Friday quote of the Day

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1. 

   Andrew

   February 3, 2006 @ 4:08 pm

   I am reeally reeally slooow! I’ve read it 5 times and I still don’t get it!

2. 

   patrick

   February 3, 2006 @ 4:40 pm

   What he’s saying is that people don’t want a God who is wrathful. They want to be forgiven without a cross. They want forgiveness without atonement.

   The redefined god of liberal theologians is a god who has no wrath. that concept bothers them so their god becomes one who accepts people into his kingdom. Why, because their theology says man has no sin. how do they enter.. well if god is not wrathful, man has no sin, then what need is there for a cross.

   Make sense?

3. 

   Andrew

   February 6, 2006 @ 12:30 pm

   Got it…that was quote in 1937? 50 plus years ago?

4. 

   patrick

   February 6, 2006 @ 12:49 pm

   Yeah 1937. We think it’s bad now, Niebber though it was bad in 1937.. Spurgeon in 1887 noticed this trend as well labeling it as the Downward Grade controversy.

   [At the end of the Puritan age] by some means or other, first the ministers, then the Churches, got on “the down grade,” and in some cases, the descent was rapid, and in all, very disastrous. In proportion as the ministers seceded from the old Puritan godliness of life, and the old Calvinistic form of doctrine, they commonly became less earnest and less simple in their preaching, more speculative and less spiritual in the matter of their discourses, and dwelt more on the moral teachings of the New Testament, than on the great central truths of revelation. Natural theology frequently took the place which the great truths of the gospel ought to have held, and the sermons became more and more Christless. Corresponding results in the character and life, first of the preachers and then of the people, were only too plainly apparent.

   MacArthur’s book Ashamed of the Gospel — covers this issue in depth.

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