By: General James Green
“The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light”-M.P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1925).
“…uncertainty became the only fact that could be accepted as fact, not only in the popular mind, but also in large segments of the academic mind as well….Enter the battle of THE BOOK. Enter the warriors, both human and inanimate, who will hack the already wounded body of sola Scriptura [“Scripture alone”] into buriable pieces”-Emergent Church author and lecturer, Phillis Tickle, The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why (2008).
“There are many kinds of thinking. Some thought is discursive, tracing the development of an idea in a linear way. Some is polemical, staging a winner-takes-all fight between ideas. Some is analytical, breaking down complex effects back to simpler causes. But some thought seeks to embrace what has come before-like a new ring on a tree-in something bigger. This is emergent (or integral, or integrative) thinking”-Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy (2004).
“Orthoparadoxy represents a conversational theological method that seeks to graciously embrace difference while bringing the fullness of a differentiated social-self to the other.
Through the methodology of orthoparadoxy, competing ideas, practices, and hermeneutics are seen as an invitation to conversational engagement rather than as something to refute, reform, or revise….Orthoparadox theology requires a dynamic understanding of the Holy Spirit”-Emergent spokesman Dwight J. Friesen, Orthoparadoxy: Emerging Hope for Embracing Difference.
“There is a beauty in paradox… it breaks apart our categories by showing the inadequacy of them and by pointing to a reality larger than us…beyond-the-beyond… [it is] one of the ways we follow Jesus into that larger mysterious reality of light and love”-Nanette Sawyer, “What Would Huckleberry Do? A Relational Ethic as the Jesus Way” (in An Emergent Manifesto of Hope, p. 48).
“I AM THE way, THE truth, and THE life: NO MAN cometh unto the Father, but by ME”-Jesus Christ the Lord, John 14:6.
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ”-the Apostle Paul, Colossians 2:8
“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ”-Jude 1:4.
“These Emergent Church people, most of them, are RECREANTS (APOSTATES) who have deconstructed grace, faith, and Christ”-General Jim (2010).
THESE RECREANT PEOPLE are guilty of destroying (or having an agenda that attempts to destroy) Biblical faith, just like the Gnostics in Biblical times. They, the Recreants/Gnostics, preach a “higher mystical knowledge” beyond God’s revealed Scriptures. Emergent churchite (leader) Brian McLaren tells his readers to “drop any affair you may have with certainty, proof, argument…find things to do with the Bible other than read and study it.” Thanks, but NO THANKS, Brian. I’ll stick to 2 Timothy 2:15-20: “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some. Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour” (KJV).
One thing we can count on is that “the foundation of God standeth sure…the Lord knoweth them that are His…” This is true despite the fact that many may stray from the truth (Matt 24:11) and deny or disown the Lord that bought them (Jude 1:4; 2 Pet 2: “…there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in DAMNABLE HERESIES, even denying the Lord that bought them…And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of”-vv. 1-2).
Are You “TICKLED” Yet?
JESUS SAID, “IF you love me, keep my Word/commandments,” but Emergent Church spokeswoman Phillis Tickle wants to HACK the Bible into BURIAL PIECES!
If you deny His Word, you deny Him! Peter wrote about this way back yonder. He used the Greek arneomai, meaning “denying; to disown or renounce” (the Lord who bought them-yes, JESUS PAID FOR OUR SALVATION BY HIS OWN BLOOD!!). Peter makes no apologies about who denied the Lord Jesus and who followed their “pernicious” (i.e. “sexually immoral”) ways. One trait common among these recreant leaders: THEY FAVOR PERNICIOUSNESS SUCH AS HOMOSEXUALITY AND OTHER UNLAWFUL THINGS.
Peter said in 2:15, “…which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam…who loved the wages of unrighteousness.” Peter calls these treasonous people “wells without water” (v. 17). They are not, as some teach, mere “religious” but unsaved souls. They had been saved by the Blood of Jesus; they had escaped the wickedness of the sinful world thru the Blood Atonement of Jesus the Christ-but now were again entangled in sin (v. 20).
LISTEN UP!
WHILE THERE IS a worldwide offensive against the Ekklesia of God, His TRUE Body of Christ will never be destroyed-history proves this out. The “foundation of God,” i.e. the TRUE Church, CANNOT and WILL NOT be destroyed.
What we see transpiring today is, number one, God’s cleansing of THE FALSE out from the true; number two, the strengthening of His true ones, His faithful ones. While we may see all this Emergent Church stuff as a “proof” that His Church is too weak to stand in this hour of temptation, the Truth is, God is doing this work: He is exposing the rotten fruit, the tares among the wheat; He is pruning His vine in order that it will bring forth sweeter and more abundant fruit.
Don’t ever think for one minute that man is in charge of changing God’s Word to fit the times. HA! These RECREANT FOOLS are merely tools in the hand of the Almighty.
World Crisis
THIS “WORLD CRISIS vs. salvation of souls” dichotomy is all thru McLaren’s book, Everything Must Change. Hey, dear apostate Brian, the Bible says that God cannot change! He may change His mind, at times; but His character, which is pure, holy and righteous, CAN’T change. What all these backsliders/apostates/recreants want is for God to go along with “their” filth, “their” rebellion, “their” pride. So, they travel on the “broad way,” preaching and teaching that “Everything Must Change.”
Souls
SOULS, LOST SOULS, are what Jesus came for…to liberate them, to bless and prosper them-once they’re saved-in order that they would be fruitful in the Lord. Jesus asked, “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Mk 8:36-37).
The Emergent/Emergence Church is here to DAMN souls! They couldn’t care less if one is Biblically saved and secure in God’s plan of salvation.
Jesus made the salvation of souls the most important issue. Now these LOST Emergence leaders (who love it so!) think they have a better plan for man: with a sweep of the hand, they dismiss the Bible, calling it “outdated” and “unfit to meet today’s needs.”
NO! The Word has not lost its power to save, heal, guide. They (the Emergents) have lost their first love; therefore they follow demons and come up with doctrines of devils to seduce gullible souls. They have engaged in philosophies of demons, ancient devil beliefs with new faces. No matter the new faces, satan is still the author of them, not God.
PC Dancers
THE EMERGENT CHURCH has just about every kind of weirdness one can imagine in it…sex perverts, hip-Marxists, greenies, helps-heroes, pseudo-intellectuals, “experts” of all sorts, and blah, blah, blah. But one trait that stands out “bright and shining” (or “dark and deadening”!) is that they desire (DEMAND!) that what the world needs is a form of Christianity that dances to the Rock-n-Roll/Rap-crap tune of global “Political Correctness” (PC-ism)…and they are offering the Emergent Church. How nice of them. One critic said, “It’s kind of a neo-Marxist liberation theology repackaged for North American tastes.” To be sure, their philosophy caters to a liberal social-revolutionary message, while DEGRADING, DENOUNCING, and DESPISING the personal crisis of the soul and sin. Well, don’t forget, “The road to HELL is paved with good intentions!!”
And so, these RECREANT philosophers REBEL LIKE HELL against God, His Word, and His true servants.