But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.

Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. (2 tim 3:1-7)

The Church Visible Cannot Say It hasn’t Been Warned

[I]n religion, they are paradoxists; contradictories can be mutually affirmed. And everybody smiles while they are doing it… This is the pursuit of intellectual suicide and the symptoms of spiritual madness.

It is the blinding of the eye by Satan and it a symptom of the spiritual death of the soul. We have liberal theology which tells us, as {Mormon apologist] Van Hale did today, “We really don’t have to worry the concept of God at all; I mean, this is an evolving concept. It goes on and on and on.”

The same liberals that he quotes—the same liberals the Mormon church always quotes and BYU delights in publishing—all of those liberals deny the Trinity, the Deity of Christ, the Virgin Birth, the Vicarious [Penal Substitutionary] Atonement, and the Bodily Resurrection [of Christ].

They are as cultic as the Mormon Church is. So citing them doesn’t prove anything. I’m a former liberal. I was raised in the Episcopal Church  and graduated from Roman Catholic schools—I know what liberalism is.

Liberalsim is the attempt to hang on to the form of Christianity while you have thrown out the substance of Jesus Christ.

That’s what it is; and the reason they do it is they’re a glorified social society collecting their paychecks from the money our ancestors put in trust to preach the Gospel. they’re dishonorable men.

I know, because I was told I could go into the ministry of the Episcopal Church, [and] I didn’t have to accept the thirty nine articles of the church, or the Athanatian Creed, or any of the rest of it.

All I had to do, simply, was to use the language. And if I used the language everybody would think I was orthodox. That was deliberate.[1]

Walter Martin

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Endnotes:

[1] The Gathering Storm, CD Rom, 1987, available through Walter Martin Religious InfoNet.

See also:

LIBERALISM 2.0 THE NEW PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY

THE EMERGENT CHURCH CULT OF POSTMODERN LIBERAL THEOLOGY

WORSHIP THE GOD OF SCRIPTURE