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Emphasis Mine In Bible Verses
PART I
Introduction to Rick Warren. The questions that spring to mind - What is the purpose driven life about?
A 40-day spiritual journey - why 40 days? AND MORE
PART II
Who Was The Purpose-Driven Life's Target Audience - The Mature Believer, The New Believer, or The Unsaved?
Repentance - The Missing Message. The Warning in John 3:36.
A profusion of questionable Bible versions and partial quotes that alter the meaning of the original Hebrew and Greek text. AND MORE
PART III... Chapters 1-10
Did God have a specific purpose for each and every one of us before we were born and did He 'custom make' each of us. If Was Job a man without purpose? AND MORE
PART IV - Chapters 11-20 - "Friendship" With God?
PDL emphasizes friendship with God - two of the chapters entitled Becoming Best Friends With God and Developing Your Friendship With God. However, using two related words - phobeo and phobos - the New Testament contains numerous warnings and exhortations to fear God, but there isn't a single text that indicates we can be friends with God.
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Part V - Chapter 21
Unity at all cost assumes that there is no truth that people are required to stand on and defend. Apparently Rick Warren has forgotten that believers are instructed to withdraw themselves from people who follow false doctrine and practices.
They are neither to have these people in their houses nor offer them a word of greeting. In fact, the most solemn warnings in the New Testament concern false teachers whom Paul called "savage wolves" and predicted that they would arise from among the flock after his departure and not spare any of them. AND MORE
Part VI - Chapters 25-40
You cannot (as Rick Warren has done) arbitrarily apply promises from the Bible to our lives when they were specifically made to a particular individual or group of people. Ex. God's words to Habakkuk in chapter 2 verses 2-3.
Any person who calls himself a Christian but who obeys unrighteousness instead of the truth is not a Christian who will simply ‘lose rewards’ as Warren states. AND MORE
Part VII - Ill-Chosen, Unsuitable And Inappropriate Quotes
PDL quotes a wide variety of highly questionable people including Catholic mystics, occultists and one of the pioneers of contemplative prayer. This could very well open the door to unbiblical, even dangerous ideas and practices. HERE
Part VIII Summary and Conclusion
Any mention of repentance, discernment, and holiness are glaringly absent from a book that claims to be the "Windows system of the 21st century church." So how did PDL get to be so popular? HERE
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