Tim and Beverly Lahey had connections with Unification Church:
"In June, 1985, CRF held several rallies, one of which was in Washington, D.C. There LaHaye urged the over 300 men and women present to support Moon by voluntarily going to jail with him for a week if allowed to do so by authorities. "Not that I agree with his doctrine," said LaHaye. "Not that I agree with what he teaches, because many of us don't know what he teaches. We have only read about it in the paper and you know how much we can trust the papers." (Evidently LaHaye is unaware of the many books and research papers made available by Christian cult investigators. Certainly the newspapers aren't the only source of information.) Other so-called evangelicals that served with LaHaye at CRF as executive committee and/or advisory board members were Don Wildmon (founder and president of the social activist American Family Association), Marlin Maddoux (Point Of View nationwide radio talk show host), Paul Crouch (TBN Network's infamous founder), Hal Lindsey, James Robison, Jimmy Swaggart, and D. James Kennedy (author and pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) -- an agenda of social activism certainly makes for strange ecumenical bedfellows. [In a personal letter dated 6/3/93, LaHaye claims to have never received any pay for his stint as CRF's "temporary chairman for a month and a half." LaHaye seems to be saying, "It's okay to serve on the Board of an apostate organization as long as you don't accept pay for it."]

LaHaye's involvement with Moon is particularly vile. In 1985, Carolyn Weaver, writing for Mother Jones Magazine, exposed the fact that LaHaye had received substantial funds from Moon's aid Bo Hi Park. This was discovered in a tape of a dictated thank you letter from LaHaye, thanking Park for a contribution in excess of $500,000. LaHaye would not admit or deny the receipt of the contribution, instead he attacked the source of the information. (Reported in the 1Q96, Religion in Politics.)

- Moon held a Washington Family Federation for World Peace conference in late-1996 that attracted a gaggle of famous "evangelical" speakers, including Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed (now a political consultant), Family Research Council president Gary Bauer, and Concerned Women for America president Beverly LaHaye. Moon and his fourth wife also addressed the conference, which attracted 1,500 participants from around the globe. When asked in a personal letter why she would speak to a Moonie front group, Mrs. LaHaye responded that she found out only a few days before the event that it was a Moon-sponsored event, but that "it was too late to back out [so] I decided I would have to see it through and use it as an opportunity to share the true Word of God ..." She also claimed that both Bauer and Reed were caught in the same dilemma. "So the three of us tried to be a true witness for Christ in this event."

Beverly LaHaye's "explanation" for speaking at the gathering does not stand up to scrutiny. The LaHayes have had a relationship with the Moonies for years (see above); they are very well aware of all the Moonie front groups, including the Family Federation for World Peace. But let's assume she is telling the truth in her letter, and really was ignorant of the group to which she was going to speak. But she admits she became aware of it "a few days before the event," so why couldn't she cancel? Why was it "too late to back out"? Even so, in what way did she use her appearance "as an opportunity to share the true Word of God and God's standard for the family marriage"? Did she specifically address the fact that the Moonies are a blasphemous cult and an abomination before a holy God? Hardly. In every account of her remarks that have been made public, she makes not one reference to the gospel.

LaHaye also remarks that Gary Bauer and Ralph Reed "were caught in the same dilemma." Not according to Reed. When asked why the Christian Coalition chose to associate with Moon, spokesman Mike Russell said, "They're working to strengthen the family and so are we. Ralph doesn't agree with every organization he speaks to." Nor according to Bauer either; Bauer said, "I don't see why Christians should censor themselves out of any forum in which our perspectives can be heard." At least these two ecumenists are willing to tell the truth. From their statements, you can see that neither Reed nor Bauer make any claim of being ignorant of the Moonie sponsorship of the event. Why was Beverly LaHaye such a dupe when the others were so knowledgeable? The fact is, Beverly LaHaye was caught with her hand in the cookie jar, and now she's making excuses like a 2-year old -- "Momma, I didn't know there were cookies in there until five minutes ago, and then it was too late to back out." (Moon has been known to draw speakers with honorariums exceeding $100,000; perhaps that is why "it was too late to back out.")"
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/lahaye/general.htm

Hal Lidsey was related to Unification Church:
"In the mid-eighties, Lindsey was a board member of the now-defunct Coalition for Religious Freedom, a front organization for the Unification Church (which, theologically, is a cult of Christianity)."
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/l38.html

Pat Robertson is not Reconstructionist but Premillennialist:
"Robertson embraces a theological view known as premillennialism, the belief that Christ's return (or "Parousia") will usher in a 1,000 year period of godly rule on earth. "
http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/y2k-1.htm

"Christian Zionist eschatology (i.e., the theology of the end of the world) is basically dispensational premillennialism. This is also heresy. Catholic eschatology is amillennialism.

Christian Zionists believe that Christians will be raptured into Heaven prior to Armageddon; and they believe in a literal 1,000-year reign of Christ on earth. In order to accomplish the rapture, they believe that present-day Israel must be supported unconditionally. They believe that Israel may make territorial claims from the Nile to the Euphrates rivers -- even at the expense of the U.S. -- because then Armageddon, the final, earth-ending battle between good and evil, will occur. Christian Zionist Benny Hinn said on NBC's Dateline in March 2005 that "This is not a war between Jews and Arabs. It is a war between God and the Devil."

The prominent leaders of Christian Zionism are Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye, Hal Lindsey, Oral Roberts, Kenneth Copeland, Paul Crouch, Benny Hinn, James Dobson, Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, Ralph Reed, and Jews for Jesus."
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=1206-editorial

Predestination is an orthodox doctrine:
"The teaching on predestination is a dogma of faith, based on the Sacred Scriptures. No Orthodox Christian has any doubt in this. For whom he did foreknow, Paul clearly states, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified (Romans 8:29,30). The book of divine foreknowledge is incomprehensible to us. In this book, those whom God loves, He inscribed to life, and those whom He despises！to death. Jacob have I love, but Esau have I hated, (Romans 9:13) says God Himself. Just as a potter can make a worthy vessel or an unworthy one from the very same clay, likewise almighty God glorifies as valuable certain of His creatures, while rejecting others as unnecessary. Therefore hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth (Romans 9:18). God acts according to His own will. "
http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/predestination.aspx

2007年5月13日