KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

Non-charismatics have also lapsed into listening to Lucifer's line. James D.G. Dunn's anti-Charismatic book, Baptism in the Holy Spirit, appropriated annals of New Age terms, repeatedly referring to 'initiation'. Contrary to true Christianity, he contends:

[T]he N.T. nowhere speaks of conversion as receiving Christ. . .Baptism is the act of faith.. .a specific moment in the ritual of initiation prior to immersion.. .the rite of initiation. . .the rite of water baptism not only symbolizes burial with Christ but. . .helps in some way effect it.32

"Sadly the New Age movement has infiltrated many of our Christian denominations with this pagan concept," observes Constance Cumby .33 Marrs agrees stating, "False prophets and false teachers will seduce people's minds and initiate them into the Mystery of Iniquity." 34

Satan wants humans to encounter him and think that they are in touch with the living God. . .his most subtle deception [is] the duplication of religious experience. . .[T]hose who refuse to be initiated into Satan's kingdom.. .will be eliminated.35 Erwin Lutzer Pastor, Moody Church

The Church of Cain

The required theological reconstruction is proceeding in a number of quarters.36 Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Clement, the second century core of the new versions, contrived a system in which "baptism is decidedly more prominent than redemption by the blood of Christ," since he had been "initiated by the laver of illumination into the true mysteries." His formula for salvation became fixed in print at the Council of Constantinople and later by the Council of Trent. The foundation, "One baptism for the remission of sins, "was framed on a fault line extending back to Cain, the father of false creeds. New version editors have built their churches and versions on this volcanic rock. Westcott writes of