PHOTO: HARPER COLLINSPosted on 02/13/2019 8:17:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson has come out with a new book that aims to “blow the lid off the lies that are destroying” America.
The conservative Christian reality TV star spoke with The Christian Post to talk about the book and how coming to Christ at age 28 helped him leave his sinful life in the past.
The 72-year-old patriarch of A&E's hit reality series and the co-owner of the Duck Commander Company released his new title The Theft of America’s Soul on Tuesday.
The book purports to expose what he says are 10 essential deceptions and schemes being used by the devil to “steal, kill and destroy America’s soul.” The new book also shares what Robertson calls 10 counter-truths to those lies.PHOTO: HARPER COLLINS
In the interview, Robertson explained that he was inspired to write the book after witnessing how prevalent issues of drug addiction and sexually transmitted diseases are in today’s American society.
Robertson said he fears that United States — as it backs away from its founding on “Judeo-Christian principles”— will one day dissolve because God could leave the country to wallow in its own wickedness.
“I hope America won’t be like the Roman Empire,” Robertson said as he proceeded to quote Romans 1:28: “Since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, God gave them over to a depraved mind to do what ought not to be done.”
Robertson said the idea of the book is simple: to get people to embrace living a godly life and to get them to love God and love their neighbor.
“You go out and get a job and you work and you feed your family. You are the father and you have a mother and you raise your children and you teach them, correct them and rebuke and them and train them,” said Robertson after noting how millions of Americans are suffering from some type of drug addiction that has left them hopeless.
“We have lost that in America across the board and we are looking at the results of it. I am just trying to remind people that if we keep this up, this whole things is going to fall down upon us.”
The 10 “lies” being used to “destroy” America that Robertson highlighted in the book are:
-God is dead
-There is no devil
-The truth is relative
-God did not create life
-Sex is for self-gratification
-Virtue is outdated
-Laws can be ignored or changed if they are inconvenient
-Unity is not possible
-Church participation and day-to-day life should be kept separate
-Christians should shut their traps
When asked about the lie of sex being for self-gratification, Robertson noted that the Centers for Disease Control has reported that there are as many as 110 million sexually transmitted infections in the United States.
As STD rates continue to rise to record levels, Robertson believes that this is because too many people are not following God’s design for their lives.
“I am just trying to gear people toward the safe way of one-man-one-woman [marriage]. We are not going to sleep around and we are going to keep our sex between each other and no one will ever catch a sexually transmitted disease from that formation,” Robertson contended. “Why is it that sexually transmitted diseases follow immoral conduct? Well, the writer of Romans, the Apostle Paul, said that it's God’s wrath. He is saying to you, ‘Don't do that.’”
Robertson was also critical of the many Christians who feel like their faith can be lived out just by going to church on Sundays.
Robertson, who has baptized hundreds of people in a river near his Louisiana home, asserts that Christians are not to keep their mouths shut in the public square but rather are supposed to live out their faith in a 24/7 fashion.
“They misunderstand Christianity. The American model is build a [church] building and everybody goes up there at least one time a week,” he said.
However, Romans 12 says something different.
“If you think about it, the biblical outline of worship is ‘in view of God’s mercy, offer your body as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual act of worship,” Robertson paraphrased.
“Biblically, [faith is more than just] going to church one day a week and calling it a wrap and worship is over. There is 168 hours a week. So if you went to church for a couple hours [on Sunday], there is another 166 hours of what are you doing? It has to be a 24/7-type thing.”
Robertson admits, however, that he was not always a professing Christian and didn’t always follow God’s design for his life. In fact, he said, there was a time he could barely tell Jesus apart from a “billy goat.”
“I used to get drunk, get high, get laid,” Robertson admitted. “I was immoral.”
Robertson said he began “investigating” God at the age of 28 in the mid-1970s.
“When I read about him, I said, ‘Goodness, there is a way out of here alive,’” Robertson recalled. “I repented and since that time, as amazing as it sounds, now here I am as a multimillionaire if that means anything. How in the world did you go from a nobody and do what you do now? I put my faith in God and I did not waver and I left my life of sin and good things came out. It was either luck or what God said all along.”
Robertson said he was driven to look for a deeper purpose in life because, at the time, he felt as if he was as “dog chasing his tail.”
“So I repented and got on my knees before God for the first time. I am 72, so I have been at this for about 44 years now,” he said. “The more I have studied about God and the more I read my Bible, I realized that this is true and really happening. There is a way out of here alive.”
Robertson’s book has drawn some criticism. Publisher’s Weekly criticized Robertson for what was deemed “excessive use of religious rhetoric.” In its review, the outlet argued that the book suffered from a “lack of nuance [that] will turn off many readers.”
At the time Robertson responded in a statement saying the review was what he “hoped for.”
“Our struggle is not against flesh and blood. It is the one in them, the evil one were the friction comes,” Robertson told CP when asked about the review. “The Bible says repeatedly, ‘everyone who lives a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.’ So Jesus said to jump for joy and be happy when people hate you, when they exclude you or insult you or reject your name as evil because of Him. We can take a little flak from time to time. We just smile and we love them and we go on.”
I would add a t: Celebritanity. I like it. Goes with Churchianity.
I am now automatically suspicious of celebrities like Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, Greg Laurie.
What does the US Constitution have to do with the KJV? They are not even coeval.
I said this...
If what is being advocated is the...in response to this...
US Constitution (KJV), I’ll pass.
It’s far past time that we make ALL of our laws comport with the LAW OF GOD....which was to say that infusing the law of the land with the law of God, resulting in something like a Constitution (KJV), is something I'd take a pass on.
It has not been argued that “water saves” so that is a straw man argument. It is the -act of obedience- in submitting to water baptism as commanded by Christ that saves, it’s not the water that saves. It was the -act of obedience- in dipping 7 times in the Jordan River that God cleansed Naaman, it was NOT the water that cleansed Naaman.
—Rev 1:5 it is the blood of Christ that washes away sins.
—John 19:34 Christ shed His blood in His death.
—Rom 6:3-4 water baptism is the means as to how one gets into the death of Christ where He shed His blood whereby that blood washes away sin.
Faith only cannot get one into the death of Christ. Denying water baptism is not accepting the gospel of Christ. Acts 2:41-—those who gladly received the gospel were the ones baptized. Those who rejected the gospel were the ones who rejected Peter’s command to be baptized. Therefore logically, being baptized is accepting the gospel.
How do you get paid for your work? Is it remuneration in justice for the work that you have done, or is it because you cash a paycheck?
The first is a meritorious cause; the second is an instrumental cause. There is no opposition between them.
The merits of the Cross of Christ are the meritorious cause of our justification, while the waters of baptism are the instrumental cause. Once again, they are not opposed to each other.
“I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 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. For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ” (Galatians 1:6-10 KJV).
What is that Gospel?
“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” (I Corinthians 15:1-4 KJV).
Nothing about being baptized before a man is saved, it follows after . . . only.
However, there is a spiritual baptism that takes place as well as a circumcision.
“And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses” (Colossians 2:10-13 KJV).
My only message to anyone seeking salvation by any other way than the death, burial and resurrection of Christ is . . . “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3, 5 KJV).
On my list. Thanks!
I’m reading the Kindle edition.... I like it as I am highlighting quite a bit. I’ll go back and cut & paste later.
You will enjoy it.... it’s an eye opener.
Perhaps I'll one day accept a religion when all the finger pointing, inter faith criticisms, church scandals and all the other negative crap your churches and their leaders are being accused and convicted of comes to an end.........
Till then, I'll just accept the fact that there is a God and all the religions around the world, including yours, are just the product of civilizations trying to put meaning to the unexplainable........
2 Thess 1:8 “In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:”
If one does not want to be lost in flaming fire, then one must obey the gospel of Christ.
As you point out from 1 Cor 15:1-4 that the gospel is the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.
Therefore if one must obey the gospel per 2 Thess 1:8 as to not be in flaming fire and the gospel is the death burial and resurrection of Christ per 1 Cor 15:1-4, then how does one obey the historical events of Christ’s death burial and resurrection?
Rom 6:1-7, when one is baptized into the death of Christ the old man of sin DIES, ones is “BURIED” from which one is “raised up from” - RESURRECTED. Therefore when one is water baptized there is a DEATH, BURIAL and RESURRECTION that takes place. At no other time or place does this death burial and resurrection take place.
Water baptism therefore is a FORM, an example, an outline of the gospel of Christ.....
Rom 6:17 “But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that FORM of doctrine which was delivered you.”
That “form” of doctrine those Romans had obeyed was water baptism, a death, burial and resurrection. Therefore the gospel and water baptism are interlinked together, inseparable. If one could be saved without the death burial and resurrection of water baptism then he could be saved without the death burial and resurrection of the gospel of Christ.
There is no death, burial and resurrection that takes place with faith only or in a “spiritual baptism” or by saying a sinner’s prayer but only in water baptism is the gospel of Christ obeyed as it must be to not be in flaming fire per 2 Thess 1:8.
Spiritual baptism . . . “into” not “in the name of” . . .
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