I have a few friends in South Africa. Here is one of their accounts on the death of Desmond Tutu. In light of all the similar praise that fell upon Nelson Mandela at his death, I thought it proper to see Desmond Tutu through the eyes of a South African.
“ALL THE ACCOLADES FOR A FALSE PROPHET”
Marco Summers
I once had a man call me something much worse than a cockroach in his soup for criticizing Archbishop Tutu, but I stand by this statement: ‘His earthly ‘good’ work, his humour, his intellect, his standing in society, all the praises, his Nobel Peace Prize, his work on the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, his friendly efficacious demeanor (I personally met him in London, UK once when I was a diplomat there & spent some amicable time with him) all are piffle if he did not believe the true Gospel.
How impressive you might have been Desmond, but now those works are a curse on your life before a holy God. It is such a clear thing in the Bible that your works will not bring you salvation. (Well: it’s clear to those who are saved.) The others [pagans] think good works give you some standing with God. Good people who do good works, they think, go to heaven.
So, a man who fought apartheid, stood strong on his principles in favour of homo sex, won the Nobel Peace Prize for campaigning for peace for humanity, cried tears on the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, criticized the ANC govt for its evils, etc. must be without doubt heading for heaven, right?
Wrong.
You can do all such ‘good’ things as a lifelong ideal, but still miss the truth of the Gospel of Salvation – which is a singularity: there are no other options, especially not a false gospel, whose proponents Paul called “accursed”.
The Daily Maverick [Newspaper] dripped of honour for the man Desmond Tutu and stated that he “left the legacy of an anti-apartheid fighter, rainbow-nation builder and a truly peerless human being”.
Those are nice words for a gravestone, or for a eulogy at a burial service, but they mean absolutely nothing spiritually – which is the real reality in the judgment of the court of heaven.
In times past Desmond Tutu, was interviewed by TV presenter John Bishop. The interview was taking place in the days preceding Easter. Bishop asked Mr. Tutu if he believed that Jesus Christ actually, physically rose from the dead. Mr. Tutu evaded answering this clear, straightforward question, and so Bishop asked him again, only to receive the same evasive religious-sounding, yet empty response. Bishop was obviously not going to let go of this question and thus with appropriate forthrightness he demanded a direct answer to his question, “Do you believe that the body of Jesus Christ actually came back from the dead after three days?” Mr. Tutu answered with great enthusiasm, “It does not matter whether or not Jesus’ body came back to life. What matters is that the spirit of Christ lives on today.”
Elsewhere Tutu is quoted as saying;
“I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this. I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place. I am as passionate about this campaign as I ever was about apartheid.”
(Desmond Tutu
Speech at a UN’s gay rights campaign, 2013)
And again Tutu is on record as saying;
“When we say Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, you don’t believe that he got into a kind of ecclesiastical lift that took him into the stratosphere. This is a language that is being used figuratively because the realities that are being described are not human realities, they are supernatural realities. When we speak even about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is not the revivification of a corpse.”
One more from the putatively great Bishop Tutu;
“I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: ‘You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he’s not a Christian’? I don’t think that is the case, because, you see, God is not a Christian.”
(Desmond Tutu
Speech at Dalai Lama’s birthday, 2 June 2006)
All the honor he gets [now] he will get for humanitarian humanistic human works, but spiritually he was corrupt.
“The founder of Christianity only arrived on the scene 2000 years ago.”
That is blasphemy and it shows he did not know who Jesus Christ was – in spite of his title, his position, his clever demeanor, etc. The backward collar he wore was a symbol of his backward theology. He therefore clearly did not understand who the true Christ is. He also said on occasion in SA that the Dalai Lama “is the holiest man I know.”
This is what he said about a man who is a so-called living god in his religion of Tibet. It is abominable in the eyes of the true God who became man in Christ. No man is holy outside of Jesus Christ: To be in Christ is to have the only “hope of glory”.
The alternative is too ghastly to contemplate but I do know he is in the hands of a perfectly righteous judge.