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Christianity with an erroneous Bible full of (so-called) 'metaphorical mistakes and errors' as 'Progressive Christianity' would want us to believe would be 'Regressive Christianity', not 'Progressive Christianity'.
- PJ Stassen.
▋THE IMMUTABLE WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST. Jesus Christ, Creator of the worlds [Hebrews1:1-4] has warned:
No wonder Charles Spurgeon once made this priceless comment when he said that he was so glad that these kinds of outlandish 'religious' fads had the good sense of popping up over time in ‘instalments’, and not all of them in one bang at the same time, attributing it to the foresight of God designed to prevent genuine believers from 'dying from amazement'.
King David writes:
◉ “All views are true and make up the oneness of God”. FALSE.
“For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders; so much so that, if it were possible, they would deceive even the elect. Behold, I have told you beforehand … If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how shall you believe if I tell you heavenly things?”
[Matthew24:24-25; John3:12MKJV].
No wonder Charles Spurgeon once made this priceless comment when he said that he was so glad that these kinds of outlandish 'religious' fads had the good sense of popping up over time in ‘instalments’, and not all of them in one bang at the same time, attributing it to the foresight of God designed to prevent genuine believers from 'dying from amazement'.
▋ WHY I DO NOT SUPPORT THE IDEAS OF SO-CALLED ‘PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY’. The following ‘tenets’ of ‘Progressive Christianity’ (as recently published on social media) were found to be theologically objectionable:
◉ “‘Truth is relevant to the Individual.” FALSE.
◉ “‘Truth is relevant to the Individual.” FALSE.
This is exactly what the Bible does not teach. The Bible teaches the Absolute Truth of God’s existence, the immutable moral laws of God (The Ten Commandments) and the divine mandate of the Gospel and mission of Jesus Christ. Adherents of ‘Progressive Christianity’ clearly are secular humanism devotees, hence their denial of ‘Absolute Truth’ and pathological insistence on humanism’s situational ethics or moral relativism.
(Do the math: If there really were no such thing as ‘Absolute Truth’, then the ‘Progressive Christianity’ adherents would themselves be lying, i.e., not being absolute truthful, about Christianity and consequently should anyway not be trusted. By the way ... they do not believe in Absolute Truth, except for the 'absolute truth' of 'Progressive Christianity', otherwise why bother?).
◉ “Humans were not born in sin.” FALSE.
◉ “Humans were not born in sin.” FALSE.
The Bible teaches that we are conceived in (not ‘with’) sin; that ‘all men’ (and women) have sinned and that, if we say we have no sin, we make God a liar:
"And this is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us."
[1John1:5-10MKJV].
◉ ”The Bible has errors and is metaphorical.” FALSE.
This is typical ‘Jesus Seminar’ (USA) and/or 'Nuwe Hervormers' (South African, RSG radio) postmodernism and has been refuted by Evangelical Christians for ages. Imagine Mao telling the Chinese communists that his ‘Little Red Book’ (the communist ‘bible’) had errors and was ‘metaphorical’, or Adolf Hitler telling his Nazi followers that his book ‘Mein Kampf’ had errors and was ‘metaphorical ‘; they both would have been laughed out of the history books.
Even where the Bible uses ‘metaphor’ (and it often does) it is still trustworthy; but, to say that the Bible is ‘full of errors and metaphorical’ is ridiculous. Were this true of the Bible, why would anyone want to be a Christian or even be associated with Christianity, especially with 'Progressive Christianity', at all? Christianity with an erroneous Bible full of so-called metaphorical mistakes and errors would be 'Regressive Christianity', not 'Progressive Christianity'. Just because the (immutable) Bible does not go along with today's politically-correct Leftist narrative and Leftist driven 'Christian' apostates does not mean it is full of mistakes ... the mistakes lie with the apostates.
The disciple Timothy writes:
“Faithful is the Word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners …”
[1Tmothy1:15aMKJV].
Jesus Christ has said:
“For truly I say to you, Till the heaven and the earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in any way pass from the Law until all is fulfilled … The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away.”
[Matthew5:18; 24:35MKJV].
“The Words of Jehovah are pure Words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.”
[Psalm12:6MKJV].
◉ “All views are true and make up the oneness of God”. FALSE.
Again, the denial of Absolute Truth and the insistence on Relative Truth. This is just plain old religious syncretism (interfaithism) in a new multicolour coat ('All religions lead the way to the same Heaven').
According to this profound one-size-fits-all philosophy, no criminal will ever be successfully charged with a crime on earth, and no sinner ever convicted of sin at the Great White Throne Judgment where Jesus Christ will preside as Chief Justice of the proceedings. This ‘anything goes for truth’ worldview is the secular humanist's moral relativism and situational ethics (on steroids) and makes neither any philosophical or theological sense. It is not even good mathematics.
◉ "Social Justice is more important than doctrine.” FALSE.
◉ "Social Justice is more important than doctrine.” FALSE.
This has got the Leftist’s sick, nauseating ‘WOKE’ stamp all over it. The term, ‘Social Justice’, is anyway a non-sensical term since all ‘justice’ is ‘social’ by default. To begin with, ‘Justice’ invariably involves people and is thus always per definition ‘social', it cannot be otherwise; imagine a man marooned on an island in the Pacific trying to preach ‘social justice’ to himself on Wednesdays during 'National Social Justice Day'! 'Social Justice' is, grammatically speaking, a non-sensical term, like 'free gift' or 'real threat'. However, such pleonasms or tautologies are often used for emphasis, and I have no objection against such use provided it is the truth and not disingenuously invoked to justify a shaky cause without meritand predicated on a typically Leftist house-of-cards.
The moral of the story? No WOKE-fanatic, false ‘christ’ or wannabe ‘messiah’ will ever succeed in rewriting the Bible or nullifying the Words and Laws of God in the name of 'Progressive Christianity' ... not on my watch you won't.
The moral of the story? No WOKE-fanatic, false ‘christ’ or wannabe ‘messiah’ will ever succeed in rewriting the Bible or nullifying the Words and Laws of God in the name of 'Progressive Christianity' ... not on my watch you won't.
▋THE PROMISES OF THE BIBLE AND OF JESUS CHRIST STANDS SUPREME.
“The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away…. The Words of Jehovah are pure Words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.” [Matthew5:18,24,35MKJV; Psalm12:6MKJV].
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