Posted on 12/03/2023 1:35:51 AM PST by spirited irish
What are we to make of this rapid, cross-denominational apostasy?2 The fact of this phenomenon is a clear example of culture reporter Megan Basham’s recent warning: “You may have wanted to avoid this subject, but you cannot avoid it any longer. [LGBT ideology] is coming to your church, no matter how solid you think it is.”3 Those who cannot see this are woefully ignorant of the times. Yet the cause of this phenomenon is anything but recent. Indeed, the “journey” that leads to this dead end (let the reader understand) is so well worn that one can see it from space.
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotandliberty.com ...
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I wonder if whoever added “false” as a keyword even bothered to read the article.
Yes, the ‘whoever’ read and comprehended the meaning of the article. Thus ‘false refers to liberal (pantheist) Christianity, a false theology..
It occurs that all of the LBGQT nonsense is based solely on carnal pleasures.
I’m sure there were some primitive religions in the past that worshiped sensations, but none I know on in the modern era except wokeism.
Is the author conflating *Functional liberalism* with Evangelical Christianity?
I can see functional liberalism denying the faith, but not Evangelicalism.
Andy Stanley is not and has never been the "de facto bishop of the evangelical megachurch". Bad reporting there.
The issue is a big one but there are strong believers out there fighting the darkness. And it is why some denominations are splitting...if everyone was rolling over for the demonic interpretation you wouldn't see Bible believers leaving in droves.
The new liberals—are worse in this critical respect: they claim to agree with the faith once for all delivered to the saints while simultaneously reinterpreting its doctrines into meaningless statements or else ignoring the same as they press ahead with whatever they want to do."
There's nothing new about them except, for the first time they "control"the right. I must confess, the rest of the article is beyond my understanding. It points out the Catholic Church and Anglican Church for the apostasy that has been present in both from the beginning of their existence. Nothing new there just status quo. Many are duped but there does exist in both members who are true seekers of God. For those not complete reprobates, there is always a chance for salvation.
“..It occurs that all of the LBGQT nonsense is based solely on carnal pleasures.
I’m sure there were some primitive religions in the past that worshiped sensations, but none I know on in the modern era except wokeism...”
There’s nothing new under the sun when it comes to spirituality.
It’s a deception, via satanism at its finest.
Same age-old demons that now take hold thru modern deceiving name changes.
Ashteroh was/is a transgender god/demon, Molech was/is a baby sacrifice (abortion) god/demon, Baal was another one, etc.
They’ve existed all throughout the ages ever since “the fall”, but really raise their ugly heads within godless, easily-deceived societies.
liberal theology ping
Christian denominations need to go biblical, and denounce homosexuality as an abomination, as pronounced by God, and stick to that despite the screams.
Otherwise they have no theological defense against promotion of the LGBTQ agenda.
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become [a]united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be [b]in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old [c]self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be [d]done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is [e]freed from sin.
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, [f]is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on presenting [g]the members of your body to sin as [h]instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as [i]instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin [j]resulting in death, or of obedience [k]resulting in righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that [l]though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, [m]resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, [n]resulting in sanctification.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 Therefore what [o]benefit were you then [p]deriving [q]from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. 22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you [r]derive your [s]benefit, [t]resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Thankful that I belong to an independent Bible church. We take all our teachings from the Bible & are not in any denomination, so sidestep many of the problems that seem to be so predominant these days. I seem to see many churches splitting that I had not guessed ever would. Then again I see some that probably should have reorganized or else just dissolved some time ago. I won’t mention any names. Praise God for His True Word!
Sounds like the toxin of moral relativity.
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