Thread: Carlton Pearson--"Come Sunday" on Netflix

Originally Posted by FaithfulOne

TBH, I don't think so. This movie was based on interviews with Carlton and some of the former staff/associate ministers for a PBS radio show, "This American Life" https://www.thisamericanlife.org/304/heretics from 2005. I think it was moreso showing Carlton's personal struggle. I didn't get the sense that there was an agenda by Netflix/the creators of the movie. What I do think is that Carlton is using this movie to gain more attention to himself, and like Pente said maybe trying to test the waters for a "comeback" by way of Azusa or whatever..

If he does, there would be a need for a return to what he used to believe. This will need a public addressing of his repentance of the inclusionist teachings. I cant imagine any other way unless he is trying to go easy and trying to save face or maybe bring his stream into where he used to be. I wish he could repent.

Originally Posted by Quest

It is a Netflix original....My decision to not access Netflix, that is absolute. I believe it has been taken over by a strong political agenda...who reaps the financial benefits of this movie?

Exactly!

Originally Posted by Pentecali

Then again, I read where he was very well pleased with the outcome. Maybe he was partly referring to the acting and overall outcome, but also it may garner sympathy for his cause? Movies have a way of swaying people’s opinions thru emotion. I don’t think he would have liked the movie if it was slanted in his favor even if the acting was good etc

Pente did you watch it? He's maybe hoping it will sway people (conflicted or nominal Christians) into considering inclusion/universalism, perhaps. OTOH, the ending of the movie shows him speaking at what was supposed to be Flunder's church (by they way they appeared- a mix of gay, feminist, other religious backgrounds)--don't want to give too much away.

That was hard to watch.

Originally Posted by curly sue

That was hard to watch.

I could tell from looking at the image itself.

Originally Posted by Pentecali

Then again, I read where he was very well pleased with the outcome. Maybe he was partly referring to the acting and overall outcome, but also it may garner sympathy for his cause? Movies have a way of swaying people’s opinions thru emotion. I don’t think he would have liked the movie if it wasnt slanted in his favor even if the acting was good etc

Universalism is an emotional humanistic defining of God....essentially bringing God down to our level....I suspect many will be swayed by it...Even the ending that a review said shows his political leaning.....

Originally Posted by Cardinal TT

I have heard the same voice and it caused me to doubt God's goodness......the voice is the devil
Satan is the master of deception

We don't understand eternal hell in this life but we either TRUST God or we start to believe lies

I did too...every believer hears it, I believe. And the ones not rooted in the scriptures and submissive to the Spirit are easily swayed by it...it is humanism....human reasoning...ascribing human emotions to a Holy and Righteous and Just God....

That voice is strong and goes to the core of loving emotions in the soul. At the time I heard it I was just starting to grasp the power of scripture in WOF teaching...I had passed the point of accepting ownership of the concept that the Spirit and the Word never disagree and that the word is one of the 2 witnesses I had to trust to discern truth. When I heard that lie regarding homosexuals that I knew and had love for I hit a faith crisis....I was not willing to release the faith in the 2 witnesses but knew something was missing in my understanding..

The third option, the revelation of truth rescued me. That third option was the heart of the father toward the lost along with the absoluteness of only 1 way...God said, I love them too but to reject My Word is to reject Me....

I suspect there are many who already lean to humanist thinking, not settling that scripture is absolute and not just scripture but scripture and the Spirit who always agree....and that last scene described above will actually make sense to them, not cause aversion....