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Plagiarism and Other Dishonest Behavior By Dispensationalist Celebrities
Posted : 30 Jun, 2011 06:43 AM
Plagiarism and Other Dishonest Behavior By Dispensationalist Celebrities
The Three R�s Rapture, Revisions, Robbery, 1988, by Dave MacPhearson is, in part, about
plagiarism of the writings of others by several dispensationalist celebrities. The first question
is why are so many major dispensationalist writers and preachers Christian celebrities? And
why did American evangelical dispensationalism follow the Hollywood model of the celebrity who presents
an image of success?
On http://www.christianmediaresearch.com/cmc-43.html
it says "The plain truth is, a significant number of dispensational writers, seminarians, and media communicators have been exposed for repeated instances of plagiarism, intentional misquoting of historical authorities, and blatantly lying concerning the way this doctrine came into the modern church. While this factor alone certainly does not prove the efficacy of the church's historic post-tribulationist position, it is a powerful indicator that something is seriously wrong..."
On this site Fearless Dave MacPhearson exposes dispensationalist leaders for stealing the writings of others, and for additional kinds of dishonest behavior:
Brethren scholar Harold Rowdon's "The Origins of the Brethren" quoted Darby associate Lord Congleton who was "disgusted with...the falseness" of Darby's accounts of things. Rowdon also quoted historian William Neatby who said that others felt that "the time-honoured method of single combat" was as good as anything "to elicit the truth" from Darby. (In other words, knock it out of him!)
My comment: Darby above is John Darby the father of dispensationalism.
Tim LaHaye's "The Beginning of the End" (1972) plagiarized Hal Lindsey's "The Late Great Planet Earth" (1970).
Charles Ryrie"s "The Living End" (1976) plagiarized Lindsey's "The Late Great Planet Earth" (1970) and "There's A New World Coming" (1973).
After John Walvoord's "The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation" (1976) brutally twisted Robert Gundry's "The Church and the Tribulation" (1973), Gundry composed and circulated a 35-page open letter to Walvoord which repeatedly charged the Dallas Seminary president with "misrepresentation," "misrepresentations" (and variations)!
"The Fundamentalist Phenomenon" (1981) by Jerry Falwell, Ed Dobson, and Ed Hindson heavily plagiarized George Dollar's 1973 book "A History of Fundamentalism in America."
Greg Bahnsen and Kenneth Gentry produced evidence in 1989 that Lindsey's book "The Road to Holocaust" (1989) plagiarized "Dominion Theology" (1988) by H. Wayne House and Thomas Ice.
Paul Lee Tan's "A Pictorial Guide to Bible Prophecy" (1991) plagiarized large amounts of Lindsey's "The Late Great Planet Earth" (1970).
Tim LaHaye's "No Fear of the Storm" (1992) plagiarized Walvoord's "The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation" (1976).
This was when the Los Angeles Times revealed that "The Magog Factor" (1992) by Hal Lindsey and Chuck Missler was a monstrous plagiarism of Prof. Edwin Yamauchi's scholarly 1982 work "Foes from the Northern Frontier." Four months after this exposure, Lindsey and Missler stated they had stopped publishing and promoting their book. But in 1996 Dr. Yamauchi learned that the dishonest duo had issued a 1995 book called "The Magog Invasion" which still had a substantial amount of the same plagiarism! (If Lindsey and Missler ever need hernia operations, I predict that the doctors will tell them not to lift anything for a long time!)
In 1996 it was revealed that Lindsey's "Planet Earth - 2000 A.D." (1994) had an embarrassing amount of plagiarism of a Texe Marrs book titled "Mystery Mark of the New Age" (1988).
Tim LaHaye's "Understanding the Last Days" (1998) plagiarized Lindsey's "There's A New World Coming" (1973)
A Jack Van Impe article "The Moment After" (2000) plagiarized Grant Jeffrey's book "Final Warning" (1995).
Since my "Deceiving and Being Deceived" web item which exposed the claims for Pseudo-Ephraem" and "Morgan Edwards" as teachers of pretrib, there has been a piranha-like frenzy on the part of pretrib bodyguards and their duped groupies to "discover" almost anything before 1830 walking upright on two legs that seemed to have at least a remote hint of pretrib! (An exemplary poster boy for such pretrib practice is Grant Jeffrey. To get your money's worth, Google "Wily Jeffrey.")
Plagiarism and Other Dishonest Behavior By Dispensationalist Celebrities
Posted : 30 Jun, 2011 12:25 PM
I often this to be true, Halfback almost every time we have those that like to throw around titles and terms that are not normally found in the word of God, have an agenda and it is not inspired of God.
Plagiarism and Other Dishonest Behavior By Dispensationalist Celebrities
Posted : 30 Jun, 2011 03:00 PM
Dig deep enough and you'll find dirt on every living soul in the world. Dig deeper and you can throw whoever you want into the same hole. Surely there are better things you can do with your time than to try to bury those who don't agree with you with those you dug up.
Plagiarism and Other Dishonest Behavior By Dispensationalist Celebrities
Posted : 1 Jul, 2011 10:22 AM
@ half,
I don't know why your targeting dispensationalists, messianic christians, the sacred name and hebraic movements. I'm sure you can find even more dishonest behavior amongs the pentecostals, charismatics, catholics, protestants, episcopalials, lutherans and whatever denomination you look at. Are you anti-sematic?
Plagiarism and Other Dishonest Behavior By Dispensationalist Celebrities
Posted : 1 Jul, 2011 12:47 PM
Couldnt agree more Lady's & Gent...maybe we should be Digging up the Dirt on the spirit of Belial ( worthless ) so we can bring to Light the dasturdly deed of mis-leading the Saints into Sin instead...since this spirit is purty much behind all the Hooy Pooy in the world...:winksmile:...xo
Plagiarism and Other Dishonest Behavior By Dispensationalist Celebrities
Posted : 1 Jul, 2011 02:27 PM
Excerpts From GEOgram For July 1, 2011: (I didn't write this. It was written by a man who also never went to a seminary):
"Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened" (Luke 13:20.21).
"What is truly amazing is how the Dispensational system (known to most as the Rapture theology) specifically designates three stages (or so called dispensations) of salvation within the faulty system....
Obviously, Jesus will hold such "believers" accountable for refusing to respond to His own warning concerning just how the Kingdom of God would be leavened (see Matthew 22:12,13 for their fate).
Dispensational teachers tell us the first Dispensation was Israel, as seen in the Old Testament and the law. The second alleged "dispensation" was what is usually called the "church" age, and the third (and final) of the three is when the "church" has supposedly been Raptured, and the tribulation then is said to center on Jewish salvation, in the final dispensation of 7 years. Thus, there are three stages of Spiritual "development" in this pattern.
Setting aside the timing verses which clearly place the resurrection of the believers (which would include the "dead in Christ" who will "rise first" in the supposed Rapture) at "the last day" (John 6:39.40,41,54), the figure of leaven plainly speaks of sin and iniquity."
"..it doesn't seem possible the Kingdom of God could be diminished, so they evaluate the concept, and reject it based on their conditioning. However, the Word of God never returns void, and it militates that leaven is indeed a figure of a progressive deception which, if not aggressively refuted, will eventually grow until it "leaveneth the whole lump."
He goes on to say: Since the common denominator in all three "dispensations" is the blasphemous lie that Israel is chosen by the LORD on a racial basis, rather than Spiritual rebirth in Christ as ably and plainly articulated throughout the New Testament, we conclude that Jewish primacy articulated by the Pharisees, still seen in the Rapture Cult (and all forms of Messianic thought), is the leaven which corrupts the Kingdom of God."
Plagiarism and Other Dishonest Behavior By Dispensationalist Celebrities
Posted : 1 Jul, 2011 02:46 PM
Article stated ~ "we conclude that Jewish primacy articulated by the Pharisees, still seen in the Rapture Cult (and all forms of Messianic thought), is the leaven which corrupts the Kingdom of God."
*** I wonder who the "We" are in the Post by the person that didn't go to seminary...is he/her speaking for the totality of GEO ???...Opinions are like Boogers...everyone has them & some get Picked more than Others...:winksmile:...Anywho...interesting article...but I still believe the spirit belial is the leaven and not so much the groups or denoms of the peoples...xo
Plagiarism and Other Dishonest Behavior By Dispensationalist Celebrities
Posted : 1 Jul, 2011 02:49 PM
Here is another quote. This guy was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. He lived at a time when Roman Catholicism dominated England. William Tyndale lived from 1492 to 1536, was the first to translate the Hebrew and Greek of the Bible into English and for this was strangled and burnt at the stake in 1536 by a group who held to a set of false doctrines which mingled the Gospel of Christ with man's religion.
"The preaching of God's word is hateful and contrary unto them. Why? For it is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist; that is to say, them which with their false doctrine and violence of sword enforce to quench the true doctrine of Christ." ~ Tyndale
Plagiarism and Other Dishonest Behavior By Dispensationalist Celebrities
Posted : 1 Jul, 2011 03:01 PM
:applause:..Thank GOD Tyndale was able to translate the parchments/documents prior to his demise by the pharasees :devil: saducees of that era...with out it...we would sorely be in a state of utter confusion as to who we are in Christ Jesus...:purpleangel:...xo
