There's Nothing “Fundamentalist” About Hating People

Matthew 22:36-40. “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

I had first learned about Pastor Steven Anderson and his Faithful Word Baptist Church around 2009. The church was started in 2006 in Tempe, Arizona. Out of that one church and Pastor Anderson's strong evangelical influence, several dozen other churches have also started. As a group that call themselves New Independent Fundamental Baptists (New IFB, or NIFB).

Kindly said, the New IFB movement call themselves “fundamental,” but that is a misnomer (an incorrect or unsuitable name) when they spew and teach hatred for sinners. To truly be a fundamentalist, in the Christian sense, it means that you adhere to the fundamental teachings of the inspired Holy Bible, and that you separate from those who do not. That being said, the inspired King James Bible does NOT teach hatred toward anyone. Pastor Anderson, respectfully said, has wrested the Holy Bible in an attempt to teach hatred for sinners. This heresy goes totally contrary to everything that the Word of God teaches.

Over the past 17 years I have had strong mixed feelings toward the New IFB over several issues, primarily with their ideology that God hates homosexuals and so should you, and that LGBTQ+ people are beyond the hope of the gospel, so we should just throw them under the bus by not sharing the gospel with them.

As blatant living proof that Steven Anderson and his New IFB cultish movement are WRONG, there is the ministry New Hope Ministry started by Frank and Anita Worthen, two former homosexuals who found salvation and deliverance through faith in Jesus Christ. There is hope for homosexuals!!! Frank and Anita are living proof that the New IFB are very wrong and unbiblical in their teaching and preaching that God hates LGBTQ+ people and that they cannot get saved. It ceases to anger and frustrate me hearing these hateful New IFB pastors perverting God's Word, teaching hatred toward humans created in God's very own image.

Homosexuality Is A Sin In The Holy Bible

That being said, and I know I will upset some people here, homosexuality is a horrible sin condemned in the Word of God. And yes, Leviticus 20:13 calls for capital punishment for them if convicted in a valid court of law. Leviticus 20:13, “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” In the year 1962, homosexuality was still a punishable crime in all 50 states in our nation. What changed? God hasn't changed (Malachi 3:6). The Holy Bible hasn't changed (Matthew 5:18). What has sadly changed is that our American culture has deteriorated because of the influence of Hollywood, apostate churches, the controlled mainstream media and other detrimental ungodly influences.

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There is much debate among theologians, clergy and church layman over the issue of punishment, if any, for homosexuals. The common claim is that Leviticus 20:13 was given under the Mosaic Law, when Israel was a theocracy, so it only applied to Old Testament Jews.

Another common thing that proponents of having no punishment for homosexuality bring up is that under the Mosaic Law, you would have been killed for eating lobster, or rebelling against your parents, or picking up sticks on the Sabbath Day, and they would be correct.

My humble opinion in the matter, and this is just what I believe, is that God's prohibition of homosexuality and capital punishment for committing it are unchanging moral laws. I think we must use wisdom to separate moral laws (that never expire) from ceremonial laws (which were temporal only for Jews living under Moses' law). The prohibition to eat lobster was clearly a ceremonial law.

On April 30, 2025, I was confronted by Pastor Brad Moffett at the Family Baptist Church in Pensacola. I had attended their church for 45 months, before they kicked me and my wife out over my preaching against women wearing pants (his wife and mother wear pants). Brad's wife couldn't stand me over my stance, so she pressured her husband to censure my ministry. 

Brad also didn't like that I preach the death penalty for homosexuals if convicted in court. The immature pastor said Romans chapter one proves that homosexuals ought not be punished, because God didn't kill them, He “gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves.” But God doesn't kill murderers either, does He? No, God has entrusted and empowered our government to enforce righteousness by punishing lawlessness (Romans 13:1-4). Our country's founding fathers in the United States castrated homosexuals. Go check for yourself!

I reasonably asked Pastor Brad Moffett if he believes in capital punishment for murderers, and he conceded that he does. So, I asked him what gives him or anyone else the right to selectively pick and choose which of God's moral laws are worthy of the death penalty. What gives anyone that right? We don't have a right to decide that murderers should die, but adulterers, kidnappers, rapists, pedophiles and homosexuals should live, when God's law plainly requires the death penalty for all those crimes. I'm just telling you what the Bible says. 

Not only do today's lawmakers flaunt God's law by refusing to punish crime, but they mock God in Maryland by only charging a $10 penalty fee for the crime of adultery. Go check! That is wicked blasphemy against a holy God! Ecclesiastes 8:11, “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” I was born in 1967. I can honestly say that I do not recognize the country I grew up in today. I never thought I would see a time in my country when thousands upon thousands of young punks would smash, riot, vandalize, pillage and steal from business in major cities across the United States with impunity. In cities like Los Angeles, if you get caught stealing anything under $1,000 you merely receive a citation, just like double parking. No wonder crime is out of control. New York City is just as bad and only waxing worse!

Everything has deteriorated in American society. Today's music and movies are garbage. There's no more bands. Young people have lost their inspiration to do anything. Everything has been ruined by corporate and personal greed. We've gone away from the holy God of the King James Bible. Elderly people across our country are suffering. Many cannot afford medical care. Homelessness is at epidemic levels due to a woeful lack of affordable housing. Contrary to President Trump's 'Make America Great Again' rhetoric, inflation is higher than ever. Housing prices have not come down! Yet, President Trump has added another $3 trillion of national debt to our miseries. I digress from the subject at hand.

We Should Love LGBTQ+ Sinners With Christ's Love

That all being said, since our federal and state governments today have spiraled downward into wickedness and no longer punish homosexuality, all we can do is try to get them saved by sharing the 'GOOD NEWS' (Gospel) of Jesus crucified, buried and risen for them (1st Corinthians 15:1-4).

I love people! I love LGBTQ+ people and am kind to them, as I am to everyone with God's unconditional love. It is not my place or jurisdiction as a U.S. citizen to punish criminals. But it is my duty as a Bible preacher to tell the truth, damn the torpedoes!

I can tell you with all biblical authority that the New IFB, including pastors' Jonathan Shelley and Steven Anderson, are very WRONG to preach hatred toward homosexuals. I cringe when I hear them spewing hate, calling for homosexuals to shoot themselves in the head. That is wrong! God loves everyone. There is not one LGBTQ+ sinner who has not been created in the image of God, our Creator. Don't anyone dare try to convince me that we should hate someone for whom Christ died on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago. You are special to God, I don't care who you are!

Again, in closing, there is absolutely nothing “fundamental” (in the Christian or biblical sense) about hating people, regardless of who they are or what they have done. I have seen prison wardens weep in tears as they flipped the throw switch to electrocute an inmate on death row. That is the heartfelt concern and love that we should all have for others. What saith the Scripture? Ezekiel 33:11, “Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?”

Dear reader, if you have a problem with the following image, you do not understand or closely know the loving God of the Holy Bible. The NIFB would reject and criticize this image, claiming that Jesus hates LGBTQ+ people like they do. The LORD does not accept or sanction their wickedness, but He still loves and died for them. John 7:7, “The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.” In John 5:40 Jesus didn't say, "ye cannot come"; but rather, He said, "Ye will not come" to Him that you might have life. The free gift of forgiveness of sins and eternal life is offered by God to whosoever wants it; free for the taking. Simply believe that Jesus did it all for you. That is, place your whole trust in Christ's death on the cross, burial and His bodily resurrection the third day. This is "the gospel" by which all who BELIEVE IT are saved (Romans 1:16; 1st Corinthians 15:1-6).

From Genesis to Revelation the inspired King James Bible teaches love. There's nothing “fundamentalist” about hating sinners for whom Christ gave His life on Calvary's cross. We are taught in the Scripture to hate evil (Psalms 97:10), but never sinners for whom Christ died.

New IFB Pastors Are Not Above Reproach

Titus 1:9-14, “Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”

There is a disturbing prevalent heresy in the New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (New IFB, or NIFB) movement that says no one is permitted to challenge, question or oppose the teachings and preaching of their leaders. Nothing could be more unbiblical!

I recently corrected some heresy by a NIFB pastor, but one of their aggressive followers wrongly accused me of bringing an accusation against an elder. That is lunacy! He cited 1st Timothy 5:19, “Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.” This Scripture passage is talking about a member of a church accusing one's pastors of adultery, stealing money or some other serious offense. It does not mean that no one can challenge a doctrinal video that he uploads to YouTube!

Sadly, the New IFB is full of religious nuts! Pastor Steven Anderson is their leader, and he is harsh and aggressive, cold and mean. Once you offend him, it's over; you don't get any second chances. Respectfully said, the guy is shallow, woefully lacking God's love for sinners.

Part of the problem is that Pastor Anderson has been very successful, which success has enabled him to throw his enemies, former disgruntled church members, upset ministry peers, angry family members and wounded friends under the bus while ignoring their cries. I know because I am one of them! For every wounded person that he throws under the bus, he has ten more loyal followers to pander to him. And that just enables him to continue hurting people.

Kindly said, the New IFB's pastors are not apostles! They are definitely not above reproach. Learned Christians are not railing on New IFB pastors for calling them out for their numerous heresies. Onorato Diamante on YouTube is a layman, like myself, and like myself he exposes the New IFB false teaching that you cannot go to Heaven without praying a sinner's prayer. 

The New IFB are very wrong in this doctrinal matter! In several dozen Scripture passages we are plainly taught that the way of salvation is simply to believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ (John 3:14-18, 36; 5:40; 6:28-29, 40, 47; 10:1, 9; 11:25; 20:31). We are saved by believing the Good News of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen to be saved (1st Corinthians 15:1-6). In none of those passages are we taught to call, ask, confess, repent or pray to be saved, but only to BELIEVE. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.

I kindly correct New IFB pastors all the time for their gross theological incompetence. Every New IFB pastor that I know of teaches hatred for the LGBTQ+ community, which is totally unbiblical. Although I do believe that homosexuality should be a punishable crime, I also believe that even the vilest criminal is still created in God's image, and we ought not hate someone. Christ died for the vilest sinners (Romans 5:5-9).

I have seen prison wardens weep in tears while flipping the throw switch for an electric chair. That is the condition of heart that we should all have as Christians. Ezekiel 33:11 plainly teaches that God Himself has no pleasure in the death of the wicked.

In 2016, Pastor Steven Anderson rejoiced when a 26 year old deranged gunman murdered 49 victims in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, a known LGBTQ+ hangout. What Pastor Anderson did was wicked and very wrong! What gives anyone the right to rejoice when the wicked die, when God Himself has no pleasure in the death of the wicked?

2nd Peter 3:9 tells us that God desires for all men to repent of their unbelief, to trust Christ to be saved. It is not God's will for ANY to perish! This strongly disproves the heretical popular New IFB heresy that homosexuals are beyond the hope of the gospel, so don't bother witnessing the gospel to them. NIFB pastors call this the “Reprobate Doctrine,” which heresy Steven Anderson learned from his doctrinally unlearned father (which Steven has openly admitted).

Pastor Jack Hyles taught a much milder form of the Reprobate Doctrine, but unlike the New IFB Dr. Hyles didn't create a pet doctrine and give it a name like Steven Anderson has. Dr. Hyles simply believed that biblically there is such a thing as a “reprobate.” But what Brother Hyles taught versus what Steven Anderson teaches are lightyears apart. This chart is invaluable to help understand how unbiblical the New IFB are in their doctrine. ...

Major “Reprobate Doctrine” Comparison

Shame on the New IFB for preaching hatred toward people!!!

I Was Raised To Love Sinners, Not hate Them

I grew up around Skid Row in Chicago, tagging along with my father who was a Skid Row minister for over 30 years. My father and I more times than I can remember got out of the car and saw men lying in the street gutter at 34 S. Desplaines avenue in front of the rescue mission. We didn't know if they were dead or alive. My father called 911 and they always sent a police paddy wagon to come get them.

My father took this photo on the front steps of Chicago United Mission, our rescue mission...

My father once threw away a case of expired Vanilla extract and drunkards remove it from the garbage and drank it. Some men drank paint thinner, sniffed model glue, et cetera. I've seen teenagers sniffing spray-paint from paper bags! White paint was running out of their nostrils. Once the Devil takes over your brain, you are in gat danger!

“No man has as much sense after he drinks as he did before he drinks.” —Evangelist Lester Roloff

I am so thankful that I was raised NOT to hate sinners. I was raised to love and have compassion of human beings, to see them as being broken rather than bad. That is what made Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) such a great pastor—he loved the down and out, the rejects, the poor, the mission men, the guilty, the broken hearted and bereaved of society. Jude 1:22-23, “And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.” There is something very wrong with the aggressive New IFB and their hateful pastors. God is love.

BEWARE of the New IFB's teaching that we should bash and hate LGBTQ+ people. Certainly, we ought not accept them in their unrepentant state as church members in good standing. Every pastor has a biblical duty to spare not and cry aloud against the sins of the people; but at the same time we must love and show compassion toward all men, seeing through their faults for what they can be through faith in the gospel. We are commanded to love our neighbours (Matthew 22:39), and the Lord did not place exclusions upon that command.

You Cannot Be Happy Tomorrow

Philippians 4:11, “Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.”

I heard a life changing sermon today by Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001). It is titled, “The Yesterdayer, the Todayer, and the Tomorrower.” I encourage all of my ministry followers to start listening to the preaching of Brother Hyles on a regularly basis, if you don't already. I jotted down some notes from the sermon to help you. These are great truths!

Which category do you fall under: Yesterdayer, Todayer or Tomorrower?

Dear reader, if you're happy it's today. Until you get satisfied with today, you'll never be happy. Are you a Yesterdayer? Are you always wanting today to be like yesterday, when times were better? You can't. Yesterday is gone! I am now 59 years old. I cannot feel 40, 30 or 20 again. I cannot relive those wonderful years when my wife was loyal and by my side.

Are you a Tomorrower? Are you always looking through a haze to a brighter future here on earth. Many spouses think the grass is greener in someone else's marriage, so they divorce their spouse and marry another person, just to find out that the next husband or wife is just as bad, or worse. Some people are always chasing rainbows! Take off the rose-colored glasses and learn to appreciate what you have. Plant some grass seeds in your own yard.

As long as you're a Yesterdayer or a Tomorrower, you'll never be happy! People dream about tomorrow with fantasies, and then when tomorrow arrives they reminisce about how wonderful yesterday was. This is their whole life—never happy, never satisfied, never content. When we think about the past, we tend to only focus on the positive things that made us happy, but if we'll be honest with our self, the past did include negatives that we'd rather forget. So, whether we are looking backward or forward, we tend to only see what we want to see, not reality.

Another favorite sermon by Brother Hyles is titled: "Learn To Enjoy Where You Are, While On Your Way To Where You Are Going." These sermons will change your life dear reader if you'll heed the wisdom. Most people are miserable today, because they're always looking to the future for happiness, or dwelling upon a filtered fictional past. They were complaining in the past as much as they do today, but they have forgotten how bad it was yesterday.

Many people are in a state of discontentment. They'll never be happy! They dream of going to paradise, but if they ever got there they'd still be miserable and it wouldn't be paradise, because they'd still be there! Until we can learn to relish the moment, and become comfortable in the present, we'll never be happy in life.

I think a lot of believers who contact my ministry—who are discouraged, down and destitute in life—it is largely because they have never learned to be content with today, satisfied with what they have. There are two ways to become rich:

1. Have all you want
2. Want all you have

I just want all I have. You can have very little in life, and yet be rich, if you are content. And contrariwise, there are billionaires who are miserable, still not content with what God has given them. Everything is a mindset in life.

I have never owned a new car in my life. I am 59 years old. I don't want a new car. I love old things. My present vehicle is a 2014 Honda FIT, and I love it, mainly because it is 100% paid for. I saved up money on Guam before I moved to Pensacola in 2021. I paid about $12,000 cash (including sales taxes) and bought the vehicle before I had even left Guam, from a Honda dealership in Pensacola. One of their kind employees even picked me up at the airport and drove me to the dealership to get my new (old) car. They had already acquired my license plates. They were very nice to me, which I am still very grateful to them for doing. I am still driving the same reliable vehicle and Lord willing, plan to drive it until it is either beyond repair, gets stolen or smashed. So far it has served me very well. I am happy with it. Thank you Lord!

I live a simple life. I have all I need and am content and happy in the Lord, despite my chronic health afflictions that torment me night and day mercilessly. God is faithful (1st Corinthians 1:9). Job 13:15, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.” Job 19:25, “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.” My full trust is in God my Savior!

Pastor Hyles says your whole disease is that you are not a Todayer. You're not satisfied with today. We foolishly have the wrong attitude, "It's always going to get like I dream it will be." But our fantasies don't include any negatives. You can't be happy tomorrow, because tomorrow will be today when tomorrow comes. So, if you're not happy today, when tomorrow comes and it is today again, you still won't be happy. Boy this is good stuff!

Dear reader, learn to embrace the moment, now! We can be happy right now, simply by thanking God in every thing, and learning to enjoy where we are at. This is what causes nearly all of our unhappiness. Be a Todayer. Get comfortable with today, right now! Yesterday is a cashed check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. All we have is cash to spend today. Spend it wisely. Worrying about tomorrow won't change anything, but it empties today of our Christian joy. God gives us trials and burdens to make us better, not bitter.

We're all guilty at times of being Yesterdayers and Tomorrowers, by either dwelling upon a filtered fictional past or by looking to the future through a blinding haze, missing the moment. If you've never come to grips with settling to be happy today, you'll never be happy. This is something that I think we would all be wise to continue working at, to learn to enjoy today.

It Came To Pass

Romans 15:3-4, “For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”

The little phrase “it came to pass” is mentioned 463 times throughout the inspired King James Bible (398 times in the Old Testament, and 65 times in the New Testament). That just might be the most repeated phrase in the Holy Scripture, and I think it has significant practical meaning.

Dear reader, whatever heavy burdens you may be carrying right now, it shall come to pass. If you are going through a divorce, it will come to pass. If you are physically crippled and confined to a wheelchair or a hospital bed, it will come to pass. Everything in this temporary world shall come to pass, whether it be good or bad.

I am often reminded of Jacob's words to Pharaoh in Genesis 49:9a, “And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...” Jacob had suffered so much throughout his miserable life. After deceiving his father Isaac, to defraud him and his brother Esau, Jacob fled for his life to go live with his uncle, Laban. But his heathen uncle took advantage of him time and time again, lowering Jacob's wages ten times. Laban tricked Jacob into marrying both of his daughters, to conscript him to serve for another 7 years in the field.

I could write a lengthy book about the miserable life of Jacob. I could write about his 10 sons by Leah and her handmaids, who wickedly sold Joseph into slavery, and then lied to their father about his fate. Unless you've lost a child to a wild animal attack, eating your child alive, we cannot understand Jacob's inexplicable pain. I could also write about Reuben, Jacob's eldest son, who slept with his father's concubine, Bilhah. I can only imagine Jacob's intense feelings of betrayal, anger, helplessness and jealousy that he suffered for years because of such awful betrayal by his own son and wife.

When God touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, it is my humble opinion that the LORD did that on purpose, so that Esau would feel compassion toward his crippled brother. And then I could write about Jacob's beloved wife, Rachel, who prematurely died while giving birth to their second child, Benjamin. I fully know the inexplicable pain of suffering from betrayal, cruelty and loss; but no one knows your pain except you! It was Jacob's pain of soul and body that broke, shaped and conformed him into the image of Christ.

Please Don't Become A One Issue Christian

Ephesians 3:17-19, “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”

Colossians 1:23-23, If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church.”

I have met many professed Christians in my lifetime who have become one issue people. That is not good. Some people are infatuated with politics, and that has become their main thing. Other have made fighting abortion their main thing. I have met quite a few people who are enamored with health gimmicks, powders and similar junk. They all have some “miracle cure” for my injured neck and chronic pain. All they have done is irritate and annoy me.

There's one user on Facebook who keeps bombarding me with information on the Noahide Laws. He wants me to refute them. I don't care about the Noahide Laws! The guy's absolutely infatuated with the subject. He has made a blog dedicated to do nothing but expose the Noahide laws. I finally told him that this article is what I believe, and to please stop sending me his junk! Some people won't take “no” for an answer!

Dear reader, as you know there are many nuts on social media. I meet people frequently who are absorbed with one issue. It is their main thing, their whole reason for being on the internet.

Another young fella last week, someone from Canada whom I have been distant ministry friends with for years, cussed me out this week, calling me horrible disparaging names that I won't repeat, but the first word started with the letter “F.” What was my offensive? I simply told him kindly that I do not agree with Pastor Steven Anderson's unbiblical “reprobate doctrine,” which heresy teaches we should bitterly hate homosexuals, and God hates them, and that LGBTQ+ sinners are beyond the hope of the gospel. I reject that tommyrot! I reject that balderdash, poppycock and utter nonsense! NO ONE is beyond the hope of the gospel (2nd Peter 3:9). God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, and neither should we (Ezekiel 33:11). The New IFB (independent fundamental Baptist) are messed up on so many levels it is pathetic! Their leader Pastor Steven Anderson is consumed with bitter hatred for people. In sharp contrast, Matthew 22:39 commands us to love our neighbour without exception.

Please don't become a one issue Christian! I have a ministry friend who has been corresponding with me for many years. He is saturated with exposing Roman Catholicism. He writes emails to priests to refute them, debating and arguing with Catholic leaders, to no avail. My ministry friend has often attempted to draw me into his love-affair with exposing Rome, but I have carefully maintained a healthy distance. I do expose the demonic Roman and Russian Orthodox Catholic religions, but that is not my main thing. My main thing has and always will be preaching the gospel of free grace. That is one issue that you CAN make your main issue.

I had an incompetent Baptist pastor (Sean Quinlan from Pensacola Christian College) wrongly accuse me in 2018 of being "obsessed" with the Bible issue. I took his disparaging remark as a compliment! God knows that I am not a one issue person, but it might seem like it sometimes. I admittedly do preach quite a bit against the heresies of Misunderstood Repentance and Lordship Salvation. But I only do so because a counterfeit gospel is being preached from nearly every pulpit today. The only ministry websites which I have dedicated to one issue is in the matter of faith in Jesus Christ (e.g., https://faithaloneinjesussaves.blogspot.com and https://giftofeternallife.blogspot.com).

That being said, I don't ever want to get so caught up into fighting against Freemasonry, Zionism, Charismatics, government corruption, booze, or other evils that it becomes the main issue.

I knew a young professed Christian woman a long time ago who was absolutely consumed with voting Republican. If she met a complete stranger, she told them to "vote Republican." Ladies and gentlemen, that is crazy! She wasn't a bad person, she was just unbalanced as a person. I chose our text Scripture passages because the inspired Holy Bible speaks about being "grounded and settled" in love, and faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Solomon speaks of a "false balance" in the book of Proverbs. Every believer should be balanced.

To clarify, it's okay if your livelihood is making bicycles, cakes, fixing cars, or whatever. You can turn any hobby or work into a ministry by simply sharing the gospel with people. You can literally type any hobby or interest into a search engine on the internet, and add the word "ministry," and you'll likely find something. I found scuba diving ministries, paragliding ministries, dog walking ministries, et cetera. I'm not talking about that.

I am discouraging you dear reader from becoming so caught up into one topic that it consumes you, to the point where people cannot even share a normal conversation with you, without you constantly bringing up the issue. The guy I mentioned earlier in Canada, who got angry at me for disagreeing with the New IFB's "reprobate doctrine," blew up in anger last year when I disagreed with the New IFB heresy that you don't have to pray a sinner's prayer to get to Heaven. John 6:47 teaches that all we need to do to be saved is "believe" on Jesus. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

I simply cannot communicate with the disturbed guy in Canada. If I dare to mention either of these hot topics with which he is consumed, he goes postal. That is a form of mental illness. When someone cannot even communicate with you because you are consumed with some minor doctrinal issues, you need professional help. As you can imagine, over the past 24 years of website ministry since 2002 I have met my share of insane, kooky and strange people.

When I started my website ministry back in 2002, I was gradually adding topics to my website. One cruel woman emailed and noticed that I hadn't yet written an article to preach against adultery, which she said proves that I am guilty of adultery. What a lunatic! These are the types of losers, hypocrites, haters and fools that I have to contend with as a Christian evangelist and missionary to cyberspace. Now, I just block them out and move on. There's too many sincere people who need my help, for me to allow a small group of evil naysayers and hateful critics to discourage me.

I've had ungodly people try to blackmail me. One hateful person years ago, who was wickedly slandering me on the internet with accusations that aren't true, offered to remove their evil comments, but only if I do what they said. I never responded because (like the U.S. government) I don't negotiate with terrorists! It will be a cold day in Hell before I ever allow anyone to bring me to my knees. I bow before no man! God is my Creator and Savior, and I bow to Him alone!!! Jesus warned that my enemies are His enemies (Matthew 25:40, 45).

It is okay to contend for the faith dear reader, but don't ever become so absorbed with an issue so that people cannot communicate with you without you bombarding them and being rude.

I know a Christian woman whose brother and sister-in-law are members of the Church of Christ cult. In their cult they require water baptism to be saved. Every time that the Christian woman I mentioned meets with her own family, they gang up on her with their cult's beliefs. They put her down. They pressure her to convert to the Church of Christ. That is what I am talking about! Some people are so horrible and immature, and downright mean. I don't care what you believe, no one has a right to browbeat and force their beliefs on others. Even God Himself won't do that! God has given us His inspired Word in the King James Bible. Everything you and I need to make it through life's difficult journey is contained in that beautiful Book!

Although it is normal to feel passionately about things that interest and emotionally impact us, we need to be careful not to become consumed with one issue. As a Bible preacher there are some issues that I focus more strongly upon than others, on purpose.

For example: I have spent much time refuting the unbiblical teachings of Pensacola Christian College (PCC). Titus 1:13b teaches, “rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.” As difficult as it may be to grasp, I found FOUR different plans of salvation at PCC. That is messed up! Since they obviously don't care at PCC and no one is heeding the truth, I have turned up the heat in my preaching; not to be mean or unkind, but simply because I care. Since what we believe determines where we will spend eternity, it is a critically important issue!

Thank you for reading my ministry blog. To God alone be the glory!

Beware Of False Teacher Dan C. Corner

Galatians 1:8-9, “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 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.”

Please understand that I don't condemn anyone, for the Bible condemns all of us as guilty, dirty, rotten, hell-deserving sinners. My salvation solely rests in Christ's righteousness, because of the precious blood that He gave for our sins. My intention is not to be unkind; but rather, to expose false teachings.

Daniel C. Corner, founder of Evangelical Outreach in Washington, Pennsylvania, is a dangerous false prophet! Mr. Corner denies the Eternal Security of the believer and teaches a false gospel of partial faith in Christ plus works based type of salvation.

Dan Corner has written two popular books titled, "The Myth Of Eternal Security," and "The Believer's Conditional Security." Corner is associated with Jesus Is Lord Ministries International, Word Broadcasting Network and the satellite Reformation Channel. These media conduits feature various Anglo-Catholics, Wesleyan-holiness ministers, revivalists and wacky Charismatic preachers.

Beware dear reader! Dan Corner propagates his heresy to millions of naïve people. The internet is saturated with lies and “doctrines of devils.” 1st Timothy 4:1, “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.” Dan Corner has corrupted the simplicity that is in Christ and instead teaches doctrines of devils. The Bible DOES teach the Eternal Security of the believer, which is the only conclusion you can make if you believe Romans 4:5, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.

The Eternal Security Of The Believer

(Pastor Jack Hyles, 1926-2001)

NOTE: All Scriptures are quoted only from the inspired King James Bible. Dan Corner's website is saturated with the corrupt New International Version of the Bible. No wonder Mr. Corner is so messed up doctrinally, he's using a corrupt bible!

Corner Corrupts the Meaning of 1st Corinthians 6:9-10

1st Corinthians 6:9-11 is one of the most misunderstood and misapplied Scriptural passages in the Bible...

1st Corinthians 6:9-11, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."

Deceitfully, Dan Corner and other enemies of Eternal Security fail to quote 1st Corinthians 6:11...

"And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."

When you repent to believe on the name of Jesus Christ to be forgiven of your sins, the righteousness of God is IMPUTED (credited) to your record, and your sins are credited to Christ. To be saved, You Need HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS (Matthew 6:33). You are no longer viewed as an adulterer, murderer, homosexual or thief once saved. Every believer's sins have been washed away by the blood of Jesus and they cannot ever lose salvation. How can you lose by doing bad works what you didn't earn by doing good works? The spiritual heavenly birth is as irreversible as is the physical earthly birth. When God beholds the believer, He only sees the righteousness of Jesus Christ, faultless in God's sight (Jude 1:24).

IMPUTATION is the great missing doctrine in Dan Corner's demonic theology. Opponents of Eternal Security fail to understand that man's salvation rests in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, and not in one's own self-righteousness...

"For he [God the Father] hath made him [God the Son] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2nd Corinthians 5:21)

We don't go to Heaven because we live a life of obedience and faith; but rather, because we have trusted in the righteousness of Jesus Christ to forgive our sins...

"To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins." (Acts 10:43).

The only thing that we contribute to our own salvation is the sin that made it necessary. Dan Corner foolishly teaches that salvation can be lost if believers willfully commit sin. If that were the case, then every Christian is unsaved because we all sin every day!!! Corner has even written a book teaching that one's salvation is CONDITIONAL upon living an obedient life to Christ. Yet, Corner deceitfully claims that salvation is still by God's grace. False prophets typically use such senseless double-talk. It can't be both ways! Kindly said, Dan Corner speaks out of both sides of his mouth. Salvation cannot be by grace and works. Romans 11:6 plainly states, "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."

Salvation is either freely offered (Romans 10:13) by God's grace, and freely received (Revelation 22:17) as a gift because of Christ's blood sacrifice (1st Peter 1:18,19); or else salvation is conditional as Dan Corner teaches and works are a necessary part of salvation.

Please do not be deceived, salvation has nothing to do with the life we live. That would be self-righteousness!!! Romans 4:5 quickly silences Dan Corner and those who agree with him... "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." A man's faith is COUNTED for righteousness. Salvation is a gift; Not a Reward. Dan Corner is WRONG!

The Damnable Heresy of Dan Corner

Dan Corner is an aggressive false prophet who vehemently hates the Biblical teaching of Eternal Security. The following garbage is quoted from Mr. Corner's website...

True grace teaches us to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives (Titus 2:12). In contrast, there exists a false and dangerous "grace" message which gives a license for immorality (Jude 4) and breeds arrogance through a false security (Rom. 11:19-23).

SOURCE: http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/doctrine.htm

Contrary to Mr. Corner's false teaching, the biblical doctrine of Eternal Security does not give a believer a "license for immorality." Romans 6:15 plainly teaches that the born-again believer is NO LONGER UNDER THE LAW; yet is still expected to fulfill the Law: "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid." But fulfilling the Law is a result of walking in the Spirit (i.e., the “fruit” of the Spirit - Galatians 5:22-25), and NOT a prerequisite for salvation.

Again in Romans 3:31 we read, "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." Just because sinners are saved without works (Romans 3:20) does not give anyone permission to willfully sin. Opponents of Eternal Security make the mistake of placing the cart before the horse, i.e., they expect people to continually forsake their sins to guarantee salvation; but it's the other way around, we depart from our sins because we are saved and love the Lord (John 14:15).

Howbeit, even the best of Christians still sin, and are unable to completely escape the sin-nature. The Apostle Paul clearly had sin problems in his personal life...

Romans 7:14-25, “For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”

I dare say many believers today are as faithful to the Lord as the Apostle Paul. Yet Paul struggled horribly with sin on a daily basis. Interestingly, Paul never once mentioned losing his salvation. This is clear evidence that Eternal Security is biblical and no believer ever needs to fear losing the Salvation, which God promised before the world began (Titus 1:2). John 3:17 tells us that Jesus didn't come into the world to condemn humanity; but rather, to seek and to save sinners (cf. Luke 19:10). JESUS SAVES SINNERS!

Here once again is Dan Corner...

A true Christian (or righteous person) can die spiritually because of sin (Ezek. 33:18; Rom. 8:13; James 1:14-16; Lk. 15:24; etc.) fall away (Lk. 8:13; Heb. 6:4-6; etc.) and never again return to Jesus, just as the Apostle Judas Iscariot and Solomon didn't return after they turned from the faith.

SOURCE: http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/doctrine.htm

There is NO biblical evidence that Judas Iscariot was ever saved. The Bible says Judas was a known thief (John 12:6). Judas had a devil (John 6:70). Solomon was a Christian, clearly evidenced by his writings in the book of Ecclesiastes. There is no reason to doubt that Solomon went to Heaven, although it is abundantly clear that Solomon, as wise as he was in a worldly sense, foolishly abandoned the Lord for most of his life. Judas, on the other hand, never showed any evidence of having ever been saved. Many religious people follow Jesus today, but they are as lost as the Devil. Being a follower of Christ is not biblical salvation. Multitudes followed Jesus merely for a handout of food, or to see a miracle.

A true Christian (or righteous person) doesn't have to "practice" sin, such as adultery or murder, before they lose their salvation, since it only takes one act of adultery to make a person a Bible-defined adulterer (Lev. 20:10) and one act of murder to make him a Bible defined murderer (Number 35:16). Rev. 21:8 is clear in stating such people are headed for hell because of their sins. David is a clear example of a righteous man who lost his salvation for a time, due to adultery and murder.

SOURCE: http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/doctrine.htm

Nowhere in the inspired Holy Bible are we warned that committing sin can result in losing salvation. Yet, Dan Corner perverts the Scripture and foolishly teaches that committing even one sin can rob us of our salvation. King David DIDN'T lose his salvation and there's NO Scriptural evidence to support Corner's heresy. In Psalm 51 David asked God to restore “the joy of thy salvation.” David didn't ask to get his salvation back.

We are not saved by works (Eph. 2:8,9) but to reap eternal life and not destruction you must sow to please the Spirit and not the sinful nature (Gal. 6:8,9). God is faithful to us (1 Jn. 1:9; 1 Cor. 10:13) but we must be faithful to him to the very end of our lives to escape the lake of fire or second death (Rev. 2:10,11). God surely loves us (Jn. 3:16; Mk. 10:21; Rom. 8:35-39) but those who inherit the kingdom of God love God (Jam 2:5; 1 Cor. 2:9) and to love God means to obey his commands (Jn. 14:15; 1 Jn. 5:3).

SOURCE: http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/doctrine.htm

Clearly, Dan Corner teaches a works-based salvation, requiring obedience to Christ and holy living as absolute essentials to obtain eternal life. Such false teaching negates the gift of God. Dan Corner is a deceiver. Despite his claim that salvation is not by works, he clearly requires works when he mandates righteous living, obedience and remaining faithful as being essential to salvation.

In sharp contrast, consider the words of Romans 4:5, "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." Either salvation is by GRACE or it's by WORKS. It cannot be both, "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" (Romans 11:6). What part of Romans 4:5 and 11:6 doesn't Dan Corner understand?

Dan Corner Perverts the Meaning of Romans 8:13

Dan Corner twists the meaning of Romans 8:13 to mean that sinful believers can lose their salvation...

“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” —Romans 8:13

However, Galatians 5:25 plainly evidences that a person can LIVE IN THE SPIRIT (i.e., be saved); while failing to WALK IN THE SPIRIT (i.e., live for the Lord)...

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” —Galatians 5:25

Sadly, Dan Corner falls short of 2nd Timothy 2:15. He simply does not study! Corner teaches that a believer can lose salvation and must repent of one's sins in order to get saved AGAIN. There is NO Scripture to support his false doctrine. Again, I am not exposing Dan Corner; but rather, his false teachings, because they are a road to Hell.

The inspired Holy Bible contains numerous examples of CARNAL believers who deliberately chose to live in sin, horrible sin. King David was a "man after God's own heart" (1st Samuel 13:14); yet he commit adultery with Bathsheba, impregnated her, and then murdered her husband to hide his sin (2nd Samuel 11).

Noah got drunk (Genesis 9:21).

Samson had sex with a prostitute (Judges 16:1).

Jonah ran from God (Jonah 1:3).

Peter cursed the name of Jesus and used profanity (Mark 14:71).

One-third of the Bible was written by murderers: Moses, David and Paul (formerly Saul of Tarsus). With the exception of Paul, Moses and David were already saved when they commit murder. Corner foolishly teaches that all these believers LOST their salvation and needed to get saved again. Corner is a heretic!

Dan Corner Perverts Luke 15:24

Corner attempts to use Luke 15:24 to teach that a believer can be repeatedly saved, “For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.” There is NOTHING in the account of The Prodigal Son to indicate that Jesus was speaking about a believer who had gone into sin and lost salvation. Corner makes that erroneous assumption!

In John 3:3 Jesus proclaimed, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” The Bible never speaks of losing one's salvation or of being born again and again and again. Romans 8:9 states, “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.” Every believer has the Holy Spirit indwelling their body. That Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus Christ and God the Father. To teach that salvation can be lost is to claim that God is not faithful.

Dan Corner teaches that a believer MUST ENDURE 'til the end to be saved. This is unbiblical. Enduring or persevering is a good work. Titus 3:5 states, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.” Yet, critics of Eternal Security claim that works of righteousness are necessary for salvation. They are liars! We are saved by the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ!

To claim that the Prodigal Son pictures a believer losing salvation is to twist and corrupt the Scripture.

Dan Corner Corrupts the Meaning of Hebrews 12:14

Dan Corner horribly perverts Hebrews 12:14 by alleging that the author of Hebrews was teaching that a believer must continue in holy living to go to Heaven. LIES! The Word of God is adamantly clear in Romans 4:5, "But to him that WORKETH NOT, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."

Here is a correct interpretation of Hebrews 12:14 by Evangelist Oliver B. Greene...

'Verse 14: "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord."

This injunction has been so often misunderstood and misapplied that many believers who have endeavored to live holy lives have been tormented and discouraged, thus becoming useless as good stewards, good soldiers in God's great army.

The Greek word here translated "follow" means "to pursue, to follow after." Many believers have been taught from the pulpit that if they do not live above sin - (meaning "sinless perfection") - they cannot hope to see God...

It is not through perfect peace and perfect holiness that we see the Lord: it is by grace through faith! When we have been saved by God's grace, we are to pursue peace and holiness; but we see Jesus because we are covered by the blood and saved by His marvelous grace...

"Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." We note here our attitude concerning our fellowman, and also our disposition toward God the Father who loved us, and Jesus the Son who saved us.'

SOURCE: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews; pp. 547-548; 1965; by Dr. Oliver B. Greene

Hebrews 12:14 is speaking about our influence upon other people. If we don't pursue peace with others, and live holy lives, then lost sinners WON'T see the Lord in us. You are the only Jesus someone knows. That person may go to Hell if they don't see the Lord in you. As believers, we are supposed to be the light of the world (Matthew 5:14). Jesus said in Matthew 5:13, “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?...” Do you know what salt does to people? It makes them THIRSTY! Christians are supposed to be the salt of this sinful world, that cause lost sinners to thirst for God. Have you lost your saltiness, i.e., savor? This is what Hebrews 12:14 means.

In sharp contrast, Dan Corner corrupts Hebrews 12:14, claiming that a person cannot see God unless they continue in holy living. Mr. Corner perverts this Scripture to mean that one's salvation is dependent upon holy living. Clearly, Daniel Corner is a false prophet who doesn't understand the inspired Word of God. He is an unsaved heretic, a modernist who pretends to be a Christian. The Devil is a beautiful liar!

Hebrews 12:15 Explains Verse 14

Hebrews 12:15, "Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled." This Scripture warns us that we have the potential to cause others to sin. A believer who lives in unrepentant sin influences others for evil, like a poison.

Hebrews 12:15 speaks of a "root of bitterness." This Scripture is a quote from Deuteronomy 29:18 in the Old Testament... "Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood." Thus, when a believer sins, it often causes other believers to fall by the wayside. There's no better example of this than the false prophet, Balaam, in the Old Testament.

Clearly, we see that Hebrews 12:14 refers to our Christian influence upon others; and NOT to our personal salvation.

What Does Hebrews 10:26,27 Mean?

A Lame Accusation Against Proponents of Eternal Security

Romans 3:31 states, "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." Most opponents of Eternal Security accuse us of believing that a person can believe on Christ and then go live in gross immorality with no fear of judgment. That is not true. 2nd Corinthians 5:10 warns, "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." So you see, every believer must one day stand trial before God at the Judgment Seat of Christ and give account for the good AND THE BAD they have done. No one has God's permission to sin.

However, to corrupt the Gospel into damnable heresy by requiring believers to maintain a holy lifestyle of obedience in order to remain saved is blasphemy. This is what the opponents of Eternal Security have done. It is otherwise known as "Lordship Salvation." I don't know anyone who believes in Eternal Security who is excited over the idea that they can indulge in sinful living without fear of judgment. There WILL BE judgment, but it will be at the Judgment Seat of Christ; and not The Great White Throne of Judgment which will only be for the unsaved (Revelation 20:11-15).

When you think about it, the very fact that God has set apart a judgment entirely for the saved is evidence by itself that believers DO NOT lose their salvation. 1st Corinthians 3:15 states, "If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire." Many believers will receive no rewards in Heaven, and will cry tears of agony and remorse over their wasted lives. 1st Thessalonians 4:6 states, “That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.” Every believer will give account to God for the GOOD and the BAD.

Hebrews 12:6-8 tells us that God chastises His children. It doesn't say He disowns them. In fact, Hebrews 13:5 promises us that God will never leave nor forsake His children. God is a faithful God Who keeps His promises.

Salvation is a promise from God, a gift paid for by the literal precious blood of Jesus Christ... “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” It is unbiblical to require people to live a holy life as a requirement for salvation. It is a false gospel. Corner spits on the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. There is NOTHING we can do to merit or lose salvation.

When will men learn that salvation is of the Lord? The problem is that people like Dan Corner confuse the ROOT of a believer's faith with the FRUIT of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25). Please read, Are We Justified by faith and Works? The Apostle Paul speaks of the ROOT of Abraham's faith in Romans 4:5; but the Apostle James speaks of the FRUIT of the believer's faith in James 2:18-21. The fruit is a result of walking in the Holy Spirit as an obedient child of God, and not as a part of saving faith. To require the fruit as part of saving faith is the lie of Lordship Salvation and a damnable heresy. We must always keep justification wrought by the Man Christ without, completely separate from sanctification by the Spirit of Christ without.

Dan Corner's False Teaching On Sin

Dan Corner teaches that certain sins, e.g., adultery and murder, are worse than other sins and will cause a believer to lose salvation and go to Hell. There is nothing in the Bible to indicate that committing certain sins will cause a believer to lose salvation. All sin is horrible in God's eyes (James 2:10). Mr. Corner twists the Scriptures and makes many inferences where the Bible does not make any direct statements to support his wild theories.

I was listening to one of Dan Corner's radio interviews in which it was said that if a Christian man was shot in the act of adultery, while in the very bed of adultery, that he would go to Hell because he would have died before he had a chance to repent. Folks, that is crazy! Is our salvation that insecure? Can you imagine? If we risk losing our salvation every time we commit certain sins, then it is a Works Salvation. Dan Corner is bad news!

The mighty Bible teacher and man of God Dr. Harry Ironside made the following excellent statement...

“People try to put guards around that truth and say, 'Yes, you are justified by faith if you have enough good works to add to it.' That is not true. It is by faith alone, and good works spring from that. When you know you have eternal life, you will find your heart so filled with love for Christ that you will try to live for His glory.”

SOURCE: Dr. Harry Ironside — The Eternal Security of the Believer

Amen! The false teaching that salvation can be lost makes salvation an uncertainty. How much sin can a person commit before losing salvation? What a horrible way to live, being in constant fear of losing salvation if we cross certain sinful lines in our life. This is 100% Works Salvation, which is of the Devil. Whereas the Bible teaches that the believer is secure in the gift of eternal life which is rooted in God's unconditional love (Romans 5:8) and the righteousness of Jesus Christ (Romans 10:3,4); opponents of Eternal Security place salvation in the hands of men, where it is sinfully rooted in self-righteousness. We are saved by HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; and not our own.

Dan Corner attempts to use 1st John 5:16 to teach that certain sins will cause a believer to lose salvation, i.e., die spiritual, but other sins won't... “If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.” However, the very next verse thwarts Corner's heresy... “All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.” Did you read that? ALL SIN is unto death (Romans 6:23). So what does 1st John 5:16 mean?

The wonderful thing that sets Biblical Christianity apart from the religions of the world is that our salvation is based upon God's unconditional love, mercy and grace (John 3:16). In sharp contrast, Muslims, Catholics, Buddhists, Hindus and a host of other religions teach that men can only do their best, through good works and self-sacrifice, and hope they've been good enough to merit Heaven. Biblical Christianity is rooted in God's unconditional love and the righteousness of Jesus Christ; whereas, the world's religions are rooted in hypocrisy and self-righteousness.

Opponents of Eternal Security are Self-righteous Boasters

Those who deny the Eternal Security of the believer are self-righteous hypocrites. Dan Corner thinks he's not as sinful as adulterers, murderers and homosexuals; but he is and he needs to get saved! Please read, Who's The Biggest Sinner? If salvation can be lost, then we're all going to Hell.

It is arrogance and an insult to the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ for anyone to hypocritically claim that salvation can be lost, but they haven't lost it yet because they're living a righteous life. This is exactly what Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Every time Mr. Corner says he hasn't sinned unto death he is boasting of his own self-righteousness. All sin is unto death (1st John 5:17; Romans 6:23).

Dan Corner teaches that believers who are guilty of adultery, greed, murder or homosexuality are not of a pure heart and will die spiritually and go to Hell if they don't repent and get saved again. Who does Corner think he is?

Dan Corner is a self-righteous hypocrite, as are his followers. Corner is as much a dirty, rotten, hell-deserving sinner as Adolf Hitler. Yet, he thinks he's secure in his salvation because he is avoiding certain DEEP SINS in his life. He fails to realize that he's already guilty of committing every sin in the Bible... “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all” (James 2:10). According to James 2:10, Dan Corner is as guilty as the vilest sinner who spits in Jesus' face. Mr. Corner needs to stop teaching heresy and realize that we are all vile, rotten, wicked sinners who can only be saved by HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!

Eternal Life is the Free Gift of God

God is not a liar. God has promised salvation to all those who trust upon the name of Jesus Christ. Romans 10:13, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” God gave us the rainbow as a token that He is an honest God Who keep His promises. Yet, those who deny Eternal Security call God a liar.

The Scriptures expose Dan Corner as a big liar. The Bible teaches that salvation is a “free gift” (Romans 5:15; 6:23). Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” A gift means a gift, with no strings attached.

The very idea that salvation is CONDITIONAL (as Daniel Corner teaches) upon the life we live negates the gift of God. Jesus tells us the only “work” we need to do to be saved. John 6:29, “Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” That's it, to BELIEVE (i.e., trust) upon Jesus to forgive one's sins. We are sinners and Jesus is the Savior. That is the simplicity of salvation.

Dan Corner is a false prophet! The Word of God exposes Mr. Corner as a false teacher because he requires self-righteous works for salvation. Adding anything to faith alone in Christ is a guaranteed road to Hell. If we are not saved by good works, then how can we be lost by bad works? Salvation is of the Lord. We are NOT saved by our own self-righteous efforts; but rather, by the righteousness of Christ Jesus. Jesus paid a debt He did not owe, because we owed a debt we could not pay. Thank God for the gift of His only begotten Son.

Dan Corner places a heavy burden upon sinners, teaching that their salvation is CONDITIONAL upon holy living, denying the flesh and avoiding certain sins. If this were true, then how could salvation ever be a free gift? It couldn't. By every definition of the word “gift,” it must be offered free of ANY OBLIGATION OR COMPENSATION.

Carefully notice in Romans 12:1 that the Apostle Paul pleads with the believers at Rome to live for the Lord... “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Notice that Paul said it was their “reasonable service”; not their required service. 1st Corinthians 6:20 tells us that we are bought with a price, i.e., the blood of Jesus Christ. God gave the ultimate sacrifice to pay for our sins. Thus, eternal life is a free gift that does not require any compensation, obligation or prerequisites to receive it. God does remind us that He paid a great price and we ought to live for Him; but this is NOT mandatory to have the gift of eternal life.

In 1st Corinthians 5:1-5 we read about a Christian man, a member of the Church of Corinth, who was living in open fornication in the church. He was carnal and the church was also carnal (1st Corinthians 3:1). 1st Corinthians 5:5, “To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.” This Christian man was living in unrepentant sin and Paul said to give him over to Satan for “the destruction of the flesh,” but notice that Paul also said the man's spirit would “be saved in the day of the Lord.” He was saved and DIDN'T lose his salvation.

I recently saw a commercial on TV offering a “gift” to anyone who opens a new account at their bank. That is false advertising. If I am required to open an account to get the “gift,” then it's NOT really a gift, it is a reward. There is a big difference between a gift and a reward.

If Saved, Always Saved

There is nothing wrong with the term “Once Saved, Always Saved,” but I prefer the statement, “If Saved, Always Saved” better. If a person is genuinely saved, then there is no possible way that person could ever be unsaved. Christianity is not a philosophy that can be renounced. It is not an organization that can be resigned. It is not a business that can be dissolved. Christianity is a new birth, a supernatural act of God Almighty in response to one's faith in Jesus as the Christ. Once a sinner has been born-again into the family of God, all the hordes of Hell cannot change that. God NEVER disowns His children.

The enemies of Eternal Security fail to address Hebrews 12:6-8 where God says He chastens His children... “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.” The Bible doesn't say that God disowns His children; but rather, He chastises them. The idea that God kicks children out of His family when they sin and then requires them to forsake their sins in order to be accepted back into the family is an insult to the blood of Jesus Christ.

The Hypocrisy of Those Who Deny Eternal Security

The biggest flaw in the thinking of Dan Corner, and others like him, is that they fail to realize just how sinful they are themselves. Dan Corner and his followers hypocritically condemn other believers who live in unrepentant sin, failing to realize that they're just as sinful in God's eyes. If salvation can be lost, then who is righteous enough to keep their own salvation? Only a self-righteous hypocrite would claim to be self-righteous enough to please God.

Isaiah 64:6 puts Dan Corner to shame, "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."

I thank God that my salvation is solely in the hands of my righteous Savior Jesus Christ; and not dependent upon my own sorry, frail, insufficient, rotten and sinful self-righteousness. Dan Corner's teachings are based in self-righteousness. He is no less a sinner than the adulterous believers he condemns. Dan Corner condemns other believers, whom he considers more sinful than himself, saying they've lost their salvation, but he's just as much a dirty, rotten sinner who fails to see the sinful beam in his own eye.

The Eternal Security of the Believer (by Pastor Harry Ironside)