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Stone Choir

Confessional Idolatry

Stone Choir

Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Hosts

Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      A true confession is not simply a matter of speaking a truth; rather, it is a matter of speaking the truth that is demanded under the circumstances. In fact, it is entirely possible to lie or to deceive with the truth. To say that it was the Romans who crucified Christ is entirely true, but to advance that particular truth in order to deny the truth that the Jews murdered the Lord Christ would be to lie with a truth. This is a tactic that Satan has employed from the very beginning.

      Today, we most often see this playing out with Christians who run to their doctrinal statements or confessions when faced with novel problems. The battles of the Reformation era were important (and remain important), but they are not the things that Satan is attacking today. The man who holds up his confession and denies that he could ever be wrong because he has Abraham (his doctrinal statement) as his father has become a pharisee who follows after Satan’s footsteps in lying with the truth.

      Confessions must not become idols, and the battles of centuries ago are not the battles of today. To look upon the bronze serpent because God commanded it is one thing; to worship the bronze serpent because you have distorted what it was is another matter entirely. Satan is rightly called a serpent — do not give him the opening he needs.

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      0:00.0

      The

      0:07.0

      The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

      0:41.7

      And I'm still, whoa. On today's Stone Choir, we're going to be revisiting a few concepts that we've discussed in the last year.

      0:49.7

      So one year ago, January 24th of last year, we did an episode on apostasy. And this is going to be a

      0:56.3

      continuation of that, basically a part two of, okay, now that churches are becoming apostate,

      1:02.7

      here's what it's going to look like. And we're going to refer back to a number of examples.

      1:06.8

      That's a really good series to revisit from the beginning of last year. If you haven't heard it in a while or if you're jumping around, the first five episodes that we did in 2024 really stand the test of time very well.

      1:18.6

      It's much worse now and it was when we did them.

      1:20.6

      That's the way this stuff is going to keep going.

      1:22.6

      So what we're going to talk about today is when churches are apostatizing, how are the men inside those churches going

      1:29.6

      to behave? Because as we said in that episode, we're not talking about individual apostasy,

      1:34.5

      which is really kind of a good case of such thing can exist for the notion of apostasy.

      1:39.6

      When an individual steps away from God, rejects God, it's obvious. He says, I don't believe in God anymore. I'm just going to go away. This is all crap. It's a very noticeable heel turn. And he goes in the other direction. He basically repents of his repentance. It's obvious. You can tell by someone's confession, by his words, by his life, this man no longer believes in God.

      2:01.5

      When churches apostatized, they don't do any of those things, not overtly, at least not at first.

      2:07.7

      When a church apostatizes, it pretends that it continues in the faith of whatever fathers it claims.

      2:14.8

      And for the purposes of our discussion today, we will just assume for the sake

      2:18.9

      of argument that whatever your favorite confession is, is true. It doesn't matter if it's true or not.

      2:24.2

      I'm not conceding anything as Lutherans, anybody else is right. But it doesn't even matter who's

      2:29.0

      right about those facts, because the problem that we have in our respective churches is that given those confessions,

      2:35.8

      assuming that they're infallible, assuming they're true, they're a correct exposition of what God

      2:41.5

      says, the problem is, how do apostatizing churches employ those confessions in service of Satan?

      2:50.3

      So we're going to talk about today some historical examples.

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