Anna Nicole & The Evangelical Disaster Called Bob Larson

While we, for the most part, have mistakenly ignored tolerated the chick publication "tears for fears" worldview promoted by demon expulsion maverick Bob Larson; he on the other hand, has enlarged his generational curse drama to engulf the now world publicized death of Anna Nicole Smith. It wasn’t enough that Ole Bob has been under several investigative specials such as Inside Edition and Good Morning America. Now he makes his spiritual quakery known by way of the following:

February 15, 2007
Dear Friend,
            Don’t let you and your family, and those you care about, suffer needlessly because Satan has the right to inflict pain and suffering through generational curses. Remove the legal right of Satan to your life. Let me teach you the right kind of prayers and renunciations that will once and for all break Satan’s hold on you and your family.
            The death of the buxom blonde Anna Nicole Smith was no shock. Frankly, I’m surprised she lived as long as she did. She died because of her self-destructive behavior, but there’s more to it than that.   
            The media has incessantly talked about her untimely death. Anna was a former Playboy Playmate of the year and, at age 26, married an 89-year-old billionaire. She starred in her own racy reality show, modeled for Guess? Jeans, and then touted a weight-loss program.
            On February 8, she was found dead in her hotel room in Florida. We don’t know the full report on her autopsy yet, but her family, and all those around her, are convinced that drugs played a role in her tragic death. The real issue isn’t what killed her, but why she died so young while surrounded by money, fame and the attention of millions.
            The autopsy will only tell what physically killed her, not the spiritual reason behind her death. Anna Nicole was set up by Satan. Generational and family curses were hanging over her head from the day she was born. These curses grew stronger the longer she lived.
            How can I so positively say I know what killed her? After three decades of confronting the forces of darkness and performing more exorcisms than anyone on the planet, I have learned valuable lessons about the destructive way that demons operate through curses. Let me explain how Ms. Smith’s life was under a curse.
            Although her life seemed to be rich and glamorous, it was not always like that. She hungered for attention. In one interview she said, "I love the paparazzi . . . I’ve always liked attention. I didn’t get it very much growing up and I always wanted to be, you know, noticed." Why didn’t she get attention growing up? It probably had to do with the fact that her father abandoned her at a very young age. In a 2004 People magazine interview she said, “I don’t have any good memories from Christmas when I was a girl.” Her mother raised Anna (known then as Vicki Lynn Hogan) as a single parent. This curse of abandonment literally turned her over to the devil. If her mother had known what to do, she could have broken the curse. Anna’s life indicates that her mother did not break that curse.
             On my DVD HOW TO BREAK GENERATIONAL CURSES I explain in detail how Satan continues his evil through the family bloodline, generation to generation. You must see this DVD to prevent Satan’s attacks on your children and grandchildren. You may not live a wild and immoral life like Ms. Smith, but you may still be cursed by your ancestors.
             When she was a child, Ms. Smith declared she wanted to grow up to be like Marilyn Monroe. Well, she succeeded, down to the circumstances of her death. By wanting to be like Marilyn Monroe, Ms. Smith spoke a curse over her life and the devil used it to his evil advantage. Those who have seen our DVD HOW TO BREAK GENERATIONAL CURSES understand how unnecessary this tragedy was. The curse could have been broken. Also, notice that Anna’s 20-year-old son died just months before her, likely from the same cause—drugs and a destructive lifestyle. Nicole was born with a curse, so was her son, and so was her new baby daughter that lawyers and ex-lovers are fighting over.
             Family curses can be broken! Generational curses can be stopped!
             In addition to the DVD HOW TO BREAK GENERATIONAL CURSES I have especially prepared a message using the death of Ms. Smith to explain exactly how curses work. It’s called, THE CURSE OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH.
             For your gift of $50 or more, I’ll send both DVDs, plus one of the most important documents you’ll ever hold in your hands: THE LAWSUIT AGAINST SATAN. This spiritually legal transaction will teach you how to legally confront the devil and file a lawsuit against him in the courts of heaven. Thousands have done this and have begun a journey to health, prosperity, and blessings they had never known.
             Just print out the form below, or email me immediately to get:
             ● DVD - HOW TO BREAK GENERATIONAL CURSES
             ● DVD - THE CURSE OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH
             ● THE LAWSUIT AGAINST SATAN
             We leave for Africa in a couple of months and we need to start right now raising the $50,000 missions budget for this outreach. Your gift of $5000, $500, $150, or at least $50 or more will bring thousands to Christ and plant healing & deliverance teams across the continent.
             Call, write, or email me today with your gift of $50 or more and get on the way to breaking every curse of the devil over you and your family.
 Doing WhatJesus Did,
             Pastor Bob Larson
             P. S. Make sure to sign up for our April 18-20 DWJD Training Institute on the subject “Last Days Deliverance - confronting the demons of pop culture.”
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Pastor Bob, here is seed for your African mission
❑ My gift is:    ❑ $5000    ❑ $500     ❑ $150    ❑ $50    ❑ Other $ _____________________     
❑ My gift is $50 or more. Send the DVDs HOW TO BREAK GENERATIONAL CURES and THE CURSE OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH. Also send THE LAWSUIT AGAINST SATAN
❑ I want to support you with a regular gift of $20 or more. 
    Please send me your monthly teaching CD. *
    * This month’s message is “Saved, Sealed & Sanctified.”
❑ Send no offers. Use my entire gift for your ministry.

Even though the letter speaks for itself, there are several blaring red flags that should be noted. Before that, let me mention that the main reason I even speak about this is because this is contrary to anything close to what a sound Christian worldview is and also because for too long we have listened to these spiritual P.T. Barnum types that have tried to lead many people astray.
 
 
The Red Flags:
 
1. "Satan has a right to inflict pain through generational curses." There is absolutely no solid biblical support to even build a theology of generational curses. These ideas were popularized by writers such as Marilyn Hickey and Rebecca Brown. Please see this. This is more a ploy to overplay Satan’s control over people in general and even Christians in particular and underplay our new redeemer, our new nature and the grace of God.
 
2. "Let me teach you the right kind of prayers and renunciations that will once and for all break Satan’s hold on you and your family." Typical of this type of approach is the revelation that only he has the once and for all and final answer to what otherwise you would have never found through regular Christian practices like, mmm…. I don’t know; maybe a relationship with God, a good reading and study of His word, and maybe even a normal prayer with our Creator?
 
3. "The autopsy will only tell what physically killed her, not the spiritual reason behind her death. Anna Nicole was set up by Satan. Generational and family curses were hanging over her head from the day she was born." To have that kind of spiritual insight is beyond human capability and to spiritually diagnose someone at that  level is not only unbiblical but it’s only something God can do (Psalm 139).
 
4. "Her mother raised Anna (known then as Vicki Lynn Hogan) as a single parent. This curse of abandonment literally turned her over to the devil. If her mother had known what to do, she could have broken the curse. Anna’s life indicates that her mother did not break that curse." Curse of Abandonment? Who decided this and didn’t invite me to the meeting? This is again STRICTLY unscriptural and an offense to all of the single parents out there that have not been "turned over to Satan." Notice that he did not even make a distinction of whether you were a believer or not. His main qualifier was "if her mother had known what to do." Again, we go back to point one where you overemphasize the technique or procedure and underemphasize the person of God and the glory that pertains to Him.
 
5. "On my DVD HOW TO BREAK GENERATIONAL CURSES I explain in detail how Satan continues his evil through the family bloodline, generation to generation. You must see this DVD to prevent Satan’s attacks on your children and grandchildren. You may not live a wild and immoral life like Ms. Smith, but you may still be cursed by your ancestors." Again, same concept: All you absolutely need is in this ________________ (insert trinket, charm, holy water, prayer cloth, tie here) and Satan aka. "El Cukuy" will stay away from you for ever. This sounds too much like a vampire story and nothing like the biblical worldview where Satan, the world and our sin will influence us toward disobedience (if we are children of God) and that spiritual warfare is a reality that is included in our worldview Eph. 6:10-18. However, his word tells us that we are his children and that greater is he who is in us than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).
 
6. "For your gift of $50 or more, I’ll send both DVDs, plus one of the most important documents you’ll ever hold in your hands: THE LAWSUIT AGAINST SATAN." Speaks for itself.
 
I wish I had more time to critique the rest but you get the picture. According to some personal sources, Bob used to be a great defender of the faith and dealt extensively with cult research in his early years in ministry. However, as many who without accountability or guidance wonder down the "cookie" and lopsided road of extreme spiritual warfare, Bob worries too much about the dark side and gains some $$ (at people’s expense) while he’s at it.
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New Testament Scholar Bruce Metzger Dies at 93

Posted on February 15, 2007 by David Mendez.
Categories: Ministry Watch, Books and Reviews, Religion, Theology.
A great loss of…"one of the great Christian statesmen and New Testament scholars of the last century."
 
From Christianity Today:
 
New Testament Scholar Bruce Metzger Dies at 93
Author, editor, and translator headed work on RSV, NRSV Bibles.
Tabby Yang | posted 2/15/2007 09:17AM
 
Bruce Metzger, an expert on Greek biblical manuscripts, died Tuesday at the age of 93. The professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary died of natural causes.
Born in 1914 in Middletown, Pennsylvania, Metzger was educated at Lebanon Valley College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Princeton University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Greek and Latin classics in 1942. In 1939, he was ordained in the Presbyterian Church.
At the time of his death, he was the George L. Collord professor emeritus of New Testament language and literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. Metzger taught in the New Testament department at Princeton for 46 years, beginning in 1938.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/februaryweb-only/107-42.0.html
 
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Dr. BRUCE METZGER -

is professor Emeritus of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he taught for forty - six years. He was chairman of the New Revised Standard Version Bible Translation committee, and is past president of the Society of Biblical Literature, of the International Society for New Testament Studies, and of the North American Patristic Society. He is the author/editor of forty books. Over the years, Dr. Metzger has been invited to give academic lectures at more than one hundred colleges, seminaries, and universities in North America and South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, and South Africa.

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JP Moreland Speaks on Classic Mormon Materialism | As reported by JesusNotJoseph.com

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Dr. Klouda & Women’s Role in the Church

Dallas Morning News gives us some insight on the current gender debate as sparked by Southwestern Baptist Theological’s decision to let Dr. Klouda go because she was a woman.

Baptists at odds over removal of female professor

 FW: Seminary case fuels debate on women’s role in theology programs 
 09:29 PM CST on Friday, January 19, 2007

 By SAM HODGES / The Dallas Morning News

 Conservative Southern Baptists are fighting again, this time over whether women should be able to teach men in seminary theology programs.

They agree that the role of pastor is reserved for men, based on a verse in 1 Timothy in which the Apostle Paul says, "I permit no woman to teach or have authority over a man."

But some conservatives say Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, under president Paige Patterson, wrongly applied the verse to remove from its faculty Sheri Klouda, who until last year had been teaching men Hebrew in the seminary’s school of theology.

Paige Patterson

The controversy is yet another sign that conservatives, who in the late 1970s and ’80s united on a platform of biblical inerrancy while winning control of the Southern Baptist Convention, are seriously at odds.

Wade Burleson, an Oklahoma pastor and leader of dissident conservatives, this week used his blog to describe and decry the treatment of Dr. Klouda, who got her doctorate at Southwestern and was given a tenure-track position at the Fort Worth school in 2002.

"Sheri Klouda is not a pastor, she has not been ordained or licensed, she does not perform ministerial duties. She is a professor, for heaven’s sake," Mr. Burleson said by phone Friday. "The same institution that conferred her degree and hired her has now removed her for gender. To me, that is a very serious, ethical, moral breach."

Dr. Patterson did not respond to requests for comment. Speaking for the seminary instead was Van McClain, chairman of the Southwestern trustees.

He confirmed that Dr. Klouda was told she would not get tenure and was encouraged to find another job. He would not say why.

But Dr. McClain did say that Dr. Klouda’s hiring as a professor in the school of theology, which occurred before Dr. Patterson arrived in 2003, represented a "momentary lax of the parameters."

Southwestern, he said, has gone back to its "traditional, confessional and biblical position" that women should not instruct men in theology or biblical languages.

Dr. Klouda, now teaching at Taylor University in Indiana, did not authorize Mr. Burleson to make her case public. But in a phone interview, she confirmed many details in his blog account.

"I don’t think it was right to hire me to do this job, to put me in the position where I, in good faith, assumed that I was working toward tenure, and then suddenly remove me without any cause other than gender," she said.

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Want to know more? You can start at the A-Team’s blog with an intersting discussion and the Equality and Inequality of Genders found here

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Dr. William Lane Craigs Apologelistic Efforts | UK Edition

Keep this man in your prayers for the following Debates, Lectures sponsored by UCCF (Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship). He will be busy dealing with topics such as the ressurection of Jesus as well as the popularized ideas floating around from Dawkin’s God Delusion presentation.

Reasonable Faith

A tour of lectures and debates
with William Lane Craig

presented by Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF)

Bill Craig is an instinctive communicator as well as a fine thinker. He is in great demand across Europe and the USA, yet remarkably is largely unknown in the UK. His lectures and debates are world class and appeal to sceptics and believers alike.

Entry to all events is free. No booking required.

To order flyers/posters for distributing please contact Matthew Smith.

Is God a Delusion?

MAJOR DEBATE with Prof Lewis Wolpert
chaired by John Humphrys

7.30pm, Tuesday February 27th, LONDON
Central Hall, Westminster SW1H 9NH

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Reasonable Faith:
The Evidence for Christianity

LECTURE

7.30pm, Wednesday February 28th, LONDON
All Souls, Langham Place, W1B 3DA

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Does the Christian God Exist?

MAJOR DEBATE with Dr Andrew Pyle

7.30pm, Thursday 1st March, BRISTOL
University Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building. BS8 1RJ

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Reasonable Faith:
Does God Exist?

LECTURE

7.30pm, Friday 2nd March, OXFORD
Town Hall, St Aldates, OX1 1BX

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Reasonable faith:
Is Life without God Absurd?

LECTURE

7pm, Monday 5th March, MANCHESTER
Manchester University, Roscoe Building LT A, Oxford Rd, M13 9PL

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Was Jesus Bodily Raised from the Dead?

MAJOR DEBATE with Dr James Crossley

7.30pm, Tuesday 6th March, SHEFFIELD
University Student Union Auditorium, Western Bank,
S10 2TN

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Is God a Delusion?

MAJOR DEBATE with Prof Mike Begon

7.30pm, Wednesday 7th March, LIVERPOOL
University, Mountford Hall, 160 Mount Pleasant L69 3GJ

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Reasonable Faith: Who Was Jesus of Nazareth?

LECTURE

7.30pm, Thursday 8th March, NOTTINGHAM
Lecture Theatre B52, University Jubilee Campus NG8 1BB

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Reasonable Faith: How Can a Good God allow Suffering and Evil?

LECTURE

7.45pm, Friday 9th March, CAMBRIDGE
Lecture Theatre, Dept of Materials, CB2 3QZ

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