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Liberal “Christianity” Reveals Its Soul and Bares Its Fangs
http://theaquilareport.com/liberal-christianity-reveals-its-soul-and-bares-its-fangs/ ^ | November 21, 2014 | Peter Jones

Posted on 11/21/2014 5:24:39 AM PST by Gamecock

The Church’s conflict with non-Christian religions is to be expected. Israel’s monotheistic faith was in direct confrontation with the many gods of Babylon and Egypt. Christians were confronted with the many altars to the gods of the Greco-Roman Empire. Interfaith was not on the cards. This situation clearly reflected the fundamental differences between the many forms of Oneist paganism in which everything is God, and Twoist biblical faith, in which God is the separate Creator and everything else is creation. In one case everything is one and the same; in the other, God and creation are radically different. There is, of course, a certain confusion with the so-called Abrahamic religions, but on closer examination, the gods of heretical Islam and Rabbinic Judaism are ultimately impersonal because they are singular, not Trinitarian. For God to be personal, Islam and Judaism must see God as obliged to create human persons, but in that case, God becomes dependent on the creation and true biblical transcendence is therefore impossible.

There are two reasons why the Islamic Friday prayers at the Episcopal National Cathedral on November 14, 2014, was strictly a form of religious non-sense. First, there is nothing in common between Allah and the Christian God-Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Islam rejects Christianity as polytheistic, and so refuses to recognize the true nature of the one who gives Christianity its name, namely Jesus Christ. Appropriately, with permission from their “Christian” hosts, Muslims on their prayer mats in the cathedral had their backs to a large Cross in the center of the church, graphically denying the central truth of the Gospel. Second, though its organizers called the event “a powerful symbolic gesture of religious tolerance,” the symbolism of the National Cathedral momentarily turned into a mosque is not lost on those eager for a global caliphate. The Islamic doctrine of wakf teaches that once a territory is Islamic, it is considered forever Islamic. These issues are of no concern to the event’s hosts in Washington, whose true commitments are clearer by the day.

The National Cathedral Dean, Rev. Gary Hall, characterized the biblical views of God and Jesus as “extremist Christianity.” He felt so at home with the traditions of his Moslems guests that he announced ahead of time: “we will not to try to convert one another,” openly admitting: “I have much more in common with progressive Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists than I do with certain people in my own tradition, with fundamentalist Christians.” This astonishing admission reveals how paganism has taken over the heart of the nation’s shrine, dressed up as “Christian” tolerance,” but quite willing to vilify and sideline biblical Christianity as the real enemy.

In the same week a different but comparable event occurred across the pond, as UK Anglicans mirrored the actions of their Episcopalian cousins. Christian Concern, an evangelical Anglican ministry that often uses truthXchange to help train some of the best young minds in Britain in worldview and cultural engagement, was effectively sidelined by mainline liberalism. The next event of CC’s Wilberforce Academy was to take place in January in rented facilities at King’s College, London, a prestigious university with connections to the Anglican Church. Last week King’s College is “reconsidering” its rental agreement, for the following outrageous reason: “We don’t think you as a Christian organization fit with us as a Church of England establishment.” This deliberate refusal even to rent public space to another Anglican expression of the “Christian tradition” has the intention to banish biblical orthodoxy as an outcast to the ecclesiastical and social wasteland.

In these two events, we see an intensification of the historic division within Christianity itself. “Liberal” and “biblical” Christianity can no longer be seen as mere theological options in an internal church conversation about the Gospel. In the US clear thinking about Christianity and paganism is dismissed as “extremist,” while hospitality is warmly extended to non-Christian apostasy. In the UK, hospitality is denied to fellow Anglican Christians committed to cultural engagement and the biblical teaching on sexuality, and is haughtily dismissed as unworthy of the slightest public association.

The future struggle for religious truth will involve not only the historic confrontation between Gospel truth and the pagan lie but will increasingly divide Christendom, pitting “Christians” who have abandoned the Gospel and have joined with God-denying paganism, against Christians who defend biblical truth.

When B. B. Warfield was asked ‘What is Christianity?’ he replied, “unembarrassed supernaturalism.” In our current confusing situation, we Christians must renew our commitment to a clear, courageous and unembarrassed statement of the Truth, “standing” in the power of the Lord, “having fastened on the belt of truth” (Eph. 6:14), doing nothing against the truth, but only for the truth (2 Cor 13:8). How are you being called to stand today?


TOPICS: General Discusssion
KEYWORDS: deceiver; godgap; howtostealanelection; religiousleft; waronchristianity

1 posted on 11/21/2014 5:24:39 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: Gamecock

Liberal Christianity to me means liberality in showing true love of God in everything a Christian does.

Othewise, even though the referenced website is usually pretty good, “liberal” Christianity these days means “not really” Christianity.


2 posted on 11/21/2014 5:35:32 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Gamecock

Didn’t know that, Muslims considering Christianity to be polytheistic, that is blasphemy of the really bad variety. God exists out of time. Our aging process is a linear representation of that.


3 posted on 11/21/2014 5:37:48 AM PST by BlackAdderess
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To: Gamecock

Excellent article. So very accurate in its description of the evil of paganism that has a seat in Washington.


4 posted on 11/21/2014 5:38:00 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Gamecock

bttt


5 posted on 11/21/2014 5:44:20 AM PST by sphinx
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To: Gamecock

bttt


6 posted on 11/21/2014 5:44:29 AM PST by sphinx
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To: Resettozero

Muslims are here to conquer, not assimilate.


7 posted on 11/21/2014 5:44:55 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Thanks.


8 posted on 11/21/2014 5:47:05 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Gamecock

The great falling away as per 2 Thessalonians 2:3? The Scripture says it shall happen before the Glory of Jesus’ return. Perdition shows itself as “tolerance” for all but the True Word. Bible Truth now “hate speech”, God’s Holy Sacraments now “bigotry”?


9 posted on 11/21/2014 6:10:57 AM PST by FiddlePig
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To: Gamecock
The National Cathedral Dean, Rev. Gary Hall, characterized the biblical views of God and Jesus as “extremist Christianity.” He felt so at home with the traditions of his Moslems guests that he announced ahead of time: “we will not to try to convert one another,” openly admitting: “I have much more in common with progressive Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists than I do with certain people in my own tradition, with fundamentalist Christians.”

Some day soon he will have to make a decision about where his true allegiance lies. With Jesus or otherwise. I wonder what he will decide?

10 posted on 11/21/2014 6:41:25 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: FiddlePig
That is my reading of events. Look up! The Day of the Lord is very near. He has given us a child to rule over us, just as He did before he judged Israel, as was stated in Isaiah 3. If Hillary or Warren is elected President in 2016, then the part about women ruling over us. 2017 is the Jubilee year if the Jews returning to Jerusalem as one nation. The path of the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 across the United States sure looks like a Divine cancellation mark to me.
11 posted on 11/21/2014 6:44:26 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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Mark for later.


12 posted on 11/21/2014 7:01:06 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: Gamecock

< rhetoric >Is it even possible to be a liberal AND a Christian? < /rhetoric >


13 posted on 11/21/2014 7:03:22 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Gamecock

Liberal Christianity is Gruber Christianity — a complete and utter lie that conceals that its beliefs are the opposite of what they claim to be.


14 posted on 11/21/2014 7:07:00 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: Gamecock
The National Cathedral Dean, Rev. Gary Hall, characterized the biblical views of God and Jesus as “extremist Christianity.” He felt so at home with the traditions of his Moslems guests that he announced ahead of time: “we will not to try to convert one another,” openly admitting: “I have much more in common with progressive Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists than I do with certain people in my own tradition, with fundamentalist Christians.” This astonishing admission reveals how paganism has taken over the heart of the nation’s shrine, dressed up as “Christian” tolerance,” but quite willing to vilify and sideline biblical Christianity as the real enemy....

....The future struggle for religious truth will involve not only the historic confrontation between Gospel truth and the pagan lie but will increasingly divide Christendom, pitting “Christians” who have abandoned the Gospel and have joined with God-denying paganism, against Christians who defend biblical truth. When B. B. Warfield was asked ‘What is Christianity?’ he replied, “unembarrassed supernaturalism.” In our current confusing situation, we Christians must renew our commitment to a clear, courageous and unembarrassed statement of the Truth, “standing” in the power of the Lord, “having fastened on the belt of truth” (Eph. 6:14), doing nothing against the truth, but only for the truth (2 Cor 13:8). How are you being called to stand today?

Good article.

15 posted on 11/21/2014 7:35:02 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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