You know, I think about this...Christianity today is so gullible...so gullible. The evangelical world is so gullible. We see...we look at the world and this is what we see...we see abortion, that's always the big issue, we see homosexuality, we see immorality, we see the breakup of the family, we see pornography, we see euthanasia, we see a lot of those kinds of ethical, cultural, moral issues. We see that the Women's Liberation Movement fracturing the fabric of the home and devastating children. We see the external materialism of the culture around us robbing people of the real values of life. And so we all get exercised and upset about what is patently obvious to all of us. I mean, nobody is...nothing is subtle about the attack on unborn babies, is there? I don't think it's very subtle when the Supreme Court passes a law to make it legal...not very subtle. Pornography is not very subtle. You can pick up any magazine and it's all over the place. You can turn on television, it's everywhere. You can drive down the street, you see it all over the place...not subtle.
Homosexuality isn't subtle. Once it was, not subtle now...blatant, flagrant, defiant, in-your-face along with all the other immorality in our culture, it's right there staring you right in the eye all the time. Nothing subtle about this.
So the church in its gullibility gets concerned about all this stuff and it's all sin and you have to have a biblical view about it. I agree with that. But the church gets all concerned about that and say...We've got to defeat this abortion thing, we've got to defeat this homosexual thing, we've got to defeat this deal over here with pornography, we've got to do all this stuff on the cultural level, we've got to win all these great battles out there to save the cultural morality and in order to do that, do you know what we have to do? We have to all get together. Now in order for all of us to get together, we've got to make something not an issue. What's that? Truth. So we win this little obvious battle and we're totally defeated at the same time because we just gave up the only thing we have...the truth. This is the gullibility of the church.
And so we say, "Well, if we're going to win this battle, we can't be quiveling about whether...whether the Catholics have a different gospel than we do, we've just got to accept them as brothers and sisters in Christ, we can't worry about that." And as Peter Kreep(?) says in his book Ecumenical Jihad, we've got to realize that Muslims are going to heaven too and Confucianists are going to heaven too, and Buddhists are going to heaven too, and even orthodox Jews who believe in the same God we believe in and they'll find out what they didn't know about Christ once they get there. And even atheists, he says, who are seeking for truth are seeking for God they just don't know that God is truth and so they'll get there too. And if we keep fighting with these people we'll never win the cultural war, so what we need to do is win the cultural war and we just need to all get together and not make these doctrinal things an issue.
And what have we done? We have literally been eaten by the roaring lion, just got swallowed. How gullible are we? We've abandoned truth for the sake of this tolerance thing. Let's not question any...and then we're not allowed, especially in this sort of this television environment thing, we're not allowed to question any of the so-called apostles of Christ who come along with their divine messages for us and who bear all this supposed divine power, we can't question anything they say. So we've taken truth and set it aside, we're going to try to win this big cultural war, try to get everybody on the same page all agreeing and we'll sweep all of these social issues aside and in the process lose the Christian faith.
Let me tell you, it can get lost. It got lost for...it got lost for a thousand years between 500 and 1500, there were just vestiges of a remnant left. I mean, we have to know where the battle is, you can't be that gullible.
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