Famed Hell-Denying Heretic, Carlton Pearson, Has Died
Carlton Pearson, the once prominent-preacher-turned-hell-deying-heretic, has passed away after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 70. He is survived by his ex-wife Gina Marie Gauthier, who he divorced in 2019, and his two children.
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.
Absent a last minute conversion, which we are hoping and praying for, he’s now understanding how terrifyingly wrong about everything he actually was.
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“Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”
Revelation 20:11-15 ESV
https://bible.com/bible/59/rev.20.11-14.ESV