Current Culture:
Within the realm of Christendom, that is every religion that professes to be followers of Christ, there is a strange concept of truth in our current culture. Although many would agree that truth is objective or absolute, they also believe that it is virtuous to refuse to label practically any organization that claims to be Christian as being in error. Therefore, although truth is defended as being absolute, a mindset that views truth as subjective or relative actually exists. The fear of being judgmental trumps the fact that truth does not lie on opposite sides of the same fence.
Voices from the Past:
Baxell Barrett Baxter wrote, “The idea of a multiplicity of churches with many divergent doctrines is intellectually indefensible. No matter how divergent the doctrines, modern man feels that everyone is on his way to heaven, simply traveling a different road from that of his neighbor. The idea of a multiplicity of churches, all of which are right, destroys faith in the Bible as the final authority in the realm of religion. When men have spent several generations teaching that the Bible does not mean what it says on baptism, on the one church, on the name, on falling from grace, and on many other religious themes, it is no wonder that people get the idea that maybe the Bible does not mean what it says on marriage and divorce, on basic morality and on the importance of being Christians at all.”
2/16/2012
