They were once trust-worthy people, but after I heard from Sunday school teacher, and search over the net.. Now I am not sure about these 3 individuals.. What do you think of that... (Pls, only Christians should answer)
Joel Osteen - http://www.tektonics.org/lp/osteen01.html
Harold Camping - http://www.gotquestions.org/Harold-Camping-family-radio.html
Charles Stanley - http://www.bereanpublishers.com/False_Doctrines/gospel_according_to_charles_stan.htm#_Toc481106746
2007-01-04 08:55:59 · 3 answers · asked by mystery t 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
None of them are cults, but they are all radical, left-wing Christians (i.e. anti-traditional).
Harold Camping (I love to listen to his show) believes that all Churches and organized forms of Christianity are of the devil, and that only Christians who worship in their own homes are on the right track. He also believes that you can't do anything to receive salvation. He says that you can only hope, and just wait for God to save you at some point (he's says you'll know when it happens).
Charles Stanley, as far as I know, is your typical Evangelical - but he could have gone off in the deep end.
Joel Osteen, I believe, is into the charismatic movement.
2007-01-04 09:02:23 · answer #1 · answered by NONAME 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Joel Olsteen is a good motivational speaker...but in my opinion he is not a preacher or pastor. He hardly ever teaches out of the bible. He does have a large church. I do not know anything about Harold Camping. Charles Stanley is a very good preacher and always teaches from the bible. He is one of my favorite pastors on tv. The two that I know of are not cults.
2007-01-04 09:04:51 · answer #2 · answered by saved_by_grace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Joel Osteen is a wonderful pastor, teacher, speaker. He is pastor to over 30,000 members of Lakewood Church in Houston Texas. His sermons are so wonderful. He touches people's lives and truly tries to help people. He is not known for being greedy either. What I love about Joel is that he is not a legalist.
Too many legalists quote scripture left and right but then don't live what they profess to be. I don't believe Joel is a hypocrite at all. He lives what he believes and believes what he lives.
He is not a judgmental hypocrite like some pastors are. God bless him and no it is not a cult.
2007-01-06 13:27:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋