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Radio Host Fired For Wondering If Pope Went To Heaven
Local10.com ^ | April 14, 2005

Posted on 04/14/2005 2:46:44 PM PDT by metalmanx2j

PITTSBURGH -- An evangelical Christian talk show host who questioned the beliefs of the Catholic church and entertained a caller's question about whether the late Pope John Paul II would go to heaven has been fired.

Marty Minto, 39, a senior pastor at a New Castle church, was fired Friday after three years as a host on WORD-FM in Pittsburgh. He said he was told that he was alienating listeners.

"As far as I'm concerned, I was doing what I've always done on the radio -- look at events around the world from a biblical perspective. I've always been willing to talk about controversial subjects," said Minto, who has had shows in Albany, N.Y., Denver and Phoenix.

Last week, Minto questioned some of the Catholic church's beliefs, such as purgatory, and fielded a question from a caller who asked whether the pope would go to heaven. Many evangelical Christians believe that someone must be a "born-again" believer to enter heaven.

Minto, who is also senior pastor of the 100-member Turning Point Community Church, said he told the caller that whether someone was born-again was personal and "between an individual and the Creator."

Chuck Gratner, general manager of WORD-FM, didn't dispute Minto's description and said he was let go because of differences in how he conducted his show.

"WORD-FM needs to function in this city in support of the entire church -- that means everybody -- and not focus on denominational issues," Gratner said.


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To: TradicalRC
I know that I am saved. (I John 5)

"I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you many know that you have eternal life."

81 posted on 04/15/2005 4:42:43 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: rwfromkansas
Scripture also says faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.

It does. Scripture also says: "But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was checked. This was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come." (Ps. 105:30-31) That's a work, but one not of himself, but of the grace of God.

82 posted on 04/15/2005 4:44:24 AM PDT by gbcdoj (In the world you shall have distress. But have confidence. I have overcome the world. ~ John 16:33)
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To: sassbox

I'm a Protestant and I share your feelings. I was dreading the day JP II passed, as it would bring nuts out of the woodwork, aided by a media which reaally don't like people of Faith.


83 posted on 04/15/2005 4:49:58 AM PDT by investigateworld (RCC:1, USSR: 0 God bless Poland for giving the world JP II)
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To: tang-soo
Sorry, haven't read the verses you recommended (but I will this am) but according to the non-Catholics here....

I'm going to stop doing good works and the right thing. I'm going to do whateverthehell I want,when I want. As long as, at some point, I accept Jesus Christ as my Saviour, I'll be born again and go straight to heaven.

Hmmm...that just seems so wrong! I spend my whole life being bad, and right at the end say Jesus is Lord, and I'm saved? Sorry, just can't wrap my mind around that.

Live a good life, do the right thing, atone for my sins, follow the 10 commandments, and realize there's no e-ticket to heaven. Heaven is a reward to strive for.

As I said earlier, I have great respect for those non-Catholics who respect my faith and do not try to tell me how wrong it is. You've not seen me saying anything trying to convert Protestants or Jews, have you?

84 posted on 04/15/2005 5:06:58 AM PDT by blu (The Pope, the Gipper and the Iron Lady...now THAT'S a trifecta!)
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To: metalmanx2j
A couple of random thoughts. First, the owner of this station is Salem Communications. Salem owns many stations that feature many Christian talk shows, Christain music shows and they also syndicated a number of right leaning Judeo or Judeo Christian talk show hosts such as Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Janet Parshall and others.

I don't live in Pittsburg, but do live in a market where Salem owns a station, and have heard hosts ask pointed questions about the Catholic faith, whether salvation exists under that theology and the fact that the Pope was a man of great Catholic faith, and christians need to be cautious when elevating this man beyond being a man of great Catholic faith. I don't think I've heard a host directly question the salvation of the Pope. However, since most of the shows both purchased shows as well as locally produced shows lean toward questioning the Cahtolic faith I somehow doubt this guy was dropped because of his comments. Many of the talkers are "pay for play" participants. They purchase their air time rather than being paid employees. IT could be that this guy was way behind on his show fees and the station simply decided to drop the show because of that issue and it 's coincidence his comments and the show being cancelled are closely related. Salem has never shied from discussing their concerns about salvation and the Catholic faith.

85 posted on 04/15/2005 5:35:06 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: investigateworld
You know, some of those nuts are the same folks who say the media would never aid them.

Frankly, this Popes passing should be a time when all people of all faiths would spend some time relooking at what is really the essentials for salvation, how a Christian needs to live to maintain salvation (I know, some believe salvation can never be lost) and what are the duties and responsibilities of a Christian in the world and in the chruch. And does the responsibilities inside the Church take precedence over the responsibilities of the world. If there is a balance between the church and the world, are those repsonsibilities exclusive or duplicative.

86 posted on 04/15/2005 5:48:58 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: anniegetyourgun
12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. -Phillipians 2:12-13
87 posted on 04/15/2005 5:51:25 AM PDT by TradicalRC (I'd rather live in a Christian theocracy than a secular democracy.)
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To: rwfromkansas
(1 Cor 6:9-20 NIV) Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders {10} nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. {11} And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. {12} "Everything is permissible for me"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered by anything. {13} "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"--but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. {14} By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. {15} Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! {16} Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." {17} But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. {18} Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. {19} Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; {20} you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

This is saying that whether a believer or non believer, it doesn't matter. If you engage in the above, neither class of people will not inherit the Kingdom of God (be saved). Paul doesn't qualify whether saved or unsaved. He just categorically says (1 Cor 6:9-20 NIV) Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders {10} nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. {11} And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. {12} "Everything is permissible for me"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered by anything. {13} "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"--but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. {14} By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. {15} Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! {16} Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." {17} But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. {18} Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. {19} Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; {20} you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

88 posted on 04/15/2005 6:05:57 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: blu

You go to purgatory....where you go to clean up your sins..
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Wow,, I didn't know Jesus had a place set up for those who could do it for themselves.. a Purge-a-tory... No thanks..

Dear Jesus:
Thank you for dying for me and "All" my sins, sins of omission and co-mission. I thank you for allowing me to see that I can't absolve/save myself, neither can anyone else through prayer. Thank you for your precious blood that washed me clean and allows you live in my heart.. Thank you.. Jesus for your mercy and grace. AMEN...


89 posted on 04/15/2005 6:25:54 AM PDT by juzcuz
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To: coosamtn
What was a joke? I'm trying to be very light about this....gotta stop goofing around about religion. I see Sister MaryEthelgene headed my way, 3-corner metal ruler in hand!!!
91 posted on 04/15/2005 6:43:57 AM PDT by blu (The Pope, the Gipper and the Iron Lady...now THAT'S a trifecta!)
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To: TradicalRC
Yes, but how important to complete that sentence as it is in scripture. For you see, it's all of Him, and none of me. Even the measure of faith I've been given comes from Him (Rom 12:3).

But, don't worry about me, Trad....I have trusted in the finished work of Christ upon the cross, and I will stand with Him in that day - based on His sufficiency, and not of my measly works. Am I therefore to neglect the work He has given me? God forbid it! But the good that I do is in response to His great gift to me, and my obedience will be rewarded according to His judgements in heaven.

To Him Who sits on the throne, and unto the LORD - be all glory, majesty, power, and honor, forever and ever. Amen.

92 posted on 04/15/2005 6:48:44 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: softwarecreator
Software Developer fired for wishing Radio Host would go to Hell.

Are you a Roman Catholic?

Dan

93 posted on 04/15/2005 6:48:58 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: pctech
"Evangelicals would do well to first clean up the money-grubbing televangelist charlatans."

There are few things as nauseating to me as the religious circus freak shows on TBN. People want to believe that they themselves are the center of the universe, that God is all about them. The "Demand Your Miracle" school of "theology" is basically the usual pagan attempt to manipulate God, dressed up with christian clothing.

The only thing happy to report, is that of the many hundreds of evangelicals I know, I can't name 3 who would waste their time on this fraudulent garbage.

94 posted on 04/15/2005 7:06:49 AM PDT by cookcounty ("We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts" ---Abe Lincoln, 1858.)
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To: A CA Guy
" All evangelical folks are not responsible for the televangelists. Those televangelists are pretty much on their own I think. "

Yep. This is the bad side to not having a central administrative authority. "Evangelical" is not trademark-able. Perhaps somebody should organize a public education campaign with billboards or something to put it out there that these people do not speak for Christians, evangelical or otherwise.

95 posted on 04/15/2005 7:15:32 AM PDT by cookcounty ("We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts" ---Abe Lincoln, 1858.)
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To: TradicalRC
work out your salvation with fear and trembling

“Salvation” in this verse is used in a general sense. Paul is talking about working out their problems which they had in the church and working out the problems in their own Christian lives. He is not there to help them and is not sure that he ever will be there again because he is in a Roman prison. So he tells them to work out their “own salvation with fear and trembling.”

Dr. McGee tells the story of a preacher who was reading this verse of Scripture in the morning service. A little girl whispered to her mother, “Mother, you can’t work out salvation unless it has first been worked in, can you?”

96 posted on 04/15/2005 8:13:11 AM PDT by Former Fetus (fetuses are 100% pro-life, they just don't vote yet!)
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To: TradicalRC
faith without works is dead

Poor James, his must be the most misunderstood letter in the New Testament!. What he's saying here is that real faith results in works. Therefore, if anyone claims to have faith but there are no works, that faith is not real, is dead. But notice that he does not say that without works there's no salvation! He might have put it a little bit different than Paul did, but they both were in the same wavelength, both inspired by the Holy Spirit so they could not contradict each other.

That said, my personal opinion is that salvation by works is a human invention, to make salvation easier to understand. I was brought up Roman Catholic and sometimes I am kind of "jelous" of my mom because when she needed something she would bring out the candles, ribbons rubbed on this or that relic... It is harder to just trust Jesus to keep me in the palm of His hand, to trust like a child, without trying to take matters into my hand.

97 posted on 04/15/2005 8:26:10 AM PDT by Former Fetus (fetuses are 100% pro-life, they just don't vote yet!)
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To: Former Fetus

I was brought up Roman Catholic and sometimes I am kind of "jelous" of my mom
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I was RC too. I was taught that the devil wasn't real. That it's all you and what you make of it. Well, I saw her, my mother a RC, mocking The Holy Spirit one day. I realized the devil was working through her even. Only God could give me this revelation and that she did know what she was doing. It brought tears to my eyes and pierced my heart seeing her standing in the kitchen with her arms lifted up making fun of me for my desire to worship GOD. Yet, Catholic priest's who lay prostrate before Popes are acceptable.


98 posted on 04/15/2005 8:46:10 AM PDT by juzcuz
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To: blu
I'm going to stop doing good works and the right thing. I'm going to do whateverthehell I want,when I want. As long as, at some point, I accept Jesus Christ as my Saviour, I'll be born again and go straight to heaven.

Not at all. Salvation is not a "get outta jail free card" that allows Christians to live a life of sin without consequence. As the Apostle Paul says, once we become Christians, we become new creatures and our old self dies. That flesh vanishes. As Christians, sin becomes a conviction that pushes us away from sin.

When we look at the empty cross and witness the finished work of Christ, we recognize the payment He made for us and the sacrifice The Father made (Isaiah chap 53 - He chose to crush Him for our iniquities).

Good works are great and as Christians, we are expected to perform good works. There are several passages that indicate how we are to treat the poor, needy, the widows, orphans and each other. However, those good works flow out of our salvation and not an addendum. How much "good works" are we to perform to atone for a single sin. I repeat the passage from Isaiah that tells us that God treats our self-righteousness as filthy rags. All He wants is our obedience to Him. That means faith and belief that without the sacrifice (there is no remission of sin with the shedding of blood - I believe in Romans) all the good works we perform throughout our life will not atone for a single sin. Total relieance on Christ's sacrifice is the only thing and the sufficient thing. One other thing. I am not trying to convert you or anyone else. Nowhere are we told to convert others (contrary to past practices by many). Matthew 28 tells us the Great Commission to make disciples. Many incorrectly (including myself until I was corrected several years ago) confuse these issues. Only the Holy Spirit converts us - through the conviction of our hearts and the desire to be near Him.
99 posted on 04/15/2005 8:46:25 AM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: joesbucks

Um.....if you read on, he says, that is what some of you were, but you were washed and sanctified.

A truly saved person would not have a lifestyle sin like homosexuality.


100 posted on 04/15/2005 9:27:54 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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