US church plans on burning Bible, other Christian books on Halloween!
October 16th, 2009 - 5:00 pm ICT by ANI ( 1 comment )Melbourne, Oct 16 (ANI): A pastor in the US has revealed that his church is planning to burn Bibles and books by Christian authors on Halloween.
According to Asheville TV station WLOS, pastor Marc Grizzard said that the King James Version of the Bible is the only one his small western North Carolina church follows.
And that other versions, such as the Living Bible, are “satanic” and “perversions” of God’s word.
Grizzard and the 14 members of the Amazing Grace Baptist Church will also burn music and books by Christian authors, such as Mother Teresa, Billy Graham and Rick Warren on Halloween night.
The event also seeks to destroy “Satan’s music” which includes every genre from country, rap and rock to “soft and easy” and “Southern Gospel” and “contemporary Christian”.
New site The Raw Story reports the website for the church, which has since been suspended, says there are “scriptural bases” for the book burning.
“The Scriptures shall be interpreted according to their normal grammatical-historical meaning, and all issues of interpretation and meaning shall be determined by the preacher,” the Courier Mail quoted Grizzard as explaining in the Parish doctrinal statement. (ANI)
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February 23rd, 2010 at 9:31 am
Whoever attends this church should leave it. The pastor is crazy. Burning Bibles is wrong. Look at it this way, the King James Bible is a version also. I personally read other versions and at times they are a lot easier to read than the KJV. Don’t burn books by Christian authors such as Billy Graham and others, but burn books by Hubbard, and other cult author’s.
As for the music, I am a church organist and I do listen and I do like other types of music, not just plain church hymnal songs, but music like southern gospel and rock and music from the 50’s.
A pastor is a person that should not make judgements, especially from the pulpit, but only preach the word of God. He is making judgements now and he will be judged in the future.