Hank Hanegraaff of Christian Research Institute has been received into the Orthodox Church

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I just left the atheist forum that is Worthy Christians where the two most prominent atheists are promoting this falsehood against Hank Hanegraaff.
Hank Hanegraaff did not join the Greek Orthodox church on Palm Sunday. It simply isn't true.

A yellow journalist rag on the net calling itself Pulpit and Pen intended to smear the good name of Hank Hanegraaff again, as has been an effort undertaken for the 30 years Hank Hanegraaff has been in ministry.
Only this time this rag decided to exploit the stupid with reading disabilities. The title of their article asked the question. Hank Hanegraaff left the Christian Faith?

An atheist who is best friends with the author of that article, Shiloh357 , decided to spread the slanderous attack against Hank Hanegraaff by posting it on the atheist website Worthy Christians. But instead of having the decency to copy and paste the actual article title at the Pulpit and Pen site he omitted the question form of the headline. And made it a statement instead.

There are many things God hates, as he tells us in Proverbs. One is liars.

Hank Hanegraaff was asked about his so called conversion on his own radio show the next day. The day after Palm Sunday. A woman called and told him about the article, the claim, that he and his wife were supposedly Chrismated into the Greek Orthodox church. The caller even named the church that is in North Carolina where Hank lives. And she then asked him if it was true.

It isn't!

Hank Hanegraaff had no idea what she was talking about or referring to. He did say he had been a member of an Orthodox church for over 2 years. The yellow journalism article at Pulpit and Pen claimed he joined it the day before when they pubslished their slander the day after.
Two years isn't yesterday.

Hank Hanegraaff subsequently used four days of Holy Week to address this slander that was reaching his family and friends because they frequent the net. He repeatedly stated he remains true to the doctrine known as mere Christianity, which was taught by C.S. Lewis. He also said he gleaned great inspiration and sustenance from the example and ministry of the Fundamentalist Christian, Watchman Nee.
A Chinese Fundamentalist Christian who was sentenced to death in the Chinese labor camps in the early 20th century as punishment for his Christian ministry.

Hank Hanegraaff is not Greek Orthodox.
Bearing false witness is a sin. Don't feed that. Rebuke it.
Or, go to CRI website and listen to Hank Hanegraaff's own words that are broadcast from April 10th to April 13th.
Anyone that insists he's Greek Orthodox after that is a liar. Plain and simple. When the man himself cites the Nicene Creed and holds to the faith he's always had for 30 years, he's not converted to a dang thing.
But the slanderers and bearers of gossip and false witness have certainly left the faith when they resort to that tactic to assault a man that has championed God's truth for over three decades.
 
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Yes, I was against the current, I suppose. There are actually a tiny minority of former-Orthodox in mainline Protestant churches, usually we leave for more socially liberal pastures. There is an entire blog of formerly Orthodox (and now Lutheran), or liberal Orthodox theologians, it is called Under the Sun. Most of them were students at St. Vladimir's at one time.
Intriguing...
 
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How does preterism check out with eastern orthodox?
Hank is NOT a "preterist." If you've read any of his books, specifically "The Apocylypse code," or listened to his radio broadcast, you'd soon discover that he is NOT a preterist! He's not a "partial-preterist" either. He (as well as I), believe in what's called "Exegetical Eschatology." He believes in the Trinity, one God, Jesus Christ who died for all of our sins, the resurrection, the forgiveness of sin and repentance and the second coming. Period. Anything else that the haters claim are just blinded by their own ignorance. He like many of us reject the bogus Rapture theory of a "secret coming" of Christ, followed by the second coming which in reality would have to be a "third coming" of Christ. This is exactly what the Rapture followers profess and it never came into mainstream until the early 1900's by a crazed minister named John Nelson Darby. Google him for more info. He was nuts. The "rapture" is NOT biblical. Again though, that is a secondary issue in which Christians have liberty to believe in those issues or not, without denouncing the core issues of Jesus Christ our Lord and ONLY savior.
 
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Hank is NOT a "preterist." If you've read any of his books, specifically "The Apocylypse code," or listened to his radio broadcast, you'd soon discover that he is NOT a preterist! He's not a "partial-preterist" either. He (as well as I), believe in what's called "Exegetical Eschatology." He believes in the Trinity, one God, Jesus Christ who died for all of our sins, the resurrection, the forgiveness of sin and repentance and the second coming. Period. Anything else that the haters claim are just blinded by their own ignorance. He like many of us reject the bogus Rapture theory of a "secret coming" of Christ, followed by the second coming which in reality would have to be a "third coming" of Christ. This is exactly what the Rapture followers profess and it never came into mainstream until the early 1900's by a crazed minister named John Nelson Darby. Google him for more info. He was nuts. The "rapture" is NOT biblical. Again though, that is a secondary issue in which Christians have liberty to believe in those issues or not, without denouncing the core issues of Jesus Christ our Lord and ONLY savior.
I'm pleased that you left all after "Again though," in your post. I'm a little distraught that one would believe that Christians "have liberty to believe in those issues or not." Since the Holy Spirit is the only source of Christian Truth, I doubt that multiple interpretations and applications are applicable.
 
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I'm pleased that you left all after "Again though," in your post. I'm a little distraught that one would believe that Christians "have liberty to believe in those issues or not." Since the Holy Spirit is the only source of Christian Truth, I doubt that multiple interpretations and applications are applicable.
Of course we have "liberty" to believe in a Rapture or not. Believing in whether or not a Rapture is going to occur is NOT a condition of salvation. It's irrelevant because it's not a core Christian doctrine. It's superfluous "fluff" that just causes a distraction in my opinion.
 
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Of course we have "liberty" to believe in a Rapture or not. Believing in whether or not a Rapture is going to occur is NOT a condition of salvation. It's irrelevant because it's not a core Christian doctrine. It's superfluous "fluff" that just causes a distraction in my opinion.
In your opinion. Thanks.
 
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Hank Hanegraaff had no idea what she was talking about or referring to. He did say he had been a member of an Orthodox church for over 2 years. .

1. That is "the news" that a lot of people were surprised to find out - all along.
2. Wonder if Hank is "in favor" of the religious persecution in Russia this year - or if he is speaking out against it?

Here is an idea -

Google this "Russian orthodox church appeals for religious freedom in Russia"
 
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:doh:

That sounds like a bad name for unworthy atheists who have accepted Christ.

funny ... but that is not an atheist web site at all -- the post was in error that you are responding to. That site is a Christian website.
 
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Yes, I was against the current, I suppose. There are actually a tiny minority of former-Orthodox in mainline Protestant churches, usually we leave for more socially liberal pastures. There is an entire blog of formerly Orthodox (and now Lutheran), or liberal Orthodox theologians, it is called Under the Sun. Most of them were students at St. Vladimir's at one time.
Intriguing as to what their reasons would be
 
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