I have noticed over the years that Rick Warren just panders to the audience. What he says to Christians on a issue will not necessarily be be what he says to the media or the world power brokers on the same issue. His message is typically post-modern where truth is relative and adjustable to those being pandered to for his own end.
This is why he is signing on to wordily agendas and then apologizing or having to rationalize to other Christians why he jumped on board. Then to appease them he says he did not agree with much of what he signed??? You can’t love the world and the things of the world and make it your dominion and also appeal to those who know the dominion for Christians is not of this world, or at least not of this evil age. I think Rick Warren too often is found on both sides of the fence.
WorldNetDaily: Rick Warren’s distortions of reality: “Rick Warren loves to apologize for things he didn’t do, for things other people did that weren’t wrong, even for things that occurred hundreds of years before he was born. “
Warren is a false teacher and a man who is talking crap about things who apparently knows nothing about. If he had any knowledge of the Middle East and Sharia laws regarding conversions and tolerance for non-Islamic faiths in an Islamic society ruled by Sharia, he would not have made such idiotic statements, unless he was just kissing up to the Syrian gov’t for allowing him to visit. He’s a disgrace to his country and to Christ and all Bible-believing Christians who are being persecuted worlwide in the name of man-made and demonic religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.
Let’s take the Copts in Egypt for instance. If you’re born into a family of Copts, you’re welcome to convert to Islam, but if you were born into a Muslim family and you wish to convert openly to the Christian faith… don’t even think of it or you may face prison or worse.
In the Ottoman and Moorish empires, Jews enjoyed a high status. The Moroccan kingdom has a long history of its kings protecting the Jews by allowing them to live near his palace. In exchange, however, they had to pay a special tax.
This man is not leading the Muslims to Christ. Indeed, he’s not leading anyone to accept Christ as He is. On the contrary, he’s condemning the Muslims and others to eternal damnation by not preaching the Gospel and denying the evils in Islam.
Furthermore, he backs Obama along with people like Oprah and Will Smith. Enough said, I guess?
Will somebody on your website please give factual, Scriptural support for how Warren is supposedly off-base?
The ad hominem attacks with little to back them up do nothing to help people’s discernment Not to mention, they seem a tad unbiblical themselves (“Let your gentleness be evident to all.”)
Since when is putting the gospel message into a vernacular that people can understand heretical?
I posted this article four years ago and even before that time I had written articles that outlined some problems with Rick Warren’s programs and views.
http://www.thepropheticyears.com/comments/Seeker%20friendly.htm
http://www.thepropheticyears.com/comments/Globel%20Peace%20plan.htm
http://www.thepropheticyears.com/comments/The%20purpose%20driven%20hijacking%20of%20Christianity.htm
After posting this post I have posted dozens of other posts on Rick Warren. You would have seen a few of them if you looked at the related posts below this post.
There is also a tag on this post. It links to dozens of more posts about Rick Warren on this blog. Read the 50 titles and teasers then click on the ones that are specifically talking about Rick Warren. I think Christians should soon get the picture.
https://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/tag/rick-warren/
I would have to say to Taylor that if you think Roshan’s statements are ad hominen attacks then I suggest you read Rick Warren’s very own writings.
Your quote of 2 Corinthians 10:1 written by Paul, seems to be taken out of context. Paul actually said, “Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ..”
Unless you were quoting from a modern translation and meant some other Scripture.
Even so, Paul infuriates many liberals who accuse him of being unloving–which, of course, he is by their OWN, therefore unscriptural, standards. One such liberal Christian told me, very angrily, that she disliked Paul’s statements–going on to say she felt the same about much of what Jesus Christ said.
The same Jesus Christ, remember, overturned the tables of the moneychangers and drove them out of the temple. Do you think He wasn’t showing gentleness then?
It seems to me that your own statements can seem ad hominem or straw man arguments.
As to putting the gospel in the vernacular: well it was in vernacular Greek. And it is generally translated so. That is never a problem.
What IS a problem is when the meanings of words are changed. I suggest you read “The Living Bible”, Eugene Peterson’s “The Message” and the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ versions of the Scriptures to see for yourself how the meanings of words are changed to suit particular paradims.
If you would like a perfect example of the words of Scripture taken way, way out of context, I suggest you attend a couple of Alpha meetings. From my experience of them, it might as well be Rick Warren running the things from all the off beam stuff I encountered.