Emerging Heresies
Times change! However, the gospel must remain the same.
In a sincere attempt to reach the postmodern generation with the gospel, it seems many Christians have become postmodern in their thinking. This movement involves much more than stylistic change. It's about the deconstruction of the fundamental truths of the Bible.
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Some one, then, must undertake the ungracious task of probing and
laying bare the evils of the age; for men must not be allowed to congratulate
themselves that all is well. If others will not, he will. If others shrink from
the obloquy of such a work, he will not. He loves the age too well; he loves his
nation too well; he loves his fellow-men too well. They may upbraid him; they
may call him a misanthropist, or a prophet of evil; they may ascribe his
warnings to the worst of motives, such as pride, or arrogance, or self-esteem,
or malice, or envy; but he will give no heed to these unjust insinuations. He
will prefer being thus misunderstood and maligned, to allowing men to
precipitate themselves upon a ruin which they see not.
Rather than that they should perish, he will allow
his own good name to be spoken against. He will risk every thing, even the
hatred of brethren, rather than withhold the warning. If they give no heed to
it, he has, at least, saved his own soul. If they do, he has saved both his own
soul and theirs. He would rather take up the glad tidings of peace, and tell men
of Him who came the first time for shame and death, and who is coming the second
time for glory and dominion; but he feels as one who has a special and personal
message to deliver, which cannot be postponed. He must remember that he is a
watchman; and, having seen danger pressing on, he must not hesitate to make it
known. He must speak his message of forewarning and rebuke, sparing no arrows,
and neither smoothing down nor hiding any form of sin, but laying his finger
upon every sore, and beseeching men to turn from their ungodliness.
The evils around him press upon him sadly; the coming evils are
foreshadowed upon his spirit, and, therefore, he lifts up his voice like a
trumpet. Satan has many snares which need to be detected; the world has many
spells and lures which must be disenchanted; religion has many guises which must
be unmasked, many devious paths of inconsistency which must be pointed out, many
cherished errors which must be condemned, many carnal taints which must be
abhorred and shunned. All these he must protest against without fear or favour.
--Horatius Bonar