Fowl Workers - "Christian" Homosexual Activists

This group is represented most distinctly by overtly offensive organizations like The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.  The Sisters are not without friends in sheep's shepherd's clothing who reserve seats in their churches for these unrepentant blasphemers. Let us not forget their supporters in high places, who claim to be followers of Christ, and their 'cities of refuge' which promote the degradation of living souls.

This group is also represented by professional ministers and seminarians who worship at the bloodless altar (Joshua 22) of feminine churchianity.  These men wear soft raiment and hire themselves out as preachers. Their love for mammon hinders them from taking a firm stand against popular sins.

Homosexuality is soundly condemned as sin in the Holy Bible. Immoral heterosexuality, sex outside of marriage, is also condemned as a sin.

Well-meaning Christians turn a blind eye to the blasphemes of homosexual writers, especially and particularly their attempts to homosexualize Jesus Christ. Many so-called Christians feel content to deny the authority and reliability of the Bible in calling for a permissive attitude toward homosexuality in churches.

The push to legitimize homosexuality has been so strong on a denominational level that church organizations have ordained active and openly homosexual clergy in violation of their own denominational doctrines against adultery. The result of this overt contradiction of faith and practice has been schism.

Christians are yielding to political correctness, instead of standing on the Word of God.

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Fowl Workers - The Emerging church

The Emerging church is a postmodern group that functions as a deconstructionist movement with the trappings of nominal-Christianity. Their method is to turn the traditional church on it's head embrace all heresies as authentic belief.

Emergers are reported to congregate in bars and house churches when no established church will host them.  They trade traditional communion for house parties, and some of their members report widespread use of hallucinogenic drugs within their ranks.

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Fowl Nominees vs. Fowl Workers and False Apostles

I have decided to draw a line between dead heretics and living ones. I feel it is important for the child of God to leave room for repentance. I will use the designation of Fowl Nominee to refer to living heretics. I think it is fair, however, to refer to groups as Fowl Workers.

God is dealing with the human family as individuals in the Church age. I intend to give living individuals the most latitude while still pointing out their heresy of choice. Jesus affirmed the words John the Baptist when he said, "Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire" (Mat 7:19). John said that method to be used is to lay and axe at the root of the tree. John was speaking of false religious systems. Jesus was speaking of false prophets. Our LORD, speaking in context, goes on to say that He will deny the false prophets entry into the Kingdom. He isn't asking me to deny them entry, so let's leave room for a wayward brother to repent and pass from death unto life.

Fowl Workers - Westboro Baptist Church

The Westboro Baptist Church is a small congregation in Topeka, Kansas. They have made a name for themselves by staging protests at funerals. The congregation is pastored by Fred Phelps Sr. and consists mostly of his extended family.

The Phelps family is notorious for traveling far and wide throughout the United States to stage protests and seek media attention. Their methods are incongruous with the message of the Gospel, over-emphasizing judgment. They also appear to take pleasure in the misfortunes of others, which is decidedly unchristian.

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Fowl Doctrine - Life-Coaching from the Pulpit

Pastors like Joel Osteen claim to be called as life-coaches, forsaking the responsibility of teaching and preaching the Holy Bible. These pastors often pepper their sermons with a few Bible verses, but they use scripture to prop up teaching that promotes popular psychology.

In October of 2007, Byron Pitts of CBS News interviewed Joel Osteen for the program, 60 Minutes. Osteen stated that I didn't feel called to explain the Bible to his congregation. When asked why his church, a former basketball arena, does not have a cross, Osteen said he didn't know why.

"I want you to get a bigger vision. There are exciting things in your future. Your future is filled with marked moments of blessing, increase, promotion. God has already ordained before the foundation of the world, the right people, the right opportunity. Time and chance are coming together for you. Why don’t you get your hopes up?" Osteen tells his audience. "Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you."

Osteen won't have any crosses in the sports arena that he preaches in.  He won't preach about the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world (Rev 13:8), but he'll teach about right people and right opportunity for prosperity of the the prosperity-seeker on the earth.

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Fowl Doctrine - Sowing Financial Seed

Word of Faith preachers like Mike Murdock, teach a doctrine of giving to ministries based on financial rewards. They often use the parables of Christ that mention sowing as support for this doctrine. The aim is always to get the listener to give to the preacher's ministry, often mentioning specific sums like $1,000.

Jesus Christ spoke about sowing in four contexts; birds that depend on God to be fed (Mat 6:26); sowing the Word of God (Mat 13:3-9 & 13:18-23); Christ sowing children of the Kingdom (Mat 13:24-30); and a king accused of reaping what other men sow (Luke 19:12-27).

NOWHERE does he say anything about sowing seed in the context of giving to a ministry. Jesus himself explains these parables, so there is no room for varied interpretation. It is also very interesting that the only parable that deals with sowing in any connection with money is the one in Luke 19. And sowing is used there by a worthless servant making excuses for his faithlessness. The king tells that servant that he should have put the money in a bank.

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Birds vs. Fowl Works

First of all, I'm aware that foul and fowl have different meanings. I intend to use the word 'fowl' in discussing the work, doctrine, and tactics of false teachers. I'm sorry if someone doesn't like it, but I don't intend to change that.

Secondly, but more importantly, we need to remember to place the greater emphasis on the works themselves, and not the birds. I have no doubt that God is able and willing to save anyone who will turn to Him at anytime. I expect to see some of these people in heaven, because it would be strange indeed if some of them did not turn to Christ in the last fleeting moments of their lives. Our Savior forgave a thief on another cross. I'm confident that Jesus Christ is mighty to save. Our LORD forgave Simon Peter. He'll restore anyone who will repent.

I think however that it is important to deal with names, faces, times, and places when we talk about heresy and the works of Satan. God said the the sons of Eli were sons of wickedness (1Sa 2:12). Balaam (Num 22-24) was a false prophet and purveyor of curses. The Church is warned about the way of Balaam (2Pe 2:15), the error of Balaam (Jud 1:11), and the doctrine of Balaam (Rev 2:214).

God knows that we relate to names and faces, and that is one of the reasons He put a name and a face on salvation, Jesus Christ.

So don't get lost in the who of heresy, but pay careful attention to the way, the error, and the doctrine.

Fowl Doctrine - Date-setting (Adventism)

William Miller (1782-1849) is a good example of a date-setter. Miller made a name for himself by claiming the Christ would return to the earth on October 22, 1844.

The Millerite movement  spawned a number of groups claiming special revelation and privilege as "true Churches". Groups which have spun off from the Millerites include Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Fowl Doctrine - Sabbath-keeping

Denominations like the Seventh-day Adventists teach that it is essential for Christians to keep the Sabbath.  The SDA church offers the best example for a thumbnail sketch of the problem. 

Ellen G. White (1827-1915) was a founding member of the SDA Church. Her writings are considered to be divinely inspired by many SDA members. White taught that worship on Sunday was introduced by heretics in the Roman Catholic Church.  She claimed that the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church is the Anti-Christ and Christians who worship on Sunday are under the mark of the beast.

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Fowl Workers - Alice A. Bailey (Founder of Neo-Theosophy)

Alice A. Bailey (1880-1949)  was grew up in the Anglican Church before turning to Theosophy in 1915.  She was born into a wealthy British family and received education in her denominational church.  She claims to have attempted suicide three times in her childhood.

She also founded Lucifer Publishing, which later became the Lucis Trust. The later organization is reported to have operated a meditation room in the United Nations building and has ties to the work of the UN through a subsidiary called World Goodwill. 

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Fowl Nominees - William Blake

William Blake (1757-1827) was a well known poet and artist.

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False Apostles - Helen P. Blavatsky

Helen P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) was a founder of the Theosophical Society. 

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Fowl Workers - Kersey Graves

The author of The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, Kersey Graves (1813-1883) was a former Quaker. His book is widely acknowledged as stealing much from Sir Godfrey Higgins (1782-1833) and his book, Anacalypsis.  Graves denied his plagiarism, but cited very few sources in his work.  So much for scholarship, Mr. Graves!

Graves often detours from his presentation of "facts" to state his aim of destroying Christianity. Graves claimed to be a champion of Freethought. But like most self-proclaimed free thinkers, he couldn't tolerate religion in general and Christianity in particular. So much for free thinking, Mr. Graves!

I examined the sixteen characters from Chapter 16 of Graves' book, The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors. I rated each character on ten criteria that Graves acknowledged as being characteristics attributed to Jesus Christ. The list of criteria I choose are not mentioned by Graves as comprehensive standard, though he did spend the previous 15 chapters of his book trying to convince the reader that many mythological characters met at least one of them. In building up a case upon which to present his list of 16 gods, Graves subscribes to the notion that a savior like Christ much meet many criteria. I chose a subset of the criteria that Graves implicitly claims that a savior like Christ should meet.

My findings are that Graves and his work are fraudulent. None of the characters from Chapter 16 met half of the criteria. Fifteen of them were not crucified, and the one that I gave credit for crucifixion was persecuted and crucified by another pagan god. In short, none of Graves savior met half of the ten criteria that Graves attributes to Christ. So Graves fails to present one character as a forerunner of Christ, and hence fails to make the case that Christ was a myth built upon sixteen crucified saviors that preceded him by centuries.

In building his case to refute the claims of Christ, Grave constructs a noose on which he is hung. For the reader who likes what Graves has to say, he makes a seemingly compelling case for rejecting Jesus Christ.  For the reader who will try to verify Graves work though independent historical and religious sources, Graves is a fraud.

Harold O. J. Brown on Heresy

From Ablert Mohler's blog

The Christian religion has produced more heresies than any other religion, and the heresies it produces are more tenacious than those of any other religion. In fact, it sometimes seems that the most vigorous, committed, and rapidly multiplying Christians in any age are those we like to call heretics. Why is Christianity so productive of divisive opinions, held with great conviction, that lead to splits in the church and charges and countercharges of heresy? The reason is simple: Christianity consists of a message that claims to be absolutely true and that is at the same time deeply and perplexingly mysterious.

False Revelation - Akashic record

The Akashic record refers to a mythical record of all knowledge. The name is derived from a Sanskrit word which refers to "the sky or aether". One is said to need special extra-sensory powers read the record. The false religion of Theosophy identifies the Akashic record with the God's Book of Life (Rev 3:5, 13:8, 17:8, 20:12, 20:15, 21:27).

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My goal for this blog.

I was writing articles for another web log when I began to uncover a string of heresies and heretics. I decided to start a blog to organize thumbnail sketches of what I was finding, a catalog of heresy if you will. My quest began with Levi H. Dowling and his "Aquarian Gospel". I found Dowling's heresy through Jim E. Bakers "The Source" cult.

I have several articles in the hopper. The articles are very brief, but I want to be precise. I'm finding lots of birds in the mustard tree, and I tend to get hung up in the research.

Fowl Nominees - L. Frank Baum (author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) became a Theosophist in 1897, three years before he wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.  Baum's childhood family were devout Methodists.

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False Religions - Theosophy

Theosophy proposes to make people wise about god by presenting all religions as valid. It borrows a great deal from Hinduism and Anacalypsis. 

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False Apostles - Levi H. Dowling

Levi H. Dowling (1844-1911) is responsible for writing a heretical, anti-Christian gospel that is based on the teachings of Theosophy. Dowling's false gospel is reported by some to have served as a handbook in the Jesus Freak movement in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The clear aim of Levi Dowling's heretical work is to supplant the Holy Bible as the Word of God.

Dowling claimed to be a Christian for much of his life, according to statements made by his wife Eva. She describes him as a dedicated Christian worker who produced Sunday school materials, served as the pastor of a church, and was a Chaplain in the US Army. According to the introduction to Dowling's phony gospel, he claims to have received the text from the Akashic records.

No written manuscripts are known to exist of the fabled Akashic records. It is said to be a library of all knowledge with is stored in air in the Sanskrit language. One is supposed to access the record through special extra-sensory powers. Dowling claims to be one such person who was able to access the non-existent records. It is interesting to note that the word 'Sanskrit' means "self-made".

Levi Dowling used paraphrased excerpts of the New Testament Gospels, particularly Luke, mixed in with the leaven of Kabbalah. In addition to numbering the chapters he assigned a Hebrew letter to each one, in aleph-bet order. He also hastens to use the Greek name "Jesus" for the name of the Christ child. No explanation is given as to why the author blends Hebrew and Greek into a document that is supposed to be a direct translation from Sanskrit to English.

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False Christs - James Edward Baker (aka Father Yahowha)

James E. Baker (1922-1975) was a heretic who built his organization, The Source, on the false gospel of Levi H. Dowling. Baker formed a pot-smoking hippie cult through his influence in his family, with the help of heresies contained in Dowling's The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ.

Baker's attained the status of messiah among his followers.

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False Christinas - Veronica Lueken (aka Veronica of the Cross)

Veronica Lueken (1923-1995) was a heretic in the Catholic Church. She has been exalted to the status of false Christina among her followers.

Lueken claimed to have had a series of visitations from the Virgin Mary beginning in 1970. Mrs. Lueken further claimed to have received a few hundred messages from Mary, Jesus, and an assortment of saints. The followers of Lueken have formed a cult which preserves and promotes her teachings.

The church at Bayside, where Veronica Lueken supposedly had her visions, does not publicly claim any connection with Lueken or her visions.

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