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BILLY GRAHAM
CHAMPION OF COMPROMISE AND CONFUSION
(Excerpts from bulletins of The Orlando Bible Church)
(Rev. Hayes Minnick)
February, 1962 - Graham and the Genesis Record: "In this paradise that God had built, called the Garden of Eden - you can
take it symbolically, you can take it literally - it makes no difference as far as the truth and meaning is concerned." But
it does, Mr. Graham, it does! It makes all the difference in the world as to whether the Bible is to be taken literally or
symbolically. Billy Graham has been cohorting with the myth-minded modernists for so long that he has begun to absorb their
way of thinking. Such is the tragic consequence of compromise with unbelief!
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March, 1962 - Operation Double Standard! "Dr. (Billy) Graham is the front man, the chief spokesman for a growing group
of people who believe in yoking up with unbelievers contrary to the Scriptures. They believe that a man may be saved without
believing that the Bible is true or without believing in the virgin birth or the deity of Christ. They call people Christians
who are really infidels by dictionary definition; that is, not believing the fundamentals of the historic Christian faith.
So they believe in cooperating with modernists. They believe in supporting the denominational programs which include modernism.
They believe in having modernists to help control and manage revival campaigns. They believe in having modernists lead in
prayer in these campaigns and sending >inquirers’ to modernistic churches..
.Dr. Graham is the chief spokesman for those who believe in the >inclusive policy,’
of coexistence of unbelievers and believers, saved and lost, Bible believers and infidels in the same organizations. - (John
Rice, Sword of The Lord.)
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April, 1962 - The Archbishop of Canterbury: "Heaven is also not a place to which we humans go in our present bodily state,
nor is it a place for Christians only. Those who have led a good life on earth but found themselves unable to believe in God
will not be debarred from Heaven. I expect to meet some present-day atheists there." This will be news to the Archbishop,
but if he believes the bunk expressed in his statement above, he’ll not be entering heaven; he’ll be joining his
atheist friends in a never-ending hell. This is the man who as head of the Anglican Church was pictured with Billy Graham
in New Delhi at the World Council of Churches conference. P.S.: Graham’s smiling handshake does not make the theology
[of] this ecclesiastical serpent any less poison from the pit of hell!
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April, 1962 - A United Press Release: Liz Deserves Pity, Not Scorn -- Graham. Evangelist Billy Graham said yesterday actress
Elizabeth Taylor was more to be pitied than censured for shedding another husband." Such sentimental pious slush should make
us sick on the stomach! Mr. Graham would do well to save his pity for penitents instead of showering it upon professional
Hollywood whores.
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April, 1962 - Billy Graham: "I do not believe that the ground of our fellowship is to be the inerrancy of Scripture." What
other foundation would you suggest, Mr. Graham?
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August, 1962 - The Following Statement is from the pen of Hillyer H. Straton, a liberal Baptist minister, in appraisal
of evangelist Billy Graham. "Those of us present at the luncheon which introduced Graham to the Boston ministers were especially
impressed with his ecumenical spirit... .All of us felt our hearts strangely warmed as he went on, ‘Christ can unite
fundamentalists, of which I am one, and so-called modernists about the cross. We’ve got to forget our differences.’
His cooperative attitude is a very significant fact, for Graham has the confidence of fundamentalists. He can be a large factor
in bridging the gap between them and ecumenically minded Christians.@ Billy Graham
is doing for the modernists what they cannot do for themselves!
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November, 1962 - The Church Bulletin News published by the Billy Graham Southern California Crusade, with offices
at 1101 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 17, Ca., had the following in their issue of October 15, 1962: "The General Crusade Committee
met and unanimously elected Methodist Gerald Kennedy as their chairman." For Communist front record, Bishop Kennedy is not
far behind his fellow Methodist Bishop Oxnam. Kennedy has been listed with ten such front activities. With regard to the Second
Coming, Kennedy wrote: "With the exception of a few very narrow sects, this has not been a relevant issue in American Christianity
for 25 years.... it does not seem to us that the Christian hope is a mere waiting for a return of our Lord.. . .I shudder
to contemplate the effect on the intelligent laymen of the American churches of a great world-wide conference of Christians
discussing the Christian hope as if it were dependent upon a Second Coming." Graham is going from bad to worse in the pursuit
of his policy of compromise! One of the rankest modernist bishops in the Methodist Church has now been appointed chairman
of his 1963 Los Angeles campaign.
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December, 1962 - According to Decision for 1962, Billy Graham appeared on a panel with Harvard professor, Richard
Niebuhr. On the question of the virgin birth Niebuhr stated: "You want my personal view. My view is that the virgin birth
doesn’t make a bit of difference. I can’t get angry at anybody for holding it, but on the other hand I certainly
don’t hold it myself. I’ll be glad to tell you why. As far as I am able to figure out in my own reflections, the
virgin birth has nothing to do with the meaning of Jesus Christ as one who suffers and dies and is raised on our behalf. I
think this would be the heart of the gospel, or kerugma, as we say today." Graham replied: "DR. Niebuhr and I would disagree
at the point of the virgin birth.. .but it is not the heart of the kerugma (preaching). I would agree at this point." A fatal
agreement! Instead of denouncing Niebuhr’s denial of the virgin birth, Graham mildly disagrees, and then hastens to
agree that it is not "the heart of the kerugma," that is, it is not important, not essential to preaching. Question: If the
virgin birth is not essential to Gospel preaching, why believe it? Niebuhr in his unbelief is at least more consistent than
Graham!
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December, 1962 - In his book, The Sun and The Umbrella, Dr. Nels Ferre, arch-blasphemer of blasphemers, says on
page 39, "The use of the Bible as the final authority for Christian truth is idolatry." In the same book, page 35, he says:’To
call Jesus God is to substitute an idol for the incarnation; to call him Saviour in the ultimate sense, is to deny that all
salvation comes from God our Saviour and from Him alone. On the jacket of this blasphemous book, the following endorsement
was given by Bishop Gerald Kennedy, chairman of the General Crusade Committee for the 1963 Graham Los Angeles Crusade: "We
have stood in need of this clarification of the person of Jesus. If it shocks certain traditionalists, it will thrill sincere,
world-minded Christians. Nels Ferre has given us a clue for a truly universal Christianity." Now at this point I could very
piously say, "Draw your own conclusion." But that would be wrong counsel, wrong advice. The conclusion is already drawn and
given in God’s own Holy Word, II John 7-11. And Bible-believing, Christ-honoring Christians ought to have no part of
Graham as long as Graham is in association and cooperation with the likes of infidel Bishop Gerald Kennedy. It is just as
simple as 2+2=4.
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January. 1963 - The Good In All Religions! In his publication, Decision, November 1962, Billy Graham states (from
an address before the Harvard Law Forum): "There is good in all religions, but there is a point beyond which they do not go....
I believe it is this that makes the Christian faith distinctive. Christ gives the capacity and the power to live on a totally
different plane from that found in other religions though I recognize the good in all of them." So says Billy Graham. Now
hear the Holy Spirit inspired apostle: "But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils,
and not to God; and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils." (I Corinthians 10:20) Apparently Paul could not
see the good that Billy Graham sees in other religions! Let us beware of the curse of comparative religions!
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January, 1963 - The San Francisco Examiner, May 7, 1961, reported the following concerning Bishop Gerald Kennedy:
"I’m for Bishop Pike about 99% of the time...I don’t think such theological issues as the Virgin Birth of Christ
are the central, important things. On many such questions, like Bishop Pike, I say I don’t know." He is admitting to
an awful amount of apostasy when her agrees with the blaspheming Bishop Pike 99% of the time. This is the same Bishop Kennedy
who has been appointed chairman of the Graham Los Angeles General Crusade for August of this year.
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July, 1963 - Dr. Billy Graham quoted in the Michigan City News-Dispatch (AP), June 2, 1963, from Bonn, Germany,
said: "I admired Pope John tremendously....I felt he brought a new era to the world. It is my hope that the cardinals elect
a new Pope who will follow the same line as John. It would be a great tragedy if they chose a man who reacted against John.
There were plenty of people who slobbered all over themselves in praise of the Pope at his death, and we are not in the least
surprised that Billy Graham should be numbered among them. He has championed the ecumenical movement with its Rome-ward trend
for quite some time.
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September, 1963 -Dr. Charles J. Woodbridge, professor at Fuller Seminary for seven years before resigning because of New
Evangelicalism, whose counsel was often sought by Dr. Billy Graham, warned the evangelist in these words: "If you persist
in making common cause with those who deny the Word of God, and thus in minimizing the sharp line of distinction between those
who are loyal and disloyal to the Scriptures, it is my strong opinion that the verdict of church history will be that you
will be known as the greatest divider of the church of Christ in the twentieth century." Dr. Woodbridge is right. It is the
compromisers who are causing the division in the Body of Christ, not the Fundamentalists. Billy Graham, through his compromise,
has become a symbol. He has become the champion of compromise and confusion.
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September, 1963 - In an article on separation in the November 1958 issue of Eternity Magazine, evangelist Billy
Graham cited II John 10-11 and Romans 16:17-18 as his basis for some strong remarks on separation. He wrote as follows: "Here
we have the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ involved. If a man blatantly denied the deity of Christ or that Christ has come
in the flesh, we are not even to bid him God speed.. .Thus the Scriptures teach that we are to be separated from those who
deny the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ.. .No doubt there are some men in the church today who deny the deity of the Lord
Jesus Christ. If I knew that a man denies His deity, I am not to commend him or to have spiritual fellowship with him, but
I am to treat him as an antichrist and an enemy of the cross." (pages 18-19) Well written, Dr. Graham! Now practice what you
preach! Open your eyes, Dr. Graham, and take a good look at the General Chairman of your current Los Angeles Campaign, Bishop
Gerald Kennedy. In hid book, God’s Good News, p.125, the blaspheming Bishop declares, "I believe the testimony
of the New Testament taken as a whole is against the doctrine of the deity of Jesus." It’s your move, Dr. Graham! By
his own acknowledgment Billy Graham’s sin of compromise with modernists is condemned by the Word of God. He knows it,
yet persists in pursuing his course of compromise contrary to the command of the Holy Scriptures.
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September, 1963 - Dr. E. Stanley Jones was honored on the platform of the recent Billy Graham Los Angeles campaign. In
the liberal Christian Century, August 14, 1957, p.970, Dr. Jones presented his appraisal of Graham’s campaigns
as follows: "Billy Graham’s Crusade, while having things here and there which may not be wholly acceptable, nevertheless
is a very healthy meeting place for conservative and liberal, and in the contact each may gain something from the other and
then something beyond each may emerge--the Christian." This statement illustrates the tragic consequence of compromise. It
is clear that Dr. Jones’ concept of a "Christian" is entirely contrary to that set forth in the Bible. A Christian,
according to Jones, is one who is in the process of becoming; no one can yet say that he has arrived. Compromise always produces
confusion, and this confusion is nowhere more evident than in the hybrid liberal-conservative breed produced by Billy Graham’s
campaigns.
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October, 1963 - The St. Paul Dispatch, Sept. 10, 1963, under the caption "Billy Graham Views Movies and Sex," had
this significant statement: "Some thirteen years ago, Billy Graham was ripping into movies in his stirring speeches at his
many rallies and religious crusades. Today, Hollywood looks upon the evangelist as a friend. Graham has modified his stand
on the motion picture since 1950. . .He flatly does not subscribe to the traditional view of blanket condemnation of screen
product which espouses too many movies but that he does catch Hollywood’s more outstanding films." On September 21,
Graham was pictured at lunch with Barbara Stanwyck just after he had launched MGM’s "The World’s Greatest Showman,"
legend of Cecil B. DeMille, UPI Telephoto; on September 24, he appeared on the Jack Benny show to assist in the opening of
a new season. Question: Who has converted whom? Hollywood hasn’t changed, that’s for sure; but Graham has.
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March, 1964 - A Catholic paper, Operation Understanding, (December 22, 1963), carried the story of Billy Graham’s
speech at Belmont, N.C, Abbey College: "I think that the emphasis that the late Pope John brought the Ecumenical Council of
the Bishops in Rome itself--a Council that has the prayers of all Christendom--herald the present Christian revolution...
The emphasis in our time may be on the Holy Spirit. Everywhere people are gathering---Protestants, Catholics, and yes, Jews--to
pray together. I know of 114 such groups on Long Island itself. Is the Holy Spirit in our time doing something that is beyond
any of us?" The motivating spirit of ecumenism is not the Holy Spirit, but Satan!
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November, 1964 - Billy Graham, in the October, 1964, issue of Decision (his publication), in an interchange between
himself and British television commentator, David Frost, said: "I believe that God did create the universe. I believe he created
man. Whether it came by.. .a process and at a certain point he took this being and made him a living soul or not, does not
change the fact that God did create man." This is theistic evolution.
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February, 1965 - - In Pageant Magazine for June 1964, movie star Jane Russell is quoted: "Without apology the stiff-necked,
blue-nosed puritan churchgoers can’t understand me, but there are others, those who love God, who don’t fear Him,
who can understand my sort of reverent irreverence. I’m a religious person, I believe in doing right. But it would be
a hoax to describe me as a stainless creature. I go to church and believe in God, but also, as the saying goes, I smoke, I
drink, I chew, and I go with the boys who do." This Hollywood harlot was supposed to have been converted under the ministry
of a very well known evangelist back in 1949 who has described her as "a very lovely Christian girl." If you wish to know
the name of the evangelist, ask the pastor. Or just take a good guess! Jane Russell is a perfect example of the type of "convert"
produced by a compromised evangelism. Compromised evangelism produces a compromised Christianity.
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March, 1965 - The devotional speaker at the offices of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Minneapolis recently
was none other than E. Stanley Jones. Even for an organization specializing in explanations, this one will take some fancy
explaining!
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April, 1965 - In a letter dated March 19, 1965, to Mr. Julius Taylor, 100 Cardinal Drive, Taylors, S.C., the Rev. Cuthbert
E. Allen of the Roman Catholic Belmont Abbey College wrote as follows: "Billy Graham gave an inspiring and theologically sound
address that may have been given by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen or any other Catholic preacher. I have followed Billy Graham’s
career and I must emphasize that he has been more Catholic than otherwise,.and I say this not in a partisan manner but as
a matter of fact. Knowing the tremendous influence of Billy Graham among Protestants and now the realization and acknowledgment
among Catholics of his devout and sincere appeal to the teachings of Christ which he alone teaches, I would state that he
could bring Catholics and Protestants together in a healthy ecumenic spirit. I was the first Catholic to invite Billy Graham;
I know he will speak at three other Catholic universities next month; I believe he will be invited by more Catholic colleges
in the future than Protestant colleges. So I am well pleased, then to answer your question: Billy Graham is preaching a moral
and evangelical theology most acceptable to Catholics." Question: Who has converted whom? When Graham’s message receives
the endorsement of Roman Catholicism, it is a compromised message. How long will people who know better support such compromise?
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May, 1965 - The following quotation was used in the pastor’s message last Sunday evening and is being placed in the
bulletin for the use of those who may wish to have it. In his book, Love, the Law of Life, Toyohiko Kagawa, wrote:
"Belief in evolution is a faith in a progressive entrance into an ever-expanding freedom. . .from anthropoid agape to human,
from ant to Son of God. What a courageous faith! The belief that there is a direct line from amoeba to man is more daring
and romantic Faith than the belief in the myth of a Creator making something out of nothing . . .evolution is growth from
electron to Divinity." Such a pronouncement is nothing short of blasphemous. Kagawa was the chief evangelist for the United
Church of Japan, and was widely used by the National Council of Churches in this country. He was honored on the platform of
the Graham evangelistic meetings in Japan a number of years ago.
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September, 1965 -- Dr. Bob Jones, Jr., president of Bob Jones University issued the following statement in anticipation
of a proposed Billy Graham crusade in the city of Greenville, S.C.: "When Dr. Graham gets up and says publicly. ‘I have
been cooperating with modernists and Roman Catholics and everybody else; I have been seeking sponsorship and turning converts
over to them; I am convicted that it is wrong, and I want to repent of my sin of disobedience; from this day on I am going
to work with God’s people, the Bible believers, and nobody else,’ then I will be the first one to say, ‘Praise
God, let’s help him.’ But until he makes a public statement of his repentance and declares his new position, I
am not going to plead his case. Now is that clear? So when he comes to Greenville, whatever the situation may appear to be
and whatever their public relations department and the modernistic preachers of Greenville try to make the setup appear to
be, Bob Jones University is not going to cooperate. I want to make it clear what I mean by that so if there are any of you
who want to cooperate you can make your plans not to enroll next year. No dormitory student from B.J.U. will be given permission
to attend any crusade meeting or have anything to do with it." To this we say a hearty, "Amen!"
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October, 1965 - Dr. John Rice, referring to Billy Graham in his Sword of the Lord, wrote: "...while he used to attack
modernism, and where in his book he said all preachers ought to attack modernism, he has put strings on his message, to avoid
offending modernists about Hell. He starts his sermons on Hell by saying, ‘Hell is not a sadistic torture chamber,’
and he assures his audience that some preachers have made Hell so hot with such a vivid imagination that they have made it
‘abhorrent to the love of God.’ That language pleases modernists, of course, very well. But it is not Bible language.
And though he preached on Hell, he gave assurance that modernists like Albert Schweitzer would not go there. He said, "Could
Adolph Hitler and Albert Schweitzer go to the same place?’ You see, when he runs with modernists, he must make modernists
sure that he does not mean them when he preaches about Hell for Christ - - rejecters. He puts strings on his own message.’
At the close of the message last Lord’s Day several people requested the information contained in the above quote. For
this reason it is being placed in the bulletin so that it might be available to all who wish to have it.
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February, 1966 -- In an open letter published by The Radio Gospel Fellowship, P.O. Box 72, Denver, 1, Co., Billy Graham
stated several years ago: "I do not believe that the ground of our fellowship is to be the inerrancy of Scripture but, rather,
the ground of our fellowship is to he the deity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. I myself hold to the verbal inspiration viewpoint;
I think any other position is fraught with danger. However, many of the leading evangelicals, and even fundamentalists when
pinned down, do not hold to the verbal inspiration of Scripture.@ Some one should
inform Dr. Graham that the verbal inspiration is not a viewpoint, hut a fact. The man Who’ rejects it has no
right to call himself a Christian. Fellowship on any other basis than the inerrancy of Scripture is open sin. How long will
sincere faith in the deity of Christ remain if the authority of the Bible is surrendered?
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March, 1966 - The Danger of Duplicity! Dr. Bob Jones, Jr., in a statement to the Greenville, S.C. press explained his objection
to Billy Graham’s campaigns as follows: "So our objection is on the basis of his sponsorship, which is unscriptural
on his practice of turning his converts back over to unscriptural churches and to false teachers, and recommending such men.
I think that Dr. Graham is doing more harm to the cause of Jesus Christ than any living man, that he is leading foolish and
untaught Christians, simple people that do not know the Word of God, into disobedience to the Word of God. That is wrong,
and it is doubly wicked in that he is doing it under the pretext of a soul-winning ministry. That is our objection to Dr.
Graham." And to this we say a hearty, "Amen!" The danger of duplicity lies in the fact that compromise causes the concept
of the truth to change in the thinking of people. In so subtle a manner Satan leads them away from the truth of the Gospel,
even while they may listen to Gospel words. There is one thing more important that soul-winning, and that is walking in the
Truth. 3 John 4, "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth." God requires obedience to His Word.
This is Heaven’s supreme delight!
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November, 1966 - - Within the past month a World Congress on Evangelism was held in Berlin. It was called by leaders of
the New Evangelical movement, headed by Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, editor of Christianity Today, and promoted by the Billy
Graham organization. It might better have been called the "World Conglomeration of Evangelism." The word "conglomeration"
according to the dictionary means a "mixed mass. "And that it was! World Council officials were there. The chairman of the
WCC’s department on Missions and Evangelism was a member and a featured speaker. Outright Modernist denominational spokesmen
were present. Virtually every denomination was represented, the report said. Ecumenical representatives were there. Churchmen
representing the Eastern Orthodox Communion (Greek Catholic) were there. Representatives of the Communist-controlled churches
from Iron Curtain countries were there (anti-Communist spokesmen were arbitrarily excluded). Roman Catholic observers were
present. Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, an "expert on interfaith relations" for the National Conference on Christians and Jews, was
there. It was a mixed mass all right! Dr. Henry announced that no attempt would be made to determine what would come out of
the conference. "It is completely in the hands of delegates," he said. One of the voices that cane out of the congress was
that of Dr. Buerki-Fellenz, secretary of the Intervarsity Fellowship of Switzerland, who said some evangelists succumbed to
the ideological temptation of presenting the "Christian way of life" as superior to others. Verily, verily - it was a mixed
mass!
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November, 1966 -- Mention was made in last week’s bulletin of the ten-day World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin
which was sponsored by the compromising evangelicals, Carl Henry, Harold John Ockenga, Billy Graham & Co. We suggested
that it might better have been called a conglomeration rather than a congress, the word conglomeration meaning a "mixed mass."
That this congress is serving the ecumenical cause is evident from the following news report by John Cogley of the New
York Times: "In their zeal to put Evangelization in the forefront of the church’s concerns, some here have talked
feebly about starting a new denomination or withdrawing from the central bodies of existing ones. The overwhelming opinion,
however, is against schism or any further fragmentation of Protestantism. What the ‘Evangelicals’ in all the churches
have to do, he (Carl Henry) suggested, is to stay where they are and resummon their denominational brethren to the major task
of the church, preaching the Gospel." It is abundantly clear from this statement that the new evangelicals are determined
to stay within the camp of apostate ecclesiasticism and conduct their program within the framework of the National and World
Councils of Churches. Please note that the voice for separation was a very feeble voice, and that it was overwhelmingly vetoed.
Such is the tragic consequence of compromise. The position, policy, and practice of these compromising evangelicals, of whom
Billy Graham is the symbol, is diametrically opposed to the command of God’s Holy Word. See II Corinthians 6:17.
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January, 1967 -- The Roman Catholic Voice for August 23, 1967, had a dispatch from Belmont, N.C., as follows: "Billy
Graham, the Evangelist, will address a special convocation to be held in his honor at Belmont Abbey College here November
21. Abbot W.A. Goggins, O.S.B., of Belmont Abbey, said this special event is part of an ecumenic institute, now in the planning
stage, to be held at the abbey for Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen. Dr. Graham’s appearance on the Abbey campus
will be his second visit to the college. On November 18, 1963, he spoke at a college assembly. it was his first appearance
at a Catholic institution." On his previous visit, the executive vice president of the college, Cuthbert E. Allen, a Benedictine
priest, wrote on March, 1965: "Billy Graham gave an inspiring and theologically sound address that may have been given by
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen or any other Catholic preacher. I have followed Billy Graham’s career and I must emphasize that
he has been more Catholic than otherwise.. .1 would state that he could bring Catholics and Protestants together in a healthy
ecumenic spirit.. .Billy Graham is preaching a moral evangelical theology most acceptable to Catholics."
The event announced above is now history. Billy Graham was awarded an honorary Doctor of Human Letters degree by this Roman
Catholic institution. In his remarks he said: "Now we can speak to one another, work with one another and be brothers to one
another." He told his predominantly Roman Catholic audience I have a sneaking suspicion this is just a short cut to making
me a Father." He said further, in referring to the gospel, "That gospel has founded this school, that gospel has brought me
here tonight." The citation awarded to him praised him as a "Twentieth Century voice of the human spirit." How long will those
who name the name of Christ follow this champion of compromise and confusion, this evangelical renegade, as her leads the
rush back to Rome?
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January, 1967 - What’s that again? Evangelist Billy Graham, appearing on the platform of the apostate National Council
of Churches in Miami, December 5, 1966, said: "Now I believe this, that there are two conversions that we ought to have, one
is converted from the world to Christ; the other is converted with Christ back to the world." Two conversions! Since when?
The Bible knows of only one conversion- from the world to Christ, Galatians 6:14. When a sinner experiences this conversion,
no other conversion is necessary, and particularly not one that would lead back to the world! This two-conversion notion would
Sound very pleasing only to the ears of the social-gospellers whose job is to clean up the world and make it a better place
to live in through the process of social reform. Commenting upon the Berlin Congress, this champion of compromise said: "If
the Berlin Conference had any failures, and it did, as I look back, there was not near enough emphasis upon the social emphasis
that is needed if we’re to fulfill the commands of Christ. This was one of its weaknesses and one of its failures."
And there are those who say that Billy Graham has not succumbed to the impact and influence of the modernists with whom he
has been cooperating through the years!
He said further: "One of the objects of this Congress on Evangelism was to gather some of those elements together along
with some of the people in the conciliar movement and to have discussions and consultations and dialogues and nothing else."
The truth will out! The purpose of the Berlin Congress was to promote the dialogue! Such a pronouncement would be sweet-sounding
talk in the ears of the Ecu-maniacs - the builders of the One World Church. Responding to the applause that was given him,
Graham said: "I am honored and privileged to be here to participate with you - and I would like to put it in those terms,
to participate with you..." That’s right! By his own Confession he is part and parcel of the apostate NCC-Ecumenical
program!
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January, 1967 - Bishop Otto Dibelius, a former president of the World Council of Churches, delivered one of the key messages
at Billy Graham’s Berlin Congress on Evangelism. The Standard, December 5, 1966, reports him as saying: "Whatever
other noble aims characterize the World Council, evangelism is not one of them and perhaps never can be." Walter Montano,
commenting upon this situation said: "Other delegates, not simply observers, expressed similar opinions. Ironically, the Congress
which was called for the specific purpose of fostering evangelism had on its platform some of the most antagonistic elements
to evangelism!" C. Stacey Woods made these remarks: "...there was a notable absence of Biblical authority within the Congress
for which Christian methodology and experience were no adequate substitute...God’s glory was not so much considered..
.there was a neglect of the theology of evangelism and the biblical narrowness of the Gospel. ...There was some confusion
about the eternal lostness of those outside of Christ ... There was little emphasis upon the holiness of God and His call
to separate from all that is impure and untrue. Its theme, ‘One Race, One Gospel, One Task, was notable for the omission
‘one truth.’" Quite a contrast between this analysis and some of the glowing reports we have seen from men who
should know better!
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February, 1967 - The following is placed in the bulletin by request after its use by the pastor in the service last Lord’s
Day evening. Evangelist Billy Graham, speaking before a packed meeting of the National Council of Churches in Miami Beach,
December 6, 1966, is reported to have said: "We need to remind ourselves of such Scriptures as Paul wrote to the Corinthians,
‘Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will
receive you.’ Now some people have interpreted that verse to mean the National Council - that you’re to come out
and not touch the unclean thing. (Laughter). That’s not the meaning there. The meaning is paganism - the evils of the
world. Indeed we’re to go into the world and mingle with the publicans and sinners but we’re not to participate
in the moral and social evils." Can you imagine anything more pagan than the apostate program of the National Council of Churches?
Can you imagine anything more filthy in its abominations that the harlot church of the Antichrist portrayed in Revelation
17, which is nothing more or less than the culmination of the unholy ecumenicism of the NCC, WCC, and RCC? Is there any room
for doubt as to where this champion of compromise stands when he openly ridicules Fundamentalists and the Biblical command
to separate from apostasy? Graham says stay in. God says, "Come out!" (Revelation 18:4). Isn’t it about time that men
listen to God instead of Graham?
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May, 1967 - Evangelist Billy Graham was quoted in the Tulsa Daily World, April 3, 1967, with reference to a statement
made concerning the Berlin Congress: "I believe it was effective because I was invited to speak to the National Council of
Churches at their meeting in December and I now have been invited to write a paper on conversion for the World Council of
Churches." If acceptance in National and World Council circles is a criterion of success, he can have it! That is the kind
or success we can veil do without. The diabolic program of the NCC and WCC is nothing more nor less than the building of the
Church (the harlot bride, Revelation 17) of the Antichrist. Mr. Graham was in Tulsa when he made the above statement, dedicating
the Oral Roberts University. It would not surprise us one bit if this champion of compromise should some day soon journey
to Rome to kiss the Pope’s feet.
***
July, 1967 - According to the Fuller Seminary Theology News and Notes for May 1967, the Baccalaureate service was
held in the First Methodist Church of Pasadena, with Dr. John Sutherland Bonnell of New York City as the speaker. It was this
same Dr. Bonnell who in Look magazine of March 23, 1954, said: Presbyterians do not believe in the literal inerrancy of the
Scriptures... .Most Presbyterians do not believe in a material heaven or hell... .With a few exceptions Presbyterians do not
interpret the phrase in the Apostles’ Creed, the ‘Resurrection of the Body’ as meaning the physical body."
Concerning the Virgin Birth, he said: "Some find a symbolic, rather than a physical meaning in the accounts of the birth of
Jesus... .Except in minor Presbyterian groups, the doctrine of the virgin birth is not used as a test of orthodoxy in ordaining
ministers and elders." The level to which Fuller Seminary has sunk may be gauged by the caliber of the men it uses. Incidentally,
this blatant modernist (Bonnell) was honored on the platform of the Billy Graham evangelistic crusade in Scotland more than
a dozen years ago.
In a UPI Dispatch datelined London: "American evangelist Dr. Billy Graham said today miniskirts are fine so long as they
are merely a fashion style. ‘I don’t see anything wrong with them unless they are deliberately worn to entice
men to have sensual thoughts,’ he said. "One thing sure - he will not lose popularity with the miniskirt crowd! But
see I Timothy 2:9.
***
September, 1967 - The man who was chosen to be the head of the Graham Crusade in Greenville, S.C., in 1966 was Dr. L.D.
Johnson, noted Southern Baptist leader, formerly pastor of the First Baptist Church there and now chaplain at Furman University
of the SBC. He is quoted in The People’s Paper as follows: "The next two decades will be characterized by more
emphasis on the ecumenical movement within Christian groups.. .Another significant change in the 70’s will have to do
with understanding of Scriptures... Insistence upon the literal meaning of the Bible is no longer a tenable position among
people who are educated, and the education of the American people will be the mark of the 70’s." Are you surprised that
this Bible-denying ecumaniac should be chosen chairman of a Graham crusade? Don’t be. The unequal yoke of inclusivism
is his practised policy. In a bulletin sent out to Southern California churches, Dr. Graham on August 21, 1963 said: "Bishop
Kennedy is one of the ten greatest preachers in America." On the first Sunday of the L.A. Crusade, after a eulogy of ten minutes,
he said to the great throng: "I now introduce to you my good friend and trusted advisor, Dr. E. Stanley Jones." Methodist
Bishop Gerald Kennedy and Methodist missionary E. Stanley Jones are modernists of the first order. Mr. Graham has been wearing
the unequal yoke for a long time! Through his cooperation with Bible-denying, Christ-rejecting modernists Billy Graham has
become the all-time champion of compromise and confusion.
***
December, 1967 - Hail Mary! Evangelist Billy Graham was awarded an honorary Doctor of Human letters degree by Belmont Abbey
College, a Catholic institution, on Tuesday evening, November 21. "Now," said Billy Graham to his predominantly Roman Catholic
audience, "we can speak to one another, work with one another and be brothers to one another.., He told his young audience:
"I have a sneaking suspicion that this is just a short cut to making me a Father. He paid his respects to the "gospel of Christ,"
by saying. "That gospel has founded this school, that gospel has brought me here tonight." The citation said in part: "When
time has sifted the 20th Century, and most of us have receded into statistics, there will remain visible to the
eye of history a relatively few men whose individual minds and wills have significantly shaped the events of our world. In
this small company - the company of Picasso and Einstein, of Schweitzer, Churchill and Pope John XXIII - will certainly be
found the figure of William Franklin Graham." He was further praised as a "Twentieth Century voice of the human spirit." Hail
Mary!
***
March, 1968 - The United Church Observer of July 1, 1966, carried an article in which evangelist Billy Graham was
asked to submit answers to 26 "provocative" questions. One of these was on the Virgin Birth. Question: Do you think a literal
belief in the Virgin Birth - not just as a symbol of the incarnation or of Christ’s divinity - as an historic event
is necessary for personal salvation? Answer: "While I most certainly believe that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, I do
not find anywhere in the New Testament that this particular belief is necessary for personal salvation." This is a classic
example of "operation double-talk," at which the Neo-Evangelicals are so adept. In one breath he affirms belief in the virgin
birth (this pleases evangelicals), and in the next breath he says that belief in the virgin birth is not necessary to salvation
(this pleases the liberals). If Christ be not the virgin-born Son of God, He could not be our Saviour. To reject the doctrine
of the Virgin Birth is to reject the only Saviour that God has provided for sinners. There can be no personal salvation apart
from faith in the virgin-born Son of God! It is time that this mealy-mouthed, double-tongued, compromising evangelical tell
us why he believes in the virgin birth at all if he does not consider it necessary to salvation.
***
June, 1968 - The bulletin of the Anti-Defamation League for December, 1967 has an article entitled "My C:onversation with
Billy Graham" by Rabbi Arthur Gilbert who was an observer at the Berlin Congress on Evangelism. The interview took place at
Graham’s home where the Rabbi was a guest. "Billy said that as he grew in sensitivity his own method of handling Jews
attending his crusades had changed. When Jews step forward at his crusades, he makes no special missionary appeal for their
conversion." Billy declared, "Jews have a right to be respected for what they are - a people who still live by the Light of
God in the Old Testament." Rabbi Gilbert wrote, "Unlike some fundamentalist opponents of Christian social action, Billy insisted
that Christians, individually and through their corporate structures, must enter the social arena and seek to improve society."
Dr. Graham was quoted: "It is wrong to presume that the sufferings of the Jews are a consequence alone of their denial of
Jesus. Certainly it is Biblical to suggest that man suffers punishment as a consequence of sinfulness, but there is also a
suffering that is martyrdom. All men are in need of God’s forgiveness. Jews are under no special guilt and, in fact,
the Church stands in the same need of forgiveness." Graham further said: "that Christ is the way to God’s forgiving
love but it ill behooves me to judge Jews as a people lost to salvation. God, in his own time and way, will judge all men
by the light according to which they live. We must distinguish he who lives by no revelation from one who knows that God is
revealed in nature, in the world, and in history. The believing Jew’s approach to life is testimony to his faithfulness
to the God of his fathers. Christians must respect such devotedness to God." Rabbi Gilbert said, "I left Montreat satisfied
that our dialogue would continue, encouraged that evangelicals are no longer inaccessible. I left Montreat respectful of Christianity
- and strengthened in my Judaism." And we might add, still lost and on the way to hell!
***
August, 1968 - Heaven and Hollywood do not mix, but the "new evangelicals" are giving it a try. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans,
who are often featured at Graham ecumenical crusades, were billed as putting on the dance shows through July 24 at the night-club
at Harrah’s gambling casino in Reno.
***
December, 1968 - Pike’s Pulpit: On December 4, 1960, Billy Graham addressed a men’s group in conjunction with
the opening meeting of the National Council of Churches from the pulpit of Grace Cathedral, the pulpit of the blaspheming
Bishop James Pike. He spoke to an overflow audience. Graham was an honored guest at the consecration service for the Bishop
in Grace Cathedral on May 15, 1958, and that same night Graham praised Bishop Pike in glowing terms from the platform of the
Cow Palace where he was holding one of his evangelistic campaigns. Later, on Saturday, May 24, 1958, this campion of compromise
had Pike on the platform at the Cow Palace to read the evening prayer after warm words of praise. So on December 4, 1960,
Pike invited Graham into Grace Cathedral pulpit for the NCC address, and the Bishop concluded the service by pronouncing the
benediction. Thus did Evangelist Billy Graham give public recognition and join in fellowship and testimony with one of the
most blatant blasphemers of the twentieth century! Yet some people say, "so what - he’s ‘winning souls’
isn’t he?" We had better get it firmly fixed in mind that there is one thing more important to God than "winning souls,"
and that is obedience to His Holy Word. "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." (III John 4)
This is Heaven’s supreme delight! It is not merely how we talk, but how we walk, that counts with God! Those who do
not have sense enough to see that what Billy Graham is doing is wrong are devoid of spiritual discernment.
***
December, 1968 - A compromised Christianity has produced some phenomenal converts. Actress Jane Russell divorced her husband
of many years, and a few days later married actor Roger Barrett. Waterfield had previously lamented that "Miss" Russell was
a lush drunk most of the time. Her explanation for switching mates was: "I finally found a man with whom I could discuss religion,
philosophy and the theater. Up to now my conversation at home was limited to football. One of Billy Graham’s early converts,
and described by Graham as a "very lovely Christian girl," this Hollywood whore has consistently played the part of a bad
woman in the films in which she has been featured since her conversion, one of them so rotten that Hollywood’s own censorship
bureau refused to pass it. She was quoted in Pageant Magazine, June 1964, as saying: "I’m a religious person.
I believe in doing right. But it would be a hoax to describe me as a stainless creature. I go to church and believe in God,
but also, as the saying goes, I smoke, I drink, I chew, and I go with the boys who do. This about sums it up." A lovely Christian
girl?
***
April, 1969 - The following is taken from the testimony of Mrs. Rosina Hart of Oratia, Auckland, New Zealand, who was converted
in a Graham campaign in April 1959 and who, two years later was converted from "Billy Grahamism. (Copies of her complete testimony
will be sent free of charge to those who will prayerfully use them, and who will write to her at the above address.) Her conversion
from Grahamism took place when listening to Billy Graham on a short-wave radio from the powerful HCJB station in South America,
he said things that every converted Roman Catholic knows to be false. He simply spoke about Roman Catholics as though they
were Christians like others who helped in the Graham crusades. He spoke of Roman Catholics everywhere as though they were
all born-again, true Christians of the family of God. It was so obvious to a converted Roman Catholic that this was completely
false, and it came as a great shock to have ‘adorable’ Billy speak and act so unwisely and wrongly. Then, of course,
Billy’s further statements were listened to and it became certain that this was no slip of the tongue, but that Billy
had re-oriented his thinking and his whole attitude to bring in the Church of Rome as just another branch of the Christian
Church. He had widened his platform to take in Rome. A little later, when the cardinals were meeting to choose a new Pope,
Billy was heard to pray that they, the cardinals, might be guided by the Holy Spirit in the choice they would make.... it
was at variance with the revealed Word of God that anyone should hold as brothers and sisters in the Lord those who worship
Mary rather than Christ, who sacrifice Christ again in every celebrating of the Mass, and who live entirely in the darkness
of superstition and idolatry. it became clear that Graham was approving what God abhors. He was embracing what God judged
and called Jezebel and the Mother of Harlots.. .he was praying for the Holy Spirit to bless what God had cursed!"
***
April, 1969 - In an open letter, published by Albert H. Salter, Denver, Co., Billy Graham stated as far back as 1958: "I
do not believe that the ground of our fellowship is to be the inerrancy of Scripture but, rather, the ground of our fellowship
is to be the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. I, myself hold to the verbal inspiration Viewpoint; I think any other position
is fraught with danger. However, many of the leading evangelical5, and even fundamentalists when pinned down do
not hold to the verbal inspiration of Scripture. I have accepted my position by faith!" Just how long does Mr. Graham think
that the doctrine of the deity of Christ can be maintained without an inerrant Bible? Or any other fundamental doctrine of
the Faith? The inerrancy of Scripture is not a mere theory among other theories of inspiration. It is absolute fact, and as
absolute truth it is the fundamental of all fundamentals! The very moment Mr. Graham removes Christian fellowship from the
foundation of an inerrant Bible, he transplants it from the ground of absolute truth to the shifting sands of a relative concept.
All of which means that he is no longer preaching the Gospel, no matter how piously he may mouth Gospel words. To preach verbal
inspiration, the virgin birth, the deity of Christ, and other fundamental doctrines merely as a matter of "viewpoint" or "theory"
is to reject the Gospel in its full authority of absolute truth. This is making a shipwreck of the Faith! This is apostasy
in its incipient stage! How serious is the sin of those who support it!
***
April, 1969 - It is a matter of record! In The United Church Observer, July 1, 1966, Billy Graham answered 26 provocative
questions. Here is one of them: Question - "Do you think a literal belief in the Virgin Birth, not just as a symbol
of the incarnation, or of Christ’s divinity, as an historic event, is necessary for personal salvation?" Dr. Graham’s
answer - "While I most certainly believe that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, I do not find anywhere in the New Testament
that the particular belief is necessary for personal salvation." Can a man preach the Gospel of Christ who denies that belief
in the Virgin Birth is necessary for personal salvation? Certainly not! If Jesus Christ be not virgin born, then He was not
the Son of God; and if He be not the Son of God, then He cannot be the Saviour of Sinners. it is just as simple as that! The
"gospel" of Billy Graham is a shallow, superficial, spurious "gospel" - it is not the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. It matters
not that he says he believes in it personally. If it is not necessary for salvation, why believe it or preach it at all? Unless
we believe the Virgin Birth of Christ to be fundamental to the Faith we do not believe the Gospel. Graham’s "Gospel"
is a perverted "gospel." He is making a shipwreck of the Faith.
***
May, 1969 - Further evidence that Billy Graham does not believe the doctrine of the Virgin Birth necessary to salvation
appears in his own Decision magazine as far back as 1962. Dr. Graham appeared on a panel with Harvard Professor Richard
Niebuhr a radical neo-orthodox theologian, and formerly a professor at the infamous Yale Divinity School. In the discussion
Niebuhr stated: "My view is that the virgin birth does not make a bit of difference. I can’t get angry at anybody for
holding it, but on the other hand I certainly don’t hold it myself. I’ll be glad to tell you why. As far as I
am able to figure out in my own reflections, the virgin birth has nothing to do with the meaning of Jesus Christ as one who
suffers and dies and is raised in our behalf. I think this would be the heart of the gospel, or kerygma, as we say today."
To which Graham responded: "Dr. Niebuhr and I would disagree at the point of the virgin birth." This will please evangelicals.
Then he added: ". . .but it is not the heart of the kerygma. I would agree at this point. "This will please the liberals.
He personally believes in the virgin birth, but agrees with the infidel Niebuhr that it is not the heart of the Gospel! In
other words, it is not necessary to salvation. How about that? If the doctrine of the Virgin Birth is not the heart of the
Gospel, what possible value can the death and resurrection of Christ have for us? Absolutely none. If Christ be not the virgin
born Son of God, His death and resurrection are meaningless. He could not be the Saviour of sinners. By saying the virgin
birth is not the heart of the Gospel, Graham is tearing the very heart out of the Gospel!
***
May, 1969 - In a lecture at Union Theological Seminary, February 17, 1954, Billy Graham. speaking on faith, said: "Last
year, Dr. Jesse Bader and Charles Templeton and John Bonnell and I locked ourselves in a room here in New York City for all
day. I asked Dr. Bonnell, ‘If you were an evangelist today, what would be the basis of your message?’ He got up
out of the chair and he paced the floor. He said, "I think the number one need today is an emphasis on the word ‘commitment.’
That’s it!" And this is the word Graham has been using ever since. But commitment to what? Two months later, in an article
entitled "What Is A Presbyterian?" this same Dr. Bonnell wrote: "They, therefore, emphasize inspired men, not inspired words.
(Except for a minority, Presbyterians do not believe in the literal inerrancy of the Scriptures.)" ... "They do not conceive
of heaven as a place with gates of pearl and streets of gold. Nor do they think of hell as a place where the souls of condemned
are punished in fire and brimstone".... "Except in minor Presbyterian groups the doctrine of the Virgin Birth is not used
as a test of orthodoxy..." So says one of the pious prayer partners with whom Billy Graham locked himself up for a whole day.
Such fellowship is a fellowship of wickedness!
***
May, 1969 - - A word of warning was given personally to Billy Graham by Dr. Charles J. Woodbridge, formerly a professor
at Fuller Theological Seminary, who left that institution when he saw the direction it was taking in the mainstream of the
New Evangelical current. At a time when his counsel was sought by Mr. Graham, Dr. Woodbridge issued this warning: "If you
persist in making common cause with these who deny the Word of God, and thus in minimizing the sharp lone of distinction between
those who are loyal and disloyal to the Scriptures, it is my strong opinion the verdict of church history will be that you
be will be known as the greatest divider of the church of Christ in the 20th century." We are not stretching the
truth one bit when we say that Billy Graham has become the champion of compromise and confusion. According to Christian
Life Magazine for March 1956, Graham said: "I don’t call myself a fundamentalist." Though once associated with Dr.
John Rice and Sword of the Lord, Graham dissociated himself because he could no longer in good conscience sign the
statement required for membership on the Sword of the Lord board, which reads as follows: "Standing for the verbal Inspiration
of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial
Return of Christ. Opposes Modernism, Wor1dliness and Formalism." Since then Graham has described himself as a man with "an
evangelical message and an ecumenical heart.
***
June, 1969 - A note received this past week from Dr. Bob Jones, Jr., President of B.J.U., reads as follows: "I have just
seen the copy of your May 18 bulletin in which you quote from a chapel talk I made prior to Billy Graham’s coming to
Greenville. I appreciate your making this available to your people, and I am grateful for the kind comment at the close. We
appreciate you and your friendship and are grateful for the stand you take." Just prior to the Greenville campaign, the pastor
wrote to Dr. Jones: "Greetings in the precious Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! Just a brief word to let you know
that we are supporting you in prayer in a very definite way during the period that the Graham campaign is being conducted
in Greenville. We are deeply grateful to the Lord for your faithful and forthright stand against the compromising ecumenical
evangelism of this traitor to the Truth, and are completely confident that God our Heavenly Father will give you a great victory
in your raising of the standard in defense of the Faith once delivered to the saints. "To Dr. Graham the pastor wrote: "Enclosed
is the copy of a letter forwarded to Dr. Bob Jones, Jr., endorsing his faithful and forthright stand against your compromise
of the Truth through cooperation with Bible-denying. Christ rejecting modernists in the conduct of your campaigns. I earnestly
implore you, Dr. Graham, to repent of your sin and thus deliver yourself from the judgment of Almighty God which rests upon
all such compromise of the Truth.
***
July, 1969 - An ecumenical voice! Dr. G. Paul Musselman, Executive Director of the Department of Evangelism of the National
Council of Churches, describing the work of Billy Graham, said: "I call Billy Graham the newest and greatest of the ecumenical
voices." Back in 1948, when Graham was asked what he thought of the World Council of Churches to be organized in August of
that year, he said: "I believe they are going to nominate the Anti-Christ." He was right then; he is wrong now. The Word of
God has not changed, but Billy Graham surely has! He is now helping to build the church of the Anti-Christ! And those who
support him are helping him to build it.
***
June, 1969 - Dr. Walter S. Patrick, pastor of a Bible Church in Lynbrook. Long Island, has asked some rather pertinent
questions: "Why does Dr. Graham advise converts to ‘go to the church of your own choice,’ instead of directing
them to fundamental assemblies? Why does Dr. Graham recommend the modernistic Revised Standard Version of the Bible,
which denies the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus? Why does Dr. Graham insist upon having modernists and liberalists serving
with fundamentalists on his various crusade committees? Why does Dr. Graham speak of himself as a ‘conservative liberal’
and a ‘constructionist;’ rather than an old-fashioned fundamentalist? Why can’t he say today, as he did
on May 29,1951, ‘I have never been, nor will I ever be, in favor of a modernist being on the committee?’" Yes,
Mr. Graham, Why?
***
August, 1969 -- BILLY AND THE BISHOP! Bishop Gerald Kennedy (Methodist), who figured so prominently in the 1963 Los Angeles
Graham campaign, wrote the following on the jacket of one of Dr. Nels Ferre’s most blasphemous books: "The Sun and
the Umbrella is a modern parable written in the power and spirit of the New Testament, it cuts right to the heart of our
muddled theology. We have stood in need of this clarification of the person of Jesus. If it shocks certain traditionalists,
it will thrill sincere, world minded Christians. Nels Ferre has given us the clue for a truly universal Christianity." And
in just what manner does blaspheming Ferre clarify the "person" of Jesus? On p. 35 he says: "To call Jesus God is to substitute
an idol for the incarnation." On p. 39 he says further: "The use of the Bible as the final authority for Christian truth is
idolatry." This is the same blaspheming Ferre who brazenly suggested that the conception of Christ in the womb of Mary might
well have been the result of an affair she had with a German mercenary soldier near a military camp outside Jerusalem. What
utter blasphemy! And where does this place the celebrated Bishop Kennedy who so whole-heartedly endorsed the Bible-denying,
Christ-rejecting Nels Ferre? According to II John 11, Gerald Kennedy is a partaker, a participant, in the evil deeds and blasphemy
of Ferre. "For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds." This is the same Gerald Kennedy who was appointed
chairman of the 1963 Los Angeles Graham campaign. So where does this leaves Graham and his Supporters? it makes them partakers,
participants in the evil deeds of Kennedy, those evil deeds are the evil deeds of Nels Ferre. Two and two still add up to
four!
***
September, 1969 - Another conglomeration! Appearing in the Orlando Sentinel this past week was a UPI report in which
it was stated that "More than 5,000 churchmen met Monday in the first U.S. Congress on Evangelism, hoping to dispel current
unrest over Christian priorities by sparking a national revival. Before the Rev. Billy Graham opened the week-long meeting
with an evening service in Minneapolis’ convention hall, the two strict Fundamentalist groups criticized the congress
as ungodly and soft on sin. The congress has drawn preachers, pastors and laymen from 100 major and minor Protestant denominations.
Their ways of interpreting the Bible and looking at theology are not always the same, and the fact of their getting together
under one roof has upset some church associations that stand fast on their own conservatism." Reminiscent of the Berlin Congress
of a few years ago, the inclusivistic nature and compromising character of the current congress adds up to another "conglomeration."
A conglomeration is a "mixed mass," or better yet, a messy mixture.
***
August, 1969 - -Time Magazine, June 26, 1969, reported on the Billy Graham Crusade: "He confessed amiably to one
audience that his wife Ruth - who teaches Sunday School to hippie-esque students near their Montreat, N.C. home - had tried
unsuccessfully to get him to grow a beard. As an innovation, the crusade sponsored an auditorium-sized psychedelic ‘coffee
house’ in a building a block from the Garden. There long-haired groups blared ‘spiritual’ rock, miniskirted
girls sang on a platform, and listeners sipped soft drinks and talked with some of Graham’s 1000 counselors about religion."
What a way to "win souls"! Sensational! Spectacular! Satanic! If this isn’t enough to sicken one’s spiritual stomach,
what will it take? One doesn’t have to dance around a golden calf in order to be guilty of idolatry. All he need do
is join the Billy Graham camp and he will find himself right in the midst of idol-worshippers. It is never right to do wrong
to get an opportunity to do right!
October, 1969 - -More on the conglomeration! The Christian News for September 22, 1969, reported the following:
"Three black evangelists attending the U.S. Congress on Evangelism are shown as they told a press conference in Minneapolis
that they favor the ‘Black Manifesto’ and the concept of ‘reparations’ to blacks. Left to right, they
are the Rev. Nelson Trout, the Rev. Tom Skinner, and the Rev. Howard Jones." Speak up Mr. Graham! Where do you stand? Are
you in favor of the Black Manifesto too? The man honored as the main speaker on Friday, September 10, was Dr. Ralph Abernathy.
He called for the recognition of Red China and an immediate end to the Viet Nam war. Just what has all this liberal-socialist-.communist
propaganda to do with preaching the Gospel? It should he evident to all this so-called Congress on Evangelism sponsored by
Billy Graham was a complete sell-out to the social gospel!
***
January, 1970 -- The champion of compromise and confusion is to he honored by the Devil’s own fraternity. According
to the Cleveland Plain Dealer for November 26, 1970. "Evangelist Billy Graham will be given the highest honor of the
National Conference of Christian and Jews, The International Brotherhood Award, in Cleveland, March 14, next year.... For
the NCCJ banquet, Dr. Graham will arrive in Cleveland shortly after a crusade he is planning in Africa... About 2,000 are
expected to attend. All proceeds will be used to further the work of the NCCJ in this area... .The NCCJ President also said
the award would recognize Dr. Graham’s ‘lifetime of crusading to bring all men together under the Fatherhood of
God. His moral preachings based on the Judeo-Christian concept of the quality of man have been an inspiration and source of
consolation to all religiously motivated people.’ His appeal to both secular and non-secular worlds is apparent in the
wide range of groups honoring him." The 20th century Balaam has sold himself out to Satan!
***
April, 1970 - - Dr. Charles Woodbridge has written a two-page statement entitled, "Why I No Longer Support The ‘Word
of Life’ Movement." Among other reasons given appear the following: "Jack (Wyrtzen) does not hesitate to appear on the
platform along with new evangelical leaders. He was publicized as a speaker at Hampton Dubose Academy along with Grady Wilson
and Roy Gustafson, well known as members of the Billy Graham team. I Wrote back a letter and asked how he could do this. To
date I have received no reply. Jack does not hesitate to invite New Evangelicals as speakers at his summer camp. One of these
speakers for the summer of 1970 is Mr. Richard Bennett of England. In Mr. Bennett’s publicity he tells the public, apparently
without any apology, that he has been associated with Barrington College, the Inter-Varsity movement, the Greater European
Mission, the ministry of Dr. Stephen Olford, who served as vice president of the Graham crusade, I am informed, in New York
City. If Jack realized that a life and death struggle is being waged between the Word of God and the entire new evangelical
position, surely he would not be hobnobbing with these men who, in my opinion, are helping to pave the way for the Babylon
of the Book of Revelation." The complete statement may be secured from the author, 1595 Los Osos Valley Road, Ca. 93401.
***
June, 1970 -- The number of well-known apostates who have been honored by Dr. Graham in his crusades, congresses, Decision
magazines is now frightfully large. Among the scores of deniers of the Faith who have been commended by this double-hearted,
double-tongued, double-dealing champion of compromise and confusion are: Dr. H.P. Van Dusen, of Union Seminary, the late Bishop
James A. Pike, Bishop Gerald B. Kennedy, Emjlio Castro of Montevideo, Bishop Richard Raines of Indianapolis, Bishop Hazen
G. Werner of Columbus, Archbishop Arthur Michael Ramsay, of Canterbury, the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Helmut Thielicke
of Germany, Dr. L. D. Johnson of Greenville, Dr. E. Stanley Jones, Father John B. Sheenin of the Catholic World, the late
Dr. Karl Barth of Switzerland, Dr. Elton Trueblood of Earlham College, Dr. Leslie Weatherhead of Great Britain, Dr. John A.
Mackay of Princeton, Dr. Carl G. Howie of Detroit, Dr. Walter Judd of Minneapolis, Rabbi Arthur Gilbert of the Anti-Defamation
League, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the late Dr. Toyohika Kagawa of Japan, Dr. John Sutherland Bonnell of New York, Dr. Robert
Raines of Yale, Dr. Ralph Abernathy of Atlanta, Canon Bryan Green of Britain, Bishop Otto Dibelius of Germany, Dr. Lynn Turner
of Columbus, Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher of Britain, Dr. Charles H. Dodds of London, and Bishop Leslie Newbigin of India. What
in the name of all that is holy does Billy Graham hope to gain through fellowship and cooperation with such Bible- denying,
Christ-rejecting agents of Satan as those listed above? See III John 7-11.
***
June, 1970 - In an article entitled "Aftermath of the Billy Graham Crusade in New York," Dr. William Ward Ayer stated:
"Perhaps the most disappointing thing of all was for the people to see prominent liberals against whom they had been warned
by their faithful pastors appear on the platform again and again to receive the praise of the evangelist and others. On one
or two occasions, those who were called upon to lead in prayer and have other part, were so completely on the other side of
the theological fence from the majority who were there in the Garden that a groan of protest went up from the audience. Those
who know Billy best say that it is his amiable personality that makes him believe that he can become a sort of pontiff - or
bridge builder between Bible believing Christians and those attractive personalities who are the proponents of the non-redemptive
Gospel.... I do believe that the reason there is no real soul-shaking revival in the Billy Graham crusade, and he himself
admits it and deplores it, claiming that he is not a revivalist but an evangelist, is because there is no severe condemnation
of sin, and therefore, very little deep repentance. Billy spreads himself too thin; he tries not to offend anybody in any
way. As a result, I am inclined to believe from the investigation that I have made that the conversions are not deep and life-changing
as they otherwise might be." A compromised message is a superficial message, and a superficial message produces superficial
converts. Any form of Christianity made comfortable through compromise is bound to be counterfeit!
***
July, 1970 - Appearing in the local paper this pat week was the following: "Comedian Bob Hope, Monday, predicted at least
400,000 people will take part in ‘Honor America’ celebrations here Saturday. Hope, who heads the organizing committee
for the event along with Evangelist Billy Graham, said he does not expect any trouble from anti-war demonstrators. Although
the July 4 Independence Day celebrations have the blessing of the Nixon Administration, Hope denied its purpose was political...Hope
said it would improve the American image for foreigners ‘to see a bunch of Americans finally having a good time.’
The celebrations, starting in the morning and continuing in the night will include parades, bands, a fire-works display and
an open air entertainment with more than a dozen internationally known stars...Asked about a threat by some radical youth
leaders that thousands of young people might stage a marijuana smoke-in the midst of the celebration, Hope joked: ‘Well
I may join them for that.’" Among the entertainers invited were Dick Gregory, a fierce critic of the Viet Nam war and
the White American establishment, and the Smothers Brothers. There is an old saying about birds of a feather flocking together.
All we can say is - what a flock! P.S.: The 20th century Balaam is to be the principal speaker.
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August, 1970 - Counterfeit Christianity! "Pat Boone and the Gift of Tongues" is the title of a new book to be published
in September by Dr. James D. Bales of Harding College, Searcy, Arkansas. We are informed that Boone, who is being currently
featured in TV spectaculars by Campus Crusade throughout the country, is now involved in the tongues movement. This is the
joker who was brought right from a gambling casino in Las Vegas to perform at the Graham Congress on Evangelism in Minneapolis
a year ago. It is just a week ago in the evening service that we gave warning against the peril of Pentecostalism. Here it
is in the guise of the New Evangelicalism!
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August, 1970 - Taking the Heat Out of Hell! Billy Graham, in a message on hell, said: "Hell is not a sadistic torture chamber."
He assured his audience that some preachers have made hell so hot with a vivid imagination that they have made it "abhorrent
to the love of God." That language pleases modernists very well. He went further and gave assurance that modernists like Albert
Schweitzer would not go there. He said: "Could Adolph Hitler and Albert Schweitzer go to the same place?" Yes, Mr. Graham,
both will go to the same place because both rejected the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Saviour. Indeed, Mr. Graham, the sin
of the modernist Schweitzer in rejecting the Bible and the Bible’s Christ, in spite of all his humanitarian achievements,
is far greater than all, of the wickedness of an Adolph Hitler. By now both have learned that hell is hotter than you apparently
think it is. By now they have learned that it is all the Son of God said it would be when he described it four times (Luke
16:19-31) as a place of torment. And if hell be not a torture chamber, Mr. Graham, tell us, please, the meaning of Revelation
14:9-11! "Tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb!" If the Bible
means what it says, and it surely does, the writhing of Christ-rejecting sinners in eternal, conscious torment of a never-ending
hell will be a source of complete satisfaction to a righteous and holy God. You had better believe it, Mr. Graham!
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November, 1970 - Satanic Strategy! United Methodists for Evangelical Christianity held a Convocation in Dallas, August
26-29, 1970, drawing an attendance of sixteen hundred. The speakers included Bishop Gerald Kennedy, a unitarian in theology,
who shared the platform with black Baptist evangelist Tom Skinner. The Methodist Advocate of Mississippi
for September 9, 1970, quoted Skinner: "A radical is a person who gets to the root of the problem.. . .A revolutionist is
one who would take an existing unworkable system, throw it away, and create a new, better system." In the same issue this
prominent neo-evangelist Black leader was further quoted: "The evangelical conservative wing of the theological church has
been brainwashed by certain political conservatives of this country who have wrapped the American flag around Jesus so that
to stand up in the name of God and to speak against the problems of our society and to speak against racism and injustice
results in being called anarchists." This is the same man who appeared at Billy Graham’s Minneapolis Congress on Evangelism
and when questioned about the influence of Communism in race riots declared: "I don’t want to dignify Communism by giving
it credit for the revolution. But if they are stirring it up, does that make the Communists good guys or bad guys?" Christianity
Today quotes Mr. Skinner, January 2, 1970: "Education will change its emphasis from the study of history to creative preparation
for the future. The message of Jesus Christ then must be preached in that vein... .This means the Gospel of Christ must be
preached in the language of that age group and in a way relevant to its life style." This is the social gospel emphasis pure
and simple!
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May, 1971 - Request was made for a copy of the following item which was used by the pastor in the message of last Lord’s
Day evening. It is reproduced here for the purpose of making it available to all. In Christianity Today, August 18,
1967, it was reported: "Jesus might have been homosexual, suggests the vicar of Cambridge University’s main church.
Canon Hugh Montifore told a modern Churchmen’s conference at Oxford that Jesus need not have been hindered from marriage
by lack of money or possible mates. ‘Women were his friends, but it is men he is said to have loved.’ the vicar
added." In his book entitled Is There Not a Cause? R.C. Suiter makes the frightening disclosure: "Canon Hugh W. Montifiore
was advisor for the Cambridge Billy Graham Television Crusade in England." Identification with such religious reprobates in
deliberate disobedience to the Word of God is reason enough why no Bible-believing, Christ honoring Christian should be a
supporter of Billy Graham in his program of ecumenical evangelism. To do so is to become a partaker of his evil deeds, which
evil deeds are the evil deeds of the Bible-denying, Christ-rejecting modernists with whom he identifies himself, II John 11.
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July, 1971 - The Oregon Journal for June 30, 1971, carried Billy Graham's column, "My Answer": Question -"You have
been called a conservative in theology. Isn’t this concept of Christianity so out of step with modern problems that
it is irrelevant?" Answer -"I would rather be an evangelical theologically, but I do admit that:a high Biblical view is irrelevant
and 'out of step' with modern problems." The champion of compromise and confusion is really outdoing, himself. Just how can
one be evangelically sound \who does not hold a high view of the Bible?
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August, 1971 --At the Los Angeles crusade in 1963 Billy Graham spent ten minutes eulogizing Dr. E. Stanley Jones and then
said, "I now introduce to you my good friend and my trusted advisor, Dr. E. Stanley Jones." In his book, Christ and the
Round Table (page 257), Dr. Jones has stated, "If verbal infallibility is insisted upon, then the certainty is very precarious."
In his Song of Accents, Jones says: "We do not believe that the New Testament is the revelation of God
that would be the Word become printer's ink."(p.377) In the same book, on pages 148-149 he says: "I had to go outside my
native land to make a discovery of the kingdom of God. I found it of all places, in Russia." With such a friend and trusted
advisor, it is no wonder that Mr. Graham has become the 20th century champion of compromise and confusion. "Can two walk together,
except they be agreed?" (Amos 3:3) The answer to this question is absolutely no! When Billy
Graham finds in E. Stanley Jones a trustworthy friend and advisor he announces himself as a heretic of the first order.
When asked why he didn't speak out against Communism, Billy said: "For years I have not spoken about that. I cannot go around
the world and say who is right and who is wrong." (Chicago Tribune, April, 1970) Just imagine the prophet Elijah ,standing
before godless Ahab saying, "I can't go around Israel saying who is right and who is wrong. Let's have a meaningful dialogue
with the prophets of Baal!" Elijah was a man of God; Graham is not.
* * *
September, 1971 --Graham's Gospel! In the July 1, 1966 issue of The United Church Observer, official magazine of
the United Church of Canada, there appeared a list of 26 questions which the editor put to Billy Graham, along with his answers.
One of these questions was: "Do you think a literal belief in the Virgin Birth - not just as a symbol of the incarnation or
of Christ's divinity - as an historic event is necessary for personal salvation?" Graham answered: "While I most certainly
believe that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, I do not find anywhere in the New Testament that this particular belief is
necessary for personal salvation." And there are some people who still insist that Billy Graham preaches the Gospel' If it
were not for the Virgin Birth of Christ, His death upon the cross would be absolutely meaningless. There would be no salvation;
there would be no Gospel. To preach an evangelical doctrine as a purely relative concept is to reject the Gospel just as completely
as though one were to make an outright denial. A refusal to believe in the Virgin Birth excludes one completely from saving
faith in Christ. Graham's answer is an excellent example of dialectical double-talk. The word "dialectical" refers to a double
standard. The first part of his answer was designed to please, and ensnare, evangelicals; the last part was designed to curry
the favor of the modernists and liberals. He has become the Master Mush-Mouth of the 20th century!
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October, 1971 - Dr. William E. Ashbrook, in his book The New Neutralism, 7th edition, p. 75, under the heading "Shallow
Youth Movements," says: "Since the popular Christian youth movements of our day have all hitched their wagons to Billy Graham's
star, we "would expect to find all their testimonies in the New Evangelical mode. This is indeed the case with Youth For Christ,
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Campus Crusade and others. The Arminian philosophy of their leaders seems to tell them
that 'the foolishness of preaching' is no longer a valid method for winning the lost. In their thinking, tried and proven
methods of evangelism have failed and God is losing out - He desperately needs help! And the help the Lord's work needs is
to be found in dressing up the gospel message with backdrops of glamour and beauty queens and football stars, supplemented
with the sweet strains of folk and Beatle music accompanied by the twanging strings of a few guitars' Much of the technique
has been learned from the Graham Crusade extravaganzas with their movie queens, nightclub singers and movie gush." In the
Orlando Sentinel, October 23: "Miss Vonda Kay Van Dyke, Miss America of 1965, will be the featured speaker at 7:30
P. M. November 1, Municipal Auditorium, in a decency rally sponsored by the Orlando Youth For Christ (YFC) organization."
Now working in TV and movies, this glamour gal won her hon&s in the flesh pots of Atlantic City.
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January, 1972 - - In the Sunday Magazine, June 1966, Billy Graham was asked what he thought of the story of Adam
and Eve. He replied: "The story of Adam? How you believe in it doesn’t affect the doctrine. Either at a certain moment
in evolution God breathed into one particular ape-man who was Adam, or I believe God could have taken a handful of dust and
blowed and created a man just like that." But, Mr. Graham, the Bible tells us how God did create man (Genesis 2:7),
and this fact does affect doctrine. It rules out any possibility whatsoever off the damnable theory of evolution, including
the threshold theory taught at Wheaton College.
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January, 1972 - - According to an extensive four column interview by Christian Century writer William Thorkelson
in the Minneapolis Star for December 13, 1971, Billy Graham stated that Leighton Ford, his brother-in-law, would very
likely be his successor. Said Mr. Graham: "I am sure if anything happened to me, he would succeed me." The Star continued:
"Leighton Ford, he said, has told him that three people have been converted to Christ through ‘Superstar.’" What
is that again, Mr. Graham? Do you and your brother-in-law really believe that people can be converted to Christ through that
blasphemous Rock Opera Superstar? If so, your "Christ" is not my Christ, for your "Christ" is not the Christ of the Bible!
The Christ of the Bible is the eternal Son of God incarnate in human flesh, a Supernatural Saviour, not a humanized, glamourized,
hippie-type Superstar. If Ford and Graham think for one moment that genuine conversions to Christ can take place through the
medium of such blasphemy, they reveal but one thing: how utterly destitute they themselves are of spiritual discernment. May
God have mercy on gullible saints if Ford is to be the successor to Graham!
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February, 1972 - - Cheap Conversions: According to the late Bill Rose, religious news writer on the West Coast, about one
third of the 21,670 persons who registered "decisions for Christ" at the Oakland Billy Graham crusade last summer gave fictitious
names or fraudulent addresses.
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February, 1972 - - In a letter dated April 20, 1971, Terry Inman of Oakland, Cal., stated: "The Jesus Movement which has
been widely publicized by magazines and newspapers has brought excitement to many youth. Unfortunately some of this excitement
has created a pseudo-Christian subculture that is filled with every philosophy, religion and immorality that has plagued youth
for years. Jesus is being portrayed as a flourescent Solid Rock Superstar, who believes a little dope won’t hurt anyone,
and that premarital sex is all right. For your information we can document the following: 1.- There are Jesus type houses
that have sex orgies in the Name of Christ. 2.- There are leaders in the Jesus Fad movement that teach polygamy. 3.- There
are underground newspapers that have used four letter words to propagate Christ. 4.- There are groups which use drugs as part
of the Christian ritual of worship." The "Jesus" of the Jesus Movement is "another Jesus," and not the Jesus of the Bible.
In a news article by Rev. David Poling (son of the late Dan Poling), he writes: "Right now the Jesus movement is mainly made
up of young people. But their close companion and frequent counsel is a tall grandfather from Montreat, Billy Graham, who
speaks to their condition with understanding and grace." What kind of counsel and advice are you giving them, Billy?
***
May, 1972 -- How hot is Hell? In the Decision, magazine for April, Dr. Billy Graham, in a sermon on "Heaven and
Hell", says: "Jesus used three words to describe the place or condition that lies at the end of the broad road. One is ‘fire.’
Jesus told the story about the rich man who went to Hell and asked that Lazarus might dip the tip of his finger in water and
cool the rich man’s tongue. Could it be that the fire Jesus talked about is an eternal search for God that is never
quenched? Is that what it means? That indeed would be Hell; to be away from God forever, separated from His presence." Would
it, Mr. Graham? Just how do you figure that totally depraved rebellious sinners, who hate God and reject Christ in this life,
will search for Him in eternity? If they spit in His face and spurn His mercy, if they seek Him not now, what makes you think
they will search for Him then? Hell is not a place where men go who wanted to find God in this life, but couldn’t find
Him. You had better learn, Mr. Graham, that Hell is a place of punishment for incorrigibles, who, if they were to be brought
back and given another chance, would do the same thing they did the first time - spit in His face and spurn His mercy. Read
a little farther in your Bible, Mr. Graham, and you will see that the fire of Hell is a "flame. Why not believe and preach
it as it is, instead of adopting the approach of the liberals who do their best to take the heat out of Hell?
***
May, 1972 - - The highest Roman Catholic Award given by the Franciscan priests, the International Franciscan Award, was
given to Dr. Billy Graham on April 21, 1972, according to the Minneapolis Star for April 22, 1972. It was given in
"recognition of his contribution to true ecumenism" and for his "sincere authentic evangelism." Those who identify themselves
with, and support, the ecumenical evangelism of "Father" Graham are sinning against the Lord. The words of Jehu to Jehoshaphat
are in order here (II Chronicles 19:2): "Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? Therefore is wrath
upon thee from before the Lord." There is a curse that rests upon compromise!
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June, 1972 - The Consequence of Compromise! In a press conference, Wednesday morning, June 7, and in his address that evening
to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Philadelphia, Billy Graham declared his full support of President Nixon’s
peaceful coexistence program with the Communists. Praising his visits to Peking and Moscow, Graham said: "I am really thrilled
with Nixon for going." He further indicated that he believed God’s spirit that is moving in the world led the President
to attend a Baptist worship service during a visit to Russia. Mr. Graham is destitute of discernment when he praises the President
for acts of betrayal without parallel in the history of our nation. There is a curse that rests upon coexistence with Communism!
Within a few short months we have witnessed the betrayal of Free China; the betrayal of our P.0.W. ‘s; the sell-out
of our National security interests; and not the least, the dastardly betrayal of true Christians behind the iron curtain.
The Moscow Baptist "Showcase" in whi
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