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“The Bible says, ‘Self-help is no help at all. Selfsacrificeis the way, my way, to finding yourself, yourtrue self’” (p. 19).Here Warren quotes Matthew 16:25 in The Message.Actually, the verse should say, “For whosoever will save hislife shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sakeshall find it.”There is not a hint here about self-help or finding your trueself. The verse is not teaching about finding yourself butabout finding your life. What Warren quotes as Scripture isactually a presumptuous prefabrication by Eugene Peterson,the author of The Message.The Message also takes away the Lord’s solemn warningthat whosoever will find his life shall lose it. This fits inperfectly with Warren’s unscriptural positivism.Slighting over Hell and JudgmentThe Lord Jesus Christ preached on Hell frequently. Thereare nearly 100 references in Scripture to fearing the Lord,and God’s judgment is a never-ending theme of Scripture.However, when it comes to Rick Warren, he does notmention God’s judgment, never urges his listeners to fear theLord, and he makes only one passing reference to Hell. Thisis on page 37, and in the same section, he quotes C.S. Lewistwice. Lewis believed that Hell is a metaphor and a state ofmind: “And every state of mind, left to itself, every shuttingup of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind--is, inthe end, Hell” (Lewis, The Great Divorce, p. 65).Not only did the Lord Jesus Christ preach much on Hell,but he also preached it hot and furiously.“And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better forthee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to12
go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for theeto enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast intohell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Wheretheir worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And ifthine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee toenter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than havingtwo eyes to be cast into hell fire: Where their worm diethnot, and the fire is not quenched” (Jesus Christ, Mark9:43-48).There is no a hint of this kind of preaching in RickWarren’s woefully inadequate ministry.If ever there were an hour in which the people of this worldneed to hear Hell and judgment and the fear of God preachedfiery hot and powerfully plain it is this present unbelieving,mocking, blasphemous, pleasure mad, self-loving, selfcontent,self-righteous age, but the popular preachers won’ttouch it. It is too negative. Too damaging to self-esteem. Toodogmatic and intolerant. Too likely to offend and cut into thesize of my audience.Every Strange Bible VersionIn The Purpose Driven Life, Warren uses 15 different Bibleversions, including two Roman Catholic ones (The NewAmerican Bible and the New Jerusalem Bible). His favoritesare the “dynamic equivalency” versions such as the LivingBible, the New Living Bible, Today’s English Version, theContemporary English Version, and The Message. The latterseems to be his most favorite.As a result, it is often impossible to know exactly whatScripture he is quoting because it is so strangely paraphrasedand wildly inaccurate.13
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It is a sad fact that Southerland h
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Judaism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Bahai,
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clamour for a confederacy which wou
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American Baptist ChurchesThe Baptis
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