remodel, replace - or remove? (part III)

Notice, in the above image, the first step down from the topmost level.  The first step downward away from true -- that is to say, Biblical Christianity, begins with abandonment of faith in the infallible (without error) character of the Bible itself.  Tragically, the vast majority of professing Christians, today, believe not only that the Bible does contain errors but, furthermore, that the Bible MUST contain error.  That statement is very easily proved, by reason of the ongoing proliferation and pervasive use of multifarious so-called Bible "versions" -- no two of which, versions, agree with each other.  How can they all be the pure Word of God?  For, it is demonstrably true that they do not all "say the same thing" (as many naively and wrongly claim).  Deuteronomy 32:4 says, of God:

"He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he".

If there exists (and there does exist) a pure and true record of Scripture, then the Church does not need any other text; most certainly the true Church does not need any fabricated imitation of God's Word.  Faith in the infallibility (without error) of the true Word of God is the bedrock of genuine Christianity.  Conversely, belief in the fallibility (with errors) of the Bible is the bedrock of the modern Apostasy.

'post-Christian society' (part 1)

It is often said that what once was called Western Society is now 'post-Christian'.  But that phrase is not intended to define what contemporary (Western) culture has come to be.  Rather, it is an acknowledgement of the apparently insignificant influence of Christianity in contemporary culture. The above image is a photograph of a section of a wall in an abandoned church somewhere in Russia.  The image is powerful in its simplicity.  The upper and lower halves of the photograph convey extreme tension: the detailed drawing in dark tones, in the upper portion, suggests the faded realism of a Christian worldview; whereas, the starkness of simple graffiti spray painted on a bright, formless background, in the lower half of the picture, strongly suggests the purely subjective contextualism of postmodernism.  "Punk's not dead", but Christianity is, the image seems to say.

mixed multitude

According to many sources, Bono (the lead singer of the rock band 'U2' - see above image) is something of an icon for the Emergent Church Movement.  He has even reportedly been called "the official theologian" of that Movement.  To many in that movement, as well as to very many others in more traditional Christian churches, Bono is a kind of holy man, in an eclectic sort of way: he's cosmopolitan, pacifistic, postmodern and, above all, ecumenical - besides being super rich and (as some think,) way cool.  Oh, yeah, and he's a Christian. 

Or, so he says.