BISHOP CARLTON PEARSON SCANDAL:
Hi Guys, i was browsing the internet and came across this article written by Sound and Silence, about Bishop Carlton Pearson. Check it out and let us know what you think of this article.. Please leave a comment.
Bishop Carlton Pearson. For those who have any interest in the debate concerning beliefs around eternal destiny, aka Heaven and Hell, this man’s journey is significant.
Bishop Carlton Pearson was branded a heretic by the Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops in 2004, for his version of UR, called the “Gospel of Inclusion”. For the sake of his doctrine (read “faith”), in giving up hell, he found that his congregation fell by over 90%, he was forced to give up his church building, and he virtually lost his entire ministry.
Most painfully, he fell out with many friends and loved ones including the great (in pentecostal-charismatic terms) Oral Roberts who saw him as a son. He paid a heavy price to break away from the 1500 year old ideology of Ultimate Fear, and embrace a radical expression of Grace.
The scandal of Bishop Carlton Pearson is qualitatively different to what we have come to expect from the Church. Crucially it has not involved hypocrisy, as in extramarital liaisons, pedophilia, embezzlement, or substance abuse. No, the scandal of Bishop Carlton Pearson is not unlike the scandal of Christ, who took on the religious-political-cultural establishment for the sake of God rule of Love and Justice.
Take a listen to Bishop Carlton Pearson’s Story on: This American Life.
Watch the MSNBC coverage.
Browse to the website for his church, New Dimensions
Bishop Carlton Pearson links on Universal Restoration website Tentmaker.
More… Bishop Carlton Pearson is making some strong statement, what do we think as the Church Body? Please leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the this matter..
Original story by: Sound and Silence
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I was going to start off by saying, “I hate to say this”. But infact I don’t hate to say it. If we cannot stand up for God and his true word, what the heck are we doing. We did not have to die on the cross like Jesus. The vast majority of us don’t have to worry about being persecuted for what we believe in. But in my opinion at the very least we have to call it like we see it. We shall know them by the spirit. How can someone who has preached roughly since they were 5yrs old get it so wrong. I think the saddest of all is the fact that Oral Roberts had the since to call him out on this but alot of African American Preachers stand idle at his side and allow this stuff to infiltrate our community. If you don’t believe God’s bible is a true manifestation of himself how can you even call yourself a Christian. You believe half or some of God’s word than in my opinion you are a half Christian and unfortunately for Carlton and so many others he will find that on Judgement Day there won’t be a seperate entrance for half Christian’s cause they don’t exist. You can’t have one foot in the world and one foot out. I wonder if Carlton thought this new message would get him more followers and it back fired and had just the reverse effect and his pride is keeping him bound.
msdavis,
It is people like you that have driven millions of people out of the churches. Bishop Pearson’s message is so similiar to the message that Jesus was trying to send when he was rejected by those who could see things one way? What is wrong with God loving everyone and wanting to be with them without qualifications of religion, gender, race, politics? I have met more non-christian persons that are more Christ-like than some of the Christians I know. I recommend you read the words of Jesus again.
People like me Judy. I did’nt say there was a hell-God did. I did’nt say homosexuality was an abomination-God did. The difference between me and you though is whatever my God says I agree with 100%, I don’t take the bible and sift through it and believe only a portion of it. I didnt make the rules, but I am sure doing the best I can to abide by them and that makes me loyal and that makes me a lover of my God. The good news for me is I am betting on God all the way. The bad news for some believers who like to pick and choose the parts of the bible they believe and other parts they don’t is they are basically rolling the dice and hoping to make it to where I’m going. God is a loving God but not an accepting God, He is jealous according to his word. There are many things in the bible God determines is an abomination to him.period. You can’t say well maybe God did’nt really mean homosexuality was an abomination maybe he meant he just did’nt like it. And further more, it’s people who have a hard time receiving the true and living God that are being driven out of churches. If you love him you are with him 100%. The End. And furthermore, its about relationship not religion. Religion is what is driving people out of churches. Oh and about you recommeding I read the words of Jesus again, well the only way I would know there was a hell is because I have read it, the only way I know Carlton missed the mark is because I read the word. I think you might read it and then you would know that religion is a major issue to Jesus. How would you feel if you gave your life on the cross and someone decided they liked your message but thought in fact they would prefer to serve Buddah.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that “whosoever believeth on him” shall not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16. God did not say every body has a pass he said “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. — Matthew 7:13-14.Nuff said.
I grieve for Carlton Pearson, An annointed preacher that unfortunately has lost his way. The enemy is on his job and the bible says, he will fool the very elect. His message of inclusion simply makes Jesus death and resurrection for naught. Sin is very real and we from the very beginning was given the option to choose hell or eternal life. I look around at this wicked world and see that so many things that was wrong before, is now okay. The dreadful realm of homosexuality is now so acceptable that people are pouncing on “coming out”. Young girls are turning to each other and proudly proclaim they are bisexual because they don’t want to be labeled “gay”. It’s a sad state the world is in and even sadder when those called to hold up the banner have dropped it and joined in with what God abhors in the world. Those of us that believe better start weeping and wailing for the souls of our family, friends, community and the church.
MsDavis and V. Delore Barnes, You’re right on the money, and that’s part of the problem for those who may not really understand (or want to understand) the Word of God. Didn’t the Bible say something about in the last days people having ‘itching ears’ when it comes to the Gospel (2 Timothy 4:3-4 moving away from sound doctrine, and only wanting to hear what sounds good to them)?
The 70’s being ‘repeated’, the new ‘me generation’? I pray to God this man turns back to the ‘real’ Word of God, and not just what he thinks is correct or sounds good to him and others who follow him.
Also, V. Delores Barnes, the comment that you made about the elect being fooled gets taken out of context as well, because Matthew 24:23-25 actually states, “If it were possible, the very elect would be deceived”. Notice the word “IF” there? The Lord said that not a one that was given to Him would be lost, so in a way it doesn’t surprise me to see the ‘if’ here. Also, another valid point, why would the word ‘hell’ be listed in the Bible if ‘no-one’ is going there? Is it me, or does that make it seem as if God is ‘double-minded’, which He most certainly ‘is not’? God sends ‘no-one’ to hell, we do that to ourselves by ‘not’ excepting His Son as our Lord and Saviour. For all those who don’t get it, look in the Bible under the word “freewill”.
In the mean while, thanks for your comments, and I will continue to pray for ‘all’ involved on what’s going on with the inclusion sect, because no matter how much we pray for Mr. Pearson and his family, ‘he’ has to ‘want’ to seek God’s face and make the turn around himself. My heart goes out to his wife, children, and all who are following this terrible lead, because their blood will most definitely be on his hands as well as others who follow the sect.
P.S. I’d also be quite upset, more than you realize, if I’d have done everything possible to help mankind (my creation, if I was God that is), and they turned on me by literally spitting in my face and choosing another ‘religion’ over mine. In other words, “I’ve given you everything you could have ever wanted, but I really don’t need you God”. How humiliating is that?
I just want Bishop Pearson to know that I love him and is praying for him always.
I am so glad to see Carlton Pearson make this journey. He was always such a jovial person, it is nice to have him as company. As one who was brought up steeped in the illusions of the Christian religion, I am heartened to see others freed from its false fears and lies.
To all of you who are still in your religious cocoon, this is why someone like Carlton Pearson, or me, would leave. Bishop Pearson could not reconcile the idea of eternal hellfire for the great majority of mankind simply because they did not embrace a particular conception of faith, millions of whom had never even heard of it. To any one who thinks clearly about it, it just is not fair.
In fact, it goes to the central question of suffering that is the singular failure of the Christian religion (and most others, for that matter.)
I left the idea of a just and loving God behind because it did not square with the world I saw as I traveled through more than sixty countries. I saw the teeming millions in India, China, and Africa. Millions born into misery, living miserable, painful lives, and dying miserably, never knowing hope or cheer. It is the sad reality of most humans who are born today. They are born with no hope. For those in the rich west this is a hard concept to grasp.
Bea K., you have it exactly wrong. In what sense did God “do everything possible to help mankind?” That contention would be a great surprise to more than 3/4 of the world’s population, who are born into lives of misery with no clue about where they came from or for what purpose they are here. They are simply cast adrift into a tooth and claw creation, with little to guide them on their way. In fact, the opposite of what you say is true. There is such pain and suffering, in so many lives, not even to mention your horrific idea of eternal damnation, that it is God himself who stands accused. How could he have created such a vicious, merciless world? I have been to two wars and several disaster operations and have witnessed the most wrenching and ferocious mutilations of the bodies of men, women, and children. If there were a God responsible for setting a world in motion that resulted in such unending sorrow, he would, infact, deserve to be hammered to a cross every single day it spins its rounds through the cold expanse of this universe.
So, now we come to the brass tax. I suggest to you that your only real concern is your own safety, because you fear hell. The likelihood is that you are in fact a coward, too afraid to face the all too apparent conclusion, that there is no God to indict.
I think that most Christians are only Christians because they fear the logic of Pascal’s wager - that one has nothing to lose by believing, but risks hell by not believing. But this is the logic of cowardice. The best response to Pascal is Thomas Jefferson’s advice to his nephew as he searched for a religion, “FIx reason firmly upon her seat. Bring to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question boldly even the existence of God, for if there be one, he surely must more approve the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.”
I cannot say that I embrace the teachings of Carlton Pearson because I do not know enough about what he teaches but I do believe that INCLUSION sounds more like the teachings of GOD. Who are we to reject and condemn? Even Mother Teresa had questions and her entire life was to serve more humbly than anyone posting to this web site.
I pray for Mr. Pearson’s health, strength, family and friends because he is truly a real man of GOD.
I am reminded of the parable of the wheat and tare. That after the servants planted the wheat, the devil came and planted tares during the night. The servants asked the master if they should pull up the tare. The master replied no, lest you pull the wheat, as well. They must all grow and mature together. We know by Jesus explanation the wheat are God’s children and the tares are the devil’s.
In addition, Jesus said no one can be plucked out of his hand. It is sad, but Carlton was never a wheat, he was born to be a tare. Judas was chosen as a disciple, but he was born to be the Son of perdition. We also know by the epistles, that the devil has flaming ministers in the pulpit. There are many false prophets and wolves in sheep clothing pretending to be a shephard. So, please don’t think that this is a strange occurence. I am just so blessed that my name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life and that God honored Jesus prayer for us: Father do not take them out of the world, but lead them not into temptation but deliver them from evil. I thank God that he cut Carlton off at the root in Jesus Name and the innocent sheep were saved from the wolf. All these things must be that the scriptures might be fulfilled. May God continue to have mercy on our souls. Amen.
I think that Chrstians spend to much time thinking that their version of the Bible is the only way and the only right way. Even in Christianity there was the old testament where things were different. God excepted sacrifices and there was a go between for man to enter heaven. I thinkk that for Christians Jesus is the way for you to get to heaven. But that does not mean that other religions are wrong. Before Christianity there was Krisna whom also was born of a virgin and died on a cross to free mankind from sin. So how can Christians say that that belief is wrong. Christians believe in God and Jesus because someone told them to not because they actually saw Jesus walk on water. Ohter religions believe in what they believe because of what someone told them. It all comes down to faith. Everyone wants to put God in a space and time so little and fragile that they can not accept that he is really omipiscent and Governs the universe and all the religions on earth. So Christians I am not sure if I completely agree with Pearson. But, I think that if you believe that God is capable of creating you and everyone else. That he also created all the religions and all of this is in his plan. Stop condemming and start loving it is not up to you and you can not determine the fait of mankind. Before Christianity there was other religions and they are still here. The Bible was written and translated by men. And check this out. It has been retranslated and rewritten IE the NIV version. The books of the Bible were selected from several books and some books that were available were not put in the KJV or NIV version for reasons we dont truly know. Before there was a bible men worshiped God.