Read Acts 17
| Posted On: 05/15/08 10:15:34 AM |
Age 39, CANADA |
It's hard to know where to start in response to this. One must strain hard agianst charity to interpret the above referenced editor's note so clearly against the grain of its intention. I suppose if one starts with the premise that a given person is a heretic and can only speak falsely, then one will inevitably find what one looks for. But what kind of hermeneutic is that? Not only does it distort truth, it is deeply uncharitable.
I don't find the many contradicitons that allegedly riddle the above passage. In fact, I find it perfectly consistent with the Apostle Paul's use of pagan stoic and epucurean philosophy in Acts 17 to proclaim the Gospel to the Greeks in Athens before the Aeropagus. Twice he cites pagan Greek philosophers approviingly, even incorporating an inscription on an altar (to a false god), and affirms that they had arrived at a measure of the truth but that in Christ we have received the fullness of that truth. How is it so wrong and heretical of the editors of Prism or kay Warren to affirm or support the same sort of approach to other faiths? Greg Bahnsen might approach them differently, but my vote goes w/ St. Paul!
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- You've Got to be Kidding
| Posted On: 05/15/08 07:33:58 PM | | Age 41, WI |
Did you seriously read the article linked? It is horrific! What serious Christian editor could publish this article that directly contradicts everything the Scriptures say about Jesus Christ? You can't post a one paragraph disclaimer claiming to discount everything an article says and then run the heretical piece. The article is introducing readers to the fact that Christ is within everyone in all world traditions. He says that right in the piece. I don't think you even bothered to read it! It is the simple-minded evangelicals who are biblically illiterate and tolerant of theological error who are willing to accept this stuff. Did Jesus really fulfill the path to Buddha? Where in Scripture does it say to find the good in other world religions? You have no biblical defense, period, for any truly Christian editor to run this article so filled with error. You don't mix truth and error. William Ashbrook said it well: "New Evangelicalism, beyond any question, is seeking middle ground with respect to the theological controversies.In the realms of things moral and spiritual one must be either right or wrong…the showdown at the close of the age will come in realms of black and white, not in the fog of a confused gray. In the great fight of faith there is no middle ground on which the neutralist can complacently stand for long…There can be no middle ground for Bible believing Christians.These are testing times when the dividing line between truth and error becomes ever more distinct." That time is now.
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Read Acts 17
| Posted On: 05/15/08 01:41:34 AM |
Age 39, CANADA |
This post is so discouraging and misleading that I would not dignify it with a response were Rick & Kay Warren not being drug into the tirade. When you write that "To look for what is good and true in faiths that deny the only Son of God, Jesus Christ, is an abomination to God," you apparently don't pay as close attention to Scripture as you claim. St. Paul quotes pagain philosophers twice back to the Greeks, affirming the truth of what their own "poets" have taught. I guess I missed when Greg Bahnsen was canonized alongside (ahead of?) the Apostle Paul as speaking on God's behalf. Why is it so threatening to think that perhaps God by His Spirit and in Jesus Christ is calling all people to Himself? Did Jesus not say that whomever is not against us is for us?
I applaud Kay Warren for continuing dialog with people who are earnestly seeking to understand the message of Christ today.
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- Nonsense
| Posted On: 05/15/08 07:39:50 PM | | Age 41, WI |
Kay Warren is hardly going to dialogue. She's the opening speaker and the universalists there are the least of the problems. She's appearing with a radical gay theologian named Miguel de la Torre who is an activist for gay marriage and was praised by PrideSource.com. Here's the information: http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=777
Here at the Envision 08 conference we have Kay appearing and condoning as keynote opening speaker June 8, NOT dialoguing, with universalist emerging church pastors, feminist theologians, socialists, radical environmentalists and an evangelical activist for gay marriage, praised by a gay paper for his work for gay marriage. God help you if you think this is Paul on Mars Hill. This is total apostasy being acted out in living color and most are too willfully blind and biblically illiterate to see it.
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It's a war we must recognize if we are to fight it
| Posted On: 05/14/08 05:28:51 PM |
Age 53, AR |
It's one thing to dialogue with atheists and cultists for the sake of converting them. It’s an entirely different thing to compromise the TRUTH for the sake of temporary harmony. Hell is the destination of those that will not receive the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE. If we really believe that, we must fearlessly tell people in demonic darkness how to escape the terror to come."the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."2 Cor 4:4
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| Posted On: 05/13/08 04:50:13 PM |
Age 26, MN |
So the best approach to other religions is to just say "I don't know what you believe and I don't care because it is PAGAN and WRONG."
Good luck with that.
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They labor in vain
| Posted On: 05/13/08 04:11:53 PM |
Age 61, MO |
Essentially what these Emergent, New Spirituality, post modern Christian leaders are glamorously, heroically, and philosophically trying to pull off, is peace on earth without Christ. Have they checked in recently to see that ever since their endeavors started, there has been less and less peace in the world? When the Israelites of the Old Testament pandered to pagan gods, God chastised them. What makes these religious leaders think that God will not do the same thing today? Those who pedal a soft sell, compromising Gospel are playing with fire and are apt to get burned. I suggest that those who find any consolation in these post modern Christian endeavors pay close heed to the Scriptures: "The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up." (2 Peter 3:10). George Cancilla
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