DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!

 

Many man-centered pied pipers of pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism and the Emerging Church of Emergemce Christianity, which is thought to be the new reformation, continue a repudiation of Sola Scriptura in their sordid lust affair with spiritually corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism. A highly subjective spirituality that actually flowered within the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism.

This ought to be cause for pause when you’re hearing so much praise for e.g. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the spiritual Gestapo unit known as the Jesuits. But in their desire for existential experiences centered on the self, and a phony form of ”unity,” now evanjellyfish is turning to the mystic speculations of spurious Spiritual Formation as taught by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster; with an able assist from his friend and spiritual twin ordained Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard.

So now the Rip Van Winkles in leadership nary bat an eye when embracers of mythical mystery like Rob Bell; no longer the “Elvis of Emergent,” Bell is Elvis, and right now he’s in your evangelical buildings, step forward and preach something stupid like:

It’s interesting how many traditions (pause) When you read the great enlightened ones; meditation, centering prayer, reflection—in every tradition you can find the mystics—and what’s always at the heart of the spiritual lives, the everyday lives of the great ones was always a period of time.

Whether it’s prayers, chanting, meditation, reflection, study—whatever you call it—what is it essentially; it’s taking time to breathe. Because when you’ve been breathing, (slight pause) in a proper sort of way, you’re far better equipped to handle what life throws your way. (Online source, 5:41-6:23)

Right; the “great enlightened ones”, the “great ones” we find in “every tradition”; and do tell, just who are these so  much better than the rest of us that they receive such lavish praise? Rabbi Bell tells us, to no surprise for those of us who have studied CSM, why but of course, “the mystics”; who else? Men and women, do you mean to tell me that you really can’t see that this mystic mumbo jumbo burped by Bell is just a reimagined/reinterpreted/regurgitated form of Gnosticism?

How does Rob Bell know that in transcendental meditation aka Contemporary/Centering Prayer for the “Christian” that these duplicious dreamers are actually experiencing God? Answer: He doesn’t; and neither do any of these other fools who claim to have a “deeper” knowledge (Greek: gnosis) of God through their mindless meditation. It’s not like Jesus hasn’t tried to warn us. As one illustration consider the following from John MacArthur: Existential Neo-Orthodoxy Denies Sola Scriptura:

[Contemplative Spirituality aka] Mysticism is perfectly suited for religious existentialism; indeed, it is the inevitable consequence. The mystic disdains rational understanding and seeks truth instead through the feelings, the imagination, personal visions, inner voices, private illumination, of other purely subjective means. Objective truth becomes practically superfluous.

Mysticial experiences are therefore self-authenticating; that is, they are not subject to any form of objective verification. They are unique to the person who experiences them. Since they do not arise from or depend upon any rational process, they are invulnerable to any refutation by rational means…

Mysticism is therefore antithetical to discernment. It is an extreme form of reckless faith. Mysticism is the great melting pot into which neo-orthodoxy, the charismatic movement, anti-intellectual evangelicals, and even some segments of Roman Catholicism have been synthesized.

This is actually a short excerpt from MacArthur’s over-looked book Reckless Faith: When The Church Loses Its Will To Discern. In closing this for now, we lament just how far the visible church has sunk from, for example, October 6, 1536. That’s the day William Tyndale was tied to the stake, strangled, and then burned, so that you could have that Bible in your hands, which false prophets of Emergence like Rob Bell tell you can’t really be understood.

To paraphrase that great Church Reformer William Tyndale: Lord, open the evangelical Christian community’s eyes.

See also:

ROB BELL AND EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY REJECT CARDINAL DOCTRINE OF SOLA SCRIPTURA

THE NEW CHRISTIANS WITH CHRISTIANITY WORTH BELIEVING—NO SOLA SCRIPTURA: YES, WOMEN PASTORS AND QUEER CHRISTIANS

ROB BELL, PETER ROLLINS, AND QUEERMERGENT’S ADELE SAKLER

APPRISING MINISTRIES WITH A PEEK AT THE COMING SOTERIOLOGY OF EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY

THE EMERGENCE GOSPEL OF GOOD DEEDS

THE EMERGENCE OF POSTMODERN APOSTLES OF UNBELIEF

PHIL JOHNSON: JOYRIDING ON THE DOWNGRADE AT BREAKNECK SPEED