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OFFICIAL BUSINESS (with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association) Following are my words to an official of a popular, but erring and heretical, religious organization: "This will be the final time I write to you, knowing that if you reject my admonition that you are subverted, sinning, and self-condemned (Titus 3.10, 11). "You quoted Billy Graham, 'The sins of the past cannot be undone, just as you cannot unscramble eggs.' Let me tell you something. A sinner can change the sins of the past! It requires REPENTANCE. That is what this issue is about. "You are consenting to Billy Graham's promotion of fornication, legalized adultery, ignoring God's plan of redemption of the sinner through repentance of his or her sins. You are misleading many, including sinful people who otherwise perhaps would be convicted of their adultery, repent, and be saved. "A thief is a person who steals. A repentant thief no longer steals, and a reconciliatory, repentant thief makes amends to those he has defrauded. Likewise, a repentant adulterer ceases the forbidden sexual activity, and a reconciliatory, repentant adulterer begins living a separate life, assuming responsibilities which resulted from the previous sin. "A repentant person who has been living in a state of remarriage and desires to correct his or her life must separate from the other person. If a person truly loves and obeys Christ, he or she will do whatever is necessary to live a sanctified life. The separation may seem to cause legal, economic, social, family and other problems, but the remarriage must be annulled. A single sanctified person (whether a parent or not) having separated from the forbidden state of remarriage may join the church. "Therefore, if you want to remedy your present situation as one of Mr. Graham's officials, recognizing your heresy, repent, put your own life in order, and apologize to those you have misled." Works Cited Graham, Billy. The Answer to Broken Homes. Minneapolis, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, copyright 1953 (revised 1955) (copyright renewed 1981). |
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BEWARE OF FORNICATION-MARRIAGE I started at about 4 minutes according to the description box outline. At about 5 minutes and 10 sec or so, Terry mentions a "covenant marriage". Many people don't understand what the female chastity prerequisite for biblical marriage is according to the dowry law (Ex. 22, Dt. 22), so making a puzzle box or term like "covenant marriage" is very ambiguous, especially since Terry condones fornication-marriage. So after a tough minute and 10 seconds or so, I will not spend a lot of time on this video and her attempted explanations. I want to bring out the discrepancy of Terry by condemning remarriage/adultery but not condemning fornication-marriage, a marriage with a unchaste woman who did not marry her first man. Fornication is a sin just as bad as adultery, stealing or idolatry. If a person committed fornication before they were saved, becoming saved does not make the woman chaste again, nor does it give her a right to continue the fornication or begin another relationship with some man. A woman who is a thief before she is saved, may change her ethos and skills to honor God and give up the stealing. An idolatrous (Galatians 5:19-21) woman before she is saved, may later change her ethos and quit the idolatry. However, a woman of fornication can only change her ethos without living in defilement by repenting and living single. Marriage is not an option for her any more than remarriage is for someone else. Both are sins. Once Terry understands that fornication is just as defiling as remarriage and both sinful deeds are worthy of condemnation, then she may seemingly have a foundation to coherently discuss remarriage sins without partiality. On the other hand, if she doesn't, she is not capable of making proper judgment regardless of the circumstances. Once a woman fornicates through a sexual relationship to another man without marrying the first, repentance and single life is required. Both, women of fornication and adultery, ruin their chastity and opportunity as a mate. |
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A CHALLENGE TO END ILLICIT MARRIAGE
I would like to add: even if a person does have a "scriptural divorce", remarriage is never an acceptable alternative. God cannot condone adultery. Fornication-avoiding testimonies: Men, Women Letter concerning Billy Graham Repentence: Your life still goes on About our site Daughter Of Billy: Ruth Graham Adultery Catastrophe
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