Famous Hell-Denying Preacher Battling Cancer: 'I Was At Death's Door'

Carlton Pearson used to be one of the most prominent pastors in America. He founded a Church of God In Christ church (COGIC) called the Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center in Tulsa, OK, in the early 80s, which he eventually grew to over 6000 attendees every Sunday.

He hosted a weekly preaching show on TBN, reaching millions of people, and was one of the first black ministers to sell out stadiums and conferences, platforming folks like TD Jakes and Joyce Meyer and sharing the stage with Jerry Falwell and Oral Roberts. Given his prominence, he also met with and ministered to Bill Clinton and George Bush, counseling them on faith-based initiatives and following major tragedies.

His downfall began after he claimed he heard the voice of God speaking to him and telling him there was no hell after watching a video of the Rwandan genocide. He shared this revelation with his congregants, who rejected him and the message wholesale.

His denomination publicly branded him as a heretic and his church hemorrhaged dozens of pastors and thousands of congregants until only a few hundred remained. After struggling on their own for a few years, they eventually merged with All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa. Here, at this pro-LGBTQ, pro-choice Trinity-denying ~~church~~ goatpen, he became an affiliate minister, where he’s been ever since.

He’s also incredibly ill, with the Christian Post reporting that he’s battling a prostate cancer reoccurrence from twenty years ago. Pearson revealed in a Facebook Live video Tuesday.

“I don’t know what happened. It (the illness) just hit me all at once. We’ve been battling, you know, the prostate thing for 20 years but had been free. And then all of a sudden, this thing hit me, and I haven’t even had any treatment for it because my body was so toxic and so filled with sepsis and infection.
I had no idea. By the time they got me to the hospital, I was at death’s door. My son was with me. We went through all of that… like 17 days in the hospital and several in and out, but I want you to know I’m yet holding on.”

If localized, prostate cancer has an almost 100% five-year survival rate, but if it spreads to other parts of the body, the survival rate drops to under 35%.

There’s no denying that Pearson is a heretic on his way to hell, and we pray that he repents before it is too late.