tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post3701981424617414464..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Saving Christianity from itselfRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-89436897062041813632016-06-10T10:27:25.119-04:002016-06-10T10:27:25.119-04:00"There's a sense in which forthright apos..."There's a sense in which forthright apostasy is more intellectually honest. Why don't they say they used to be Christian, they were raised in the Christian faith, they gave it their best shot, but in the end they just don't find central planks of the Christian faith credible, so the time is past due to made a clean break? Become secular humanists. Would that not be more consistent?"<br /><br />That was exactly Machen's point in "Christianity and Liberalism."Ken Abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01398980914190503708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-83119872700975529742016-06-09T17:51:36.933-04:002016-06-09T17:51:36.933-04:00I guess it's true that there is nothing new un...I guess it's true that there is nothing new under the sun. Haven't researched specifics prior to Christ and the Apostle Paul so there may have been this argument and debate circa 04 B.C. and back?<br /><br />Jesus after being challenged for casting out a demon, being accused by his challengers of working hand in hand with Beelzebul said what if your sons cast out demons like I am, then are they of the same spirit as Beelzebul? They will therefore as a matter of consequence become your judges.<br /><br />The Apostle Paul wrote about this phenomenon in the following citation:::><br /><br />Tit 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. <br />Tit 1:16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work. <br /><br />He has a more expansive description of this sort of soul, here:<br /><br />2Ti 3:1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. <br />2Ti 3:2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, <br />2Ti 3:3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, <br />2Ti 3:4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, <br />2Ti 3:5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. <br /><br />I guess besides writing about them, when we come across them we should just avoid such people.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01744678277860175675noreply@blogger.com