphasized often enough, but because God’s name is joined to it ... It follows from this that whoever rejects Baptism rejects God’s word, faith, and the Christ who directs us to Baptism and binds us to it —Luther’s Large Catechism: Book of Concord, pp. 101-102, 1978; Saint Louis, Missouri; Concordia
This is the damnable Martin Luther deception! From the quotes we have read by Martin Luther, it is abundantly clear that Luther DIDN'T believe in “faith only” for salvation. Luther speaks out of both sides of his mouth. Martin Luther’s words are unambiguous and clear—his “faith alone” did not exclude water baptism as being necessary for salvation. He was a false prophet.
YouTube Should Remove Inflammatory Racist Channel “Black Robe Stories”
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