How Billy Graham Avoided Scandal His Entire Life

Charisma News ^ | 3/1/2018 | J. Lee Grady

[Bodleian_Girl]

Billy Graham believed and taught infant baptism and that it was salvational.

That’s a heresy.

I could look past him stepping out on his wife. She was well known for refusing to travel with him.

But I can’t excuse him for preaching a false gospel.

[Bodleian_Girl]

If he’s saying that unbelieving babies earn salvation by getting water sprinkled on their heads, then which part of his ministry was a heresy?

Because we have him teaching two different gospels at this point.

[Kartographer]

"for of such is the kingdom of heaven"

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Freemason.

Owed favors to Hearst, Inc.

People who preach a false gospel ALWAYS have unrepentant sin in their lives; just because Billy wasn’t ever caught in flagrant, Jimmy Swaggart type sin, doesn’t mean he was even saved. Anyone who is a freemason is not a Christian and cannot be a teacher of the gospel.

Wanting the love of man and the love of this world is a disqualification for heaven.

Let’s hope Billy repented.

[Bodleian_Girl]

“TIME magazine for 10/27/61 printed the following quote by Dr. Billy Graham: “I still have some personal problems in the matter of infant baptism, but all of my children with the exception of the youngest were baptized as infants. I do believe that something happens at the baptism of an infant, particularly if the parents are Christians . . . I believe that a miracle can happen in these children so that they are regenerated, that is, made Christian through infant baptism.”

What does Scripture say about those preaching another Gospel?

[Bodleian_Girl]

Thanks for the Calvary showing!

[Bodleian_Girl]

And?

Full context only accepted.

[Kartographer]

“But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 19:14

So in this context who are the such that make up the Kingdom?

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Hey, I love metmom and the others. Like most conservatives, I yearn for the apparent simplicity of believing the news: that Billy Graham is a great man of God, that the Bushes were outstanding Republicans, that we can vote for Mormons like Mitt and it’s all cool with Jesus.

But then, there is the Truth, and we must be Bereans about it.

Disciples:
“What is the sign of Your 2nd Coming, and of the end of the world?”
Jesus:
“Beware deception...”

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Thanks for the post; as I recall from my “exposing the N.A.R.” days, J Lee Grady and Charisma magazine were part of the problem, no discernment whatsoever.

[GOP Poet]

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[Bodleian_Girl]

Young children walking to Jesus of their own free will has what to with unbelieving infants getting sprinkled on the head.

[metmom]

No, I can’t.

They aren’t supposed to, are they?

I thought that was the latest pronouncement from the pope....

[metmom]

On the other hand Adults that use his word as a club to beat others and their own way through life rather than as a Lamp to light both their own way and that of others will not be recognized by him when the time comes and they call his name.

SO true.

It occurred to me the other day (a DUH! moment) that God Himself doesn't force others to do what he wants.

What makes people think they have the right to do it?

IWO, what makes people think they have the right to do something God Himself won't/doesn't do?

[metmom]

Billy Graham believed and taught infant baptism and that it was salvational.

Cite it please.

Your word is just your word.

Show us where he is ever recorded as teaching that.

[metmom]

I have HUGE issues with the NAR, but was not familiar with the name of Grady.

I just thought the article was good.

And I know that with Charisma Magazine, you do have to pick and choose.

[metmom]

As usual, Catholics are the first to resort to personal attacks and profanity.

Have you not read of the RF guidelines regarding profanity yet?

[lurked_for_a_decade]

I believe the snark began in post 3. See From: and To:

I'll never forget when I would walk in to the kitchen and ask my children who ate the ice cream and watch them vehemently deny that it was they who ate it. What was even funnier was that they didn't even have the presence of mind to see the ice cream on their siblings face and blame them.

Kind of reminds me of twigs and logs.

Oh well.

Does a bear, xxxx in the woods?

[Bodleian_Girl]

“In a 1961 interview with the Lutheran Standard of the liberal American Lutheran Church, Graham testified that all of his children except the youngest were baptized as infants. (Graham grew up as a Presbyterian and joined a Southern Baptist church after he started his evangelistic career; his wife, Ruth, remained a Presbyterian). Graham then made the following amazing statement:

“I have some difficulty in accepting the indiscriminate baptism of infants without a careful regard as to whether the parents have any intention of fulfilling the promise they make. But I DO BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING HAPPENS AT THE BAPTISM OF AN INFANT, particularly if the parents are Christians and teach their children Christian Truths from childhood. We cannot fully understand the miracles of God, but I BELIEVE THAT A MIRACLE CAN HAPPEN IN THESE CHILDREN SO THAT THEY ARE REGENERATED, THAT IS, MADE CHRISTIAN, THROUGH INFANT BAPTISM. If you want to call that baptismal regeneration, that’s all right with me” (Graham, interview with Wilfred Bockelman, associate editor of the Lutheran Standard, American Lutheran Church, Lutheran Standard, October 10, 1961).”