A
new 2014 religious film titled, “GOD'S NOT DEAD” is infiltrating
the churches...
God's Not Dead is a 2014 American Christian drama film directed by Harold Cronk, and stars Kevin Sorbo, Shane Harper, David A. R. White and Dean Cain. The film was released to theaters on March 21, 2014, by Pure Flix Entertainment. The film follows an evangelical Christian college student (Shane Harper) whose faith is challenged by a philosophy professor who declares God a pre-scientific fiction.
Hundreds of religious films have been produced over the past several years, nearly all of which teach a woeful false plan of salvation. The GOD'S NOT DEAD film horribly butchers the Word of God, promoting a false plan of salvation that cannot produce the new birth. Here a brief quote from the movie's script...
Script from, “GOD'S NOT DEAD”...
[tires screeching]
Call an ambulance!
Call an ambulance!
Don't move.
His ribs are crushed.
His lungs
are filling with blood.
He doesn't have long.
Are you sure?.
Yeah.
Don't move.
I can't die.
I'm not ready.
Do you know Jesus?.
I'm an atheist.
I believe it's God's mercy
that brought me here right now.
I'm dying.
How can you
call that mercy?.
Because that car could have
killed you instantly.
And I'm sure right now
you probably wish that it did,
but I'm here to tell you
that it's a gift
'cause the God
that you don't believe in
has given you
another chance,
another chance
to change your final answer.
I don't want to die,
but I'm so scared.
(Reverend Dave)
If it's any consolation,
so was Jesus.
He was so scared,
he sweat blood.
He asked the Father if it
could be removed from him,
but the answer was no.
He says no a lot.
(Reverend Dave)
He gives us the answers
we'd ask for
if we knew
what he knows.
"'For as the heavens
are higher than the earth,
"so are my ways higher
than your ways,
and my thoughts are higher than
your thoughts,' says the Lord."
Exactly.
So, the question is--
stay with me.
Stay with me.
Are you willing to put
your faith in Jesus Christ?.
Are you willing
to take that chance?.
Yes.
God is willing to forgive you
of your sins, all of them,
if you accept his Son
and ask him into your life.
That's all you have to do
is just accept his Son.
Accept his love and receive
his forgiveness right now.
Do you accept him
as Lord and Savior?.
Yes, I accept.
(Reverend Dave)
It's alright.
In a few minutes, you're gonna
know more about God than I do,
or anybody else here does.
It's okay, it's okay.
[EMPHASIS ADDED]
Our text passage of Scripture from Galatians 1:9 pronounces a CURSE upon any man who preaches ANOTHER GOSPEL. Galatians 1:9, “As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” The Holy Bible only teaches ONE GOSPEL, and here it is...
1st Corinthians 15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.”
The Gospel (Good News) is that Christ DIED, was BURIED AND bodily RESURRECTED the third day. If you repent (change your mind, acknowledging your guilty condition as a sinner (thus realizing your need), and BELIEVE the Gospel, you are immediately and permanently saved. Now compare the Gospel I just showed you from the Authorized King James Bible, as compared to the perverted plan of salvation as presented by actor David A. R. White (who is a great actor) in the film. ...
Are you willing to put
your faith in Jesus Christ?.
Are you willing
to take that chance?.
Yes.
God is willing to forgive you
of your sins, all of them,
if you accept his Son
and ask him into your life.
That's all you have to do
is just accept his Son.
Accept his love and receive
his forgiveness right now.
Do you accept him
as Lord and Savior?.
Yes, I accept.
This is not God's plan of salvation for mankind. As you can plainly see for yourself, the film “GOD'S NOT DEAD” doesn't even mention Christ's death, burial and resurrection. All three elements of the Gospel are missing!!! My friend, and I say this kindly, you don't get to Heaven by accepting Jesus. The Gospel is not trusting Jesus. It is not having a relationship with Jesus. It is not inviting Jesus into your heart. The Gospel is not receiving Christ, nor is it receiving God's love and forgiveness. You can do all these things and never be saved at all. Jesus plainly said in John 3:3, “YE MUST BE BORN-AGAIN!”
I was reading an article[1]
online about how religious films influence an estimated
200,000,000 Americans, including unsaved Jews and Mormons. In my
opinion that's why the film's writer(s) are intentionally vague
concerning the Gospel, as to avoid offending any particular
religious group. Sadly, it appears that the film's producers are
more interested in making lots of money than they are getting
people saved. There is nothing in the movie
“GOD'S NOT DEAD” that would offend an unsaved Jehovah's Witness,
Mormon, Seventh-Day Adventist, Roman Catholic, Lutheran or other
demonic religion. The vague teaching of accepting Jesus is a
false plan of salvation, because that is not the Gospel as
taught in the Holy Bible. The Biblical plan of salvation
excludes all forms of self-righteousness and human effort. Every
Catholic believes in accepting Jesus, and they are all going
straight to Hell to burn!!!
'God's Not Dead' Film Fails to Mentions Christ is Risen!
Ironically, the name of the
religious movie is
“GOD'S NOT DEAD,” yet the film fails to mention Christ's bodily
resurrection from the dead. Do the film's writer(s), actors,
director and producer believe that Jesus is alive? Is God alive
but Jesus dead? The film does contain one actor (a student)
professing that JESUS IS GOD! That's true and good! But it
strikes me as odd that a religious film which aims to promote
the truth that GOD'S NOT DEAD, would fail to promote the
Biblical truth that Christ's tomb is empty, because JESUS IS
RISEN!!! Not one mention of Christ's resurrection is made in the
film. Why not??? My friend, JESUS IS NOT DEAD, and He has RISEN
BODILY from the grave and then He BODILY ASCENDED into the
clouds for His disciples to witness (Acts 1:9-11).
Please read,
What Is The Gospel? (an excellent sermon by Dr. Harry
Ironside; few churchgoers
get it right!). Few religious people (I dare not call them
Christians) get the plan of salvation correct. Today's religious
radio stations are absolutely saturated with theological garbage
and nonsense. I heard Evangelist David Platt the other night
pleaded emotionally for listeners to get saved, but all he kept
saying was to merely trust Jesus. My friend, even the devil's
believe, but tremble in fear (James 2:19). You cannot get to
Heaven by just trusting Jesus. You must believe that Christ died
on THE CROSS for YOUR SINS, and that He was BURIED (officiating
His death), and that Christ bodily RESURRECTED on the third day
from the dead. This is the Gospel and you cannot be saved
without it. No one can be saved who denies Christ's bodily
resurrection from the dead.
You Can Trust Jesus and Still Go Straight to Hell
No one can be saved who trusts in Jesus, but does not believe that Jesus suffered, bled and died on the cross for their own sins. No one ever got saved who didn't know that he or she is a guilty sinner in God's eyes!!! In the film, James A. R. White never asks the dying atheist man if he knows that he is a sinner. That is a critical error. White says in the film that God is willing to forgive the man of his sins, but the question is never asked, “Do you know that you are a sinner?” You'd be surprised how many people DON'T think they are a sinner. The nation of France years ago published a statement that they were not sinners; but rather, merely had some imperfections. Well, the French are all filthy, rotten, guilty, hell-deserving, SINNERS, according to God (Romans 3:23).
Matthew 7:21-23, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
Notice in Matthew 7:21 that these are the reprobate Lordship Salvation crowd... “LORD, LORD”; yet they failed to do God's will, which is found in John 6:40, “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” This speaks of God's imputed righteousness which comes only through faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Philippians 3:9; Romans 10:3-4; 2nd Corinthians 5:21; Romans 4:5-6). “Seeing the Son” means you have the correct Jesus, not the Jehovah's Witness and Seventh-Day Adventist Jesus (who they say is Michael, the archangel). You can trust “Another Jesus” (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4) all you want, but you'll never be born-again.
Trusting Jesus means nothing unless you believe that He died for your sins on the cross, and raised-up from the grave three days later. You had better “Repent ye, and believe the Gospel” (Mark 1:15). “Repent” here means to “change your mind” so you'll come to Christ to be forgiven and saved. Repentance is not reformation. It is not forsaking sinful bad habits nor giving up the world. Repentance is realizing that you are an awful sinner in God's holy eyes (Romans 3:19); thus, you are compelled to believe the Gospel to be saved. Matthew 21:32, “For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.” Notice that the object of repentance is believing, and not a change of lifestyle. The man who repents believes!
You can believe the Gospel and still not be saved if you fail to understand that you are a wretched sinner for breaking God's commandments. You've got to know what you're being saved from. Salvation is not making a commitment to serve God, nor is it inviting Jesus Christ into your life or heart, nor is it straightening your life up with God's help. I hear so many false plans of salvation on radio programs these days. Without preaching against sin, there can be no true salvation. Salvation is only for THE UNGODLY (Romans 4:5-6). Those who are whole have no need for The Great Physician (Jesus, the resurrected Christ).
The bad news is that you are a dirty sinner, deserving of God's everlasting punishment in Hell, fire and damnation (Romans 3:10,23; 6:23; 2nd Thessalonians 1:8-9; Revelation 20:12-15). But the good news is that God, in His unconditional love, sent His only begotten Son into the world to pay the sin-debt that we all owed. Jesus paid it all! Christ paid a debt that He did not owe, because we all owed a debt we could not pay. If you will receive Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full-payment for your sins, believing that Jesus raised-up the third day, then you will be immediately and forever born-again. You can never lose your salvation. How can you lose that which was not yours to give in the first place? If saved, always saved!!! Eternal life is a free gift (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 5:15,18; 6:23).
You cannot take any particular Scripture passage out of context.
We see the Gospel plainly defined for us in 1st Corinthians
15:1-4, as I have just shared with you. Judas followed Jesus,
being one of His very apostles; yet, Judas died in his sins and
went tot Hell forever. Matthew 27:3 tells us that Judas even
repented, but it wasn't repentance toward God. Judas was sorry
that he got caught betraying the Lord, and he felt remorse, even
trying to return the 30 pieces of silver. In a frantic panic
attack Judas went and hung himself from a tree. Religion is not
salvation. A demon's favorite activity is making people feel
comfortable in religion, without ever being born-again through
faith in the Gospel.
Discipleship is Not Salvation
Whether or not you CHOOSE to follow Jesus and live a consecrated life for Him is an entirely different matter than salvation. Two important Biblical words concerning salvation, that the heretical Lordship Salvation crowd always avoid, are the words “GIFT” and “IMPUTATION.” I'm tired of hearing everything but the Gospel from churches, religious radio, Bible colleges and preachers on how to get to Heaven. Here's some junk that a local Baptist church passed out last Christmas, leaving out Christ's resurrection. They added public confession of Jesus to be saved. That is false doctrine. You don't have to confess Jesus' name before men in public to be saved.
The film “GOD'S NOT DEAD” teaches repeatedly during the film that if you confess Christ, He'll confess you. The Lord is NOT giving a plan of salvation in Matthew 10:32-33, “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.” Biblical evidence that this is not a plan of salvation is found in John 12:42-43, “Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.” As you just read for yourself, many of the Jewish chief priests BELIEVED on Him, but they DID NOT CONFESS HIM, for fear of the self-righteous, Christ-hating, religious, Pharisees. Confessing Christ is NOT a requirement to be saved. 1st Corinthians 15:1-4 defines THE GOSPEL for us. Billy and Franklin Graham are false prophets, who requires public confession as a requirement to be saved.
And may I say, kindly, receiving Jesus as one's “Lord” is not required to be saved. This ought to be evident from Matthew 7:21-23, where a sincere group of religious people called Jesus “Lord, Lord,” but Christ said the horrifying words to them... “I NEVER KNEW YOU”! Jesus even called them “WORKERS OF INIQUITY”! Wow!!! Why did the Lord call them workers of iniquity? It is because they spent their lives living the Christian life, even telling other people about the name of Jesus, but they boasted of their own self righteousness in Matthew 7:22, “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?” They said, “Lord, Lord, we did this for you, and we did that for you, and we gave our lives to you.” Clearly, they believed that Jesus existed, for they gave their lives to follow Him. Yet, like Cain of old, they sought to please God in the flesh. They sewed fig-leaves together like Adam. They sought eternal life like the Jehovah's Witnesses, by works, and not by faith. Romans 9:31-32, “But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone.”
All across the world today, there are heathen religious groups who are attempting to attain righteousness by the works of the law. I'm talking about even some independent Baptists today, who have fallen victim to the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation and others wrong repentance (aka, the “turn from sins” heresy prevalent in the churches today). Biblical repentance is admitting that you are a guilty sinner in the eyes of a holy God, judging yourself as a needy sinner in God's sight (Romans 3:19-20). Repentance IS NOT self-reformation, where you turn away from sinful ways, or forsake sinful bad habits, nor is it a sincere desire to turn away from sins, as some false prophets teach (Matthew 27:3). When you get saved BY FAITH alone (Galatians 3:26), the Holy Spirit comes to indwell (live inside) your body (1st Corinthians 3:16-17), and then the Holy Spirit changes you (2nd Corinthians 5:17).
God's presence (the Holy Spirit in us) changes us, IF WE YIELD to the Spirit in us (Galatians 5:22-25). Galatians 5:25, “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” That is, if WE ARE SAVED, we should OBEY THE HOLY SPIRIT because we are saved. The Bible never says we “shall” or “must” yield to the Holy Spirit, it says we “should.” Ephesians 2:10, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Beware of anyone who tells you that you must turn away from sinful living as evidence that you have truly been saved. That is the lie of Lordship Salvation!!! Forgiveness of sins, which includes eternal life, is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23). Jesus doesn't forgive sin. That is correct! Jesus has already paid for everyone's sins. Hence, it is a gift. You get saved by receiving what Christ did on the cross to pay for your sins, believing that He raised up three days later. By placing your full confidence in Christ's sacrifice on the cross for your sins, trusting Him because you accept by faith that He has risen from the dead, you are born-again immediately and saved eternally.
Once again, the film teaches...
God is willing to forgive you
of your sins, all of them,
if you accept his Son
and ask him into your life.
That's all you have to do
is just accept his Son.
What about the cross? What about the Lord's death and burial? What about Jesus' bodily resurrection? What about admitting one's guilty condition as a sinner? Furthermore, asking Jesus into your life has nothing to do with salvation. Why would you tell a dying man to invite Jesus into his LIFE??? The dying atheist had about 15 seconds remaining of his earthly life. What nonsense!!! Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born-again! END
