They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand.
(Isaiah 44:18)

Seeking Spiritual Loopholes To An Inclusive Religion Of The Love Of Self

Dr. Samir Selmanovic who serves on the Coordinating Group for Emergent Village contributes a chapter called “The Sweet Problem of Inclusiveness: Finding Our God in the Other” in An Emergent Manifesto of Hope a recent book edited by Doug Pagitt and his friend Emergent anti-theologian Tony Jones. Selmanovic gives further indication where we are headed with this inclusivism of the Emergent Church when he tells us:

For most critics of such open Christianity, the problem with inclusiveness is that it allows for truth to be found in other religions. To emerging Christians, that problem is sweet… Moreover, if non-Christians can know our God, then we want to benefit from their contribution to our faith. (196, emphasis mine)

The logical theological conclusion to the emerging church and its seeking to bring all religions together is Dave Parker’s utopian “dream” of universalism in an Emergent Church. I first showed this to you in Emergent Church: Dreaming Of Another god. A dream which I will add Parker also calls “God’s dream,” while he muses:

In this community, young and old, Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal, upper class and lower class, middle class, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual–everyone–found commonality and community at the foot of the cross. And God was adding to their number daily those who were being saved. And by saved, I mean that a kingdom of God mindset was being sculpted, and refined and fleshed out in lives.

This is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but not surprisingly centered as the Emergent Church is on self, ol’ dreaming Dave then dreams on, “And I thought to myself that’s the kind of community I want to be involved in”:

In this community, young and old, Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal, upper class and lower class, middle class, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual–everyone–found commonality and community at the foot of the cross. And God was adding to their number daily those who were being saved. And by saved, I mean that a kingdom of God mindset was being sculpted, and refined and fleshed out in lives.

Men and women, look deeply into the eyes of Dave Parker here and you will be looking into the very face of spiritual deception. As I said before, so I say again: The $evangelical$ community embraces these vipers of the neo-liberal cult Emergent Church at their own peril…