Friday, August 9, 2013

JOHN PIPER GUSHES OVER HERETIC C.S. LEWIS, FOCUS OF UPCOMING DESIRING GOD CONFERENCE

JOHN PIPER

C.S. Lewis has been one of the favorite darlings of liberal new evangelicals and the "neo-reformed", such as John Piper, who is so enthralled with Lewis that he dedicates an entire conference to Lewis and in addition offers an e-book "Alive to Wonder:Celebrating the Influence of C.S. Lewis", http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/new-ebook-piper-celebrates-the-influence-of-lewis.

Piper gushes with effusive undiscerning admiration for Lewis at:
"C.S. Lewis’s profound influence on so many people was not owing to his aberrations from evangelical doctrine. Aberrations there were. But that was not the spring of his influence. It was in spite of that. So the quest to understand the depth and extent of his influence promises riches even for those of us who prize the doctrines where he was weakest." "Some people are influential because they attract attention with their avant-garde, unorthodox views. C.S. Lewis boasted of being an “intellectual dinosaur,” not avant-garde."
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However, consider the less than Christian aspects of Lewis as described at these links:
Gary Gilley from Southern View Chapel: 
David Cloud of Way of Life:
"Was C.S. Lewis a strong Bible believer? By no means, as even Christianity Today admits. “Clive Staples Lewis was anything but a classic evangelical, socially or theologically. He smoked cigarettes and a pipe, and he regularly visited pubs to drink beer with friends. Though he shared basic Christian beliefs with evangelicals, he didn’t subscribe to biblical inerrancy or penal substitution. He believed in purgatory and baptismal regeneration” (“C.S. Lewis Superstar,”Christianity Today, Dec. 2005)." "Lewis believed in prayers for the dead." "Lewis lived for 30 years with Janie Moore, a woman 25 years his senior to whom he was not married. The relationship with the married woman began when Lewis was still a student at Oxford. Moore was separated from her husband. Lewis confessed to his brother Arthur that he was in love with Mrs. Moore, the mother of one of his friends who was killed in World War I. The relationship was definitely sexual in nature." "Lewis never gave up his unholy fascination with paganism." "Lewis claimed that followers of pagan religions can be saved without personal faith in Jesus Christ." "As for faith in the blood of Christ, Lewis said that it is not an essential part of Christianity." 

From the same article: WHY IS LEWIS SO POPULAR WITH EVANGELICALS TODAY? THE REASONS:
1) NEW EVANGELICALS LOVE C.S. LEWIS BECAUSE THEY ARE CHARACTERIZED BY A PRIDE OF INTELLECT AND LEWIS WAS DEFINITELY AN INTELLECTUAL.
2) NEW EVANGELICALS LOVE C.S. LEWIS BECAUSE OF HIS ECUMENICAL THINKING AND HIS REFUSAL TO PRACTICE SEPARATION.
3)  NEW EVANGELICALS LOVE C.S. LEWIS BECAUSE OF THEIR SHARED FASCINATION FOR OR AND SYMPATHY WITH ROME. 


Wretched Radio: 

"Beware of C.S. Lewis' HERESIES":


Contending for Truth by Dr. Scott Johnson: http://www.contendingfortruth.com/?p=1109:

J.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, The Inklings, Narnia & the Golden Dawn-Part 1
4/6/2008
"In this teaching we will start out by first discussing many of the occult details and facts regarding both J.R. Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ books/movies and then C.S. Lewis’s ‘Narnia’ books/movies.
During the 1930′s to 1940′s both Tolkien and Lewis were part of an informal literary discussion group associated with the ‘University of Oxford’ & known as the “Inklings”. C. S. Lewis called Charles Williams (Fellow “Inkling”, specialist in Tarot and Kabbalah & a man whose mind was steeped in occult rituals and demonic forces) ‘his dearest friend.’ This close friendship made a large impact on Lewis and his writings. C. S. Lewis wrote of Williams poems: ‘They seem to me… for their profound wisdom, to be among the two or three most valuable books of verse produced in the century.’ Charles Williams was also a member of the ‘Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn’.
There are many that assert that both Tolkien and Lewis were closet members of the Golden Dawn. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a amalgamation of 
Freemasonry (Babylonian mystery religions), 
Theosophy (An Satanic/occult religious philosophy combined with metaphysics, started by a high level witch named H. P. Blavatsky), 
Eliphas Levi’s Teachings (A high level black magic occultist), 
Enochian Magic (an elaborate system of advanced, 
Satanic, ceremonial magic), 
The Kabbalah (The highest level of Jewish witchcraft) and 
Medieval Grimoire (a manual of black magic for invoking spirits and demons). 
Regarding the Order of the Golden Dawn, among its first initiates was a coroner who allegedly performed necromantic rites, while another early member was black magician Aleister Crowley, the self styled Great Beast/666."
There is no PDF for this Teaching.
For extensive information about the “Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn” and its satanic influence on contemporary musicians, see: 


Contending for Truth by Dr. Scott Johnson:
32 page PDF treatise: 
"C.S. Lewis Warning: In His Own Words".

Wikipedia profile of Lewis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis.

Take Heed Ministries of Northern Ireland:

J. Beard of Rapidnet: http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/lewis/general.htm.

 Ralph Ovadal of Pilgrims Covenant Church, Monroe, Wisconsin on Sermon Audio:
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=8913911311, titled:
"Evangelicals & C.S. Lewis, Vatican's Power, Putin & Orthodox Church"



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