Or that we're just in the 2017 edition of Romans chapter 1 and need more than ever to fulfill our responsibilities...
...instead of worshiping our created things whilst wishing for the rapture.
Posted on 05/23/2017 3:21:59 PM PDT by metmom
Is Sister Christian sitting next to you in Sunday service a closet New Ager? Is your pastor tapping into new spirituality? Are you believing a new thought lie?
I was simply shocked to read the results of a new Barna study that shows only 17 percent of Christians who consider their faith important and attend church regularly actually have a biblical worldview. But I was decidedly dismayed by the subsequent revelations in the report.
In a nutshell, Barna found many Christians strongly agree with worldviews that compete with biblical teachings. In other words, many believers are believing flat out lies. Consider these startling stats about practicing Christians:
38 percent are sympathetic to some Muslim teachings
61 percent agree with ideas rooted in new spirituality
54 percent resonate with postmodernist views
36 percent accept ideas associated with Marxism
29 percent believe ideas based on secularism
(Excerpt) Read more at charismanews.com ...
Scary and sad, but no longer surprising.
Just another piece of evidence that we are in the end times.
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This has been evident for several decades.
The path to heaven is narrow while the road to hell is wide and getting wider.
Yup! 120 days to go until the start of 5778!
If Damascus becomes a ruinous heap, and President Trump gets a Peace Treaty, so that they are all saying “peace and security”, it could help those who have fallen away to come back to their senses.
I find that knowing that there are only four months left before I have to make an accounting of myself to Jesus, in person, knocks away my inhibitions to tell people the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I see this happening on FreeRepublic day after day.
The path to heaven is narrow while the road to hell is wide and getting wider.
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Maybe you have stumbled onto Jerry’s Bullet Train final destination.
High speed, One way.
Because all things were created by a single divine mind, (“In the beginning God created…” Genesis 1:1), all truth forms a single, mutually consistent system – truth is unified and universal.
It's not rocket science - it's "Bible Basics".
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38 percent are sympathetic to some Muslim teachings
61 percent agree with ideas rooted in new spirituality
54 percent resonate with postmodernist views
36 percent accept ideas associated with Marxism
29 percent believe ideas based on secularism
More detail about what she means would be helpful in the article. She gives scant detail on any of the dangerous beliefs she talks about. And then there is this:
There’s the grace message that perverts the gospel.
What does she mean by the grace message. Grace is central to Christian belief, so I would like to know what she is talking about. Is there a specific teaching about grace that is incorrect and being promoted by the church? Well what is it and how do I know it so I can avoid it?
Well, except for the ‘rooted’ one.
Or that we're just in the 2017 edition of Romans chapter 1 and need more than ever to fulfill our responsibilities...
...instead of worshiping our created things whilst wishing for the rapture.
FALSANI: What do you believe?
OBAMA: I am a Christian.
So, I have a deep faith. So I draw from the Christian faith.
On the other hand, I was born in Hawaii where obviously there are a lot of Eastern influences.
I lived in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, between the ages of six and 10.
My father was from Kenya, and although he was probably most accurately labeled an agnostic, his father was Muslim.
And I’d say, probably, intellectually I’ve drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith.
So, I’m rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people. That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there’s an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.
FALSANI: Who’s Jesus to you?
(He laughs nervously)
OBAMA: Right.
Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.
And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.
Jer 16:19.
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
FALSANI: Do you believe in heaven?
OBAMA: Do I believe in the harps and clouds and wings?
FALSANI: A place spiritually you go to after you die?
OBAMA: What I believe in is that if I live my life as well as I can, that I will be rewarded. I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.
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