April 21, 2016

Cruz backed by religious extremists willing to rewrite the Bible

Huffington Post - In early March, the Cruz for President campaign announced the formation of an official Religious Liberty Advisory Council. One of the members, Bishop Harry Jackson, appears to have the official power, through his participation in a major prophetic organization associated with the radical New Apostolic Reformation movement, to add new teachings to the Bible...

Harry Jackson has been a longtime member of a group called the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders ... ACPE is perhaps the most important group of prophets in the global New Apostolic Reformation movement that church growth specialist Peter Wagner has played a major role in launching and helping organize.

Interviewed at length about the NAR in 2011 for National Public Radio, Peter Wagner has called for members of his movement to “take dominion over everything”....

NAR doctrine holds that its movement prophets can receive divine revelation directly from God. ACPE’s two-dozen odd prophets have the ability to issue prophetic statements that can, in effect, add new scriptural teaching to the Bible. The one catch is that these prophetic statements cannot contradict scripture....

In a February 3, 2008 appearance at a West Coast NAR church, during a question and answer period, C. Peter Wagner revealed the radical power that ACPE prophets can wield. Wagner was emphatic — there’s nothing whatsoever about abortion in the Bible. “But the Holy Spirit has revealed to us that abortion is murder,” Wagner explained:

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