Just spent two hours talking with a PAW minister

[Steve Epley]

Originally Posted by Bobbys

And also, i'm not a Johnsonite. I'm a christian. So Steve how about you call me a Christianite. ha ha ha ah

I did not mean to be offensive I respected Bishop Johnson.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Rico

Johnson is a preacher who is now dead with a following of people very much like the Branhamite crowd.

S.C. Johnson was one of many who come along spewing the old tired doctrine that they are the only one right and everybody else is wrong. The late Bishop Johnson had the attitude that "if you don't hear it from my mouth, it ain't God's truth." He built up a pretty large congregation but after his death his followers fought one another on who should be their new pope and they divided and fragmented into groups. It was sorta like a time in the old Roman Catholic church when there were two or three popes and each one claimed infallibility and each on anathemized the others as being false. Some folks still sit around and listen to tapes of him (Bishop Johnson) since nobody else is trustworthy to listen to. I guess in that way they are like the Branhamites, gathering together and listening to old tapes of a dead man.

I've listened to him on the radio back in the nineteen fifties. One of his famous sayings is about passing an automobile accident and telling how a woman had died there and gone to hell. His (in)famous quote was, "How do I know she went to hell? She had on nylons."

[Jekyll]

Bummmmmmmerrrr!!!!

[TRFrance]

I feel so sad for these people, keeping their eyes on man rather than God.

Thats some serious delusion right there.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Bobbys

Johnson had the same athority as the twelve

How did Bishop Johnson baptize in water?
What words did he teach had to be invoked in order to make the ritual effective?
Didn't he teach that unless all three words, Lord Jesus Christ (one name plus two titles) were spoken the baptism was not valid? And didn't he teach that anyone who was baptized using the words "Jesus" or "Jesus Christ" or "Lord Jesus" or "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" had to be rebaptized?

[Sam]

Originally Posted by cneasttx

Johnson's doctrine is above God's word? Is that what you are saying, or he was the only man that had the truth? THAT would be false doctrine!

Bishop Johnson's doctrine/teaching IS the Word of God.
When he spoke, God was speaking through him.
If he spoke "ex cathedra" his words had the same validity as anything in the written word.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Sherri

Who in the world is this Johnson, and pray tell how we've been saved all these years without him?????

Maybe you haven't

[Steve Epley]

Bishop Johnson had a church in Memphis.

[The Mrs]

Originally Posted by Jekyll

Bummmmmmmerrrr!!!!

Wassamatta Jekyll...did you get your toy taken away from you?

[Rico]

Is he gone?