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Pastor Mark Holick on CNN
CNN Interview with comments and foreword by Rev. Flip Benham • 11/26/2008
Click here to watch Pastor Mark Holick's interview on CNN, then read Rev. Flip Benham's response below.
You did a fine job articulating your points from a biblical worldview to a reporter that pulled a lot of quotes right out of context. One of these out of context quotes, Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Convention, was written by Jefferson to assure the Danbury Baptists that there would be no state church in the thirteen colonies as there was in England. Men would be free to worship here as their conscience dictated. It wasn’t until 1947, Everson v. Board of Education, that the United States Supreme Court pulled out this little Jeffersonian snippet that the reporter used on you from Jefferson’s letter. The phrase “…the great wall of separation that exists between church and state…” was taken totally out of context and turned upside down by the Supreme Court in 1947. This Supreme Court precedent (stare decisus) has brought upon us great pain ever since. It has paved the way to remove God as the foundation of the American republic.
1962 Engle v. Vitale – prayer removed from school.
1963 Abbington v. Schempp – Bible reading removed from school. 1973 Roe v. Wade – Abortion on demand through all nine months (Doe v. Bolton). 1980 Stone V. Graham – Ten Commandments removed from classrooms and school hallways. 1994 Planned Parenthood v. Casey – Every person can define his own meaning of existence and life’s mystery. 2003 Lawrence v. Texas – Homosexual sodomy now a Constitutional right. The devil deals with sound bites. God gave us the Bible in context. Jesus had to deal with the devil’s sound bites when He was tempted in the wilderness. He used God’s Word. So did you. Well done Pastor Mark!
More than that, I know that all of heaven is rejoicing over your contrite repentance of the sign. You ARE a man after God’s own heart!
Mr. Sanchez did use Pope John’s quote is in context, for the Catholic Church truly believes that the world’s three great monotheistic religions (Christianity, Judiasm, and Islam) all worship the same god. This, of course, is an absolute Biblical untruth.
Billy Graham was taken out of context, for what Billy was referring to was people who have never had Special Revelation (God’s Law , God’s Word, God’s Son) about Jesus of the Gospel, yet still have General Revelation (creation, law written in each and every heart) can, by faith, be saved. Abraham was saved by faith, and so were all the saints of the Old Testament, though they had never heard of the Name of Jesus.
In no way did he (Billy) prostrate Christianity to the level of all other religions. This, of course, was precisely what Mr. Sanchez was attempting to do in his interview with you.
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