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To: MrB
Your quote about the bible sounds exactly like something I read the other day about Rob Bell, another Emergent Church guy, although he says he isn't.

From the article -

Indeed, Bell urges readers to test his own text. The Bible itself, he writes, is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. He dismisses claims that "Scripture alone" will answer all questions. Bible interpretation is colored by historical context, the reader's bias and current realities, he says. The more you study the Bible, the more questions it raises.

"It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says," Bell writes. "We must first make decisions about what it means at this time, in this place, for these people."

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Bell also shakes up traditional evangelical beliefs. While calling Christ's way "the best possible way to live," Bell writes Jesus did not claim one religion is better than another when he said he was "the way, the truth and the life." Rather, he writes, "his way is the way to the depth of reality."

As a follower of Jesus, Bell says, he is free to claim the truth wherever he finds it.

"One of the lies is that truth only resides in this particular community or that particular thought system," Bell says. "I affirm the truth anywhere in any religious system, in any worldview. If it's true, it belongs to God."

61 posted on 12/17/2008 11:45:24 AM PST by agrace
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To: agrace
I've become very "discerning" as of late.

It doesn't take me long to understand where someone is coming from and what the origins of that viewpoint are.

This Bell guy, obviously, has been polluted by deconstructionist and postmodern worldviews. These worldviews are definitely not biblical, and this is why he opposes the authority of the Bible.

These worldviews are those that are adhered to by the left, the secular socialist left, and have no place in a Christian's worldview.

Most likely, Bell is an unwitting tool of Satan for the destruction of Christ's church and leading His sheep astray. It is pretty obvious that he is "speaking from the viewpoint of the world."

1 John 4 - False Prophets
Especially vs 4-6

63 posted on 12/17/2008 11:52:43 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: agrace

“Bell writes Jesus did not claim one religion is better than another when he said he was “the way, the truth and the life.”

What part of “NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER BUT THROUGH ME” does Rob Bell not understand? Does he have that statement explained away as not meaning what it clearly means too?


65 posted on 12/17/2008 11:54:40 AM PST by Cecily
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