{"id":670,"date":"2008-03-28T22:53:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T06:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/03\/28\/the-ongoing-pattern-of-deception\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T22:53:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T06:53:41","slug":"the-ongoing-pattern-of-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/03\/28\/the-ongoing-pattern-of-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"the ongoing pattern of deception"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dipping again into my Church History notes, I come to a section headed “History of Neo-Evangelicalism & the Ecumenical Movement”<\/p>\n

The section starts with this:<\/p>\n

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Satan’s method is to counterfeit the truth, not contend with it. Therefore he produces deceptive bodies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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  1. Neo-Orthodoxy – deception in theology<\/em> in the 1920s<\/li>\n
  2. Neo-Evangelicalism – deception in practice<\/em> in the 1950s<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    It is interesting to consider these two notes that go with the quotation\/note I made under the title to the lecture. Liberalism\/Modernism was, if I may call it, honest<\/em> unbelief. While it propagated many lies, it propagated honest lies. Out and out lies. Bald-faced lies. In my next note in the church history series, I’ll cover it more specifically.<\/p>\n

    But liberalism (now sometimes called ‘classic liberalism’) became much less of a thread to Bible-believing Christianity than these two subsequent challenges. These two were greater<\/em> deceptions.<\/p>\n

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    The first, Neo-Orthodoxy is deceptive because it cloaks liberal ideas in orthodox words. It will speak of inspiration, faith, salvation, redemption, and so on, but mean entirely different things from Biblical Christianity.<\/p>\n

    The second, Neo-Evangelicalism is deceptive because it applies real, Biblical Christian testimony to disobedient methodology. It does this by distorting the Biblical emphasis to eliminate the negative in the Christian method – conversion<\/em> becomes commitment<\/em>, debate<\/em> becomes dialogue<\/em>, conviction<\/em> becomes crisis<\/em>, and so on.<\/p>\n

    Well, these movements have had their effects, and still do. Do you suppose Satan is finished with deception? Has he run out of ideas?<\/p>\n

    What is the next deception? Is it already here?<\/p>\n

    In these pages, I am often contending against all kinds of things I see as errors. I am afraid that there is plenty of deception to go around, whatever any new movement might be called.<\/p>\n

    May God keep us free of deception and true to Him.<\/p>\n

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