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Joshua Feuerstein

6/30/2022

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Modalism,
Charismatic Word of Faith



Feuerstein claims to be either a pastor or an ex-pastor, although he doesn’t have any actual seminary training; he doesn’t have an actual ordination; and he doesn’t actually have a congregation that he pastors.
He also claims to be an evangelist, although he doesn’t actually evangelize people. He has started two “churches”. The first, known as Epicenter Church, was actually in his home in Fountain Hills, Arizona where he lived with his parents.
The second church he started is the “America’s Church” which doesn’t seem to have an actual physical location, and appears to consist of Feuerstein video recording himself giving his 15 to 20 minute “sermons” (they are more like motivational speeches) in front of a backdrop of what looks like a large church building, thus making it appear as if he is actually in a church when he isn’t.
Feurerstein has appointed himself the “lead pastor” of this online church. He also films his wife singing what he calls hymns, but are actually nothing more repetitive 7/11 “praise” songs which are often used to emotionally manipulate those who hear them, and entice them to donate money. Not surprisingly, his wife’s webpage has a link to America’s Church, but when you click on that link, you are taken to a page that encourages you to donate your money to America’s Church, i.e. The Feuerstein’s
Feuerstein has concocted an odd mixture of beliefs that he believes in and preaches. They can best me described as Christian Nationalism, Hyper-Patriotism, Firearms (he has said the 2nd amendment has its roots in the Bible), Charismatism, and Modalism. Although all of these attributes of Feuerstein’s version of Christianity are troublesome to say the least, it is perhaps his Modalism that is the most troublesome.
Modalism (created by Sabellius in 3rd Century Rome) is a heresy that has been denounced repeatedly since was first taught by Sabellius in 3rd Century Rome; and it continues to be regarded as such today. It is also known as Modalistic Monarchianism and Oneness Pentecostalism. Modalism teaches there is only one God, and that one God manifests himself in three different modes, either Father, Son, or Holy Spirit. This is decidedly not how God is described in the Holy Scriptures.
Feuerstein has been embroiled in several financial scandals, most notably when he started a GoFundMe page, asking for $20,000 to purchase a camera that sells for under $2,000, which he apparently already had, and all while posting selfies on Instagram that featured him wearing a number of very expensive watches, shoes, etc., leading many to believe his YouTube videos and personal appearances are nothing more that self-promotion and marketing himself in order to make money. This may be why his website has been removed, the Facebook page of his “church” known as “America’s church” as well as his own Facebook page have not had a current post since April 2021 and August 2021 respectively. His YouTube channel hasn’t posted anything since October 2014, and his Twitter Account was suspended (though he immediately started another page with another account).
Initially it appeared that Feuerstein had removed himself from the internet altogether, but it was soon discovered he had simply scaled down his presence, and not cast such a large presence. No doubt this was related to his financial scandals. His Instagram continues to be very active, with the most recent post occurring on June 27, 2022. He hasn’t gone away, and he is still spreading his decidedly non-Christian nonsense.

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BioLogos Foundation

6/30/2022

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Liberal, Progressive

Pseudo-Christian
organization




The BioLogos Foundation was founded by Dr. Francis Collins, and boasts of several “Christian” pastors and theologians as authors contributing to its website and programs. Among these is Tim Keller, a well known speaker and author. BioLogos, and those associated with it, are proponents of several unbiblical beliefs, including: a denial of the substitutionary atonement of Christ (saying the doctrine of the atonement shows God to be limited, and capriciously cruel); a denial of the divinely inspired Genesis account of creation, choosing instead to believe, teach, and promote evolution.

Jim Stump, Vice President of Programs at BioLogos, has laid out what is ostensibly “his personal view” of salvation and the atonement. However, according to his biography on the BioLogos official website, Mr. Stump “also writes and speaks on behalf of BioLogos.” With that introduction, let’s see what Mr. Stump and BioLogos believe and promote regarding salvation and the atonement.

“through God’s grace and the power of the Holy Spirit we are inspired and equipped to actually live the way of Christ. This is the method and the means of our salvation.” (this is not in the least biblical, and falls into the category of heresy) “… As I pursue the way of Christ, I am saved from the selfish, lazy, prideful person I was without Christ.” (this is a different gospel, a vastly different gospel than that which is clearly and explicitly proclaimed in Scripture. what BioLogos is teaching here is rank heresy.)

Mr, Stump goes on, “God does not send Jesus to die. God does not require Jesus’ death in order to forgive humanity’s sin. As a result, God is not motivated by retribution or righteous anger. Instead, the incarnation is motivated by love. God wanted humanity to know him in a new and robust way. God wanted to be present to humanity in the midst of its sin and isolation.” (This benign grandfatherly god that is proclaimed by Mr. Stump and BioLogos is definitely not the Thrice Holy God of the Bible!).

He goes on, “… As a demonstration of God’s immense love and compassion, God takes on flesh and bone. He becomes a vulnerable child relying on humans for his every need. He learns what it is to hunger and thirst. He experiences torture, humiliation, and isolation on the cross. In the end, Jesus experiences death. And in so doing, Christ connects to humanity in a new and powerful way. His compassion both shows us the way of our salvation (revelation) and inspires us to follow after him.” (this ties into the BioLogos view of salvation. We are saved by living a Christlike life, which, according to BioLogos, is the reason for the incarnation).

We will finish up with Mr. Stump and the BioLogos view of the crucifixion of Jesus. Mr, Stump writes, “I argue that God did not will the cross. An angry crowd, a prideful group of the religious elite, and a cowardly Roman prefect, put a perfectly innocent man to death. They willed the cross. And I believe this act is an example of sin. But God is holy, loving, and just. Thus, God cannot will or condone sin. … Christ’s death was not part of God’s divine plan. It was the tragic result of human sin.”

BioLogos believes, teaches, and promotes a false works salvation gospel, a different Jesus, and a different god.

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Mellen Thomas-Benedict

6/30/2022

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New Age,
Eastern Mysticism




Mellen Thomas-Benedict (1949-2017), a stained glass artist, claims that in 1982 he was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer and given only months to live. He claims he had become discouraged with life on planet earth, and believed that mankind was destroying the planet, and so he preferred death to life under such conditions. He refused chemotherapy, and was sent home and placed hospice care to await death. On the day Benedict felt he was about to die he said his goodbyes and closed his eyes in death. He claims he was monitored for 90 minutes during which time he had no vital signs. He was dead. Benedict claims that during those 90 minutes he was met by his “guardian angel higher self” who told him that all religions are wrong. He met the god “Gaia,” and saw that all humanity is part of “Gaia.” He was then given scientific knowledge and sent back into his now completely healed body, which then “woke up” after allegedly being dead for 90 minutes and with no vital signs whatsoever. He wrote a book about this experience, and did numerous speaking engagements and interviews, developing a significant following.

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Steven Anderson

6/30/2022

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Radical Fundamentalist,
Founder of the
New Independent
Fundamental Baptist Movement



Pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona; and founder of the New Independent Fundamental Baptist (New IFB) Movement. Anderson began his church, Faithful Word Baptist Church, in 2005 after dropping out of Jack Hyles’ Bible College. When his pastor suggested enrolling in another Bible college and thus completing his Biblical education, Anderson rejected his counsel and moved his family to Tempe, Arizona where he started his church. He has no sending church, and he was never ordained.


Anderson promotes hate and divisiveness, usually branding his critics and those who leave his church as irredeemable reprobates, thus placing himself in a position over God and His Holy Word.
Anderson denies the biblical Trinity, and he always has. From the beginning of his ministry, he taught the heresy of Modalism – that there is one God who consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and that all three are simply different manifestations of the one true God.
In about 2015, Anderson dropped Modalism, and purged his church and movement of all who still believed and/or taught it. He has now replaces it Modalism with a hybrid form of Tritheism and Partialism. Anderson teaches that God consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. He goes on to say that these are three separate persons, each with their own body, each with their own spirit (except Jesus whom Anderson claims has seven spirits in Him), their own separate mind, and their own separate seat of consciousness. Anderson goes on to say that all three of these separate individuals physically look exactly the same. He bases this on John 14:9, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father.” He further teaches that the Father has DNA, an actual physical substance, thus indicating God is at least partially physical.

While he does teach the belief of the eternality of Jesus, Anderson takes it a step in the other direction – away from the Biblical God, and says that Jesus has always been, for all time and eternity, a human man. Anderson also teaches that Jesus’ death did not atone for sin as the Bible clearly and explicitly teaches. Instead, according to Anderson, Jesus had to suffer in hell as a burnt offering in order to atone for our sin. Steven Anderson, as well as his entire movement are part of the wider “King James Only” movement. They believe the King James translation of the Bible, as it was originally written in 1611, is the only preserved, true, inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God; and going so far as to claim that each copy of the 1611 King James Bible actually contains God Himself, not simply His words but His very being. At the very least this is dangerously close to idolatry of the 1611 KJV.


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Alliance of Baptists

6/30/2022

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Apostate Religious
Organization


Originally known as the Southern Baptist Alliance, this group split from the Southern Baptist Convention over the fear that progressive liberals would lose control of the Convention, and conservatives would take over. The Alliance of Baptists is an ecumenical organization, aligning itself with the United Methodist Church (UMC) and the United Church of Christ (UCC) – both are denominations that have also become apostate. Like these denominations, the Alliance of Baptists ordains women, and also supports both homosexuality and abortion (the torture and murder of children). All things that are demonstrably contrary to God’s Word and Will.

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Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.)

6/30/2022

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Promotes an unbiblical view of God and salvation.



Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), and by extension Narcotics Anonymous and other addiction 12-Step programs, all promote an unbiblical view of God and salvation. According to the A.A. published book, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of how Many Thousands of Men and Women have Recovered from Alcoholism (4th ed.), which is known in A.A. as the “Big Book,” states those involved in the A.A. program must acknowledge a “Higher Power” that exists outside of themselves, is greater then they are, and which alone can restore them and protect them. They must also agree to follow the dictates of this “Higher Power,” with the understanding that if they do the individual will “presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!”1

The A.A./N.A. 12 Step Program takes these premises a step further and states the individual must make a decision to surrender their will and life over to this “Higher Power”, as well as humbly asking this “Higher Power” to remove all shortcomings and defects of character, with the full expectation that this “Higher Power” will do just that. The individual is then taught to meditate on this “Higher Power” and pray to it in order to discover its will for the individual.2 Alcoholics Anonymous of Cleveland, Ohio states on its website that each individual is responsible for creating their own concept of the “Higher Power.” “All you need is an open mind” they state.3

A.A. reiterates this by stating, “[The addict] may choose to think of his Inner Self, the miracle of growth, a tree, man’s wonderment at the physical universe, the structure of the atom, or mere mathematical infinity. Whatever form is visualized, the neophyte is taught that he must rely on it and, in his own way, to pray to the Power for strength.”4 A.A. Cleveland goes on to explain that the term god need not mean the God of the Bible, who they insist is probably not able to help as it is. They write on their website, “When we are born, we come into the world untainted and perfectly innocent. The word God means something different to just about everyone that is having difficulty with it, and if God alone was the answer, why do priests and ministers come to AA for solutions; why not just go to church?”5

Furthermore, they go on to state it is wrong to criticize anyone elses view of who or what the “Higher Power” is, as well as insisting that the only thing the individual must resist is not sin, but rather ones one ego. They write, “I must let everyone find their own brand of enlightenment, without prejudging anyone else’s approach on this matter. The only thing that I must resist is my EGO, and the way I do that is by living by sound and unselfish principles many of which are discussed in AA meetings...”6

Suffice to say, this is a completely unbiblical description of the one true and living God, and a blasphemous plan of salvation that will lead a person only to hell, and not to God.


1. Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of how Many Thousands of Men and Women have Recovered from Alcoholism (4th ed.). Alcoholics Anonymous World Services. Chaps 3,5,&7
2. A.A. 12 Steps, copyright © 1952, 1953, 1981 by Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing, steps 2,3,6,7,11&12
3. https://www.aacle.org/our-own-concept-of-a-higher-power/
4. Jack Alexander, “Alcoholics Anonymous: Freed Slaves of Drink, Now They Free Others” (Saturday Evening Post, March 1, 1941). According to the A.A. website, A.A. World Services publishes the article in pamphlet format and sells about 22,000 of them each year; http://www.aa.org/lang/en/subpage.cfm?page=472.
5. https://www.aacle.org/our-own-concept-of-a-higher-power/
6. Ibid

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Sean Feucht

6/30/2022

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New Apostolic Reformation, Bethel Redding False Teacher



Sean Feucht (pronounced FOYT) is a volunteer worship leader at Bill Johnson’s Bethel Church in Redding, California, as well as a musician and songwriter for the Bethel Music. He is best known for his repetitive, vacuous, emotionally manipulative songs that are full of “Whoa, Whoa, Whoa” and “Oooh, oh, oh, oh, oooh,” and “The power pouring down,” all repeated over and over again. These are commonly known as “7-11” songs. The same seven words repeated eleven times while playing the same generic chords. Feucht is also an alumnus of the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry.

Although there seems to be a distance now between Feucht and Bethel Church, Feucht still continues to count Bill and Beni Johnson as his “spiritual parents.” He also counts Mike Bickle of IHOPKC as his “hero.” Feucht is the founder and director of Sean Feucht Ministries, Inc., as well as the affiliated “ministries” “Burn 24-7,” “Light A Candle,” and “Hold the Line.” Feucht ran for election to the U.S. House as a Republican, to represent California’s 3rd Congressional District. He lost in the primary election.
As a (at the very least) friend of Bethel Redding, Feucht also believes and teaches the same heresies that Bethel teaches, such as the Kenotic Heresy, Dominionism, and the 7 Mountain Mandate. Feucht claims that he hears from God, or heard from God directly and personally when God allegedly spoke to him, and told him to run for Congress. Feucht also partners with and promotes numerous false teachers such as Bill Johnson, Kris Vallotton, Shawn Bolz, Lou Engle, and more.

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May DuPree

6/28/2022

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Universalist, Signs & Wonders Charismatic,


Teaches a False Gospel


May Dupree is more commonly known as “Dr. May DuPree” and “Mother May DuPree.” May DuPree is the pastor of Lighthouse Fellowship Prayer Tower in Ottawa Lake, Michigan. According to the church website “salvation and a personal experience with Jesus are essential for eternal life.” Of course, God’s Word has a completely different criteria for eternal life. All that is biblically necessary is a true and sincere belief in Jesus Christ (Rom.10:9), a heartfelt agreement that Jesus is your Lord (meaning Master, Owner, etc) (Rom.10:10), and repentance of sin (Mark 1:15). It goes without saying that a true and sincere belief in Jesus Christ is marked by submission and obedience to Jesus, His commands, and the commands of God. Scripture makes this very clear.

The church website also presents the “vision” of “Pastor” May DuPree. Rather than obedience to the commands of Jesus, particularly the command of Matthew 28:18-20, also known as the “Great Commission.” With the primary purpose of worshiping God and bringing Him glory, and that followed closely by making disciples and baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; one would think these would constitute a Christian pastor’s “vision.” But not May DuPree. Her “vision” is to “provide food, clothing, job-training, day-care services” and otherwise “meet the natural needs of the community.” She believes this is how “we are to show the love of Christ to a world in crisis.”

May DuPree believes in and teaches the heresy of “Universalism,” that Christ atoned for the sins of every single person alive and who would later be alive, thus everyone goes to heaven, and no one goes to hell. This goes hand in hand with her belief of what is necessary for eternal life.

The church’s website bio of May DuPree states, “The Power of God rests on Dr. May DuPree's life so strongly that at times saints are overcome and slain in the Spirit during the services. Being slain in the Spirit is one thing, but the change in the lives of those moved by the Spirit is the real proof of God's transforming Power working in her life. Lighthouse is a place where the Power of God has free reign in the services to move on his people. Deliverance from demonic influences, habits and even lifelong addictions have been taking place by the power of God. People are being healed from diseases, back problems, blindness and in one case a woman that died on the services was raised by the prayers of the anointed servant of God.”

The website also states that “in 1990, Mother DuPree graduated from New Life Bible College in Cleveland, Tennessee,” which is a “ministry” started by Rev. Norvel Hayes. In looking at their school website, under the f.a.q. “what kind of degree or diploma can I receive at New Life Bible College,” it is revealed that there are only three possible. The first is a “Certificate of Completion” after completing two years of study. Next is an Associate Degree in Christian Ministry after successfully completing three years of the Ministerial Degree Program, and third, a Bachelors Degree in Christian Ministry after successfully completing the full four year Ministerial Degree Program. New Life Bible College does have a doctoral program. If one has served for at least 5 years as a minister, and pay $4,000, you can be issued a “Doctorate of Ministry.” Now, granted, she could have an honorary doctorate degree, but she would first had to have had a Master’s Degree, which she doesn’t have. And she may have bought her doctorate. Either way her title of “Dr.” is very likely fraudulent.

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