Have you ever left church feeling something was wrong and you just could not identify the problem? Dr. Rod Rosenbladt gives a lecture of the differences between Law and Gospel and how we are to keep them separate and what the purpose of each is. In short, if you get this wrong, you might not be a Christian after all. If your pastor gets this wrong, it might be time to leave before he drives you to despair or into the arms of the emergents. This is also an excellent resource to give to people who have rejected Christianity without understanding what it actually is. Very highly recommended.
The podcast is available at Fighting for the Faith, a program that dishes up a daily dose of Biblical discernment, the goal of which is to get you to think Biblically, to get you to think critically and to compare what people are saying in the Name of God to the Word of God.
Chris Rosebrough has recently listened to Jürgen Moltmann. Chris says at the beginning of the program:
The Emergent Church can be described in three ways right now. It is neo-Hegalian which basically means that it embraces a Hegalian worldview where contradictions synthesize into new realities. It is panentheistic, that God is in everything, but in a way that there is no distinction between Creator and creation. It is quite different from the Biblical doctrine of Christ’s omnipresence. And it is universalistic. Universal in the sense that somehow everybody is saved and the Gospel is good news for everybody, regardless of what religion you practice. You don’t need to repent and trust in Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. You can be a follower of God in the way of Buddha or Mohammed or whatever. McLaren, in A Generous Orthodoxy, says that there is wheat, not chaff, in other religions. [Chapter 17]
I am re-examining McLaren’s book, now that I have the emergent decoder ring, and that is that I understand what is running under the hood, basically a neo-Hegalian, panentheistic universalism that is a popularized version of A Theology of Hope and the theology of Jürgen Moltmann.
By the way, that is kind of a bad way of putting it. Theology that does not have it’s origin in, and abides in, and limits itself to God’s Word, is not Theology. It is not words about God. That becomes metaphysics or spirituality or something completely other. And Moltmann, I don’t consider him to be a theologian. The reason why I don’t consider him to be a theologian is because his “theology” is not grounded in God’s Word. In fact it outright contradicts it.
[South Africans in the Dutch Reformed Church should note that Moltmann has influenced their pastors as can be seen in the writings of Rev. Cobus van Wyngaard.]
In this episode Chris also discerns Brian McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy Chapter 9, ’Why I am Green’ in the section: The Biblical Case For the Physical Return of Christ to Judge the Living and the Dead AGAINST the Emergent Heretical “Eschatology of Hope”
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