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Universal Reconciliation is a False Gospel

It seems like the re-definition of every major biblical doctrine is in full swing.

Every word, every doctrine, every major part of the gospel is being deconstructed today.

Just go onto YouTube and look up any major, fundamental truth of scripture. There you will find a host of men, women, theologians, pastors, writers, and whoever telling us that what the Bible says is not correct.

Or let’s put it another way, they say that our understanding of the gospel of salvation or the character of Jesus Christ or the historical record of the Bible is not correct in the way that we’ve been taught. That the true gospel has been lost over time.

And that everyone will eventually be saved after all. Or is already saved!!

But they just don’t know it yet!!!???

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Wrestling an Octopus

For a long time now, I’ve been trying to get a handle on the compromises that seem to be everywhere within seminaries, Christian publishers, Christian media, and our churches.

It seems like most of the believers I encounter are immersed in a Christian culture of appeasement when it comes to spiritual things.

In other words, very, very few of my brothers and sisters in Christ seem to have any real sense of the errors that are swirling all around them – even within the church itself.

And, of those who actually see these errors, very few are willing to fight against them. In fact, few are even willing to discuss them.

Since that would be, in their minds, to exhibit a kind of arrogance or lack of humilty. Since the popular view of “humility” is to not be too “absolute” in what you believe; or at least to never say so.

Which seems to be a greater danger, according to the popular Evangelical culture, than actually discovering doctrinal error within your church!

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A Warning to the Mainstream Bible Church

Why does there seem to be a kind of blindness toward truth among Christians today?

And I’m speaking of those that have been in the Bible churches for most, if not all, of their lives. Those who are leaders, deacons, elders, and even pastors.

It’s as if a kind of sleeping sickness has overcome our churches today. Causing our leaders to have their physical eyes open while remaining blind to their dangerous spiritual state.

And, even as I write this, I am convinced that those in the greatest danger do not see themselves that way at all.

These same men and women are the ones solely dedicated to making their churches more loving, more tolerant, more openminded, more “gospel-centered”, “Christ-centered”, “relevant”, “contextual”, and everything else that the mainstream Evangelical writers and authors and pastors are telling them to do.

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The Liberal Bias of Evangelical Leaders

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Like about half of the country, I was shocked when former President Trump was shot.

And overjoyed when he stood up and raised his fist to show that he was OK.

And then, on Sunday morning, I expected some mention of that event. Some statement about how terrible it was that Donald Trump was shot.

And, at the very least, I expected that the leaders of every local Bible church would take a few moments to pray for him and for his family. To specifically pray for him by name.

To ask the Lord for his health, for his family, and for his continued safety.

That would have taken about 60 seconds.

But nothing of the sort occurred.

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The Simple, Plain Reading of the Bible

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Theologians today have a hard time just believing the Bible as it is written.

As in believing the simple, straight-forward interpretation of God’s words.

As if, God actually meant what He inspired. That He meant it to be understood simply. And to be believed it is without error.

And without the any theological twisting of His meaning into some symbolic, analogous, general thought. Instead of the amazing, wonderful truth that He “breathed out” through the writers of His words.

This is a problem all throughout the church today. Not simply among the expected unbelief of the Mainline denominations; who long ago abandoned the literal and straight-forward meaning of God’s words.

But this is also a problem common among those who claim to be born-again, who believe, supposedly, in the word-for-word inerrancy of the written word of God.

We will get just about any kind of interpretation you can think of today. And it continues to get worse and worse.

But in the end, what if, seriously, what if God actually meant what He said? That He used the exact words that conveyed His exact meaning so that those men in the beginning of the world as well as those men in our current age could all understand and stand upon?

What IF He actually spoke the words to convey the meaning which even the most “simple” among us could understand?

Such as the historical account of the earth and creation from the very first words of Genesis.

What IF that historical record might actually be true and accurate?

Despite the vehement contradictions of popular scientific consensus or popular cultural practices or the basic unbelief of the vast majority of supposedly “intellectual” and “academic” and ecclesiastical leaders?

But, of course, what would we do with all those more enlightened theologians who continue to muddy the waters of truth with their commentaries?

What would become of them?

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Are You Afraid to Die on Some “Doctrinal Hill”?

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I hear this a lot today. It is a very popular saying.

It is common to hear a brother in Christ say how he “does not want to die on some doctrinal hill”.

AS IF there is some danger of that anywhere today.

Very few leaders in the mainstream Evangelical church have ever had to face such a terrible death. Nor have they been willing to suffer for defending the faith.

Nor have most of the members of our local Evangelical churches ever been in any such terrible danger.

Because most are too busy tripping over each other while running away from the battle for truth.

Because most of my brothers and sisters in Christ are “lovers … not fighters”.

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When Christian Leaders Deny the Word of God

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I look carefully at the Bible atlases that are sold in the Christian bookstores.

And, sadly, most of them are predictably wrong on a couple of the same things.

Such as the route of the Exodus and the general point where Israel crossed the Red Sea. And even the location of Mount Sinai.

However, I pretty much expect mainstream Christian publishers to take the “party line” on these things.

Especially since mainstream Christian theologians tend to have specific axes to grind about biblical miracles. About miracles they simply refuse to believe.

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Do Doctrines Really Divide the Church?

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I heard a phrase recently while listening to a podcast.

A pastor was reviewing the spiritual struggles of the churches over the last 150 years. Basically since the Civil War.

He was discussing the movement of seminaries away from solid, biblical authority. Showing the rise of spiritual Modernism and Liberalism in places like Princeton. And how those trained in the seminaries and Christian colleges brought their weak teachings back to the churches.

Which has been a problem affecting all denominations.

He also spoke of the formation of Fundamentalism, the creation of the National Association of Evangelicals, and the rise of the New Evangelical movement.

New Evangelicalism is a spiritual philosophy that has become the foundation of virtually every church in our modern age.

One of the main “doctrines” of New Evangelicalism is that “doctrine divides while service unites“.

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Defying God’s Natural Order

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“They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.” (Jonah 2:8)

This verse can be applied in countless ways.

But it especially fits the mindset and spiritual condition of our modern “woke” culture.

Especially, the thinking which denies the basic identity of a man and a woman.

As a set thing.

As an absolute that God has established in the world.

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