tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post7564736801052199820..comments2023-12-22T08:29:29.230-08:00Comments on WHAT IS TRUTH: Steven Anderson Is a False Teacher Who Believes and Preaches a False GospelKent Brandenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-81265137786728662692020-05-19T21:34:05.526-07:002020-05-19T21:34:05.526-07:00Curtis,
I agree that salvation comes by faith alo...Curtis,<br /><br />I agree that salvation comes by faith alone. But faith includes repentance. That is clear. When Jesus gave the Great Commission, He included repentance, Luke 24:47. He preached repentance for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Peter preached it on the Day of Pentecost. Scripture says nothing about repentance from unbelief. That is a human invention. It's like playing a word game. And if it is faith, what or who is the faith in? You believe what or who? What is believing in Jesus Christ? He must be the Jesus of the Bible, not one we make up in our own mind. What I've found is that the no-repentance people, such as yourself, purposefully leave out that Jesus is Lord. They teach that a person can remain in rebellion against Jesus Christ and be saved. That is not belief and that is not Jesus. If you believe in the Jesus of the Bible, you are repenting. This is clear. To take it out is to change the gospel to something closer if not actually only intellectual assent, like demon faith, which does not save.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-86468559312408432962020-05-19T17:35:54.451-07:002020-05-19T17:35:54.451-07:00Repentance from sins is NOT a condition of salvati...Repentance from sins is NOT a condition of salvation. faith alone is. 1 Cor. 15-1-4 graceinsightandart.wordpress.com repentance from unbelief is necessary.Curtishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16307075477370109264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-66752724412309090952020-05-02T08:03:44.889-07:002020-05-02T08:03:44.889-07:00Hi Dr Ross,
You say in your article we should &qu...Hi Dr Ross,<br /><br />You say in your article we should "Passionately treasure the Word. Read it, study it ... discuss it with others." I agree.<br /><br />Regarding your primary point, this we agree on as the apostle Paul says, "he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" and in the subsequent passage which you mentioned, "to work in you both to will and do of His good pleasure."<br />After all, we have in Acts 13 that as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. Which is in keeping with Ephesians 2:8-10, John 11:25-26.<br /><br />Furthermore, it does turn on very sound logic that if to "believe" really means to obey the truth, the contrapositive states that to not obey the truth is to not believe! And we see this usage in the examples of the word used in John 3:36, Romans 15:31, Acts 14:2 and 19:9 where the A.V. uses the word "believe." I understand that you made this point in footnotes 282-286.<br /><br />With regards to your statement "a natural man can have a kind of unspiritual pleasure through an intellectual apprehension of the theological system of Scripture—a system that he, nevertheless, refuses to practice."<br /><br />I would weigh that against the statement that Paul puts in 1 Corinthians 2:14, which says that "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."<br /><br />Now my question on your article then is this: You wrote a sentence as follows—<br /><br />"Those descendents of Jacob who believe in Jehovah, those who believe and consequently become the faithful, of whom Abraham is the paradigm,[22] are those who are redeemed and counted as righteous[23] and will in the last days receive the Promised Land,[24] along with believing Gentiles (Jonah 3:5, 10) who will similarly inherit the Millennial earth and the eternal kingdom."<br /><br />I would like it if you could fully elaborate on this sentence in its entirety please. Especially, with an eye on what footnote 26 says.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-19694015850750292512020-05-01T11:47:57.119-07:002020-05-01T11:47:57.119-07:00Hi Andrew, true faith includes repentance and whil...Hi Andrew, true faith includes repentance and while salvation is not by works, it always results in works. Please see:<br /><br />https://faithsaves.net/repentance/<br /><br />https://faithsaves.net/just-faith/<br /><br />Thanks.KJB1611https://www.blogger.com/profile/09696273086955004524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-23036262567825805002020-05-01T09:38:46.787-07:002020-05-01T09:38:46.787-07:00Just so you know, that means I'm fallible.Just so you know, that means I'm fallible.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-34280963648730560272020-04-30T23:24:39.125-07:002020-04-30T23:24:39.125-07:00To Pastor Brandenburg,
Alright. I'm just givi...To Pastor Brandenburg,<br /><br />Alright. I'm just giving you my impressions then.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-6684856520471638092020-04-30T19:04:03.353-07:002020-04-30T19:04:03.353-07:00I look into your link there, me, with your expose ...I look into your link there, me, with your expose of Anderson.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-47266060294985505532020-04-30T19:03:28.325-07:002020-04-30T19:03:28.325-07:00Andrew,
I don't know of "works salvation...Andrew,<br /><br />I don't know of "works salvation" creeping into evangelicalism. I haven't seen that. Maybe I'm missing something. Generally, if they wanted that, they would move over into a Protestant denomination that already teaches that, teaches that you could lose your salvation if you're not doing good works, conditional security people, or Catholics, Lutherans, and others. I don't see an evangelical movement toward works salvation. That's not the biggest threat. The one who might say that it is would be someone like Anderson himself, who says that if you believe in biblical repentance, you are adding something to the gospel and nullifying it.<br /><br />The bigger issue today and now is excluding repentance, redefining it to after salvation as a part of sanctification, or leaving out lordship. 1-2-3 pray with me method. A worldly, lascivious other Jesus where grace is a get-out-of-jail-free card. Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-74063510861071880842020-04-30T12:29:29.816-07:002020-04-30T12:29:29.816-07:00What I believe we do have to acknowledge is that m...What I believe we do have to acknowledge is that many false prophets, working in similar mode to Billy Graham, have brought in secretly a false gospel, under false pretences of pseudo-conservatism and pseudo-evangelicalism. Their false gospel states that one requires works for justification before God, and denies that Christ has allowed to impute his own righteousness to those that believe. It's basically crypto-catholicism rehashed and is truly a works salvation. This is what is probably behind the charge, that some have redefined the term "repentance" into a work, because said false gospel basically insists that unless the priest or spiritual authority declares that he has seen you "repent of your sins" then you aren't justified, it turns that fallible person into the final authority on who is supposedly saved.<br /><br />Unless these are strongly enough denounced and separated from, you will end up with watered down modernists relying on the same old man-pleasing outward show for their justification and ignoring worshipping God in spirit and truth.<br /><br />It's perhaps a too strong overreaction to allow the modernists to redefine what repentance at its core is and thus make ourselves denounce it outright, which, is as Pastor Brandenburg explained, is not a work. We should rather explain to them that they have taken up a false definition, which it does seem like our anonymous poster tried at one point to do. But until I see them actually using it in that false definition, I assume the most charitable interpretation of someone preaching repentance, which is that they mean it Biblically.<br /><br />It's absolutely true that one must accept Christ Jesus as Lord, look at what he said in John 8:24, "if ye believe not that I AM, ye shall die in your sins."Andrew Tollefsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-82220239105480965462020-04-30T11:57:35.973-07:002020-04-30T11:57:35.973-07:00Mr. Brandenburg,
In your last comment to me you wr...Mr. Brandenburg,<br />In your last comment to me you wrote that someone should write something that exposes all that Anderson believes. I have. I wrote a 15 article series on Steven Anderson and his New IFB movement. While researching these articles I uncovered so much information that I finally stopped writing articles and I am putting it into a book that I am currently writing. Here is a link to the articles in case you are interested: https://reasonfiles.weebly.com/blog/steven-anderson-and-the-new-ifb-article-index-with-linksmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838166097105575871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-70781347237423416172020-04-30T11:09:13.706-07:002020-04-30T11:09:13.706-07:00Unknown,
I don't like printing anonymous comm...Unknown,<br /><br />I don't like printing anonymous comments, but I am, because I want people to see what you are writing as a typical support of what Anderson is teaching. Look at doctrinal statements of "Baptist" churches all over the country that leave out repentance. The proper understanding of "believe" includes repentance. You can't actually believe in Jesus Christ without repenting. In the only place where Jesus gives the content of the Great Commission, the actual message, he says "repentance," doesn't even use the word believe in Luke 24. Repentance is not a work, even as Acts 11 says that we are granted repentance, anymore than faith is not a work. Faith is also a gift and not a work. Repentance and faith both are not works.<br /><br />Jesus said that except you repent, you will perish. The Greek word is a compound word that has "change" and "mind" in it, but we don't define words by their etymology, but by the way they are used. You don't believe in Jesus Christ if He is not Lord. You can't go your way if He is Lord. You are saying that someone can be saved and deny Jesus is Lord. John says believe Jesus is the Christ, which is that He is the Messiah. You are preaching a false gospel, unknown, that is damning thousands, probably millions to Hell, and making them twice the children of Hell they once were. Shame on you!<br /><br />What you and Steven Anderson are propagating is worse than I'm describing.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-15185993123002502142020-04-30T10:27:12.577-07:002020-04-30T10:27:12.577-07:00On my Previous Post in the Verses Posted God Does ...On my Previous Post in the Verses Posted God Does Not say that a Person Has to Repent for Salvation but to Just Believe!!! You Have turned Repentance into a WORK!! The Word Repent Comes from the Greek Word METANOIA Which Means CHANGE OF Mind like From Not Trusting Jesus Christ as Your Personal Savior to Trusting Him as Your Personal Savior!! <br /><br /> Ephesians 2:8-9<br />For by Grace are you saved through Faith and not of yourselves it's the Gift of God not of works lest anyone should boast. <br /><br /> Titus 3:5<br />Not By Works Of Righteousness which we have Done but By His Mercy He Saved Us.<br /><br /> If You are Adding Repentance to the Gospel you are Adding Works to the Gospel and Declaring a False Damming Works Based Gospel!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976431450185671113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-65195108369282371112020-04-30T10:13:23.799-07:002020-04-30T10:13:23.799-07:00I Don't know a lot about Steven Anderson But t...I Don't know a lot about Steven Anderson But the Gospel that He Preaches is Accurate!!! To Repent or feel Sorry for or Give Pentance for Salvation is a FALSE GOSPEL!!<br /><br /> John 3:16<br />For God so Loved the World that He Gave His Only Begotten Son that Whosoever Believes in Him should not Perish but Have Everlasting Life. <br /><br /> Acts 16:31<br />Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be Saved and thy house. <br /><br /> Ephesians 2:8-9<br />For by Grace are you saved through Faith and not of yourselves it's the Gift of God not of works lest anyone should boast. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976431450185671113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-31392331499001623722019-11-14T13:33:42.905-08:002019-11-14T13:33:42.905-08:00Mr. Brandenburg, you wrote in a comment that someo...Mr. Brandenburg, you wrote in a comment that someone could write a large volume on the errors of Steven Anderson. I did exactly that. I have a 15 part series of articles (a precursor to a larger work still in progress) on Steven Anderson and his New IFB movement. Here is a link to those articles if you are interested:<br />https://reasonfiles.weebly.com/blog/steven-anderson-and-the-new-ifb-article-index-with-links<br /><br />Yours in Christ,<br />Robert Tuttlemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838166097105575871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-85980538769278103952019-04-08T10:51:04.844-07:002019-04-08T10:51:04.844-07:00You really think Anderson is intelligent? lol. The...You really think Anderson is intelligent? lol. The KJV bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18004383756204218331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-278445261215236222019-01-26T20:41:03.522-08:002019-01-26T20:41:03.522-08:00Unknown,
I'll print your comment if you tell ...Unknown,<br /><br />I'll print your comment if you tell us your real name.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-86138554630597161892018-10-30T11:45:54.889-07:002018-10-30T11:45:54.889-07:00James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God ...James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.KJB1611https://www.blogger.com/profile/09696273086955004524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-53858041452120561482018-10-30T00:49:01.253-07:002018-10-30T00:49:01.253-07:00All religions lead to the antichrist.
Biblical f...All religions lead to the antichrist. <br /><br />Biblical faith is not a religionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-49259504222026676182018-09-09T19:26:03.010-07:002018-09-09T19:26:03.010-07:00You probably believe that Billy Graham was a good ...You probably believe that Billy Graham was a good Christian with all his false doctrine. All religions lead to God right. You were wrong about Anderson's education so you aren't concerned with facts obviously. So you do not know of David's prayer where he asks God to break out the teeth of his enemies? Also Elisha was a party to the death of forty children for calling him names.Obama is a foe of God and I believe that is true of you too.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15384493072562479948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-2377661507415758092017-11-24T13:17:06.407-08:002017-11-24T13:17:06.407-08:00Not sure I want to be on a blacklist that includes...Not sure I want to be on a blacklist that includes Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, Mother Teresa, Billy Graham, Paul Washer, Joyce Meyers and Jack Schaap. That is quite the line up!<br /><br />JustinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-19896352682209824862017-11-21T20:39:31.508-08:002017-11-21T20:39:31.508-08:00anderson attended hyles anderson for a few years u...anderson attended hyles anderson for a few years under the schaap regime. i think he said he completed 3 years of school there.<br /><br /><br /><br />Terry Basham, IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15354045499775379475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-84667272554310931362017-11-06T10:23:45.336-08:002017-11-06T10:23:45.336-08:00Brother Bradenburg,
I appreciate this warning. I ...Brother Bradenburg,<br />I appreciate this warning. I have been aware of Steven Anderson for some time now. At first I was very intrigued by him, but once I heard his position on salvation, that was it for me. Brother Cloud has written a book about his many doctrinal heresies, so it is not surprising that Anderson did a youtube video slandering Brother Cloud and calling him a false teacher. Amazingly, he mocks Brother Cloud for preaching the truth about repentance and salvation.<br /><br />I seriously doubt that he is saved in light of his hate filled rhetoric. Praying for the death of a past president, and that others would get brain cancer, and that all homosexuals would be destroyed from the earth. Yeah, that sounds very similar to the compassion and weeping for the lost that we see from Christ and his apostles. The scary thing is how popular he has become. <br /><br />I sincerely pray for him. I used to think that he had an agenda in preaching his false gospel and salvation, but I now believe that he truly thinks that he is right, which might be even more dangerous. Think of the multitudes of people who are being deceived by him and his cohort of pastor friends around the country. Tragic indeed.<br /><br />JasonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-70176389117288052632017-11-01T13:17:15.104-07:002017-11-01T13:17:15.104-07:00Tyler,
I would agree with you, but spiritually de...Tyler,<br /><br />I would agree with you, but spiritually deceived. Smart enough though for sure. The exegesis is moronic though.<br /><br />I did two parts on the James White interview, because I thought it did good at least at flushing out things that would not normally occur.<br /><br />https://kentbrandenburg.blogspot.com/2014/09/commentary-on-steven-anderson-james.html<br /><br />https://kentbrandenburg.blogspot.com/2014/09/commentary-on-steven-anderson-james_3.html<br />Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-483775896513691232017-11-01T13:04:53.424-07:002017-11-01T13:04:53.424-07:00The strange things is, Anderson is an intelligent ...The strange things is, Anderson is an intelligent man. See his 2.5 hr interview with James White on the KJV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJrptikLjq8). Anderson is clearly not a fool. White stopped the interview abruptly after Anderson explained how Jesus descended to hell to become a burnt offering. <br /><br />The interview is worth watching; you see Anderson as a normal, thinking man - not the caricature he deliberately projects in his preaching. Tyler Robbinshttps://eccentricfundamentalist.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-39837296110311923482017-11-01T13:01:19.427-07:002017-11-01T13:01:19.427-07:00Jim,
I saw your comment at SI, and what got my at...Jim,<br /><br />I saw your comment at SI, and what got my attention was seven things.<br />1. Someone my wife knows here in this area, not in our church, asked about Anderson, so his influence is widespread.<br />2. The film company sends me emails all the time -- pushing Anderson -- I'm guessing others get it.<br />3. His false gospel is still popular today, and our upcoming conference continues to be on the gospel. He is spreading a false gospel, and I want people to know that is most serious.<br />4. He is influencing through his eschatological position all over.<br />5. He is on West Coast, like us.<br />6. His wacky English translation position is connected to ours, and vastly different, just like you said.<br />7. My name should be on the repentance blacklist.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.com