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Moody Jesuit Faculty 1 | P a g e Moody Jesuit Faculty – Part Two Part 1 https://www.RestoreMBI.com/MBI-Jesuit-Faculty-1.htm https://www.RestoreMBI.com/MBI-Jesuit-Faculty-1.pdf Part 2 https://www.RestoreMBI.com/MBI-Jesuit-Faculty-2.htm https://www.RestoreMBI.com/MBI-Jesuit-Faculty-2.pdf Moody Bible Institute/ Theological Seminary Faculty lists – Proof that Half of Moody Faculty does not believe or obey the Word of God: The names with a short bio here are in four categories – Jesuits (Part One), Psychology Jesuits (Part Two), Spiritual Formation Jesuits (Part Two), Ecumenical (not known to be Jesuit) (Part Two). The list involves about half of all faculty (three are/were also Moody Church pastors) at Moody Bible Institute and Theological Seminary. Since we are not getting our information from people at Moody, some faculty positions, status, etc. may be a little out of date. We have spent many hours doing a thorough study on each of the professors and faculty at MBI. You already know that the education of a young person has a strong influence on the direction of that person's life: their philosophy, their life's message, and the things they try to accomplish. Jesus warned very strongly about false teachers, and Jesus' holy apostles spoke strongly against false teachers. Our research looks closely at the college education of the professors and staff. Many decades ago the Roman Catholic church had meetings about how to destroy MBI and Dwight Moody’s Northfield hometown schools. They were able to destroy Northfield-Mount Hermon a long time ago. They killed someone who seems to have been an honorable Dean at Mount Hermon in 1934 and infiltrated the staff and leadership until they started a complete overthrow of it in 1970 by removing Chapel services and joining the boys and girls on one campus which led to lots more changes. Now Northfield is a shameful enemy of God. The Roman Catholic church had to destroy MBI Chicago at a slower pace for several reasons which should be discussed at another time. We have written a thorough report about their destruction of Northfield- Mount Hermon to which we are providing a link: > https://www.RestoreMBI.com/Moody-Northfield-Short-Report.htm 2 | P a g e > https://www.RestoreMBI.com/Moody-Northfield-Property-Report.htm Many Christians have never studied the seriousness of shipwrecked faith, also called apostasy. We need to establish God's righteous judgments before we give you lists of MBI leaders and their education. A five year old baby can't be a leader; they have no idea what to do. As a person grows up they learn things that shape their direction; and what they learn moves them to make many choices and decisions. The best years of opportunity for God to reach someone is during the heart of a child. That is why the devil has overthrown the education in America; the devil knows how to ruin people. The devil and his demons have thousands of years of practice at ruining people. The fall of a person starts with their conscience. Romans 1:18-32 (and many passages of Scripture) explains that God speaks to every person. The more they decide to do evil, the more God opposes their direction and they can't get into the evil they want to do. At a certain point the rebel discovers that God is opposing their evil desires. That is the turning point in their life; either they start learning God's righteousness, or they decide to become evil and reject God. They “suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them...”. They know some important truths about God's right and wrong, but they decide to go wrong “because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God...”. That is when that rebel looks for philosophies that remove God from reality, like evolution or theistic evolution, and their rules for guidance become human-centered psychology without/against God. Psychology has removed any references to the Almighty and All Powerful God who is the Creator of everything. What happens to an evil rebel? “Their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools”. By rejecting Holy God, they start following lies and fiction. The judgment in Romans 1:18-23 describes what God does with that person who decided to become evil. If they don't become shocked at their foolishness, God finally allows them to charge in the direction they are going toward evil by reducing His involvement/hindrances: “God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves”. Why? Because they “exchanged the truth of God for the lie”. If you haven't studied Romans 1:18-32 lately, please do because that will help you understand what went wrong inside the mind of almost all of the people listed in this document. Almost everyone listed in this document had a turning point to become evil against God; many times those wrong decisions were made in their teenage years. If not in their teen years, then many more were made in their college years. Each one of them discovered that the college they were going to was contradicting what they knew about Holy God, and teaching them anti-God philosophies. But they didn't quit and leave that evil. Instead they stayed there and made sure they got good grades as their conscience became darker and darker. They became evil, but they didn't stop there. 3 | P a g e When an evil rebel decides to infiltrate God's work to destroy it from within they stepped into deeper darker evil. That is what we are accusing nearly all of the people we have listed of doing to Moody Bible Institute/Seminary. Maybe some of them can repent, but probably not. If any of them truly repent they will be testifying against the evil they know and participated in. Anything less than actively exposing and opposing evil deeds when they “repent” is only a slick trick; those people are slick tricksters. Now we need to look at the Bible verses describing shipwrecked faith and apostasy. There are so many verses of apostate temple leaders plotting to destroy Jesus. You should study those people to see how apostates behave; what they do to pretend they are good, what they do to get their approval from others like them, and how they plan to attack righteousness to destroy God's ways. But that is not our focus in this report. Don’t get stuck on the Jewish aspect of the example of scribes and Pharisees; look deeper to the root of the temple-ruler’s hearts. They hated Jesus and so their evil comes with predictable actions. It wasn’t a Jewish problem; they are an example of how evil people act inspired by demons. We already talked about human-centered psychology without/against God. Even if they insert the word God in their text a few times, it doesn't change their systematic philosophy of rejecting Biblical Christianity. Holy God is Creator, He opposes the sins of man, and God is recording everything. The “books were opened” Rev. 20:11-15; “And they were judged, each one according to his works... this is the second death.” Many of the MBI staff got some of their training from Catholic institutions. The Roman Catholic “Church” in the 1500’s tried to switch from murdering the Christians to attempting to overtake and infiltrate Protestants which has been going on for 5 centuries now. They learned that they must try to sound like Protestants to get any progress. Those Catholic colleges train their students to sound like us and use our words while teaching and leading by example with their Catholic definitions. But they also then teach their students how to disguise their true definitions and intentions (which usually center around gaining power/followers for the Jesuits/Pope and the Roman system of doing things in the world) so they don’t get caught. Holy God described the Roman Catholic “Church” through Paul in 1st Timothy 4:1-3 “The Holy Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron...” The Holy Spirit knew how bad the Roman system would become against the church for more than 17 centuries now and emphasized – “expressly says” – on the future Catholic “Church” problem. Holy God says their religion comes from “deceiving spirits” and their teaching is “doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy”. And the people who are trained in their education are “having their own conscience seared with a hot iron”. We talked about a young person making decisions; many of the people on this list got their training from Roman Catholic institutions. Those schools are known for their false teaching and sexual activities. If any of the persons we listed were a Christian they would have left those colleges. And instead they become accomplices to cover each other’s sins. Each person on this list quickly realized what their Catholic college was like. They noticed the evil teaching; and they 4 | P a g e noticed the sexual perversion. When they stayed there they accepted themselves becoming evil. Their education made them evil and they knew it, but they didn't leave, they didn't quit.
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