Posted on 12/28/2021 6:18:05 AM PST by Kaslin
Now that you clicked on this article, I have a confession to make. It has nothing to do with the “Let’s Go Brandon!” chant that has swept the nation, let alone with the explicit, vulgar, anti-Biden chant that it now represents. Nor does this article have anything to do with that Brandon, meaning NASCAR driver Brandon Brown. But it does have to do with another Brandon, gay pastor Brandon Robertson. And this article is a call to pray for this very devoted, yet very misled young man.
If you can spare about 30 minutes, I strongly encourage you to watch this video. It features a mini-debate I did with Brandon back in June for the newly launched AWKNG TV network on the new program, “That’s Debatable.”
Until a few weeks ago, these debates were only available by paid subscription to the network, but they have now been posted online for free viewing. So, I really do encourage you to take a few minutes and watch.
I believe the lively format will keep your attention and the actual content will be as engaging as it is informative.
Other “That’s Debatable” videos recently posted for free viewing on YouTube by AWKNG TV include:
The debate with former evangelical Christian, now atheist activist Dan Barker, on the subject, “Does the God of the Bible Exist?”
The debate with the Lutheran, transgender bishop Megan Rohrer on the subject, “Should Christians Affirm Transgender Identities?”
The debate with former Christian rock singer Jon Steingard on the subject, “Are There Good Reasons to Leave Christianity?”
The debate with social media influencer Brenda Marie Davies on the subject, “Is It Biblical to Be Pro-Choice?”
The debate with Christian blogger Kristina Harutoonian on the subject, “Do Charismatic Christians Overemphasize Divine Healing?”
As for Brandon Robertson, we have interacted cordially over the years, even face to face on rare occasion. And my appeal to pray for him is sincere rather than sensationalistic.
But I am not simply drawing attention to this very committed, yet very deceived young man.
I am also drawing attention to the generation he represents, including, in particular, those a little younger than him. (Brandon is a millennial; I’m thinking even more of Gen Z.)
A 2018 Barna poll prompted me to ask the question, “Why Are There So Many Gen Z Atheists?”
The answer is that there are a number of factors causing this defection, including the lack of clear gospel preaching in many Christian circles today.
Put another way, a watered-down gospel is no gospel at all. And in the end, it will drive people away from the truth and from the Lord. It has no ability to fend off the deception of the world, and it has no power to transform.
That’s why it was no surprise to me when, earlier in 2021, a Gallup poll indicated “that 1 out of every 6 generation Z adults (meaning over 16% of those aged 18-23) identifies as LGBT.”
This represented a massive and unprecedented spike, one that even gay activists in past years would never have imagined.
Has 1 in 6 always been LGBT, with the Gen Z’ers finally having the courage to express their true selves? (While some might think the answer is yes, honest sociologists, including LGBT scholars, know this is not the case.)
The real answer to these questions is no, no, and no.
And the real reason for this spike in LGBT identities, especially among those identifying as “bisexual,” is that society has shifted in a radical way, influencing impressionable young people. (I document some of that here.) And with so much compromise within so much of the Church, there is less and less light shining to guide people out of the darkness.
That’s why, as I wrote back in February 2021, “Gallup’s latest poll is not surprising in the least.”
When you watch my debate with Brandon, you will see firsthand the realities of this deception. You will also see how appealing this deception can be, presenting a different Jesus and a different Bible in a way that seems attractive to fallen, human thinking.
Yet you will also see how scripturally bankrupt this teaching is, not even able to answer this one simple question, namely, “If you say that passages like Leviticus 18, which strictly forbid homosexual practice, apply only in the context of idolatry and promiscuity, then what about all the prohibitions in this chapter against incest? Put another way, if loving, committed relationships are sanctified in God’s sight, be they heterosexual or homosexual, what’s wrong with two, adult, consenting gay brothers? Where does the Bible speak against that?”
When you can’t answer a question like that without undermining your whole theology, you know that something is terribly wrong.
Yet spiritual blindness is real, and, as has often been said, deception is very deceiving. The deceived may be sincerely deceived. (Others know they are sinning but willfully deceive themselves in order to justify their sin.)
So, let’s pray for Brandon, that God would have mercy on him and open his eyes, just as the Lord did for so many of us. And let’s pray for the younger generation whom he represents.
God loves them dearly and sees their potential even now. May they encounter Him for themselves, May they be deeply transformed. And may they go and transform others.
With that said, I am not inclined to listen further to this person. We are at war, and he refuses to recognize that fact.
You are correct.
I pray for the rapid demise of Brandon and his handlers and all vile people of the same evil mindset.
May God bless America.
The article could be a good one, but I quit reading right there!
Let’s Go Brandon! FJB!
Let’s Pray for the Nation. And for it’s citizens.
Biden has made his choices.
I may feel sorry for him. But in the end, God may be using him to give our nation one more chance to be on the the right side.
People like Brown are why our side loses.
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I don’t listen to him either, or to anyone else as I don’t have any sound. I have to ask my son to fix it for me. But I do read him because he’s interesting and I find nothing wrong with what he says.
All I am saying is that you are entitled to your opinion. Whether you are correct or not remains to be seen.
“. . . the explicit, vulgar, anti-Biden chant that it now represents . . ..”
There are Christians who are verse in apologetics who can and do defend the faith .....to these apostate radicals.
I will not.
I will not give them space nor time to articulate their hellish swill.
Why should I listen to a ProAbort try to convince me it’s OK to poison, burn or tear apart a baby in the womb?
Etc
I already pray for sinners to find Jesus......both family and friends.
You may listen to their piteous point of view ......I choose not!
You’re frickin right.
FJB
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Psalm 109:8
8 Let his days be few;
Let another take his office.
Kaslin, you may mean well and my ire is not directed to you.....
....I just don’t want to ‘throw pearls to swine ‘..Matthew 7:6 ....
by listening to these apostates......they are unclean.....they have rejected the Scripture
Some people can lament incivility as the author does in his opening statement about the chant, and people are entitled not to return fire, as he is entitled to forgo that.
We as conservatives have played that game for the last Sixty years, and this is where we are now.
I understand that you might have reasons for listening to the author, but when he uses a cheap trick to get people to come in to hear him, and then in the very same breath disparages not only them but the importance of returning fire, I don’t want have much to do with them.
That was the issue I had. Of course, I respect your decision to peruse his content and post threads on it.
Bump.
It is allowing Leftists to control language. It is the root of censorship.
We know what it means, and they know what it means. If those tyrants had their way, they would change the lexicon and make it disrespectable to say “Let’s Go Brandon”.
They do things like this all the time. They had a problem with being accurately labelled as “Liberals”, so they changed the lexicon to refer to them as “Progressives”.
They didn’t like “Homosexual” which was a perfectly scientific and descriptive term, and applied a perfectly usable and appropriate word for its own purpose such as “Gay” and now, one cannot in “polite company” use the word “homosexual” without causing people to squirm, and likewise, use the term “Gay” in its normal usage and context without eliciting confusion or contention.
The Left does the same thing with “Black” or “black” and “African American”. What is the correct word today? What was it yesterday? What will it be tomorrow?
And the Left understands all this completely and employs it deliberately. Many of us (including you and me) refuse to play along with this.
They have already made “Let’s Go Brandon” an impolite phrase.
It seems insane to not understand that there’s something inherently wrong with a sexual drive that if it was possessed by 100% of a population, that population would cease to exist.
It’s called homosexuality.
Instead of spending all that time writing his article, Michael Brown could have just posted “I’m an idiot” and gone back to sleep.
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