Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode we're finishing up a conversation we started last week regarding the five point deliverance.

Now last week as I mentioned this document was written up in the 1910s and it was used to try to stem the tide of

liberalism in the churches. We looked at the first point last week, the point of

inerrancy, we're going to look at the next four. So the second point is the Virgin

Birth of Christ. Now this was presented because the liberals were seeing this as a

way to question the deity of Christ. They challenged the idea that Jesus was born of a virgin.

They said, look, as you look across a religion's Buddhism speaks of the Buddha as having a unique

birth. In Islam, Mohammed is spoken of having a unique birth. In Islam, Muhammad is spoken of having a unique birth and so it is with the

followers of Christianity. They spoke of Jesus's birth as unique and special,

but we should not take this literally and we can't get hung up on it.

What the denial of the Virgin Birth served to do is not only undermine scripture, but it was also

a gateway into denying the deity of Christ. He was seen simply as another human being,

just as a man, not as historic Orthodox Christianity has it, the God man who is fully God and fully human in one person.

So we have the second point, the Virgin Birth.

The third point moves from the person of Christ to the work of Christ and addresses his death.

The third point is the substitutionary atonement.

Now what the liberals were promoting in place of this is what we call the example

theory. Now we understand the substitutionary atonement. God is a holy God, we are a

sinful people. There's nothing we can do about it. We are deserving of his wrath and because of our sin we are

under God's wrath we need a substitute we need the God man in Christ's humanity

he identifies with us the offending party, and in his deity he makes the

acceptable sacrifice to satisfy divine justice and divine wrath.

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