I read something last week that's taken a little time to digest. It was the Life section cover story in the 6/24 issue of USA Today. Here's an excerpt:
[...] the long-standing links between highly religious people, conservative ideology and the Republican Party are starting to fray, says a co-author of the study, John Green, a Pew Forum senior research fellow. The margin is a bit larger for subgroups such as "evangelicals" (26.3% of adults, who share strict ideas on salvation and common historic origins), mainline Protestants (18.1%, who share "a less exclusionary view of salvation and a strong emphasis on social reform") and historically black churches (6.9%, "shaped by experiences of slavery and segregation").
The basic premise of the article continues with an overall disturbing revelation. The "fraying" among evangelicals that's mentioned here is supposed to imply a dramatic acceptance of "many paths" to God.
So, what part of John 14:6, or Acts 4:12 are we not buying into anymore? There's really no margin for error or misinterpretation in these 2 passages, much less in the volumes of others that are equally as irrefutable. Are we actually getting bored with our own life-changing, eternal-hope-giving, highly undeserved message? Has the mind blowing sacrifice of Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection actually become an over-used, uncool way to Heaven --- by His own followers? The ground work is definitely being laid down for the ultimate deceiver to waltz in and start spewing his ludicrous crap. This is crazy. Exciting, but crazy.
If Jesus Himself made no bones about Who Truth was, is, and is to come, where do we come off believing that we have some sort of an intellectual, culturally sophisticated edge on the exegetical interpretation of what He said vs. what He meant? Sheer lunacy. We've now officially gotten too big for our theological britches. This is the exact kind of relativistic, sleepy logic that the enemy's trying to weave throughout our present culture. He's working all of these smoke and mirrors in order to condition most of humanity for his king whacko. What good is it to have an official anti-Christ if no one actually believes in him? I mean,this kind of stuff takes a lot of time and preparation. Because of our newest crop of resident loons, the time factor has been trimmed back considerably.
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