What Is Liberalism?

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🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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When we hear the word “liberalism”, we often think of liberal politics. But Christianity and Liberalism has religion in mind. Machen shows what happens when liberalism is inserted into religion—it morphs into something completely different from biblical Christianity. So what makes it so appealing to theologians? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland define liberalism and dive into its distortion of Christianity.

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0:00.0	This is the liberal move is to say listen we can still use this language and call ourselves
0:10.0	something Christian. This is where Machen says, no, we can't do that. You're actually selling the farm with that kind of language.
0:18.0	Paul, because Paul's the one who told us, if Christ is not bodily raised, physically, at a particular time and place in history,
0:26.0	then we are without hope, we're still in our sins.
0:29.0	Not, well, can't we have an Easter experience?
0:31.0	There is no Easter experience.
0:32.0	Well, that's, to Walter's point earlier, no. No. You can't. And in fact, there will be a subjective
0:39.5	Easter experience when Christ raises you from the dead.
0:43.2	And attaches you to himself.
0:44.6	Attashes you to himself.
0:45.6	It started in your baptism, to use Roman's sixth language.
0:48.2	Like, there is this experiential aspect.
0:50.6	And the nation is good on this.
0:51.6	He says, we're not denying that there's an
0:53.6	experience there's not denying that there's something subjective going on here
0:57.1	it's as you said earlier it's just grounded in historical activity of God.
1:02.8	It was grounded in reality.
1:03.8	Right, right.
1:04.8	Yes.
1:05.8	This is the move because modern liberalism replaces Orthodox Christian beliefs.
1:10.7	Here's where it's just heartbreaking. They gut the God man, the life, death,
1:16.7	resurrection, ascension, and they replace, they turn Jesus into someone who is a
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