Posted on 09/17/2015 12:45:20 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
By now many of you have no doubt seen the viral video “I’m a Christian, but…” (click the image above to view it). Not only has the video been making the rounds, but the hashtag #IAmAChristianBut is ubiquitous on social media right now. After you watch the video, it’s obvious that this is a propaganda piece for a version of Christianity that is Christian in name only–a progressivist vision of the faith that has more to do with maintaining street-cred with Christianity’s cultured despisers than with the faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3). It is what the apostle Paul called a “form of godliness” while “denying its power” (2 Timothy 3:5). It is gutless–literally, a hollowing out of everything essential to the faith.
Far from being Christocentric, this display is Christo-absent. Not one of these “Christians” even mentions Jesus. Their definition of the faith displays no connection even implicitly to the “author and perfecter of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2). Even disinterested observers can tell that this is more than a glaring oversight. It is an attempt to label love for worldliness as love for Christ. It undermines any credible claim that these testimonials can be in any sense authentically Christian. And indeed, the substance of their testimony is this...
“We are Christian, but are not like those other Christians who actually follow Christ’s teachings...”
(Excerpt) Read more at dennyburk.com ...
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>> “The Apostle Paul gave watchful Christians two of the biggest signs of the imminent return of Jesus Christ to earth in 2 Thessalonians 2” <<
Do you understand what “imminent” means?
2Thessalonians declared that there were things that must happen first, thus it declared that the gathering of the saints could not possibly be imminent until those things, none of which have happened yet, had happened.
Obviously, the gathering of the saints has never been imminent.
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Christocentric is a new word to me. Of course, I am Christocentric, as best I can be.
Liberal Christian is a contradiction in terms. These people have obviously been abused for being Christian; they are ashamed of being Christians. They remake Christ to fit around themselves. That is delusional. They make clear that their selves (in most cases, their sexual beliefs and activities) are the center of their thinking and living, not Jesus. They want to sound cool to those of the amoral humanist culture by denying Christ.
What did Christ say about denying Him?
When you see the word BUT in a sentence, ignore everything before it.
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