Category: Marcus Borg
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 1, 2009 in AM Missives, Bibliology, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Dan Kimball, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Henri Nouwen, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker, Marcus Borg, New Spirituality, Peter Rollins, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Roman Catholicism, Shane Claiborne/New Monasticism, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Tony Campolo, Tony Jones, Youth Ministry
It’s important you understand that mainstream evangelicalism continues moving further away from the certainty of Sola Scriptura in favor of highly subjective Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM). As you’ll see in Disciplines To Deception In Southern Baptist Convention entire state SBC conventions e.g. North Carolina are openly using teachings from Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster.
Under under Discipleship Resources of the State Board of [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 17, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Features, Marcus Borg, Rob Bell
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness. (2 Timothy 3:16)
The Bible Was Written By God Himself Though Men Whom He Guided Personally
Living Spiritual Teacher and “Progessive Christian” scholar Marcus Borg speculates [read: wishes] the Bible is not a divine product. By now the following quote from Rob Bell and his wife [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 6, 2009 in Marcus Borg
If you think the following from Living Spiritual Teacher and “Progessive Christian” scholar Marcus Borg is even remotely a Christian testimony, then you’d better think again:
I affirm, along with many others, that the major enduring religions of the world are all valid and legitimate. I see them as the responses to the experience of God in the various cultures [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 3, 2009 in Islam, Marcus Borg
Well now, it sure looks as if we’ve discovered that the Progressive Christians of the Jesus Seminar and the new reformation of Emergence Christianity are not the only ones who are selectively and subjectively dealing the text of Scripture. Nope, it would seem that even Islam has their own emerging apostates. Of course genuine Christians know that the Quran did not [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 2, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Features, Marcus Borg
In this short piece Apprising Ministries now draws to your attention one of the reasons why the postliberal cult of Emergence Christianity, being championed e.g. by Guru Brian McLaren and the Elvis of Emergence Rob Bell, is actually embracing the world at the expence of the exclusive Gospel of God. Thinking people need to ask themselves: Why are these Emerging leaders working [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 9, 2009 in Current Issues, Features, Marcus Borg
Combining a couple of posts from Christian Research Network, which is an outreach of Apprising Ministries:
Here is Marcus Borg speaking about his view of the Bible. After watching this video, we strongly advise that you read Chris Rosebrough’s excellent apologetic article entitled “The Greatest Expert on the Scriptures Who Ever Lived And His View of [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 5, 2008 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Dan Kimball, Doug Pagitt, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Henri Nouwen, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, Marcus Borg, New Spirituality, Richard Abanes, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Robert Schuller, Roman Catholicism, Shane Claiborne/New Monasticism, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, T.D. Jakes, Theology, Tony Campolo, Tony Jones
A man-centered gospel is the belief that the determining factor in whether or not a man is eternally saved, in the end, relies (at some level) upon an act of his own will i.e. human decision. This is often called synergism because it is thought to be a cooperative effort between God and man. While [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 2, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Marcus Borg
“I will feed My flock and I will lead them to rest,” declares the Lord GOD. I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy I will feed them with judgment.” (Ezekiel 34:15-16)
The PostLiberal Cult Of The Emergent [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 13, 2008 in Marcus Borg
Marcus Borg tells us in Jesus And Buddha: The Parallel Sayings of which he is editor:
I write as a Jesus scholar and a devoted non-exclusivist Christian. Buddhists might see matters differently and I know that some Christians would. But the cumulative product of my thinking and experience is the conclusion that Jesus and the Buddha [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 10, 2008 in Marcus Borg
I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am [the eternal God], you will indeed die in your sins.” (John 8:24, Greek)
Always Learning But Never Able To Acknowledge The Truth
At his website A Portrait of Jesus, Jesus Seminar Fellow, Marcus Borg explains the “Jesus” he knows [...]
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