This has been on my mind for quite a while and I have not addressed it because I do not like hurting peoples feelings but more and more heretical thinking is polluting the Christian faith and the worst part about it, it's coming from within Christianity from the so-called Progressive (Liberal) Christian.
Now understand I do not look at the Holy Bible in extreme literal ways nor am I against or hostile to science or philosophy. I also do not align with extreme dogmatism or legalism. But for centuries there have been very basic 101 beliefs that hold objective truth for all time and eternity within Christianity and they have been under attack for the last twenty-plus years.
So the following is why I am not a Progressive (Liberal) Christian. Engraved in my heart with no apologies.
1. Progressives make Jesus out to be just a philosopher who was a peace activist. No, Jesus was not a Buddha figure.
Jesus was the Son of God, the Messiah.
John 1:1, 14 / John 8:58 / John 20:28 / Colossians 2:9
2. Progressives believe Islam and Christianity worship the same God. No, simply no, because Christians believe and worship Jesus as God and the Muslims believe that Jesus was only a prophet and is not worshiped in their faith tradition so the two faiths are not worshiping the same God. Secondly, Christians of orthodoxy believe in the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as the Godhead to be worshiped. Muslims see this belief as believing in three gods not one god and hence do not worship the Trinity so Muslims will tell you themselves that Islam and Christianity do not worship the same God of Abraham.
John 14:6 / Acts 4:12 / 1 Timothy 2:5
3. Progressives make Christianity out to be nothing more than a "social justice movement" is a far cry from what the Faith is all about. First and foremost it is about Christ atoning for our own sins and reconciling us back in the right relationship with our Heavenly Father for us to live eternally with Him. Secondly how to treat one another and this is where social justice comes in but not before Salvation.
Luke 19:10 / Hebrews 2:3 / Ephesians 3:12
4. Progressives look at the Holy Bible's origins less as a divine text with divine authority and more as a human response to the concept of God. In faith, the Holy Bible is the inspired Word of God with divine authority over our lives and the church. The Holy Bible should be the last judge of arbitration. As the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary for her to conceive Jesus, so the Holy Spirit overshadowed the writers of the Holy Bible as they wrote filled with the Spirit and guided what to write by the mind of the Lord.
2 Timothy 3:16 / 2 Peter 1:20-21 / 1 Thessalonians 2:13
5. Progressives do not believe in the supernatural and hence believe you can scientifically explain away the miracles talked about in the Holy Bible. The Lord is not a liar and if He said a supernatural occurrence happened then it happened. If the Lord cannot supernaturally make things happen then He certainly could not have created the world and hence ceases to be God.
2 Timothy 3:5 / Mark 16:14-20 / Acts 19:11
These five points are the foundation of why I deny the Progressive (Liberal) mindset for they weaken and harm the Christian faith and alter the meaning and mission of the Messiah Jesus and distort the Holy Bible's essence. This is why I choose the traditional orthodox beliefs of the Church Fathers that have been the standard for well over two thousand years in Christendom.
Now understand I do not look at the Holy Bible in extreme literal ways nor am I against or hostile to science or philosophy. I also do not align with extreme dogmatism or legalism. But for centuries there have been very basic 101 beliefs that hold objective truth for all time and eternity within Christianity and they have been under attack for the last twenty-plus years.
So the following is why I am not a Progressive (Liberal) Christian. Engraved in my heart with no apologies.
1. Progressives make Jesus out to be just a philosopher who was a peace activist. No, Jesus was not a Buddha figure.
Jesus was the Son of God, the Messiah.
John 1:1, 14 / John 8:58 / John 20:28 / Colossians 2:9
2. Progressives believe Islam and Christianity worship the same God. No, simply no, because Christians believe and worship Jesus as God and the Muslims believe that Jesus was only a prophet and is not worshiped in their faith tradition so the two faiths are not worshiping the same God. Secondly, Christians of orthodoxy believe in the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as the Godhead to be worshiped. Muslims see this belief as believing in three gods not one god and hence do not worship the Trinity so Muslims will tell you themselves that Islam and Christianity do not worship the same God of Abraham.
John 14:6 / Acts 4:12 / 1 Timothy 2:5
3. Progressives make Christianity out to be nothing more than a "social justice movement" is a far cry from what the Faith is all about. First and foremost it is about Christ atoning for our own sins and reconciling us back in the right relationship with our Heavenly Father for us to live eternally with Him. Secondly how to treat one another and this is where social justice comes in but not before Salvation.
Luke 19:10 / Hebrews 2:3 / Ephesians 3:12
4. Progressives look at the Holy Bible's origins less as a divine text with divine authority and more as a human response to the concept of God. In faith, the Holy Bible is the inspired Word of God with divine authority over our lives and the church. The Holy Bible should be the last judge of arbitration. As the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary for her to conceive Jesus, so the Holy Spirit overshadowed the writers of the Holy Bible as they wrote filled with the Spirit and guided what to write by the mind of the Lord.
2 Timothy 3:16 / 2 Peter 1:20-21 / 1 Thessalonians 2:13
5. Progressives do not believe in the supernatural and hence believe you can scientifically explain away the miracles talked about in the Holy Bible. The Lord is not a liar and if He said a supernatural occurrence happened then it happened. If the Lord cannot supernaturally make things happen then He certainly could not have created the world and hence ceases to be God.
2 Timothy 3:5 / Mark 16:14-20 / Acts 19:11
These five points are the foundation of why I deny the Progressive (Liberal) mindset for they weaken and harm the Christian faith and alter the meaning and mission of the Messiah Jesus and distort the Holy Bible's essence. This is why I choose the traditional orthodox beliefs of the Church Fathers that have been the standard for well over two thousand years in Christendom.
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