Glenview New Church Serves Up a “New Christianity”
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Read the doctrinal statement at Glenview New Church, and meet the new spirituality in all its, uh, splendor. They call this “A New Christianity.”
The Church – The Lord’s universal church includes all people who live a good life according to their own religious beliefs. One teaching of the New Church says, “Every person is saved who acknowledges God and lives well.” The Lord makes sure that all people have the opportunity to learn these two most basic principles of religion, working through many churches in many nations. Yet He offers us much more than the “basics.” The New Church is where you will find specific teachings about what He asks of us and how He leads us.
I have news for them. This isn’t Christianity at all but an apostate counterfeit. If all religions lead to God and heaven, Jesus Christ could have saved Himself a lot of trouble by never coming to earth to be crucified. Everybody could have just gone Buddhist and embraced a fat little idol. Or they could have become Thetans with Scientology and watched for their mothership returning to earth. Or they could have become Muslims and blown themselves up to the greater glory of Allah. The possibilities are endless, but none of these paths lead to the one true God.That path is found by faith alone in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. All else is error.
We’re going to see more and more of this foolishness posing as Christianity in the days to come, as the exlclusive message of Christ in the Gospel is rejected in favor of an “all paths lead to God” universalism. It’s being promulgated within evangelicalism now by emergents like Brian McLaren, Doug Pagitt and friends.
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