Results 1 - 2 of 2
|
|
|||||
Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Ordered by Verse | ||||||
Results | Verse | Author | ID# | |||
1 | Feel-good faith that has no convictions | 2 Tim 4:3 | kalos | 172686 | ||
Feel-good faith that has no convictions ____________________ "The God we worship today no longer resembles the God of the Bible." ____________________ 'Final conclusion: Even with the proliferation of Bibles today, Christians are reading their Bibles less and less. I believe the evangelical church has only 50 years of life left. 50 years left of evangelicalism because of marginalization of the Word of God. We need another Reformation! 'The enemy of the gospel now is not religious hierarchy but moral anarchy, not tradition but entertainment. The enemy of the gospel is Protestantism run amock; it is an anti-intellectual, anti-knowledge, feel-good faith that has no content and no convictions. Part of the communal repentance that is needed is a repentance about the text. 'And even more importantly, there must be a repentance with regard to Christ our Lord. Just as the Bible has been marginalized, Jesus Christ has been "buddy-ized" His transcendence and majesty are only winked at, as we turn him into the genie in the bottle, beseeching God for more conveniences, more luxury, less hassle, and a life without worries or lack of comfort. 'He no longer wears the face that the apostles recognized. Or, as Erasmus remarked, "When you read the Greek New Testament, you can see the face of Jesus more clearly than if you were one of his disciples!" A bit of hyperbole, but the point is worth underscoring: The God we worship today no longer resembles the God of the Bible. Unless we return to him through a reading and digesting of the scriptures through a commitment to the text, the evangelical church will become irrelevant, useless, dead.' ____________________ www.bible.org/page.asp?page_idequals1825 (Replace the word equals with the equals sign.) |
||||||
2 | Feel-good faith that has no convictions | 2 Tim 4:3 | DocTrinsograce | 172689 | ||
Good post, Brother Kalos! It reminded me the following I read recently: "The 'god' of this twentieth century no more resembles the Supreme Sovereign of Holy Writ than does the dim flickering of a candle the glory of the mid-day sun. The god who is now talked about in the average pulpit, spoken of in the ordinary Sunday School, mentioned in most of the religious literature of the day, and preached in most of the so-called Bible conferences is a figment of human imagination, an invention of over-emotional sentimentality. "The heathen outside the pale of Christendom form gods out of wood and stone, while the millions of heathen inside Christendom manufacture a god out of their own carnal minds. In reality, they are but atheists; for there is no other possible alternative between an absolute supreme God and no God at all! A 'god' whose will is resisted, whose designs are frustrated, and whose purpose is checkmated, possesses no title to Deity, and so far from being a fit object of worship, merits nought but contempt!" --A. W. Pink |
||||||