In the following video Eric explains why he has turned away from his former profession of Christian faith, to instead becoming an agnostic who exposes and condemns Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) believers. What Eric is doing is truly shameful, further destroying lives by spreading manure to make money. The heathen world loves him! ...
Why I Am No Longer a Christian | Eric Skwarczynski
What saith the Scripture? Romans 12:2, “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” This verse applies to believers, not the unsaved. The Gospel doesn't change you! Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) preached a helpful sermon titled, 'YOUR SALVATION DID NOT CHANGE YOU A BIT.' As Dr. Hyles rightly explains, when you get saved hands of OWNERSHIP change. You have gone from being a child of the Devil to a child of God, but now your life needs to be RENOVATED by the local church. This is where churches have dropped the ball for God. Pastors are to blame for not preaching the Word!
The so-called “Preacher Boy's” podcast is toxic. Sadly, Eric is making money asking for PayPal donations on YouTube for his hateful rhetoric and slander against God's saints. Revelation 12:10, “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.” Satan is the accuser of THE BRETHREN. The Devil doesn't accuse THE WORLD, he accuses THE BRETHREN. You're never more like the Devil than when you accuse Christians. Eric is using the fall of Christians to further his evil agenda to tear down God's imperfect children.
Having said that, even the best saint is still a horrible sinner. Psalms 130:3, “If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?” 1st Timothy 5:24, “Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.” Eric Skwarczynski is as much a guilty sinner and Pharisaical hypocrite as the saints whom he condemns!!! There are no perfect churches. There are no perfect pastors. The Bible is full of true stories of sinful saints who messed up. Cain killed Abel. Noah got drunk. Abraham and Sarah doubted God. Lot was a righteous man who got drunk and impregnanted two of his daughters. Samson chased unholy skirts all his life. Saul consulted with the Witch of Endor. David was an adulterer and murderer. Solomon was a sex pervert. The Bible says God gave us these biographies to give us comfort and patience in our faith, that we might have hope. Romans 15:4b, “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” Yet, Eric foolishly says he has abandoned faith in Jesus, because of the hypocrisy and wickedness he has beheld in professed Christians over time. What Eric fails to realize is that he is just as wicked and hypocritical as the saints that he attacks (Matthew 7:1-5).
Dear reader, there are an estimated 6,500 Independent Fundamental Baptist Churches across the United States today! What critics like Eric are doing is foolishly focusing on the small faction of church leaders who have gone into open sin, who have blown their testimony for Jesus Christ, who have hurt people and failed as leaders to honor the Lord. This is not some new phenomena in these modern times! Read what the psalmist said in Psalms 12:1, “Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.” Sinful human nature hasn't changed in thousands of years! Jesus told us in John 15:19 that the world would receive their own, but hate Christians. They really hate Jesus (John 7:7).
Kindly said, Eric Skwarczynski is foolish to blame the Gospel for the failure of God's children. In the preceding transparent video, he says the reason why he's abandoned his Christian faith is because he has become frustrated with church people who have gone into woeful sin. He has personally been hurt by church people (I have too). Eric is tired and at the end of his rope with the hypocrisy, abuse and woeful lack of love that he sees in churches today. I have to say that I agree with him largely on this point. The churches are pathetic today.
When I moved from the island of Guam to Pensacola in 2021, I chose to attend Pensacola Christian College's (PCC) Campus Church. I learned quickly that their senior pastor is a cold-hearted ungodly religious snob. These horrible religious people have no idea how ungodly and far from the Lord they really are. I left in disgust and wounded, after being horribly mistreated and insulted by their hateful pastor, Jeff Redlin. The problem is that they only see what they want to see at PCC, so they are blind, which is exactly what Jesus called the Laodicean church in Revelation 3:17. PCC are “blind” to their own spiritual nakedness, failing to see that they are miserable, wretched and poor. Instead, they are arrogant, high-minded and have huge egos at PCC. I speak this to their utter shame! So, I fully understand Eric's absolute disgust toward problematic fundamentalists today, and I share his disgust.
The only reason why I haven't turned agnostic like Eric is because I properly understand the Gospel. There is no alleged “transforming power of the Gospel.” Pacific Garden Mission's 'UNSHACKLED' radio program is guilty of promoting that utter heresy, saying that getting saved will automatically rid your life of chemical addictions, sinful lusts and lifelong bad habits. It's simple NOT true folks! Getting saved didn't change you one iota! If you are addicted to drugs (including the narcotic drug booze), you will need medical intervention to break free from your chemical addition. Getting saved doesn't change your life, it changes your destination.
Coming to Christ to receive God's free gift of eternal life rescues you from the wrath of God in Hell, but you are still the same old rotten you! Now that you're saved, your life needs to be transformed (renewed by the inspired Word of God). 1st Peter 2:2-3, “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” Tragically, Eric Skwarczynski is another victim of Lordship Salvation, having been woefully lied to by corrupt pastors and churches, taught that getting saved should radically change a person's life, which it simply doesn't.
As Pastor Loran Livingston rightly says, pastors are to blame today for not preaching the inspired Word of truth. Preachers have dropped the ball for God, far more interested in making money than they are preaching the truth to help people. The reason why millions of professed Christians are living woeful lives of sin and shame is because preachers don't preach anymore! Listen to Brother Lester Roloff (1914-1982) preach this needful sermon titled, 'RUNNING SHORT ON AUTHORITY!' Pastors no longer preach upon the authority of God's inspired Word. When men usurp authority in a church, you now have a cult! Many IFB churches today are cults!!! The ONLY authority in any church should be the inspired King James Bible.
Pastors are no longer preachers! Sadly, 99% of pastors today cannot preach their way out of a wet paperbag. The clergy have lost their power with God. There is a woeful lack of love and compassion in today's awful Bible colleges and churches. I am convinced that all Bible colleges do today is neuter the pastors of tomorrow. We're in trouble folks! As much as churches despise Eric Skwarczynski, he is merely holding up a mirror to the churches, to show us how bad we really have become in the United States.
Please don't get me wrong, I am totally against what Eric is sinfully doing, slandering God's children. However, there is much truth to his accusations. Christians at best are still rotten hell-deserving sinners! I've said it often, that the only thing which makes the most upright saint any more righteous, than the vilest criminal who ever walked the face of the earth, is the precious blood of Jesus that washed away all our sins the moment we were born again (1st John 1:7; 1st Corinthians 6:11; Revelation 1:5).
In closing, there is no allusive “transformative power of the Gospel.” So, get that out of your mind. Just because you have received God's free gift of eternal life, which is by faith alone in Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:26), doesn't mean now that your behavior will somehow drastically improve. You simply took God at His Word to trust on His only begotten Son, the Christ. But now you need to grow in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ (2nd Peter 3:18), and this requires abiding in the Word (1st Peter 2:2), and attending church to hear preaching (Titus 1:3). Preaching helps us think right to live right!
Dear friend, we must always keep SERVICE separate from SALVATION. Eric is confused between the two, caught between grace and works. Since he doesn't see any SERVICE in professed saints today, he is doubting their SALVATION. He has turned agnostic, failing to understand that salvation doesn't produce a changed life; it simply opens the door of spiritual enlightenment, equipping the believer with the indwelling Holy Spirit (1st John 3:24; 1st Corinthians 2:14-16; 2nd Corinthians 5:17). The local church has the responsibility to mentor new believers, “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:2-b). It is because local churches have not obeyed The Great Commission that professed Christians are in such a mess today, and not because the Gospel has failed to transform their lives as Eric alleges. Eric Skwarczynski's tragic path of destruction is just further evidence of the dangers of Lordship Salvation, misleading people about the Gospel.
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