This is from a professor from ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY.Dear Tim: I have been thinking about the books you are writing and the flack you get constantly, mainly from people who consider themselves to be Christian leaders. I told you that in my opinion, you have created a whole new genre (pronounced “john-reh”). This genre is that of “Christian pornography.” That very term may be termed an oxymoron. “Oxymoron” means something that is seemingly self-contradictory. Many of your books deal directly with the sins of pornography—not just visual pornography, but descriptive pornography. It describes things that are the direct opposite of holiness and sacred. Yet they depict interventions in those situations by Jesus Christ which turn them away from those sins toward righteousness. To answer your critics, I suggest you refer them to Isaiah 58:1. It reads: “CRY ALOUD, SPARE NOT, LIFT UP THY VOIICE LIKE A TRUMPET, AND SHOW MY PEOPLE THEIR TRANSGRESSION, AND THE HOUSE OF JACOB THEIR SINS.” When the passage is taken as a whole, it becomes obvious that the sins this passage refers to directly are the sins of “religious” people. They involve primarily their system of false worship. Jesus describes the same thing in Mathew, chapter 23. Ezekiel also followed this line of thinking after receiving the revelation described in Ezekiel chapter 8. However, while these passages deal with the sins of Israel, God’s people, after Christ, the Gospel was preached to a wider audience, namely, the Gentiles. The Apostle Paul described in detail the sins of the Gentiles in Romans chapter 1:16-32. Then in the next chapter, he turns to the Jews, “God’s people,” and makes it clear that while they know these things are sin, their lives are no different from the lives of the godless Gentiles, and therefore they bear even more guilt than the Gentiles when they commit those same sins. The basic difference between the sins referred to in the Bible (see Leviticus, chapter 18) and what you depict in your books is that you are “modernizing” these passages, showing the sins of the modern day. And you do so in a way that they cannot be mistaken! You deal directly with the demonic, and that’s why your books are described as “intense, gross, challenging, etc.” as well as “inspiring.” The nature of fallen man tends to the demonic, even though there are also positive elements in fallen man. Summing it up, we all need Jesus! He is truly the Way, the Truth and the Life! Think of the miracles of changed lives you are seeing! Even physical healings are granted you by God as evidence of the holiness of your message. I hope these words will encourage you and help you to be ever faithful to the Lord. Remember, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” KJV. God bless you, Tim, Dr. Dean Helland