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Billy Graham’s Last–and Dangerous, Damnable–Message to America
Mixed with truth, the devil’s lie is always inviting. This video has great cinematography, excellent production, and a message that leaves everyone feeling good.
But it’s not true. It’s not Truth. To tell the world that God loves you is speculation at best. You’re not God, and have no right to tell anyone that God loves them. It may not be true.
No, Jesus did not come to make salvation a possibility, as this message suggest, but Jesus came rather to purchase the souls, to redeem, those who were elect of God, chosen by the Father, paid for by the Son and regenerated by the Spirit.
The ‘gospel’ of Billy Graham is not the Gospel of the Bible.
It is a lie, and as touching as the video may be, I will not endorse it as Truth before God.
5 Pt. Salt 
You write:
“To tell the world that God loves you is speculation at best. You’re not God, and have no right to tell anyone that God loves them. It may not be true.”
The Bible says:
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
The Bible says in John 3:16 that God loved the world in a certain manner (‘so’ or ‘thus’): That he saves all who believe in the Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
This is easly shown by the Greek word ουτως (not by Arminian eisegetes!). It’s used in verse 14 ~ “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up…”
So = in the same manner, thusly. It does not mean “so much,” as too many erroneously affirm.
So god did not love the world? Or he just kind of loved the world?
Also, I did not know that “world” was the same as “elect” . . .”God so loved the elect”.
I think you are twisting things more than Graham is.
Dear DrSuess,
God loved the world in this way: That he gave his only-begotten Son that whoever believes in him would not perish, but have everlasting life. That’s what Jesus Christ said.
His inspired apostle tells us that the gospel is that Jesus died for our sins and was buried and raised again, all acc. to the Scriptures, Cor. 15:3f. Note the “our” in “our sins.” Not the world’s sins, but our’s only. If he’d died for all, then all would be saved.
Likewise, Jesus himself makes a point to say to the Father, “I pray not for the world, but these whom Thou hast given me,” in John 17:6-10, 20f. Judas is said to be lost to fulfill Scripture (v. 12).
Neither Judas, Cain, Pharaoh, or Esau were loved, nor their sins atoned for.
Only god’s elect, including Peter, Abel, Moses, and Jacob.
Finally, I note Isaiah 53, where the suffering Messiah is foretold. It says repeatedly that he died for us, his chosen-before-the-foundation-of-the-world people.
Verses 4-6, 11 {NKJV}:
4 Surely He has borne OUR griefs
And carried OUR sorrows;
Yet WE esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for OUR transgressions,
He was bruised for OUR iniquities;
The chastisement for OUR peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes WE are healed.
6 All WE like sheep have gone astray;
WE have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of US all.
11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify MANY,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
Bless you,
Hugh
P.S. It was Captain Kangaroo, not Mr. His sidekick was of course, Mr. Greenjeans.
I totally disagree with your opinion. I pray God will send more “Billy Graham’s”. But I do appreciate your honesty. Most 5 pointers would not admit that you can not tell someone God loves them because He might not if they are not one of the elect.
The Bible says, “God is love.” It doesn’t say love is one of His attributes but that He is love. Now tell me how if God is love and God tells me to love my neighbor as myself, how can He not love them also if He IS love? Would he command me to do something that He is not willing to do?
Just curious. Viewing God’s love as you do, may I assume you are a universalist? If not, how do you reconcile God’s love with His damning judgement of the non-elect? The point is, whatever the phrase “God is love” truly means, and whatever the genuine scope of it, it does not negate the equally valid truth that God judges and punishes sin in men with eternal destruction.
The gospel is not best understood as the indescriminate Grahamism “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for you life,” but rather in terms of John 6:47 coupled with John 6:65.
I could only watch about 5 minutes of this , and came away thinking this had more to do with Graham than the gospel. BTW , the background photo of Graham and the Pope should be a red flag for any discerning christian, but then again , Graham hardly disguised the fact that he is/was ecumenical to the core.I’m guessing that most folks have a favourite Billy Graham moment, and the fact that he is an iconic figure puts those who expose his false gospel at odds with perhaps the majority of the modern church.And to be sure, a false gospel saves no one,sixty odd years of asking people to invite Jesus into their heart is absurd, it is God who has chosen those who Christ would redeem.
Billy’s hooey cannot be blamed on advanced age.
He’s been spouting this since at least 1960 in a “Decision” magazine article.
More recently, with the mad universalist Robert Schuller:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC2WPR7q4pU
God is “Holy,Holy,Holy”….it is the only one of God’s attributes emphasized with such a superlative. All of His other attributes must conform to His holiness. His love must be holy. His justice must be holy. A holy love must hate sin. A holy justice must condemn and punish all sin. And indeed it does (He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished–Ex34:7) A holy God must hate the wicked, and indeed His word tells us He does:
Psa 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of
iniquity.
And others…Psa 5:6, Psa 7:11, Psa11:5, Lev 20:23, Rom 9:13, Prov 16:4, etc etc etc
Any biblical definition of God’s love must include a righteous hatred of sin and the wicked or else He is not a good God and not the God of the bible.
Neither Jesus nor the apostles ever used the phrases “god loves you”, “ask Jesus into your heart” or “make a decision” when sharing the gospel with the lost. That should be enough for us. We don’t need more Billy Grahams. We need more Pauls, more Peters, and more Stephens, etc. May God raise up more men of like character as these in our generation.
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