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I recently read your article concerning Russell Earl Kelly. Question-Do u all call everybody that doesn't agree with you a false teacher? Also it came as a surprise that you all agree with him concerning tithing. So, ...How is he a false teacher? I've read your arguments and you simply disagree with him about certain points in scripture. Does that make him an Anti-Christ? Isn't the Church under enough of attack from the world that we have eat our own? By the way I'm not affiliated in any way with Russell Earl Kelly. I know that is what you will all think.
How is Russell Earl Kelly a false teacher?
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Paul Cohen
Re: How is Russell Earl Kelly a false teacher?
Hi Trenton,
You ask: “Do u all call everybody that doesn't agree with you a false teacher?”
No. Here's how we go about posting false teachers (described at http://thepathoftruth.com/false-teachers/index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - read the entire introductory section):
False teachers mix the holy things of God with their carnal thoughts, creating a false form of godliness. They can't do otherwise, because they haven't taken up the cross and submitted themselves to Christ's righteousness. They are still in their sin nature, living unto themselves, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.
And because false teachers haven't submitted themselves to Christ's righteousness, they can't lead others there. A false teacher is one who may speak truth, yet points his hearers in another direction.
In summary (and posted on every false teacher page):
Definition of False Teacher: One who presumes to teach in the Name of the Lord when God has not sent him.
Regarding Russell Earl Kelly, you write:
“Also it came as a surprise that you all agree with him concerning tithing.”
While Kelly gets some things right, we don't agree with him or his teaching. As stated in the article, with proof provided, “Even when he's right, Kelly is so very wrong.” Kelly leads people according to his carnal conception of faith, not by the Spirit of the Lord and His ways. That is what makes him anti-Christ.
Therefore, you mistakenly ask:
“Isn't the Church under enough of attack from the world that we have eat our own?”
Kelly isn't a member of the mystical Church of Christ, which consists of those born of His Spirit, which makes them members of His Body. Therefore we aren't attacking the true Church - we're exposing the false one. You aren't distinguishing between tares and wheat.
Apparently you think that the apostle Paul would have readily displayed and touted at every opportunity his PhD diploma earned by studying under Gamaliel, a doctor of the Law. Instead, we hear Paul saying of his religious attainments through the agency of men's religious institutions and the works of the flesh according to human willpower and knowledge:
Philippians 3:8-10 MKJV
(8) But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for Whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ
(9) and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith,
(10) that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death;
What do Paul or any of God's saints have to do with manmade sectarian preachers like Kelly, who is affiliated with the Southern Baptists? We utterly reject their leaven and have nothing at all to do with them except to shine the light on their presumption and error. Read:
The Case for Coming Out
Counterfeit Christianity
The Church
Blackaby, Henry: Bamboozling Blackaby and His Black Legacy
The True Marks of a Cult
Diabolical Doctrines
Finally, you write:
“By the way I'm not affiliated in any way with Russell Earl Kelly. I know that is what you will all think.”
That isn't what we thought. We've taken your letter at face value as an expression of bewilderment at what's going on in our posting and site in general. You are among the multitudes who consider nominal orthodox Christianity to represent the authentic faith and expression of Jesus Christ, which it decidedly doesn't.
Should you carefully and prayerfully read this reply and the links provided, thereafter returning to and reconsidering the original post on Kelly, it may be that you'll begin to understand and see things differently.
God opens the eyes and fills those who hunger after His righteousness with the truth and all good things - those who believe and obey Him, following Him without the camp. That is what we would see for you, Trenton.
Paul Cohen
www.ThePathofTruth.com
You ask: “Do u all call everybody that doesn't agree with you a false teacher?”
No. Here's how we go about posting false teachers (described at http://thepathoftruth.com/false-teachers/index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - read the entire introductory section):
False teachers mix the holy things of God with their carnal thoughts, creating a false form of godliness. They can't do otherwise, because they haven't taken up the cross and submitted themselves to Christ's righteousness. They are still in their sin nature, living unto themselves, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.
And because false teachers haven't submitted themselves to Christ's righteousness, they can't lead others there. A false teacher is one who may speak truth, yet points his hearers in another direction.
In summary (and posted on every false teacher page):
Definition of False Teacher: One who presumes to teach in the Name of the Lord when God has not sent him.
Regarding Russell Earl Kelly, you write:
“Also it came as a surprise that you all agree with him concerning tithing.”
While Kelly gets some things right, we don't agree with him or his teaching. As stated in the article, with proof provided, “Even when he's right, Kelly is so very wrong.” Kelly leads people according to his carnal conception of faith, not by the Spirit of the Lord and His ways. That is what makes him anti-Christ.
Therefore, you mistakenly ask:
“Isn't the Church under enough of attack from the world that we have eat our own?”
Kelly isn't a member of the mystical Church of Christ, which consists of those born of His Spirit, which makes them members of His Body. Therefore we aren't attacking the true Church - we're exposing the false one. You aren't distinguishing between tares and wheat.
Apparently you think that the apostle Paul would have readily displayed and touted at every opportunity his PhD diploma earned by studying under Gamaliel, a doctor of the Law. Instead, we hear Paul saying of his religious attainments through the agency of men's religious institutions and the works of the flesh according to human willpower and knowledge:
Philippians 3:8-10 MKJV
(8) But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for Whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ
(9) and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith,
(10) that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death;
What do Paul or any of God's saints have to do with manmade sectarian preachers like Kelly, who is affiliated with the Southern Baptists? We utterly reject their leaven and have nothing at all to do with them except to shine the light on their presumption and error. Read:
The Case for Coming Out
Counterfeit Christianity
The Church
Blackaby, Henry: Bamboozling Blackaby and His Black Legacy
The True Marks of a Cult
Diabolical Doctrines
Finally, you write:
“By the way I'm not affiliated in any way with Russell Earl Kelly. I know that is what you will all think.”
That isn't what we thought. We've taken your letter at face value as an expression of bewilderment at what's going on in our posting and site in general. You are among the multitudes who consider nominal orthodox Christianity to represent the authentic faith and expression of Jesus Christ, which it decidedly doesn't.
Should you carefully and prayerfully read this reply and the links provided, thereafter returning to and reconsidering the original post on Kelly, it may be that you'll begin to understand and see things differently.
God opens the eyes and fills those who hunger after His righteousness with the truth and all good things - those who believe and obey Him, following Him without the camp. That is what we would see for you, Trenton.
Paul Cohen
www.ThePathofTruth.com