The Assault Of Modernism On The Denominations

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The Assault Of Modernism On The Denominations
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The Assault Of Modernism

• The God of fundamentalist is one God. The God of
  the modernist is another. The Christ of
  fundamentalist is one Christ. The Christ of the
  modernist is another. The Bible of fundamentalist
  is one Bible. The Bible of modernist is another.
• ( C.C. Morrison, Christian Century, Jan. 3, 1924)
  

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Ancient Modernism

• Romans 128 And even as they did not like to
  retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over
  to a debased mind, to do those things which are
  not fitting
• Romans 125 Who changed the truth of God into a
  lie,

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Ancient Modernism

• Romans 126 For this cause God gave them up
  unto vile affections for even their women did
  change the natural use into that which is against
  nature
• Romans 131 Without understanding,
  covenantbreakers, without natural affection,
  implacable, unmerciful

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They Did Not like To Retain God In Their Knowledge

• Hebrews 116
• But without faith it is impossible to please Him,
  for he who comes to God must believe that He is,
  and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently
  seek Him.

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They Did Not like To Retain God In Their Knowledge

• God is no longer the central fact in religion or
  the ultimate principle in theology. His place is
  taken by mans religious experience. The
  religious experience of men and women becomes the
  decisive fact and final court of appeal by which
  we test the validity of any theological concept.
• (Edwin Burtt, Types of Religious Philosophy,
  p.288)

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They Did Not like To Retain God In Their Knowledge

• Roughly 50 Anglican Vicars are members of Sea of
  Faith, an organization that claims religion is a
  human creation and that God is a man made
  myth.
• (BBC, Vicars who dont believe in God, July 13,
  1999)

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They Changed The Truth Of God Into A Lie

• 2 John 9-11
• Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the
  doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who
  abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the
  Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and
  does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him
  into your house nor greet him 11 for he who
  greets him shares in his evil deeds.

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They Changed The Truth Of God Into A Lie

• We cannot take the Bible as a whole and in every
  part as stating with divine authority what we
  should believe and do
• (Millar Burrows, Outline of Biblical Theology)

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They Changed The Truth Of God Into A Lie

• John 824
• Therefore I said to you that you will die in your
  sins for if you do not believe that I am He, you
  will die in your sins."

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They Changed The Truth Of God Into A Lie

• Am I suggesting that these stories of the virgin
  birth are not literally true? The answer is a
  simple and direct Yes. Of course these
  narratives are not literally true.
• (John Spong, Rescuing The Bible From
  Fundamentalism,p.215)

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They Changed The Truth Of God Into A Lie

• A survey of in 1968 showed that 60 of the
  Methodist clergy did not believe in the virgin
  birth and at least 50 did not believe in the
  bodily resurrection of Christ.
• A religious survey in 1992 found that 80 of
  Denmarks Lutherans do not believe in the
  Resurrection.
• (Christian News, Oct. 4, 1993)

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They Changed The Truth Of God Into A Lie

• We have closed our minds to such trivial
  considerations as the question of the
  resurrection of Christ. If you fundamentalists
  wish to believe that nonsense we have no
  objection, but we have more important things to
  preach about than the presence or absence of an
  empty tomb twenty centuries ago
• (Gospel Guardian, Vol.8,p.476)

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They Changed The Truth Of God Into A Lie

• 1 Corinthians 1514
• And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching
  is empty and your faith is also empty.

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God Gave Them Up To Vile Passions

• From this standpoint no traditional Christian
  doctrine, however clearly taught in the Bible, is
  absolutely vital to contemporary religion.
• (Edwin Burtt, Types of Religious Philosophy, p.
  306)

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God Gave Them Up To Vile Passions

• A United Methodist committee, after three years
  study, says it cannot arrive at a common mind
  about whether homosexual practice contradicts
  Christian faith, mirroring deep divisions in the
  church.
• (The Tennessean, August 31, 1991, p.1-2)

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God Gave Them Up To Vile Passions

• A homosexually symposium at Foundry United
  Methodist Church in Washington D.C., with keynote
  speaker Episcopal Church in the USA Bishop John
  Spong, featured ridicule of the Christmas
  Nativity story, speculation about Jesus as a
  drag queen, praise for homosexual marriage and
  a declaration that the Ten Commandments are
  immoral.
• (Mark Tooley, AFA Journal, Feb. 1996, p.14)

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God Gave Them Up To Vile Passions

• The womens movement is now a movement of
  self-identified women and women-identified men
  from all denominations whose common goal is to
  re-interpret the Gospel from the perspective of
  womens liberation.
• (Elizabeth Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School)

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God Gave Them Up To Vile Passions

• The United Methodist position of abortion has
  been so strong that two of its institutions
  helped organize and affiliate with the Religious
  Coalition for Abortion Rights. For many years
  RCAR used office space in the United Methodist
  Building which is located across the street from
  the U.S. Supreme Court.
• (SpiritRestoration.org, Denominations and their
  stand on the issue of Abortion)

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God Gave Them Up To Vile Passions

• 1 Corinthians 69-11
• Do you not know that the unrighteous will not
  inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived.
  Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
  adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10
  nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
  revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the
  kingdom of God.

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