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“Then the third day came. A stone was rolled away andan imprisoned spirit was set free” (Tibbets, Secret Place,April-June 1950, published by the Northern BaptistConvention).Duncan Littlefair was pastor of the Fountain Street BaptistChurch of Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was also a leader inthe Northern Baptist Convention. As host pastor of the 1946annual convention he said:“The Resurrection was not a physical event in history. Ifthe body of Jesus had been raised physically it wouldonly have been required to die again. We have made thephysical aspect of the Resurrection the importantthing. ... It is a shame and disgrace, really, that after allthese centuries we should be living and thinking aboutthe glory of the Resurrection on such levels asthese” (Littlefair, The Nature of God).Littlefair also denied that Jesus Christ is God:“Was Jesus God? There are two major approaches to thisquestion. One of them seeks to make Jesus God. Thatseems to be the traditional notion of Christianity or atleast the popular understanding of it, but I want to sayhere this morning, once and for all, if I haven’t said itbefore, and if I don’t say it again--That is idolatry. Jesusis not and cannot be God. He was God in the same waythat you and I may be God, by being an expression ofhim, and allowing him to express himself inus” (Littlefair, cited by R.T. Ketcham, The Answer, pp.25-31).American Baptist minister Jitsuo Morikawa, former pastorof the Riverside Church in New York City, said in 1964:“God has already won a mighty redemption ... for theentire world ... The task of the church is to tell all men ...that they already belong to Christ ... Men are no longerlost ... There cannot be individual salvation” (JitsuoMorikawa, Riverside Church, New York City,Christianity Today, March 13, 1964, p. 26).74
American Baptist missionary D.T. Niles of India made thefollowing statement espousing universalism before theAmerican Baptist Convention:“...everybody is within the ministry of Jesus Christwhether or not he accepts it ... The only question [is] ‘Doyou know that Jesus Christ is your Saviour?’ Jesus isLord whether man knows it or not--believes it ornot” (J.O. Sanders, What of the Unevangelized, p. 21).Nels F.S. Ferre, professor at the Northern Baptist Andover-Newton Theological School, was a modernist and ablasphemer of the highest caliber. He denied the virgin birth,deity, miracles, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He claimedthat the Old Testament taught an “outworn morality” (Ferre,Pillars of Faith, p. 95). He stated that “God differs from allmen, including Jesus, in that His personality alone is eternaland the Creator of all other personalities” (Ferre, TheChristian Faith, 1942, p. 102). He conjectured that Jesusmight have been the son of a Roman soldier (Ferre, ChristianUnderstanding of God, p. 186). He claimed that acceptingthe Bible as the infallible Word of God is idolatry (Ferre, TheSun and the Umbrella, p. 39).In the 1960s, Professor William Hamilton of ColgateRochester Divinity School (American Baptist) taught thatGod is dead. Hamilton was defended in 1966 by Colgatepresident Gene Bartlett who refused to remove Hamiltonfrom the faculty because he “was within the allowablemeasure of dissent.”The American Baptist Convention in 1968 stated thatabortion “should be a matter of responsible personaldecision.”In the early 1970s, Dr. L. McBain, former president of theAmerican Baptist Convention and president of the AmericanBaptist Seminary of the West, argued that Jesus Christ is not75
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Warren Tells Pastors to Get Rid of
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faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ
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“The Bible says, ‘Self-help is
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On page 70, Warren quotes Hebrews 1
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lyrics. It is the words that make a
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appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ
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