This was the second friday CNN has indulged the teaching of this bigot. He continues to profess his exclusive relationship to hold the key to 'eternity.' He claims all other religions inept in moral authority.
An exerpt from April 22, 2005 show of Larry King Live, from the transcript:
KING: Hudson, North Carolina. Hello.
CALLER: Yes, sir. My question to the panel, is do they believe that there is a God that represents the good, you know, that they keep talking about? And a devil which represents the evil that they talk about? And that you must choose the Lord, Jesus Christ, as you're savior in order to go to heaven. And if you reject the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior, that you will die and go to a devil's hell.
KING: No matter what good you do in life?
CALLER: No matter what good that we do in life, we can never be good enough.
KING: What, John MacArthur, what if you don't know about Jesus Christ -- an Aborigines.
MACARTHUR: Well, first of all let me say, what she said is a reflection of Biblical Christianity, so it is accurate. If you don't know about the truth, there's no other way to be saved. That's why the Bible commands us to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every preacher.
MARGOLIS: What if someone dedicates their life to helping homeless children, and people in third world countries and they happen to be Jewish and they don't accept Christ as their savior.
DEEPAK: Then they go to hell. Then they go to hell, just like you and me.
MARGOLIS: Yes, right. But you know what, there's the law -- I believe in the law of karma, what comes around goes around. And if you're good now, it will come back. And if you do something negative it comes back to you as well.
MACARTHUR: Let me clarify this.
Let me just clarify this real simply.
OK, there's two religions in world.
Just two.
One is the true Christian religion of divine accomplishment.
You can't be good enough, nobody can.
You only get there through Christ, goodness being applied to you when you believe in his death and resurrection.
Every other system in the world, Hindu, Muslim, Spiritist, you name it, believes that you get there by your works.
Those are the only two.
Make your choice.
You can pick from all the religions of the world, that's all the same thing.
Christianity stands alone based upon the authority of scripture.
THE AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE? As if any other religion has no scripture to stand on? I guess the Old Testament isn't scripture then, according to Mr. MacArthur? He is a bigot through and through with no tolerance or interest in other faiths. He disregards them as insignificant. His 'attitude' of superiority shows through every time. That arrogance is NOTHING I understand about Christianity. It's bigoted plain and simple.
As a result of that arrogance there is no humanity exhibited by MacArthur. Char Margolis and Deepak Chopra indulged the 'delusion' of MacArthur by stating of themselves they will go to hell along with everyone else that does not believe in Jesus Christ and take him as their lord and savior. Mr. MacArthur, nor Father Jim Keiter, felt a need to bring those two people into a better light from their self-depricating statements. It was just fine for them to ridicule themselves without any acknowledgement to their statements except for Mr. MacArthur to continue to embellish his only belief in a savior of exclusivity. He is a horrible man as are those that share his beliefs.
KEITER: You have to be careful, though, to say that Jesus Christ is my personal lord and savior and then believe that I'm going to be saved and I can do whatever I want is not true.
MACARTHUR: That's right.
KEITER: We believe in Jesus Christ, but then our actions need to exhume and show that we believe in Jesus Christ and how we live and how we act definitely has to display that, not just the statement.
MACARTHUR: You know what, I would go so far as to say that if they don't display that, then you're not a Christian, you don't have Christ, Christ doesn't reside in your life, you don't possess the Holy Spirit, because if you do, you will be transformed. You'll be a new creation.
HOW LONG WITH THE INDULGENCE OF BIGOTRY and RACISM pervade this programming? How long do people have to be unexpectedly insulted by this insistance of inflicting painful judgement on the majority of humanity?
