Originally published in "The Lord's Coming Herald & Wesleyan Bible Prophecy Advocate," Winter Edition 2007
Commitment To Existentialism Versus Commitment To Christ
The goal in modern liberal Christianity is to enlist folks in a commitment to existentialism as their guiding religious principle. In this version of the faith, nearly everything deemed spiritual is portrayed as being sentimental and subjective.
In liberal existentialism, there is no rugged righteousness involved, or stern
denunciation of sin expressed. Instead, the indoctrination leads one to
conclude that that is only "Christian," which is all accepting, and all
tolerating.
A book of several years ago by the title of I'm OK, You're OK well expresses the
sentiments of this liberal approach to Christianity. In this new form of old
antinomianism it is no more about objective righteousness, it is about "fit in
and feel goodiness" based on humanity's subjective sentimentalities and
self-centered emotional experiences.
I am not that old, friends, but I can still remember a day when the church
preached against modern liberal theology. Now we don't hear much being said
about that subject. Is it because the old modernist/fundamentalist controversy
is really over? Or is it, rather, because liberalism has won, and we don't want
to incriminate ourselves?
The Bible says that after the power of the holy people has been scattered, the end will come (Dan. 12:7). It does not say God's people will be individually defeated, it says the unity of their power will broken apart. Existentialism is "another gospel" of deception that has done that to us!
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