My Crazy Faith

Oh my goodness, I'm totally loving this sweet little song (by The Kiffness and Rushawn):  It's a Beautiful Day  (click on it) Take three minutes today to watch it and smile! (Could you imagine how you would feel if you watched this song every morning or evening for the next month?  I might try it along with my Bible reading.  A New Year's resolution.)  

 For your enjoyment this Christmas, two videos from Warren McGrew (Idol Killer): A James White Christmas featuring Leighton Flowers  (2-minute song) An Honest Calvinist Christmas Special  (7-1/2 minute old-timey Christmas video)

[This series is  "The 9 Marks of a Calvinist Cult"  split up into smaller, individual posts.]   Cults are authoritarian (disagreeing with or opposing the leaders is not allowed), and cult leaders are malignant narcissists. 9.  "Cults are authoritarian  (disagreeing with or opposing the leader is not allowed) "... The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association - in the article  "How do cults differ from Christianity?"  - lists these things as characteristics of a cult (my paraphrase):  Cults reject the basic beliefs of the Chistian faith.   They act like they alone have the truth and that we must come to them to get it.   They have their own writings which they add to the Bible or replace the Bible with.  They have a strong leader who demands obedience and claims to speak for God.  Now, of course,  Calvinists don't reject the basic beliefs of the Bible; they just redefine them, qualify them, or add other layers to them...

Merry Christmas, Everyone!  God bless you today and in 2024. Enjoy these two great Christmas songs:  Hallelujah Christmas   (by Cloverton )   and   Little Drummer Boy   (My favorite!  By For King and Country ) "Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the LORD." Luke 2:11 "For God so loved  the world that he gave  his one and only Son,  that whoever believes  in him shall not perish but have eternal life."    John 3:16 "... if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.... Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."   Romans 10:9, 13

[This series is  "The 9 Marks of a Calvinist Cult"  split up into smaller, individual posts.]   (Merry Christmas, everyone!  Hope you have a blessed holiday season.) 8.  Silencing the members' inner voices Gaslighting: manipulating people into doubting their own sanity, memory, or powers of reasoning.   And "manipulating people into doubting their own power of reasoning" is what Calvinists do (even if they don't mean to).  It's one of the reasons it spreads so unopposed, so easily. In addition to manipulative-shaming, Calvinists have ways of getting us to doubt our abilities to correctly think, judge, and understand things.  They make us feel like if we disagree with Calvinism, then there's something wrong with  us , not with their theology.   This causes us to question our discernment and to possibly  ignore any doubts or  "red flags" we get.  (Or at least to keep quiet about them because we fear others distrust...