Liberal churches are filled with orchards of such trees bearing self-righteousness of a different species but of the same deadly taste. Search their affirmations and you will find them exulting in the self-righteousness of "tolerance" and "nonjudgmentalism" as they embrace and celebrate lawlessness and gross sexual deviancy and imagine themselves holier than the fundamentalists they despise because of it.
The more things change . . .
I agree. But Conservative churches are filled with orchards of such trees bearing self-righteousness of a different species but of the same deadly taste. While they are not as "tolerant" at Liberal churches, they tend to be full of cock-sure answers, self-assured holyness and rightousness which often has no Biblical basis.
The writers of the 'Arminian Magazine' seem to be conservative (so far as I can tell). They are decrying the departure of the Churches away from Scripture.
I would agree that 'liberalism' is as judgemental as any Pharisee. That is because they have rejected (like the Pharisee) the words of God, which is the only thing that can keep one humble and bearing 'fruit' (Gal.5:22-25).
The danger from being a Pharisee is that doctrinally they may be correct. The Pharisee's were far more 'biblical' then the Saducees or Herodians (believing in Angels, the Resurrection, Hell, Heaven, etc) but they had denied the most important thing-love (Mat.23:23,1Cor.13).
Now, when I say love, I do not mean 'sentimentality' but love that comes from the power of the Holy Spirit controlling your life (Rom.6:16)
The more things change . . . The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be, and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun (Ecc.1:9)