Heh, heh, today's secret word is "Christian-Atheist" boys and girls. You know what to do when you hear the secret word don't you?
The bizzaro world of postmodernism continues to dazzle and amaze. Tim Challies points out an interesting article about a self-proclaimed Christian-Atheist who is a member of a Presbyterian Church. Challies has one of the best known and best kept blogs (actually more like a website) in the Christian blogosphere and he is one of my daily must-reads.
This type of story should be no surprise to discerning believers who see through the facade of postmodernist inclusivism and general lovey-doveyness. This my dear readers is where the rabbit trail of postmodern theology eventually leads. The truth is treated like play-dough and the characters are nuttier than Conky the Robot. The Brian Mc Larens, Rob Bells, and their band of emergent merry men are on the same trippy path to feel-good apostasy that inevitably leads to this kind of outcome.
What would Captain Carl and Cowboy Curtis think about all this hooey?
All I can say is mecka lecka hi mecca hiney ho.
4 comments:
Wow, as I was reading through the article and church website posted on Challes' blog, I definitely experienced some of that "righteous" indignation that Todd blogged about a while back...
One of the most unbelievable things on the "church's" website was one of their related links on "The Eight Points of Progressive Christianity"
https://www.tcpc.org/about/the_8_points_english.html
Stuff like this makes me sick, but brings me to my knees in prayer for the church. We need to be pleading for God to bring the leadership in churches like these to repentance!!
Agreed Jessica. It will only be changed by repentance, and that will only come from a healthy fear of the Lord. If they don't believe that Christ is Lord and that His truth is unwavering and not subject to their personal interpretations, then repentance if far from them. You are very spot on in saying that this kind of thing should drive us to our knees in prayer and righteous indignation.
I think Paul had this kind of thing in mind when he wrote Colossians Katie. It's funny how in almost 2,000 years men are doing the same kind of things to usurp the authority of God. There truly is nothing new under the sun.
Chris, have you read McLaren's latest thoughts on homosexuality? Startling.
I would also investigate Bell and his wife a little more in depth. Some of their recent comments are quite eye-opening. I'll try to dig some up and post them for open discussion.
I don't know a lot about McManus's church--I have heard some of his sermons and nothing has jumped out at me so far.
The biggest problem with postmodernism and its invasion of the church is that their thinking is based on the principle that objective truth cannot known. It tries to muddy the waters where it need not be muddy. They make no definitive belief statements and have a great disdain for order and authority, which flies in the face of sound biblical doctrine.
Again, its hard to paint them all together, because they don't all believe exactly the same things, and that is their greatest defense. Criticize the philosophy of the Emergents and one of them pops up and says "I don't believe what McLaren believes". They are so amorphous that you cannot pin any of them down on anything they believe. The only thing that is clear is that they are reacting against a form of doing church that doesn't quite fit their style. I'll be posting more as the days go by.
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