Sing4Him
June 23rd, 2008, 10:36 AM
John Killinger: Doctrine is a Thing of the Past
John Killinger, author of The Changing Shape of Our Salvation, and a presenter at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s General Assembly this year, says the following:
“Now we are reevaluating and we’re approaching everything with a humbler perspective and seeing God’s hand working in Christ, but not necessarily as the incarnate God in our midst,” Killinger said. “Now, that may be hard for you to hear depending on where you are coming from, but we can talk more about it.”
No, Mr. Killinger. It’s not a “humbler perspective” to deny the deity of Jesus Christ; it is raw, Satanic arrogance to contradict the self-attesting, eternal Word of God. Here we go again, folks, with the same assaults on the deity of Christ, the existence of a literal hell, the Second Coming of Jesus and the substitutionary atonement. Killinger and McLaren and Jones and all the others who are questioning cardinal Christian doctrine as found in God’s Word are just reincarnations of the same “higher critics” of 100 years ago. It’s the same old song and dance with different performers. Read all that Killinger had to say here from Baptist Press. He sounds like Harry Emerson Fosdick of the famous (infamous) Riverside Church so many years ago. Killinger’s attacks on the deity of Christ have echoes of Fosdick’s well-known 1922 sermon, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in which he attacked belief in the virgin birth; the inerrancy of Scripture; and the doctrine of the Second Coming, which he called “absurd”. Ironically, in this same sermon, Fosdick described fundamentalists as “bitterly intolerant.” Hmmm.
Mr. Killinger, in his speech before the General Assembly, further proves that it is never a case of doctrine vs. no doctrine. There is always doctrine in theology, the question is always whether it’s biblical, true doctrine or the lying doctrine of rebellious mankind, fueled from below.
No, these attacks are nothing at all new. In fact, they are the same, ludicrous attempts of man to take the eternal truth of our God, established forever in the heavens, and change it according to his own pathetic preferences. Praise God that His Word never changes.
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
–Psalm 119:160
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
–Psalm 119:89
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
–John 17:17
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
–Isaiah 40:7-8
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=916
John Killinger, author of The Changing Shape of Our Salvation, and a presenter at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s General Assembly this year, says the following:
“Now we are reevaluating and we’re approaching everything with a humbler perspective and seeing God’s hand working in Christ, but not necessarily as the incarnate God in our midst,” Killinger said. “Now, that may be hard for you to hear depending on where you are coming from, but we can talk more about it.”
No, Mr. Killinger. It’s not a “humbler perspective” to deny the deity of Jesus Christ; it is raw, Satanic arrogance to contradict the self-attesting, eternal Word of God. Here we go again, folks, with the same assaults on the deity of Christ, the existence of a literal hell, the Second Coming of Jesus and the substitutionary atonement. Killinger and McLaren and Jones and all the others who are questioning cardinal Christian doctrine as found in God’s Word are just reincarnations of the same “higher critics” of 100 years ago. It’s the same old song and dance with different performers. Read all that Killinger had to say here from Baptist Press. He sounds like Harry Emerson Fosdick of the famous (infamous) Riverside Church so many years ago. Killinger’s attacks on the deity of Christ have echoes of Fosdick’s well-known 1922 sermon, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in which he attacked belief in the virgin birth; the inerrancy of Scripture; and the doctrine of the Second Coming, which he called “absurd”. Ironically, in this same sermon, Fosdick described fundamentalists as “bitterly intolerant.” Hmmm.
Mr. Killinger, in his speech before the General Assembly, further proves that it is never a case of doctrine vs. no doctrine. There is always doctrine in theology, the question is always whether it’s biblical, true doctrine or the lying doctrine of rebellious mankind, fueled from below.
No, these attacks are nothing at all new. In fact, they are the same, ludicrous attempts of man to take the eternal truth of our God, established forever in the heavens, and change it according to his own pathetic preferences. Praise God that His Word never changes.
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
–Psalm 119:160
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
–Psalm 119:89
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
–John 17:17
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
–Isaiah 40:7-8
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=916