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Deity and Deception

Wickedness is flooding this generation in America and around the world, as we try to document in these commentaries each week. Our purpose is to make people aware that the stage is being set for the fulfillment of Bible prophecy according to God’s Word. Truth comes only from the mind of a Holy God and is counter to all the deception that is rampant while the seven years of Tribulation draw ever closer.

Jesus said there would come a time near the end of the age when deceivers, even using His name in their declarations, would come on the scene:

“And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them” (Luke 21:8).

There would be a time when deceivers would say their credentials came from Him, the Lord said, in effect. He warned His listeners not to be deluded into thinking their false teaching and false prophecy came from Him. In other places, Jesus said all such deception came from the deceiver’s father, the devil, who is the “father of lies.”

Apart from the actual declaration that there are many ways to salvation other than through Jesus Christ (see John 14:16), I can think of no greater deception than that foisted upon America and the world today than the lies intrinsic within the evil of abortion. This practice sheds the blood of the innocent, one of the things God has stated He hates. As many as sixty-five million unborn children—maybe as many as seventy million by now—have been murdered in the wombs of mothers in America since the Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973.

Jesus’ prophecy that there would be deceivers claiming to be speaking and acting at His prompting seems to be manifest glaringly in the following story:

A female pastor who is also a Planned Parenthood advisor delivered a sermon in which she said she felt “God’s presence” when she aborted two pregnancies, and she blasted Evangelicals for their “toxic theology” on the subject.

In a sermon delivered July 9 at The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the Rev. Rebecca Todd Peters spoke candidly about her own experience with abortion and how she views Scripture through that lens.

Wearing a pink stole emblazoned with the Planned Parenthood logo, Peters opened her message bemoaning the state of pro-life Evangelicalism, with its “talking fetuses, aggressive bumper stickers and saccharine billboards quoting Scripture and invoking God’s wrath.”

Peters, who is also a professor of religious studies and founding director of the Poverty and Social Justice Program at Elon University in North Carolina, referenced the state’s recently passed law banning most abortions after 12 weeks. She said the bill’s passage is an example of Evangelical culture setting the political tone on abortion.

“When it is primarily Catholics and Evangelical Christians who talk about God and faith and abortion, they define the narrative anti-choice Christians have so effectively shaped,” she said…

Peters, invoking the language of decolonization ideology, went on to claim this narrative “has colonized our minds, traumatizing many people with its toxic theology and shaping a culture of stigma and shame that has silenced millions of women and people who have had abortions, erasing their voices, their stories, and their witness from the public sphere.”…

In one of the more shocking moments of the sermon, Peters referred to pre-born life as a “zygote” and criticized the “anti-choice” position that life begins at conception.

She revealed that, as a mother of two, she had previously aborted two other pregnancies.

“I, too, feel that I am known by God in these ways, as a woman who has borne two children. I can affirm that I felt something sacred happening in my gestating body during those pregnancies,” said Peters. “I can also attest that I felt God’s presence with me as I made the decision to end two pregnancies, and I felt no guilt, no shame, no sin.” (Ian M. Giatti, “PCUSA pastor teaches on Psalm 139, says she ‘felt God’s presence,’ ‘no sin’ after 2 abortions Sermon alleges ‘anti-choice’ Evangelicals have ‘colonized our minds’ with ‘toxic theology,'” Christian Post, Rapture Ready News, August 6, 2023)

To be clear, this abominable theology is not the position of the mainline Presbyterian Church. This comes from an offshoot of that denomination which, like in the case of a number of denominations as of late, suffers from what I believe to be apostate incursion. And that satanic incursion was, I believe, part of the Lord Jesus’ warning. The end-times deceivers are declaring their theology comes from God. Jesus, of course, is God, but the deity that inspires such thinking represented in the story of this “pastor” comes not from Him but from the father of lies.

While witnessing the ramping up of such evil, be assured that God will soon judge the wickedness that says He approves of the killing of unborn babies. I’m of the strong conviction that the Lord will make His statement on when life begins by taking every child–even those just conceived—from the earth at that moment of Rapture.

Rather than condemning those who are under this deception, we want to bid them to accept God’s only way to salvation. Thus, the fallen mind that cannot see the truth in the matter of abortion and all other matters antithetical to God’s will can, through a reborn and renewed mind and spirit, know truth from the true Deity in Heaven.

Here is how to come to that salvation:

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9–10).

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11 Comments

  1. Rev. Dr. Patricia Slomanski's avatar Rev. Dr. Patricia Slomanski says:
    August 13, 2023 at 7:46 pm

    Mr. James, I have all of your books and so appreciate all that you have written. I was an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church USA (D. Min.Columbia, M. Div. Union Seminary, MA in Christian Ed Presbyterian School of Christian Education), but I left when the denomination began to approve of homosexuality and abortion. It is totally “woke” and has left the Bible. I don’t think that the Unitarian Universalist Church is part of the PCUSA. I don’t know anything about this church, but it must be “woke” like the PCUSA. My heart cries when I read that she felt nothing when she aborted those two precious babies. Surely she and others will have to answer to the Lord on this issue.

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    • Ed Wood's avatar Ed Wood says:
      August 14, 2023 at 9:38 am

      Here is some information about the UU’s.

      From Wikpedia:
      “Unitarian Universalism is a religion marked by freedom, reason, and acceptance.[54] As such, Unitarian Universalists practice a non-creedal religion that does not require one to believe in any particular belief or doctrine.[55] Rather than sharing common beliefs, Unitarian Universalists are united by a common history, the affirmation of each person’s individual spiritual quest, and a covenant to uphold the community’s shared spiritual values. As such, Unitarian Universalists vary greatly in their beliefs, and Unitarian Universalist congregations are often defined by a plurality of beliefs.[56]”

      Pretty easy to figure where they stand with anything Biblical, I’d say.

      I myself bailed out of the Episcopal Church in 2007 which accepts homosexual behavior as “okay,” even among its clergy, “Mother Jesus” ( a quote from a sermon by former presiding bishop Schori) . . . . need I say more? I congratulate you on doing the same with the PCUSA. Good for you, Patricia!

      Most of the mainstream church has gone this route – very much representative of the lukewarm Laodicean church which Jesus found to be the most offensive, based on Revelation
      3:14-22.

      It appears that since Satan couldn’t destroy the church by persecution, he now is doing it from within by destroying it from within by having it accept the “doctrines of devils.” (1 Timothy 4:1) that I’d mentioned in a previous comment.

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  2. Ed Wood's avatar Ed Wood says:
    August 14, 2023 at 5:18 am

    1 Timothy {4:1} Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; {4:2} Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.

    Sound familiar??

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  3. A Clark's avatar A Clark says:
    August 14, 2023 at 9:50 am

    Thanks for speaking out on this topic. The voice of the church has been silent on this issue, one of the watershed moral issues of history and our country.

    Incidentally, the Unitarian Universalist church is a completely apostate offshoot of Christianity from the 19th century containing a hodge podge of different beliefs from different religions of the world. It has strong influence of liberal theology and eastern mysticism and generally rejects the fundamentals of biblical Christianity. It’s pretty much believe whatever you want except the clear teachings of the Bible. It’s prevalent in New England. Many of those quaint calendar picture churches are UU congregations.

    The UU came about from the influence of Henry David Thoreau and Dr Alcott, the father of Louisa May Alcott who were heavily influenced by eastern thought.

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  4. Janet's avatar Janet says:
    August 14, 2023 at 10:22 am

    “Thus, the fallen mind that cannot see the truth in the matter of abortion and all other matters antithetical to God’s will ……”. I’ve read many articles on the matter of abortion from a Christian perspective, but I’ve not seen any discussion on the use of aborted fetal cells in vaccines and, in particular, the Covid shot. Many Christians have received the shot and apparently are not bothered by the fact that it is contaminated with aborted fetal cells, even though they are against abortions. Can you speak to this incongruity?

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