ALPHA? The FORCE be with you:
http://www.christiandoctrine.net/news/alpha_news/alpha_nov_2002_web.htm Rome sees Alpha as a means to ensnare unwary unsaved people into its net. Rome is happy to let Alpha do the work, so long as it gains in numbers.
http://www.pfo.org/alpha-cr.htm
�1. The God of Alpha is not the God of the Bible. ... it does not present us with the God who has revealed Himself in the Bible. ... It simply fails to tell us anything we need to know about God.
2. The plight of man in Alpha is not as serious as in the Bible. ... Alpha does not use strong terms and leaves us rather unclear about where we stand. As one follows its argument, sin is more to be seen in the way we have �messed up our lives.�... For all the gravity of sin, Alpha never allows us to feel too bad about ourselves. It never permits us to see ourselves in God�s sight. That is a big omission.
3. The Jesus Christ of Alpha is not the Jesus Christ of the Bible. ... despite having part of the course titled �Why did Jesus die?�, it is unable in the final analysis to answer this question. ...
4. The love of God in Alpha is not the love of God of the Bible. ... The God of the Bible is love but it is love that is seen in His willingness to save sinners. ... without the context of God�s holiness and absolute perfection, the meaning of love is lost to us. ...
5. The Holy Spirit of Alpha is not the Holy Spirit of the Bible. ... Alpha�s �Spirit� appears to work in ways that lie outside the confines of Scripture. Whoever it is that people are �introduced� to at the Alpha Weekend, it is not the Holy Spirit. But whoever this mysterious guest is, he is equally at home with the ecstatic gatherings of New Age enthusiasts and non-Christian religions alike.
6. Conversions in Alpha are not like the conversions in the Bible. ... More often than not it is an emotional experience about the love of God but without any understanding of holiness or the need to be saved from our sins. ... For all its efforts, Alpha does not help us to know God. It does not describe the true and living God for us. It does not diagnose man�s condition accurately enough. ... it is unable to supply us with the �good news�.�10
Alpha is just new window dressing on the old �Holy Ghost bartender� theme, the Toronto theme and the Brownsville reruns. It could be retitled �Steps to Frenzy� or �Finding God in My Feelings�, or �Letting Out the Animal Inside.� The result is not unlike the old Esalen groups, primal scream therapy or the lunacy of a drug experience.
Judy Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Caroline I noted you are involved with Alpha, are you also involved with the Toronto Blessing and aware of the following?This is from an Australian publication. judytTITLE: Toronto Blessing leads to Rome
TEXT: An unbelievable exodus has been occuring from Protestant Churches to the Roman Catholic Church. Seeing is believing - here is one site where you can see ex-pastors from Protestant Churches as well as sects making the shift.
These people believe that are returning or converting to the �true faith�. The Catholic Church is boasting of the many hundreds that are now �coming home�. Apostacy has taken a giant step. Assemblies of God pastors who once �felt the presence of God� at Toronto are now �feeling the presence of Jesus� in the eucharist. They are reading into Scripture to support their new beliefs just as they were before. Rodney Howard Browne brought Toronto to the Catholic Church in 1997.According to a report on the November 1997, Charisma magazine, Rodney Howard-Browne took his phenomenon to the Presentation Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church in Philadelphia. More than 1,200 Catholics, many from far distances, attended the meeting in August.Charisma magazine noted that "Catholics laughed hysterically after they were hit with what Howard-Browne refers to as 'the joy of the Holy Ghost.'" Did the Holy Spirit convict them of error? No, Rodney H Browne just gave them a laugh and increased converts to the Roman Catholic Church. Alpha is also being hailed as bringing in more converts to the RCC then in its recent history and there is a nice blend of charismania and Mary worship in many parishes like this one:
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