July 17, 2006 (first published May 18, 2006) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new series of books from Way of Life Literature. These are between are the standard 8.5 X 5.5 inch perfect-bound format (rather than the 8.5 X 7 inch format of our larger books such as Contemporary Music under the Spotlight and For Love of the Bible).

The fruit of more than three decades of diligent research, these books deal with some of the most important issues facing Bible believing churches today. They are designed to be comprehensive and meaty yet small enough to facilitate ease of reading and distribution..

Answering the Myths (233 pages) - $7.95

Billy Graham and Rome (120 pages) - $4.50

The Calvinism Debate (137 pages) - $4.95

Contemporary Christian Music (177 pages) - $5.95

The Glorious Heritage of the King James (228 pages) - $6.95

Judge Not (108 pages) - $4.50

New Evangelicalism (153 pages) - $5.95

Pentecostal-Charismatic Movement (336 pages) - $9.95

Roman Catholicism (80 pages) - $3.95

Total for all 9 books - $54.65

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ANSWERING THE MYTHS ON THE BIBLE VERSION DEBATE. This book answers 30 of the most popular of these myths, including the following: “King James Onlyism” was invented by a Seventh-day Adventist; there are no doctrinal differences between the modern versions and the KJV; Fundamentalists did not defend the KJV before the 1970s; the KJV been updated in thousands of places; King James I was a homosexual; the KJV translators said all versions are good; the King James Bible is too difficult to understand; Erasmus was a Roman Catholic humanist; Erasmus’ Greek New Testament was hastily done and filled with errors; Erasmus used a mere handful of Greek manuscripts; modern textual criticism is a legitimate science; the difference between the Greek Received Text and the Westcott-Hort text is small and insignificant; Westcott and Hort were theologically sound; Erasmus promised to insert the Johannine Comma if a Greek manuscript was produced and challenged Edward Lee to find a manuscript that included this passage; it is wrong to paint the entire field of modern textual criticism with the brush of skepticism, seeing that there are also Bible-believing men such as A.T. Robinson and B.B. Warfield in this arena; it doesn't matter if the influential names in modern textual criticism are skeptics; the New King James Bible is merely an update of the King James; the New American Standard Version is basically the same as the King James except for updated language; the New International Version is a conservative evangelical translation that should be respected. 233 pages. $7.95

BILLY GRAHAM AND ROME. Nothing more plainly evidences the bankruptcy of today’s Evangelicalism than its flirtations with Rome, and no man epitomizes this bankruptcy more than Billy Graham. Billy Graham has been Evangelicalism’s foremost personality since the middle of the twentieth century. An article in Christianity Today for Oct. 5, 1992, entitled “Can Evangelicalism Survive Its Success?” noted: “IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO OVERESTIMATE BILLY GRAHAM’S IMPORTANCE IN THE LAST 50 YEARS OF EVANGELICALISM. ... Graham personally embodied most of the characteristics of resurgent evangelicalism. ... de-emphasizing doctrinal and denominational differences that often divided Christians.” This book has six chapters: Has Rome Changed?; The Great Change in Evangelicalism; When Did Graham’s Compromise Begin?; Graham Was Warned Many Times; Year by Year Survey: Graham and Rome from 1950 to 2005; and The Council of Trent Reaffirmed. 121 pages. $4.50

THE CALVINISM DEBATE. I have examined Calvinism many times during the past three decades and have read materials such as Calvin’s Institutes; Arthur Pink’s The Sovereignty of God; the Westminster Confession of Faith; Iain Murray’s Spurgeon vs. the Hyper-Calvinists; Debating Calvinism: Five Points, Two Views by Dave Hunt and James White, to name a few. As best as I know how, I have studied these materials with the sole desire to know the truth and to follow it wherever it leads. Thus, I have made a considerable effort to understand Calvinism properly and not to misrepresent it (though I have learned that a non-Calvinist will ALWAYS be charged with misrepresentation). The chapters in this book include The Central Errors of Calvinism, Beware of Quick Prayerism, Calvin’s Camels (Scriptures that contradict Calvinism), Calvinism’s Proof Texts Examined, and What about Hyper-Calvinism? 137 pages. $4.95

CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC: SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND SOME WARNINGS GIVEN. This book begins with my own experience of living the rock & roll lifestyle before I was saved and of how the Lord dealt with me about music in the early months of my Christian life. A major section of the book expounds on four reasons WHY WE ARE OPPOSED TO CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC AND THE CONTEMPORARY PRAISE MUSIC: It is worldly; it is ecumenical; it is Charismatic; and it weakens the fundamentalist stance of churches. We give examples of how this is occurring in formerly staunchly fundamentalist churches. Another major section of the book answers 27 QUESTIONS THAT ARE COMMONLY ASKED ON THIS SUBJECT. These are as follows: Should Christians only use old music? Isn’t music neutral? Does a b flat note have a moral quality? Isn’t the sincerity of the musicians the important thing? Isn’t some of the contemporary Christian music acceptable? What about the miracles that some CCM artists witness? Why does traditional church music seem dull? Didn’t Luther and the Wesleys use tavern music? Isn’t the issue of music just a matter of taste? Doesn’t the Bible encourage us to use cymbals and stringed and loud sounding instruments? Why are you opposed to drums? What is wrong with soft rock? If we assume that Christian music is demonic, why would the devil sing about Jesus Christ and the things of God? Didn’t God create all music? Christians are not supposed to judge, are they? Love is more important than doctrine and standards of living, isn’t it? Since God looks on the heart, why are you concerned about appearance? Isn’t Christianity all about grace? Shouldn’t we use rock music to reach the youth? Making rules and standards about music and clothing and such is pharisaical legalism, isn’t it? Don’t 1 Corinthians 6:12 and 10:23 teach that the Christian has liberty? Didn’t Paul say that he was made all things to all men? David danced before the Lord, so why are you against dancing in the churches? Why do you say that the Pentecostal-Charismatic movement is unscriptural? By preaching against Christian rock aren’t you hurting people and hindering their ministries? What about all of the young people who are being saved through CCM? The final sections contain TIPS FOR KEEPING CONTEMPORARY MUSIC OUT OF THE CHURCHES and SUGGESTED RESOURCES FOR SACRED MUSIC. 177 pages. $5.95

THE GLORIOUS HERITAGE OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE. The King James Bible is not merely another translation. Its history is one of the most fascinating chapters of church history and reads almost like a novel. This book traces this glorious heritage, beginning with the Wycliffe Bible of the 14th century. Every English-speaking believer should know this history; yet, sadly, even in the staunchest Bible-believing churches it is rare to find someone who is informed about the great price that was paid to provide us with an excellent Bible in our own language. Chapters include the Wycliffe Bible (1380), the Tyndale New Testament (1526), the Coverdale Bible (1535), the Matthew’s Bible (1537), the Great Bible (1539), the Geneva Bible (1557), the Bishops Bible (1568), and the King James Bible (1611). Under the section on the KJV we look at the spiritual and literary and scholarly climate of that day, the amazing translation process itself, the peerless translators, the nature of the translation, Tyndale’s influence, and the KJV’s worldwide influence. We also answer the following questions: Was King James a homosexual? Hasn’t the KJV been revised and updated in thousands of places? Could the KJV be revised again? Is the King James Bible inspired? Isn’t the KJV too antiquated and difficult to read? The author has studied this history diligently. He has a massive private library of materials on this subject dating back to the 16th century and has researched the subject in many parts of the world, including England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. Illustrated. 228 pages. $6.95

JUDGE NOT! IS IT LEGALISM TO JUDGE SIN AND ERROR? This book is a reply to 21 of the most common charges that are brought against a fundamentalist Bible approach to Christianity. These are the challenges that every fundamentalist Bible-believing Christian must learn to deal with, because there is no part of the world so remote that the believers there will not be confronted with this thinking. This very practical material would make a good series of study for Sunday Schools at the Junior High level or above or for Youth meetings or Bible Institutes. The sections of the book are as follows: The Bible Says We Should Not Judge; Love is Nonjudgmental and Tolerant; Being Strict about Biblical Issues is Legalism; Fundamentalists Are Pharisees; Jesus Told Us Not to Forbid Others; Why Don’t You Follow Matthew 18? We Should Heed Gamaliel’s Advice; We Should Leave the Tares until the Harvest; We Should Not Touch the Lord’s Anointed; If We Don’t Stand Together We Will Hang Separately; The Christian Army Shoots Its Own Wounded; God Does Not Look on the External Appearance; We Will Be in Heaven Together; The Christian Life Should Be Liberty and Fun; We Should Be All Things to All Men; Denominational Divisions Should Be Erased; It is Not Possible to Know That Your Doctrine Is Right; Loving Jesus Is All that Is Important; Fundamentalism Is a Belief in the Five Fundamentals; We Should Limit Our Message to Broaden Our Fellowship; We Should Be Balanced. 108 pages. $4.50

NEW EVANGELICALISM: ITS HISTORY, CHARACTERISTICS, AND FRUIT. Few subjects are more important for fundamentalist churches than this. Most people that leave fundamentalist churches do not join the Roman Catholic Church or the Mormons or a liberal Protestant denomination; most go the way of the positive-thinking, easy-going New Evangelicalism. Church members are confronted with New Evangelical philosophy on every hand--through popular Christian television preachers and nationally syndicated radio personalities, at the local ecumenical bookstore, through members of other churches, through ecumenical evangelistic crusades, through political activity, and through interdenominational organizations such as Promise Keepers. To be ignorant of the insidious and pervasive nature of New Evangelicalism is to be unprepared to identify and resist it, yet, large numbers of fundamentalists know little or nothing about it. When a fundamental Baptist evangelist asked the students of a well-known independent Baptist Bible College to raise their hands if they could define New Evangelicalism, only two could respond. Hosea 4:6 warns, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” This book documents THE HISTORY AND SPREAD of New Evangelicalism since the 1950s and describes THE PRINCIPLES of New Evangelicalism in a very practical manner so that church members can understand what it is. These principles include the following: New Evangelicalism is characterized by a repudiation of separation, by a love for positivism and by a repudiation of the more negative aspects of biblical Christianity, by a judge-not philosophy, by a dislike of doctrinal controversy, by exalting love and unity above doctrine, by a desire for intellectual respectability, by pride of scholarship, by an attitude of anti-fundamentalism, by the division of biblical truth into categories of important and not important, and by a general mood of softness and tolerance, of a desire for a less strict Christianity, and of a weariness with theological fighting. The book also describes the apostate fruit of New Evangelicalism, which is admitted even by key Evangelical leaders. Its apostasy is seen in the questioning of biblical infallibility, in its ecumenicalism, in a dramatic downgrade in Christian morality, and in its acceptance of and tolerance toward heretics. 153 pages. Illustrated. $5.95

THE PENTECOSTAL-CHARISMATIC MOVEMENTS: THE HISTORY AND THE ERROR. I have been examining and re-examining the Pentecostal-Charismatic movements for more than three decades since I was led to Christ by a Pentecostal in 1973 and began to seek God’s will about tongues-speaking and the miraculous gifts of the early churches. I have built a large library of materials on this subject and have interviewed Pentecostals and Charismatics and attended their churches in many parts of the world. I have also attended large Charismatic conferences with press credentials. I have approached these studies with an open mind in the sense of having a commitment only to the truth and not to anyone’s tradition. I am a member of an independent Baptist church but Baptist doctrine and practice is not my authority; the Bible is. Each fresh evaluation of the Pentecostal-Charismatic movement has brought an increased conviction that it is unscriptural and dangerous. This book begins with my own experience with the Pentecostal movement. The next section deals with the history of the Pentecostal movement, beginning with a survey of miraculous signs from the second to the 18th centuries. We then examine the movements in the 19th century that led up to the creation of Pentecostalism and the outbreak of “tongues-speaking” at Charles Parham’s Bible school in Topeka, Kansas, in 1901, and at William Seymour’s Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles in 1906. We examine some of the major Pentecostal denominations, the Latter Rain Covenent, the major Pentecostal healing evangelists, the Sharon Schools and the New Order of the Latter Rain, the Manifest Sons of God, the Word-Faith movement and its key leaders, the Charismatic Movement, the Roman Catholic Charismatic Renewal, the Pentecostal Prophets, the Third Wave, and the recent Pentecostal scandals. We conclude the historical section with a look at the Laughing Revival. In the last section of the book we deal with the theological errors of the Pentecostal-Charismatic movements (exalting experience over Scripture, emphasis on the miraculous, Messianic and apostolic miracles can be reproduced, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of fire, exalting the Holy Spirit, tongues speaking is for today, sinless perfectionism, healing is guaranteed in the atonement, spirit slaying, spirit drunkenness, visions of Jesus, trips to heaven, women preachers, and ecumenism). The final section of the book answers the question: “Why are people deluded by Pentecostal-Charismatic error?” David and Tami Lee, former Pentecostals, after reviewing a section of the book said: “Very well done!  We pray God will use it to open the eyes of many and to help keep many of His children out of such deception.” And Mary Keating, also a former Charismatic, said, “The book is excellent and I have no doubt whatever that the Lord is going to use it in a mighty way. Amen!!” 317 pages. $9.95

ROMAN CATHOLICISM: PAST & PRESENT. This illustrated report takes a serious look at the Roman Catholic Church, both past and present, and is a vivid warning against the powerful back-to-Rome movement that is sweeping through Christianity. The report begins with a look at Rome today, focusing on the Christianized paganism that is everywhere present. We tour the amazing Vatican and examine Peter’s statue and Peter’s chair and Peter’s crown and Peter’s keys and Peter’s tomb and many other sights. We see the paintings of Minerva and Mercury and other gods and goddesses on the walls of the Vatican Library. We view the Borgia Apartments, which were built by the immoral Pope Alexander VI, and examine the pagan prophetesses painted on the walls of the famous Sistine Chapel. We visit Saint Mary Minerva Church, which was the seat of the brutal Inquisition and Saint John Lateran Church, which still claims to be “the Mother and Mistress of all churches of the world” and features the oldest baptismal pool in Rome (deep enough for immersion). We observe Catholic pilgrims climbing the “Holy Stairs” on their knees and examine pagan fountains built by the popes, such as Trevi with its depiction of the god Neptune and the papal symbol (the tiara and the keys of Peter). We visit the Bone Chapel, in which the bones of 4,000 Capuchin monks are arranged in decorative fashion in six individual chapels. We see the “Mouth of Truth” and the “Angel of Light” and witness a scarlet-colored mass performed in the St. Paul Without the Walls basilica. We examine the “Triumph of Faith over Heresy” statue in the main Jesuit church, which depicts Mary casting Luther and Huss out of heaven and an angel ripping their books to shreds. We visit John the Baptist’s head in San Silvesto in Capito church and Jesus’ manger in the Saint Mary Major church. We examine the dogma of Mariolatry past and present and witness Mary the Queen of Peace, Mary assumed bodily into heaven, Mary sitting with Jesus in His throne, Mary crowned Queen of Heaven, Mary worshipped in the Chapel of the Virgin of the Grace of Saints (a plaque in the chapel reads, “Pope Innocent XI initiated the worship of this image”). We even witness MARY HANGING ON THE CROSS WITH JESUS just outside of the main entrance to St. Mary Major Church. The book contains pictures of many of these things. The second part of the report examines Revelation 17 in light of the Roman Catholic Church and the ecumenical movement. We look at thirteen marks of the Harlot of Revelation 17 that identify her with Rome: Her location, her character, her worldwide reach, her unholy effect upon men, her illicit relationship with civil government, her blasphemy, her clothing, her wealth, her cup, her abominations, her associates, her association with Babylon, and her violence. This is a timely presentation in light of the astonishing sympathy toward Rome that is displayed by Protestants, New Evangelicals, Charismatics, and others and will help prepare God’s people to deal with the apostasy and compromise of these last days. Illustrated. 80 pages. $3.95

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