Pastor Bob DeWaay opens this article about the popular emerging church icon Rob Bell by informing us:

For the past two years I have researched the theology of the Emergent Church in preparation for a book I am writing. During that time I ignored Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis because I was concentrating on other works of postmodern theology. Then someone loaned me Bell’s video in which he uses subatomic physics to try to prove that, “everything is spiritual.” After viewing it, I saw how seriously he is leading people astray…

In historical Christian theology, the inerrant Bible interpreted according to a valid hermeneutic that sought to know the Biblical author’s meaning was the standard “picture” of the real thing. That meaning gave “artists” (it’s a bad analogy but I will interact with it because it is Bell’s) the standard by which they made their “portrayal.” Various systematic theologies with creeds and definitions can and should be judged as to how well they portray the truth of Scripture.

The postmodern approach of Bell and others claims that objectivity is impossible, therefore to judge a theology to be “biblical” or not is impossible and futile. Unfortunately, Bell has created a piece of abstract art and called it “Christianity.”

You can read the rest of DeWaay’s article on Rob Bell of the Emergent Church right here.

See also:

ROB BELL IN A NUTSHELL: THE BIBLE

ROB BELL SAYS GOD HAS ALREADY MADE PEACE WITH ALL MEN

ROB BELL AGREES WITH MARIANNE WILLIAMSON