Quix, if one day you yourself became deceived and started sharing a distorted gospel with people, wouldn't you want to be condemned. I would! Let my reputation fall, but may the Word of God and the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ reign supreme. Hopefully in the embarrassment, I would repent and correct my ways.
I certainly have invited more exhortation and correction by my brothers and sisters in The Lord than anyone I know.
Have submitted more to same than about anyone I know.
Have repented of plenty of mistaken notions and actions.
Am a flawed person in a flawed world saved by The Blood of The Lamb.
I do not presume to know what Graham meant in the statements selected.
I prefer to judge him by his fruit and by the Very Biblical statements he has made far more than the questionable ones.
I suspect God Almighty will be far more generous toward Graham than the Nepal Missionary is.
God, The Father God I know, is looking for Biblical justifications to save folks He loves, NOT Biblical excuses to damn them.
I'm quite confident Graham's Salvation is secure in Jesus--that He has committed Himself to The Lord WHO IS the Author and Finisher of Graham's faith regardless of what the onlookers think.
Superbly stated. I have to tell you: These revelations shocked me. I don't suppose I've ever paid any attention to any of his interviews, and my take on his sermons was always that they were straight from the Bible. Sad and disturbing to learn these things.
MM