How To Know When You’re Being Conned By A “Christian” Writer

by Charles E. Carlson, WHTT.org




One of the most successful and damaging commentary writers was Henrietta 
C. Mears, who died in 1963.  She wrote What the Bible is All About, which 
has over 4 million copies in print in numerous editions. It is blessed with a
forward written by none other than Billy Graham. Mainline church libraries and 
bookstores still sell it, probably because it is so easy to understand.  Mears 
tells you what each book of the bible is about in a paragraph or two.  In these 
explanations, most of which are helpful, can be found the seeds of giant distortion.


How do you know if you are about to be misled before you buy a best-selling 
“Christian” book?  A very good way is to look first at what the author says about 
Genesis 12 and Matthew 25.  If it fails either of these integrity tests, don’t let it 
in the house.  Let’s look at what Mears says on page 40 about Genesis 12, 
Abram’s promise:

“He (God) called a man named Abram to …go to an unknown land where God would make him the father of a mighty nation. This begins the story of God's chosen people, Israel.”

What is wrong with this is that she has deliberately not pointed out that there 
have been two “Israels” 3000 years apart, and they are not connected in the 
Christian Bible.  In 1953 the traditional Christian view was that this promise 
was the first of many prophesies of the Messiah, Jesus Christ our Lord.  The 
tribe called Israelites no longer existed in 1953, when Mears wrote this, but 
the new state of Israel had just come into existence in 1948.  Mears had to 
know her statement would cause her readers to impute God's promise to that 
new state that had just stolen the old tribe’s good name.  Obviously, Henrietta
Mears, like the “Left Behind” rapture fiction writers Tim LaHaye and Hal Lindsay, 
believe the new political state is a prophecy fulfilled, and she wants her readers 
to believe that, too.  This is the first fundamental falsehood that is found in 
every book and cranny of the Judaized Christian literature.  


What the Bible is All About fails the second test with an even lower score.  On 
page 361 in a chapter misnamed “Understanding Matthew,” we are told: 

“ He (Jesus) foretold the coming of the world after his ascension until He comes back in glory to judge the nations as to their treatment of His brethren, the Jews (Matthew 25).”

Lest anyone miss her meaning, Mears explains, “It is the judgment of the gentile 
people concerning their attitude toward God’s people.”   


Thus, Henrietta Mears again makes the present day state of Israel and, in fact, 
anyone who claims to be Jewish, including Elizabeth Taylor and Sammy Davis 
Junior out  to be the “chosen people.”  This makes Jesus a racist in total opposition 
to what He is reported to have said in this very chapter. Christ’s words say nothing 
about “the Jews” or any race, but tell his followers that as they do unto the least 
of his creatures, so are they doing also to Him. It is heresy to believe that Jesus 
wants us to be good only toward “Jews” and Israeli citizens.  It is basic to 
traditional Christianity that all men, even our enemies,must be loved as brothers.  
This is amplified in Jesus’ story of the Good Samaritan and too many more to mention.
 

What the Bible is All About would have us believe that our ticket to heaven or hell 
depends on how we have treated Jews during our lifetime.  Oxford University Press’ 
Scofield Reference Bible also fails the Matthew 25 test and goes even further by 
declaring “anti-Semitism” to be a “sin” (footnote page 19-20) and predicts that
“nations” will be punished in the future for anti-Semitism.  Oxford University Press 
must not know that countries do not sin, men do.  


Invariably, Judaized Christian commentaries promote similar, racist views of 
Genesis 12 and Matthew 25.  A reader can eliminate most Judaized books by 
scanning the footnotes and commentaries of these two passages.

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