In Reply to: Different views about Billy Graham posted by EBW (reposted from NDN) on April 04, 2003 at 21:29:56:
Romans 9:15,16&18 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that showeth mercy. ... Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Only the Holy Spirit (the Spirit of Truth) can make man holy. By turning aside to evil and resisting the truth of the Gospel (to oppose God's Spirit), man is left to his own resources and corrupts himself in his own delusions.
2 John 1:8-10 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. WHOSOEVER transgressth, and ABIDETH NOT in the DOCTRINE OF CHRIST, HATH NOT GOD. HE THAT ABIDETH IN THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST, HE HATH BOTH THE FATHER AND THE SON. If there come ANY unto you, and BRING NOT this doctrine,
(Verse 6a- And this is LOVE, That we WALK after HIS COMMANDMENTS.)
receive him not into your house, neither bid him God's speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
The official Masonic Jesus is not Jesus Christ, they believe in a Christ spirit that indwelt many men (Jesus included) and thereby introduced various religions into the world. Their, 'Jesus' is considered to be an inferior manifestation of the Christ. The identity of the anti-Christ spirit is known by it's denial, that JESUS "THE CHRIST" is come IN THE FLESH. Their false Christ spirit (IE. SATAN) will indwell the, 'man of sin' and claim to be, 'God'. The Freemasons, Billy Graham included preach a manifestation of this Christ spirit called, 'Jesus', not JESUS CHRIST. This is, 'another Christ' who will manifest as the, 666 - man of sin showing forth great signs and wonders. Jesus Christ is God, accept no substitutes. Billy Graham's ecumenical, 'Christ' will lead you into perdition.