I know many of you Baptists and fundamentalists cringe when you hear a "testimony" like that. But it's not coincidental that most of the hypocrites we meet here in the South with this kind of testimony also say they're "Baptists." So as you cringe, remember, there's no one to blame but yourselves! Is there?

      There are hundreds of thousands, I said hundreds of thousands, of unsaved people in the "Bible belt" who are in a lost condition BECAUSE they have been taught by the Salvation Cult that "getting saved" is what Christianity, and thus being a Christian, is all about.

      To these poor, duped souls, "works," good or bad, have nothing to do with one's "salvation." Thus, anyone who makes any "profession" of belief in Jesus and being "saved" is to be accepted as a "Christian."

      To them "salvation" is something you get by simply "praying the sinner's prayer." Then once you've got "it", it's yours forever--no matter what!

      The Salvation Cult talks of sin and hell, heaven and doing right, God's love and judgment, and of grace and faith. But these things are incorrectly defined and thus mistaught. The result is a false way--a pseudo-Christian, religious poison which over the years has become a popular substitute for the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

      Some have called it "greasy grace" and "easy believism." And while these terms are both accurate and catchy, they fall far short of describing what actually exists.

     It is a cult whose teaching are damnable!

      The singular doctrine this cult teaches that makes its heresy so damnable is its position on SIN in a "believer's" life. Here are three examples, and reasons, why.

      Example one. A friend of mine once asked a Baptist preacher if a saved individual were to backslide so far that he even took the mark of the beast and worshiped Satan would he still make it to heaven? The preacher's answer was, "Yes, because salvation is eternal and unconditional!"

      Example two. I once attended a Christian concert where the duo performing and ministering were "Baptists" based out of Nashville. At one point in the concert, one of the men shared his "testimony." He talked about getting saved in his teens, backsliding for a few years, and eventually coming back to the Lord.
The "meat" of his testimony was that while backslidden and getting drunk with some friends in a bar, he "witnessed" to one of his friends in this fashion. "Even though we're both here drinking and womanizing, if we both died right now I'd go to heaven and you'd go to hell because I'm saved and eternally secure." That's what he actually said!

      His "witness" was typical of the Salvation Cultist. Extolling the grandeur of unconditional eternal security, they try to get everyone to "pray the prayer" so they, too, can be "assured" of heaven--no matter what! In their witness, the death and resurrection of Jesus are definitely mentioned--but most definitely and ultimately only as the means to obtaining their great idol, ETERNAL SALVATION.

      Example three. A young man I knew and was witnessing to died suddenly while lost in sin and in all likelihood went to hell. (His death was so sudden there was little chance for a "last second" conversion.) The biggest hindrance to my witness, and the biggest obstacle to his conversion, was his Baptist pastor.

      At a young age, he had "walked the aisle" at a local Southern Baptist Church. But now that he was older, this young man was a convicted sinner searching for the right way but hanging onto the pleasures of sin in his life. Rightfully concerned about the state of his soul, he would talk to me and also to his Baptist pastor about it. Several times before his death, he asked his pastor if he was still going heaven. Each time, even though both the young man and the youth pastor knew he was living in sin, the pastor emphatically said "Yes, you're saved. I prayed with you myself when you came forward, and once you're saved you're always saved!"

      Oh, sure the pastor told this person he should stop committing sin. But he also, and more importantly, ASSURED (falsely assured) the young man on several occasions that SIN could not keep him out of heaven!

      This is the same assurance Satan gave to Eve in Genesis 3:4, "Ye shall not surely die." And the result was the same, spiritual separation from God--spiritual death!

      This third example is the most important to me because it takes everything out of the theological and brings it down to its bottom-line, real-life effect. It takes things out of the theoretical and into my heart where someone I knew and loved dearly missed heaven because some Salvation Cultist deceived a soul into believing Satan's original lie! Satan's most popular poison! The lie that says the wages of sin is not death! The lie that the soul that sins will not die!