78th Live Stream with Carlton Pearson - Apostasy, the real Apocalypse (revelation)

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Apostasy, the real Apocalypse (revelation) "None so deaf as those who will not hear. None so blind as those who will not see." Matthew Henry The information superhighway was designed to link everyone at home or office to everything else — movies, television shows, shopping services, electronic mail and huge collections of data never before so easily and readily available and accessible to unlimited numbers of people across this planet. In such a day, ignorance is a choice, as much or perhaps more than a liability. You don't need a college education or degree to be an informed person. However, there is a difference between reading and studying, and that includes the bible, which is referred by millions the "Word of God." Reading, translating and then interpreting the bible is no small discipline. Modern information demands we reconsider what we believe and why we believe it, even about the bible, one of the most important and impacting books in human history. The more you study it, its history and historicity (authors and authenticity), the more you realize that it's not all we've been told and taught it is. And that over the millennia, we have made it a god, an idol, often used to justify, support and sponsor some of the most vile, destructive vice and violence in human history and do it in the name of God or Jesus. I have read, studied and cherished the scriptures all of my life and I have experienced great growth and revelation concerning the values and virtues of critical thinking around them. You are not diminished by accepting the fact that we may have gotten a lot of our theologies (God logic) wrong and in some cases, have actually been sold a bill of goods. Such a realization can't and doesn't diminish any infinite reality we call God, because if, in fact, God is all some believe him, her or it to be, then he, she or it can't be diminished anyway. Finite minds or mentalities cannot demean or diminish infinite realities or truths, so why all the panic, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim? Apostasy is considered the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief. It is the desertion of one's culture or cause in favor of an opposing or perhaps just a different one. It doesn't have to mean you're wrong, just not the same as another position or posture. Millions of people especially within the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are reconsidering the virtue and validity of what they've been told and taught for centuries. Carlton Pearson After college at the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa Oklahoma he served for 15 years on its Board of Regents, and two years as Associate Evangelist of The Oral Roberts Association, (ORA). In 1977, Pearson founded Higher Dimensions Ministries (now New Dimensions ), in Tulsa, which grew to over 5,000. Bishop Pearson was consecrated to the office of Bishop in 1996 thru a College of Bishops headed by Bishop Charles E Blake, presently the Presiding Bishop of the Churches of God In Christ, the denomination he was raised in and through whom he was ordained in 1971. In 1993, Carlton married the former Gina Marie Gauthier who is a professional Life Coach and Yoga teacher. More recently, he has felt a passion to proclaim the "Gospel Of Inclusion" and has written a widely acclaimed book by that name, published by Simon and Schuster. It confronts the Christian church's exclusivism as being inconsistent, in spirit with the teachings of Jesus. Pearson's frank and often controversial take on a number of different subjects has earned him appearances on television programs such as NBC and MSNBC's Dateline, ABC's Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley, The Edge with Paula Zahn and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, The Monique Show on BET, and a number of other television, radio and print media outlets. Bishop Pearson was recognized as one of America's 10 Most Influential Black Ministers by Gospel Today and Belief.net. He has received several honorary doctoral degrees. Bishop Pearson recently served as the Interim Senior Minister at Christ Universal Temple in Chicago. He and Gina now host New Dimensions of Chicago, building a local multi-cultural and radically Inclusive spiritual community that emphasizes expanded consciousness and Self Actualization. His newest book, God Is Not A Christian, Nor A Jew, Muslim, Hindu...God Dwells With Us, In Us, Around Us, As Us was published by Simon and Schuster and released in the spring of 2010. Visit our Youtube Channel for more video! Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/bishoppearson Website: http://www.bishoppearson.com Join Email List: http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?llr=cqgwpvn6&p=oi&m=1011112155650

Topics

• Repentance
• Bible Study
• Second Coming
• Prophecy & End Times