{"id":926,"date":"2008-05-07T14:46:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T19:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/07\/12-steps-toward-pluralism-and-universalism-defiles-christians.html"},"modified":"2015-12-28T21:39:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T03:39:42","slug":"12-steps-toward-pluralism-and-universalism-defiles-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/12-steps-toward-pluralism-and-universalism-defiles-christians.html","title":{"rendered":"12 steps toward pluralism and universalism defiles Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very well written article on why pastors should not be promoting 12 step programs like AA. I wrote my own article on this subject a while back that says much the same things. You will find it in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/comments\/The%20woman%20on%20the%20beast%20in%20end%20time%20prophecy%20has%20dominion%20theology.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New Evangelicals and post-modern psychobabble section<\/strong> <\/a>of a much larger article I wrote on Dominion theology and where it will lead the church. There are a couple of good reference links on my piece. One is on the founders of AA, Bill Wilson, who was a real nut case. Also read the below article it gives additional insights.<\/p>\n<p>A perfect example of a graduate of a 12 step program is President George Bush. He solved his alcoholism but now embraces Universalism where many religious that deny Christ lead to God.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111201220258\/http:\/\/www.worldviewweekend.com\/worldview-times\/article.php?articleid=3477\">Alcoholics Anonymous: Pluralistically Praying unto the Higher Power &#8211; CWN<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>T.A. McMahon sums it up very well: \u201cAA\u2019s official biography indicates Bill Wilson received the details of the 12 Steps through spirit dictation. Does anyone see a simple, idolatrous problem here? But what about evangelicals just using the methodology the familiar spirit gave to Bill Wilson? Simple again: God condemns the source, and the approach is contrary to the way He wants to transform our lives. Furthermore, why turn to such a spiritually toxic system? Where are the evangelical pastors\u2019 heads in this?\u201d[10]<\/p>\n<p>Pluralism is here. Worshiping with non-believers is here. It has gone far beyond the National Day of Prayer. It is a daily occurrence at 12 Step meetings throughout the entire country.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"pluralistically praying unto the higher power\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111201220258\/http:\/\/www.worldviewweekend.com\/worldview-times\/article.php?articleid=3477\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very well written article on why pastors should not be promoting 12 step programs like AA. I wrote my own article on this subject a while back that says much the same things. You will find it in the New Evangelicals and post-modern psychobabble section of a much larger article I wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,88,22,29],"tags":[79,352,57,58,85,99,82,68],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aberrantheretical-teaching","category-discernment","category-new-agenew-spirituality","category-psychology-in-the-church","tag-beast","tag-discernment","tag-heresy","tag-movements","tag-new-spirituality","tag-pagan","tag-psychology","tag-universalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-eW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}