John 3:1-3, “There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
I was so sad to hear in the news yesterday that James Earl Jones (1931-2024) died at age 93. I am sad because he was a devout Roman Catholic, and Catholics do not follow the Holy Bible, they follow manmade tradition. Listen to what Jesus said about false religion in Mark 7:9 and 13, “And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. ...Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.” Catholicism is a prisonhouse of religion!
James Earl Jones was a good man, as far as sinful men go, and we're all sinners. Jones said the greatest honor of his life was reading the King James Bible for everyone to hear, similar to what Alexander Scourby also did. There is no doubt that James loved God, so he thought, but loving God is not enough to get to Heaven you must be BORN AGAIN through faith alone in Jesus Christ.
The Satanic Counterfeit Salvation Of Roman Catholics
In a heretical article by Jimmy Akin at Catholic.com, he horribly teaches in his article: “How To Go To Heaven”:
“I can summarize it in two sentences. The two sentences are these: To come to God and be saved, you need to repent, have faith and be baptized. If you commit mortal sin, you need to repent, have faith and go to confession. That's it. That's all there is to it, and we can show each of these things from the Bible. ...if you do these things, you'll be in a state of grace; and as long as you remain in a state of grace, you'll go to Heaven. But we still have free will, and we can still turn our backs on God and fall from grace.” SOURCE (listen to James Akin's audio plan of salvation)
What a dirty theological liar! Kindly said, James Akin is NOT saved. He knows enough about the inspired Holy Bible to be dangerous! Mr. Akin cites 1st Peter 3:21 as alleged “proof” that you must be water baptized to go to Heaven. But that is untrue. Let's look at the passage, shall we...
1st Peter 3:20-22, “Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.”
Akin just quotes the phrase “baptism doth also now save us,” to deceive you. He doesn't include the rest of the verse. He ignores the surrounding context entirely, which is bad Bible interpretation. Pastor Brad Strand gives the correct interpretation in his excellent The Strand Study Bible on page 2109...
Sadly, there are some religious movements that have tried to use this Scripture to prove that baptism (saved by water) is essential to salvation and thus part of the saving Gospel. It is not (Mk 16:16). Noah and his family were not saved by getting “into” the water, but by staying “out” of the water. The ark (i.e., a type of Christ) is what saved Noah and his family, not the water. According to verse 21, baptism is nothing more than a “like figure” (i.e., a symbol of illustration) of spiritual cleansing. Baptism is simply an outward and visible declaration of an inward change , i.e., the public evidence of a penitent spirit (Rom 6:4-5). Only the Gospel saves (Rom 1:16 and 1 Cor 1:17).
Amen and amen! I couldn't have said it any better dear reader. James Akin is a FALSE PROPHET!!! Beware of this infidel of the faith, he is not saved at all. I showed you this corrupt man and his popular Catholic website to help you to see why I DO NOT think James Earl Jones went to Heaven. What I just showed you is typical Catholic teaching. There are over 1,000,000,000 Roman Catholics on the planet, and none of them are going to Heaven, if they are trusting in the garbage that I just shared with you from James Akin's toxic religious website.
In fact, biblically you DON'T have to repent of your sins to go to Heaven. Jesus died on a cross to pay for your sins. You just need to receive Jesus\ sacrifice as payment, by resting (relying completely) in what He did to redeem you through Calvary's cross. You DON'T need to go to some stupid Catholic confessional booth. Those wicked priests are sinners just like you and me, so they cannot forgive anyone's sins, not even their own.
Dear friend, Jesus has already paid for your sins with His precious blood (1st Peter 1:18-19). So, you don't need to repent of your sins to be forgiven; but rather, you need to receive Christ's sacrifice on the cross as FULL PAYMENT for your sins. God is already freely offering you the gift of eternal life, if you'll just accept it by taking Him at His Word in the Scripture.
The True Saving Gospel Of Free Grace
Now here is what the inspired King James Bible really teaches how to go to Heaven...
1st Corinthians 15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”
The Gospel (which means GOOD NEWS) is:
- Jesus DIED on a cross for our sins.
- He was BURIED.
- Christ RESURRECTED three days later from the dead.
Those are the FACTS that you must know and trust in to get to Heaven when you die someday. The only other thing you need to know is that you are a guilty SINNER in God's sight (Romans 3:19-20). You need to know what you're being saved from, Hell. And why you need to be saved, because you deserve to burn in Hell for your sins (and so do I). But Jesus paid the ransom (Matthew 10:28). 1st Timothy 2:5-6, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” Jesus died as a ransom for ALL! That refutes the Calvinist heresy of Limited Atonement, which falsely claims that Christ only died for saved people.
Anyone who comes to god as a sinner, and by childlike faith (reliance, trust) receives Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for their sins, believing that He was buried but is risen from the dead, is saved. 1st Thessalonians 4:14, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” It's that simple.
This is a VERY different plan of salvation that what I shared with you earlier by James Akin, in which he requires you to go to the Catholic confessional booth, to confess your darkest and dirtiest sins to some pervert priest who wears a dress.
James Akin earlier also mention that to go to Heaven you must REMAIN in a state of grace. He errantly teaches that Galatians 5:4 means you can lose salvation. Dear reader, you CANNOY lose God's free gift of eternal life once you have it. ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED (OSAS) is 100% biblical. James is horribly in error to teach that you can fall out of grace. A redeemed believer falls “in grace” (Romans 6:1), but never “from grace.” The only person who can fall from grace is an unsaved person who is trying to do works to get to Heaven, like James Akin is doing. James has indeed fallen from God's grace. That is, he has never been saved at all, and won't be until he repents (changes his mind) to forsake his religious “DEAD WORKS” (Hebrews 6:1), to REST in Jesus Christ alone (Hebrews 4:10-11).
James Early Jones Very Likely DIDN'T Go To Heaven
I realize that many people get upset when I say things like this, but I care about you friend, and I don't want anyone to die in the sins and spend eternity suffering in Hell. James Earl Jones was a devout Catholic. You can verify that easily by doing a quick web search. There is no salvation in the seven sacraments of Catholicism. Sacramental Salvation is NOT God's simple plan of salvation, which I just showed you from 1st Corinthians 15:1-4. The Apostle Paul said he received this Gospel directly from Jesus Christ Himself (Galatians 1:12).
Oh how foolish are the masses of this world, to follow some foolish manmade religious cult. I could spend hours showing you how phony, unscriptural and rotten Catholicism is. For example: The Vatican removed the second of God's Ten Commandments, which forbids bowing down to graven images and idols. Gee, I wonder why Catholics would change the Bible to remove the Second Commandment...
The old adage is very true: A picture is worth a thousand words!
Now you can see exactly why Catholics have removed the Second Commandment from the Holy Bible, to deceive their followers. Dear friend, please don't follow the Roman or Russian Orthodox Catholic religions into the fires of Hell. Although these two factions of Catholicism are headquartered in different countries, and have different leaders, they share 95% of the SAME damnable heresies and idolatrous practices. These are PRISONHOUSES OF RELIGION!
John 3:3, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
James Akin didn't say anything about being born again. He just said you need to get water baptized, go to the confessional booth, remain in a state of grace, and have faith. Faith in what? The Catholic Pope? The Catholic church? The confessional booth? The seven sacraments? What saith the Scripture? Galatians 3:26, “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:9-11,“And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.” James Akin didn't even mention Jesus! He tells you to go confess your sins to a Catholic priest. He tells you to go get dunked in a baptistery. But the fool never mentions Jesus—the sinless Lamb of God (John 1:29), the risen Christ (John 20:31), the precious only begotten Son of God (John 3:16).
Unless James Earl Jones secretly trusted Christ and REJECTED the manmade teachings of his Catholic faith, he didn't make it to Heaven. The inspired Word of God is very clear in this matter, that you MUST be “born again.” Dear reader, you DON'T have to repent of your sins to go to Heaven, you need to repent (change your mind) to acknowledge THE TRUTH (2nd Timothy 2:25). The truth is that you are a SINNER (and so am I), and Jesus is the SAVIOR. Religion cannot save you. Getting water baptized no more makes you a Christian, than walking into a garage would make you an automobile! Noah and his family were saved by the ark, not the water. God sealed the door on the ark (Genesis 7:16).
God knows that I am not trying to upset anybody by saying that I don't think James Earl Jones went to Heaven. I believe he sadly went to the Lake of Fire forever. The fact that Mr. Jones boasted of being a lifelong devout Catholic tells me that he never trusted Christ for his salvation, he trusted in the false doctrines and dead rituals of the accursed Catholic church.
Catholics call their priests “Father” when the Bible strictly forbids reverencing men (Matthew 23:9). Catholics forbid marriage for priests, and eating meats on Fridays, which the Bible exposes as false religion (1st Timothy 4:1-3). Catholics teach the Perpetual Virginity of Mary heresy, but the Bible plainly says that Mary bear at least 2 daughters and 4 sons (Matthew 13:55-56). Joseph was their biological father; but God almighty alone was Jesus' biological father (Matthew 1:23; John 3:16). Joseph raised Him as his Dad. These are but just a few of the contradictions which are prevalent in Roman Catholicism; totally contrary to the Holy Bible.
Is it possible that James Earl Jones repented of his false religion on his death bed? Sure, anything is possible, but I sincerely doubt it. When you've been brainwashed your entire life by a wicked false religion for over 70 years, you don't just come to your waking senses in a moment at age 93. It is astronomically rare. I hope he did go to Heaven, but from everything I have ever learned about the inspired Holy Bible (as a born again child of God myself since age 13), I humbly don't think James Earl Jones went to Heaven.
“Nothing in my future can ever affect the salvation that I have... Once you trust the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you are eternally secure!” —Pastor Hank Lindstrom (1940-2008), a quote from the classic MP3 sermon titled, “How Permanent Is Your Salvation?”
“Salvation is based upon purely what Jesus Christ has done. And if you've trusted Jesus Christ here, you're saved forever! Nothing in your life, nothing in your death, angels, principalities, nothing—nothing in your future—could ever undo that relationship that has been made when you trusted Jesus Christ as Savior. And there are many people who are confused over this whole thing.” —Pastor Hank Lindstrom (1940-2008), a quote from the classic MP3 sermon titled, “How Permanent Is Your Salvation?”
“There are many people who name the name of Jesus Christ, who are not saved, because they're trusting in living the Christian life, or in their works, or in some efforts that they're doing, in order to obtain their salvation.” —Pastor Hank Lindstrom (1940-2008), a quote from the classic MP3 sermon titled, “How Permanent Is Your Salvation?”
Kindly said, I also don't think Eddie Van Halen (1955-2020), another Roman Catholic all his miserable wicked life, went to Heaven. Olivia Newton John (1948-2022) was also a devout Catholic. She didn't shy away from telling the world that she was a Christian, but sadly just claiming to be a Christian doesn't make you one. YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN!!! Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again.
A Clear Gospel Presentation In Just 4 Minutes
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