TIME: More Evangelicals Believe All Paths Lead to God
Jun 30th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata BlogsClick the post title to be taken to the source.
John Hendryx from the Reformation Theology blog weighs in on the recent Time Magazine article on Christians and tolerance. The headline in Time is: Christians: No One Path to Salvation. Universalism, in the name of compassion, is being increasingly found in evangelical churches thanks to years of seeker, circus-church foolishness substituting for biblical teaching, as well as the tireless efforts of some in the emerging church movement. Some emergent leaders won’t even answer when pressed as to whether those who don’t know Christ will go to hell. “We’ll let God decide that,” they say. Well, God already did decide that and recorded his decision in his Word.
If all paths lead to God, then why not just turn out the lights at our churches, lock the doors and join the local Bahai’s or Sikhs down the street? What was the point of Jesus dying a brutal death on the cross if all paths ultimately lead to salvation? He could have saved himself a whole lot of trouble. Do we see now the ugly fruit of abandoning sound biblical preaching in our churches? We now have professing Christians accepting rank heresy because it feels better to say all paths lead to God. Holy Scripture is clear:
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
–Acts 4:11-13
It’s time for some holy boldness among those who still believe the immutable truths of God’s Word, and it is time to expose these heretical evangelical churches for the shams that they are.