81st Live Stream with Carlton Pearson - The BIble

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What do you know about the personal and/or private lives of the authors of your Bible or its origin? Or does it even matter? Of course, if you believe the author is God, then for you, knowing Jesus is enough info on the author's personal and private life, eh? I love the scriptures and have been a student of them for my entire life, majoring in biblical Literature/English Bible in college (ORU) and minoring in Theology/Historical Studies. My studies towards a Masters of Divinity at the Chicago Theological Seminary and years of extended study from Europe to American have been some of the most exciting in my life. This is how much I share interest in the subject and remain so, since it is such a powerful influence on humanity and human history. For 50 years as a Christian, I used the term "It is written" to authorize or justify whatever particular position I was about to declare from a pulpit or in personal defense and sometimes offense to someone, about something. If in fact it is written, a man (person) wrote it. Not necessarily God, but by someone who felt they were at the moment the voice of a god, or whose words were later presumed the same. Bible toters and quoters often used their bible bullets and bazookas to hurt, harm and even murder other humans, ranging from those considered infidels, heretics, homosexuals, so-called "witches" or with different interpretations of those words or "writings" (scriptures) to sometimes members of their own church congregations or family members. The Judeo/Christian Bible (Holy Book) was written by at least 150 different people, in dozens different places at different times, many centuries apart and for varying reasons. The biblical authors (all of them) were as human as those who preach and teach from their writings. They had likes and dislikes, opinions, views, marital and/or parenting issues, business or financial concerns, prejudices, biases, culturally and otherwise, perspectives and so forth, just like the rest of us, and all these things, realities and conditions, affected how they viewed the world and wrote or interpreted scriptures. Our bible is a book, written by men, to men, about man's imaginations, interpretations or perhaps fantasies about God or a god they were somehow convinced existed. This simple fact is widely ignored by most Christians. 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

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