The wages of the Sin of Heresy

CARLTON PEARSON attended oral roberts university, then began his career within the oral roberts church.  He attracted the attention of the great man himself (oral roberts) because of his skin color, dark brown, aka "african-american", rather than the standard mainstream american light brown (white).

Note to reader: there is no such thing as "black" people or "white" people. Every human has a unique skin color. Every human is some shade of light brown, or tan, ranging to dark brown, a spectrum, a continuum, but nobody is white, and nobody is black. These terms (black and white) are artificial categorical inventions used to simplify a complicated world of infinite uniquely individual pigmentations. The very concept of "race" is highly dubious.

Now that we got that cleared up, let us continue.

Oral roberts wanted to expand his ministry into the "black" community, and carlton pearson was a good expedient to that end.

Note to reader: one cannot be overweight and attend oral roberts university, but one is allowed to attend if one's skin color is a dark shade of brown.

But, let us continue.

Carlton pearson became so popular that he started his own church, which became extremely successful until he  made a decision of paramount importance. He decided that being non christian does not condemn one to eternity in hell.

He called his new theology something like "inclusion conciliation theology". If one is a good person, who happens to live somewhere where being exposed to christianity is impossible, and thus dies without ever being "saved", one goes to heaven.

This fateful decision ruined his career. Most of his church walked out on him, and he was branded a "heretic" by his own former church members. Presumably the great man (oral roberts) was none too pleased with pearson either.

Pearson had come to see the concept of hell as an evil invention of the human mind, not of the good lord. Jesus, whose true name was not jesus, evidently believed in hell, but no longer did carlton pearson. Pearson also made the mistake of pointing out things such as: the christian bible was compiled in the year 325 A.D at the council of Nicea, by a group of human beings, who argued over it interminably before finally agreeing on its contents.

That wasn't a good idea either, at least for the purpose of being successful within the christian church.

One might wonder whether carlton pearson ever regrets sharing his true revised beliefs with the world, or whether he would have been better off not to ever have revealed the details of his spiritual evolution.

One thing is for damned sure: if he had kept his mouth shut, and continued to embrace, at least outwardly, traditional christian dogma, he would be a helluva  lot more financially if not spiritually affluent even as we speak. Maybe, just maybe, as financially affluent as all the other big name heavily marketed ministers, as was oral roberts, the great man himself. And that's going some, that's mighty financially affluent. Go thy way.