I believe in Hell so Charles Stanley has somewhere to go
Let’s talk about an Evangelical villain
He was the smiling religious hero who ruled over the Evangelical world since the late 1970s. A scholar. A ‘man of God’—nearly a new prophet.
That’s what they said. As a kid I was made to watch his T.V. show, In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley. Later, I looked up the facts about him.
His ‘doctorate’ was from an unaccredited diploma mill.
For his ‘dissertation’ at Luther Rice Seminary, all he’d had to do was send in some sermon transcripts. He wasn’t a ‘Dr.’, and wasn’t a scholar.
His tellings of his life are clearly fraudulent. I read Stanley’s 2016 memoir, Courageous Faith: My Story From a Life of Obedience, then compared it with news coverage throughout his life.
He likes the story of how he became head pastor at First Baptist Church in Atlanta. The elder board had rejected him. He said it was because they were “country club” types, where his focus — straight from God — was “evangelism.”
He’d gotten elected by bypassing the elder board and appealing to the congregation. Afterward, 35 deacons and 300…
