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1 | Prophecy Fulfilled | Acts 20:30 | DocTrinsograce | 243429 | ||
"I tried to show that the issue in the Church of the present day is not between two varieties of the same religion, but, at bottom, between two essentially different types of thought and life. There is much interlocking of the branches, but the two tendencies, Modernism and supernaturalism, or (otherwise designated) non-doctrinal religion and historic Christianity, spring from different roots. In particular, I tried to show that Christianity is not a 'life,' as distinguished from a doctrine, and not a life that has doctrine as its changing symbolic expression, but that—exactly the other way around—it is a life founded on a doctrine... "The Christian religion which is meant is certainly not the religion of the modern liberal Church, but a message of divine grace, almost forgotten now, as it was in the middle ages, but destined to burst forth once more in God’s good time, in a new Reformation, and bring light and freedom to mankind. What that message is can be made clear, as is the case with all definition, only by way of exclusion, by way of contrast. In setting forth the current liberalism, now almost dominant in the Church, over against Christianity, we are animated, therefore, by no merely negative or polemic purpose; on the contrary, by showing what Christianity is not we hope to be able to show what Christianity is, in order that men may be led to turn from the weak and beggarly elements and have recourse again to the grace of God." --J. Gresham Machen (1923) from his book, "Christianity and Liberalism" |
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2 | Prophecy Fulfilled | Acts 20:30 | EdB | 243431 | ||
Bingo I think you identified the problem I have with Reformed philosophy. That being it is founded on doctrine instead of being founded on the Rock that being Jesus Christ. When we allow doctrine to define us we have allowed walls to be placed between us but when defined by the Rock "Jesus Christ" we live loving those that hate us, those that persecute us, those that mock and malign us. The problem in today's church people want only to avoid damnation, they fail to dispise sin and seek freedom from it. Let only want to do what they are told is needed rather that being self motivated, which causes them to do little or nothing because they have been told holiness is not needed. |
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