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I agree anon…
This is a piece I wrote about Billy Graham a few years back.
Graham most certainly corrupted himself and there is even evidence that he cryptically admitted it PUBLICLY in a 2000 Fox Interview.
We OFTEN forget that America was founded by men whose personal spiritual and religious views were much more in line with Christ’s core teachings from the Sermon on the Mount than with any particular "Christian" Orthodoxy and certainly not the Evangelical form, which did not even exist in their day.
Evangelicalism originated in the late 1800’s through the corrupted reinterpretation of scripture to meet certain geopolitical goals formulated by the ROTHSCHILD elite (1). This FALSE interpretation of scripture was formalized with the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909 by Oxford Press!
Billy Graham eventually became a central figure within this Evangelical movement and like the deceptive doctrines of every Church Orthodoxy that preceded it with their "requirements" of salvation and redemption, excluded the core teaching of Christ that a man should be known for his/her “good works.” As Tolstoy sarcastically observed about Church Orthodoxy, “if a man can be saved by the redemption, by sacraments, and by prayer, then he does not need “good works.”
I think Billy Graham in his later years eventually realized this conundrum and became morally conflicted internally. Here is what he said in a 2000 interview.
GRAHAM WORRIES HEAVEN MAY BE WRONG PLACE FOR HIM - In a Jan. 2, 2000 Fox News interview, Tony Snow asked Billy Graham: "When you get to Heaven, who's going to speak first, you or God? Graham replied: "When I get there, I'm sure that Jesus is going to say that he will welcome me. But I think that he's going to say: 'Well done, our good and faithful servant.' Or he may say: 'You're in the wrong place'."
SNOW: "You really worry that you may be told you're in the wrong place?
GRAHAM: Yes, because I have not - I'm not a righteous man. People put me up on a pedestal that I don't belong, in my personal life. And they think that I'm better than I am. I'm not the good man that people think I am. Newspapers and magazines and television have made me out to be a saint. I'm not. I'm not a Mother Teresa. And I feel that very much."
Following this interview, Evangelicals RESPONDED WITH OUTRAGE TO GRAHAM'S COMMENTS(2):
“Earlier in the interview, Graham's testimony of salvation made no mention of the Gospel, but was about "knowing Christ in his heart". 'I'm not a Mother Teresa'?? How can we point to Mother Teresa as an example of someone who is saintly enough to enter heaven? Graham regrets that he has not measured up to her standard of saintliness. He misrepresents the true gospel. Mother Teresa was a woman who devoted her life to helping those who are poor and needy and suffering and she was a remarkable woman in many ways, but such "good works" do not contribute in any way to one's salvation or entrance into heaven (see Eph. 2:8-9; Titus 3:5; Rom. 4:1-5).”
While some have tried to dismiss Graham's comments in that interview as the ramblings of a man in early stages of dementia, I found his statement to be profoundly honest, articulate, and on point.
(1) The Scofield Bible was published only a few years before World War I, a war that destroyed the cultural optimism that had viewed the world as entering a new era of peace and prosperity; then the post-World War II era witnessed the creation in Israel of a homeland for the Jews. Thus, Scofield's premillennialism seemed prophetic. "At the popular level, especially, many people came to regard the dispensationalist scheme as completely vindicated." Sales of the Reference Bible exceeded two million copies by the end of World War II. https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofield_Reference_Bible
(2) http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/graham.html