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convince all that are ungodly among them of all their understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own
ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and corruption” (2 Pe. 2:12).
of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have John: “Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in
spoken against him” (Jude 14-15). the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in
Samuel: “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the
stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this
hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid
rejected thee from being king” (1 Sa. 15:22-23). him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is
Isaiah: “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, partaker of his evil deeds” (2 John 9-11).
a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they 8. New Evangelicalism is characterized by an
have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy inconsistency and contradiction.
One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. New Evangelicals say that they love the truth and
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt will make bold statements for the truth at times, but
more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole they often undermine this profession by their actions
heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head and by their contradictory statements. Consider some
there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, examples:
and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither Billy Graham is the king of inconsistency and
bound up, neither mollified with ointment” (Isaiah contradiction. This is why he has been called “Mr. Facing
1:4-6). Both Ways.”
Jeremiah: “Mine heart within me is broken because Graham says that he loves the gospel of the grace of
of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken Christ and he preaches the gospel, but he turns his
man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, converts over to churches that preach a works gospel.
because of the LORD, and because of the words of his
holiness. For the land is full of adulterers; for because of Graham says that to be a true Christian one must be
swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the born again, but he fellowships closely with Modernists
wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and and Roman Catholics and others who do not believe in
their force is not right. For both prophet and priest are the new birth as Graham preaches it and he accepts
profane; yea, in my house have I found their them as genuine brethren in Christ.
wickedness, saith the LORD” (Je. 23:9-11). Graham says that he loves the old doctrines such as
Almighty God: “Son of man, I send thee to the the virgin birth of Christ, but he has often praised men
children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath who deny these doctrines.
rebelled against me: they and their fathers have At the preparation for the 1978 Crusade in Toronto,
transgressed against me, even unto this very day. For Graham spoke at the Royal York Hotel on March 16,
they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send 1978. On one hand, he said we need to call the
thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus churches back to “biblical authority,” but in the same
saith the Lord GOD. ... Now is the end come upon thee, message he said, “Lutherans, Anglicans and Catholics
and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge are members of the body of Christ,” and, “We
thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon communicate the Bible by our unity; I believe in
thee all thine abominations. And mine eye shall not ecumenicity.” It is blatant inconsistently and a gross
spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will contradiction to speak of biblical authority while also
recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine accepting heresy and heretics as expressions of genuine
abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall Christianity.
know that I am the LORD.” (Eze. 1:3-4; 7:3-4). James Packer is another example of this. Like
Jesus: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, Graham, Packer is “Mr. Facing Both Ways.”
hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one He has displayed New Evangelical contradiction in
proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold regard to theological Modernism. Packer wrote the
more the child of hell than yourselves” (Mt. 23:15). preface to a reprint of W.H. Griffith Thomas’ The
Paul: “O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou Principles of Theology (1977) and praised Thomas for
child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt treating liberal and Romanized Anglicans as “benighted”
thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the and for calling them to “true Christianity identity.” Thus,
Lord?” (Acts 13:10). on the one hand Packer praises the old style of
Peter: “But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be Evangelicalism that kept itself separate from and
taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they refused to accept the Modernism within the Church of
England. On the other hand, Packer was at the forefront

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