“I had always enjoyed watching Grandma perform hula, but it wasn’t until I began studying apologetics and Christian discernment that I realized hula does not belong in the church. Hula is performed with reference and supplication to the gods and goddesses of hula. Hula was also used by Pele (the Hawaiian Goddess of Volcanoes and Fire) and her sister Hiʻiaka (the Hawaiian patron goddess of hula dancers, chant, sorcery, and medicine) to seduce Lohiʻau.”
(Stephanie A Potts – Midwest Christian Outreach) In chapter two of my newly released book Social Justice and the Deification of Man: What to Know When Talking with the Christian Left, I discuss the dangers of making God in our own image in order to make the gospel more appealing to oppressed people groups….
Well-meaning Christians who have a heart for the poor and want to be respectful of other cultures often believe that we should forget our preconceived notions about God and, under the misguided notion that He chooses to appear to us in whatever form we personally need to have a more relational experience with Him. However, creating a man-centered gospel creates a gospel that teaches the divinity of man rather than the redemption of man by God. So how should Christians approach other faiths and cultures?
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Research
CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18