A local Episcopalian church recently ran an ad in my local newspaper advertising their celtic worship service and promoting the “ancient wisdom.” One could also come on a weeknight to discuss the teachings of Marcus Borg. It all ties in together, doesn’t it? Moving away from biblical truths leads people so far astray, so far from the truth, they become completely lost.
Please read this by David Cloud
The Jesus Seminar, which claims that only a small part of the four Gospels contain authentic sayings of Jesus, has been revitalized in recent days. After the death of founder Robert Funk in 2005, the organization nearly went out of business. Now it is moving to Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and is receiving an influx of money to carry on its Satanic work of destroying people’s faith in God’s Word.
Through the Jesus Seminar, the hiss of the slithering serpent can still be heard asking, “Hath God said?” In the 1980s, the Jesus Seminar boys cast ballots on the authenticity of Christ’s sayings in the four Gospels, using red balls to indicate that a saying was probably authentic, gray, that it was possibly authentic, and black, that its authenticity was improbable. Less than a third of Jesus&rs quo; sayings received red votes.
In 1992, Marcus Borg, a participant in the Jesus Seminar, said, “It makes no historical sense to say, ‘Jesus was killed for the sins of the world.’ … I am one of those Christians who does not believe in the virgin birth, nor in the star of Bethlehem, nor in the journeys of the wise men, nor in the shepherds coming to the manger, as facts of history” (Bible Review, December 1992).
The Jesus Seminar is only one voice in a loud chorus of end-time unbelief that was supernaturally prophesied in the very Bible they so blindly denounce.
“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13).
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables” (2 Timothy 4:3-4).
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction” (2 Peter 2:1).
“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts” (2 Peter 3:3).
(Friday Church News Notes, August 28, 2009, http://www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) –
4 comments
August 29, 2009 at 8:07 am
Craig
The Jesus Seminar is only one voice in a loud chorus of end-time unbelief that was supernaturally prophesied in the very Bible they so blindly denounce.
While there are certainly blind followers, my contention is that those who are at the forefront spreading these lies are wittingly leading people to destruction.
If Marcus Borg doesn’t believe in the Virgin Birth and that Jesus died for the sins of the world then by definition he is NOT a Christian.
August 29, 2009 at 8:53 am
judy
Well, if he doesn’t believe in any of the tenets of the faith, how can he call himself a Christian? That’s the problem with these guys. They want to call themselves Christians, but they don’t want to believe what Jesus said or stand on sound doctrine. They want to remake and rethink the faith to their liking, just as Jesus said they would.
August 29, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Tim H
They call themselves Christian because of the post-modern definition of being one. The church today does not “preach” the gospel of “believe in Jesus and repent” but rather repeat this weak, mindless, mean-nothing prayer after me and welcome to the family of God. Now we shall call youa Christian…
Problem, wrong family!
August 30, 2009 at 8:19 am
judy
it reminds me of the slide of the Methodist and Presbyterian church into liberal Christianity. Now the Devil is taking Evangelicals. How nice.
But I’ve been amazed as I have looked at different sites at how much has changed in 10 years and how you find so little faith out there. There’s a lot of intellectual arguing going on, and a lot of angry people. But the faith? Where’s that?