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DAIRYLEADER5: The following is in reply to your Note, "Radioman2, I dont care a lot for Copelands analogy...," ID# 94106. --Radioman2 ____________________ Repost of ID# 89213 by Hank "We need to be careful of what we say about our brothers and sisters, we will be judged for it." --from your post No. 89181. Tim, where does Scripture say that Christians will be judged for reproving and rebuking false teaching and false teachers? Just how "careful" were Paul and other apostles about soft-peddling error and corruption in the church? For that matter, how compromising was Jesus in dealing with false teachers? Have you read anything about the vigor and forcefulness with which Charles H. Spurgeon opposed modernism and the apostasy that it brought to the Baptist Union of England in his day? No, Tim, Christians who love the faith once and for all delivered to the saints are not to be careful lest they offend. They are not to be spineless, namby-pamby, weak, apathetic, and ineffectual, craven and ignorant little wimps hiding in the shadows, ashamed of the gospel of Christ, bent on condoning error and deception. They try to rationalize their hypocrisy by calling it Christian charity and tolerance. The seminal cause of many church groups floundering today in man-centered theology can be traced to the failure of professing Christians to stand up for orthodox teaching and practice. The corrupting interlopers had free play simply because there was no one who had the guts to oppose them and put an end to their ungodly secularism and socinianism. When man began to introduce theological concepts that robbed God of his sovereignty and placed man in control of his own destiny, much of biblical Christianity began a slow, steady disintegration into a devilish mixture of cults, false teaching and heresy. Much has been said on this forum about the so-called Word of Faith movement, one characteristic of which that is widely advertised by its practitioners is expressed in the silly slogan, "Name it and claim it." Name the blessing or whatever that God "owes" us and claim it. Since when has God ever empowered man to put Him in the dock and force Him to do anything? This is Heresy with a capital H. What is sad is that disciples of the false teachers are not bashful to come forth to condemn orthodox evangelicals, frequently tagging them as practicing legalism because they adhere to sola scriptura and thus don't look for any special favors from God such as a private and extra-biblical sign or special revelation . . . --Hank ID# 89213 |
Bible Answer: I agree Hank - the whole "Name it and claim it" thing has been taken waaaaayyyyy to far. We need to understand what belongs to us 'in Christ' - but we certainly don't 'name it and claim it - that is just rediculous and breeds greed and selfishness. God owes man nothing - He has already given everything to us - we already possess every spiritual blessing there is to have in Christ - what else is there for God to give? Your statement, "...robbed God of his sovereignty and placed man in control of his own destiny", I differ in opinion a little. I agree that God is sovereign and ultimately His will will be accomplished (it already has been after all - we just exist in linear time and it hasn't passed for us yet), but in a way man does have control of his eternal destiny. God, in His grace, has allowed our faith to save us and we know that it is not God's will that any perish - but some will. Therefore, it can be said that God's choice of us only lays hold of us through our choice of Him - that is why He says, "Choose this day who you will serve." He has chosen us - He has done everything - It was all finished at the cross (actually, even before then - the cross just revealed it to us) and now the choice is up to us - do we accept Christ sacrifice or do we deny it and reject the only atonement for sins made available to a fallen mankind. |