The first thing liberalism is going to say is that God is not knowable, God is felt.

That God is not understood, God is experienced. That's the view of liberalism.

When theological liberals come into the church, they attack doctrine, distorting and

perverting what the church believes and has believed for centuries.

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham and you're listening to Renewing Your Mind.

100 years ago, J. Gresham Machen's classic book, Christianity and Liberalism, was released.

In its pages, he exposes the folly of liberalism and how, according to what they believe,

liberalism is not Christianity at all. As I mentioned yesterday, you can request a

special hundredth anniversary edition of that book with your donation of any amount

at RenewingRemind.org. Here's Liganyr teaching fellow, Stephen Nichols,

as the unpacked Machen's chapter on how liberalism attacks the Bible's view of God and man.

We're going to start where we should always start in theology.

Doctrine or theology, the word theology means literally the study of God.

So we're talking about who God is and his plan for this world that he made, which is a way of

saying theology is about everything. But we're going to start with the doctrine of God.

And that's where Machen starts us. In fact, in chapter two of this book, after the introduction,

we've got doctrine and then we've got God and man. He puts them together.

These questions really do go hand in hand. The answer to the question, who is God,

has everything to do with understanding who we are. And once we understand who we are,

we look back to understand who God is. So these two go together.

Machen starts with Christ's view of God. Again, he's understanding where the

liberals are coming from. And they're always talking about Christ and they're always talking about

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