The form of godliness, but without the power; without the sound doctrine of Scripture.

And what do we have today as the reigning school of [biblical] interpretation in Protestantism in our theological seminaries world-wide?

I’ll tell you what it is: Bultmannian exegesis; named after Rudolph Bultmann, “the demythologizing of the Bible.”

And what did Dr. Bultmann teach, for forty-some years?

He taught that you couldn’t rely upon any single thing—virtually—in the entire New Testament record; about Jesus Christ. It all had to be “demythologized,” and then the pieces put back together again.

What does Paul say; “they will gather to themselves teachers who will tickle their ears, and the Truth of God will be turned into mythology.” It’s here. The reigning school of American theologians has progressed from bad to worse.

We only have to deal with Harry Emerson Fosdick in the 1920s; but then, it accelerated to Edwin Lewis, Nels F.S. Ferre, Reinhold Niebuhr, and on from Niebuhr to Paul Tillich, and crowned in Rudolph Bultmann.

Not one single one of those men believed the historic doctrines of the Christian faith; but they were all the leading theologians of America. [Episcopal] Bishop [John] A.T. Robinson cannot be unfrocked by the Anglican Church despite the fact that he is a living devil when it comes to Christian theology—denying everything and turning the faith of people into darkness.

Do you know why they can’t unfrock A.T. Robertson; because [Episcopal leadership] is as heretical as he is.

Walter Martin

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End Notes:

[1] The Cult of Liberalism, Walter Martin Religious InfoNet, CD Rom.

See also:

PROGRESSIVE DEGENERATION WITHIN MAINSTREAM EVANGELICALISM

THE WILD GOOSE OF THE EMERGING CHURCH IS NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT

ROB BELL AND POSTMODERN NEO-LIBERALISM