“BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS SO…”: STUPID THINGS CHRISTIANS SAY


Apprising Ministries thinks the the title should make it clear to you what this Christian agnostic is communicating in his screed over at Relevant Christian. After singing a rousing chorus or two of the Beatles song “All You Need Is Love”; the following sarcasm from Joe Martino—whose pastor is Rob Bell of the Emergent Church—ought cut right through any postmodern fog about their view on the perspicuity of Holy Scripture:

Please just don’t expect me to come running to your view because you have the Bible on your side. Please don’t expect me to give you credence because you believe your way is the most Biblical.
(Online source)

This mystic left-leaning postevangelical emerging church shows the American Christian Church clearly did not heed warnings such as this from A.W. Tozer:

Within the circles of evangelical Christianity itself there has arisen in the last few years dangerous and dismaying trends away from true Bible Christianity. A spirit has been introduced which is surely not the Spirit of Christ, methods employed which are wholly carnal, objectives adopted which have not one line of Scripture to support them, a level of conduct accepted which is practically identical with that of the world—and yet scarcely one voice has been raised in opposition. And this in spite of the fact that the Bible-honoring followers of Christ lament among themselves the dangerous, wobbly course things are taking…. (The Price of Neglect, 6).

God knew there was to be conflict over what people believe the Bible says. Where do these emerging Christian agnostics think the Creeds of Christendom they love to repaint to hide behind actually came from; a Sunday School picnic?

See also:

DOUG PAGITT, ROB BELL AND THE SEEDS OF COMPASSION EVENT

ROB BELL IN A NUTSHELL: THE BIBLE

ROB BELL AND KARL BARTH