"Don't tell us how much someone "loves the Lord" (including the president) if he or she denies "all that I commanded you." Don't call yourself a Christian if you are going to deny essential doctrines."
Joining the CINOs?
Catholics in Name Only.
Now we can have CHRINOs too!
LOL!
Yes, that was a good quote. It still seems impossible that there can be any Christians on the left, as virtually everthing they believe is so contrary to Biblical teaching.
I have some problems with the criteria the author selected as being definitive of Christianity.
Perhaps the worst problem is defining Satan as a living being. In a manner of speaking, it could be said that categorizing Satan is “way above our pay grade.”
A good way of describing the problem is found in the Islamic concept of the “Abdala”. They are entities whose purpose is to maintain the continuity of existence. As such, they have a direct covenant with God, that is not any of the human covenants. Humans are not endowed with the ability to define or describe them, as we can most other things, and humans are advised to leave them alone.
In essence, what they do is not our business, and they have their own rules that we are not privy to. They have been, are, and will remain unknown to us.
Much the same problem exists with Satan. Living being or not, it is not up to us to say. Our job is not to define Satan, but to avoid Satan if at all possible. This part we know. But when people go around saying that Satan is “such and such” and “so and so”, they are treading on thin ice. Unlike the Abdala, at least we have been given some definition of what Satan is to work with. But that is not license to abstract.
And don’t *even* think you can describe the Holy Ghost. That is pushing “Taking God’s Name in Vain” to extremes.
I liked that one, too. I dread the direction many churches and denominations are taking. I love a good evangelical sermon that makes one squirm in his or her seat and convicts them of sin. We barely get them anymore.