What's Wrong With "Progressive" Christianity

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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How could it end any other way. Step one: Take Scripture out of context. Step two: Absolutely demonize those who disagree, with highly emotional and extremely judgmental language. Step three: Summarize your unbiblical views with utter hypocrisy and plank-eyed judgment toward anyone who dares to hold to a biblical Christianity. Step four: Conclude that your views, which Jesus most certainly would not have agreed with, are righteous and loving while those who disagree are going to go to your version of hell (but do this while condemning others for thinking they are righteous and loving and that those who disagree are going to their version of hell). Step five: Ignore all those who would rationally analyze your view and compare it to biblical teaching and historical Christianity. Here's Alisa Childers's channel. I recommend subscribing because I see so much value in her content. https://www.youtube.com/user/alisachilders/videos 0:00 intro 0:18 to SKIP intro This clip is from a recent interview I did on Alisa Childers' channel. I took that interview and broke it down into topical videos dealing with the 23 different claims made by the "progressive Christian" Ragamuffin TV. Here's a link where you can see EVERY video in this series (as they go up) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ3iRMLYFlHstu7p_vncGknpVhWp9uxc1 Here are the links to the long form interviews which are on Alisa's channel Part 1 https://youtu.be/wVLLuyN-Ezo Part 2 https://youtu.be/CoBW3LY8xiw

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0:00.0	You're watching one of a series of videos where Elisa Childers and I respond to 23 progressive
0:05.9	Christian claims, kind of like a progressive Christian manifesto that was written by Ragamuff
0:11.0	and TV. We deal with these claims, some good, some bad, some ugly, and I'm hoping that this
0:16.8	helps you to think biblically. Okay, so number 23 here. This is another big one in the progressive
0:23.0	movement. It says, Jesus said, I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
0:29.1	without coming through me. And then the commentary is, this is not an exclusive statement. This
0:35.3	is an inclusive statement. This was never intended to be a threat. This was an exposure of reality.
0:42.0	Jesus was saying, I'm part of the deal whether you like it or not. He wasn't saying, pick me before
0:47.4	you die or my daddy will torture you for all eternity. That would make God worse than Hitler.
0:53.6	They're big, they're big finish there. Yeah. Okay, they say it's let's just take a kind of one
1:01.1	piece at a time. The first part is they're saying that Jesus' statement in John 14, I mean the
1:05.6	way the truth and the life no one comes to the Father except through me, that that's not exclusive.
1:12.1	Yes, it is. Read it. Yeah. I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
1:19.2	except through me. Now the way it could be inclusive is if in the gospel of John in the full context
1:24.0	of Scripture, if there was teaching that everyone would come to Christ. But one of the stark
1:29.3	realities in the gospel of John is how many people reject him. In fact, John once says he came to his
1:33.8	own and his own did not receive him. And he says that if they don't believe in him, they will
1:38.4	quote, die in their sins. This is Jesus saying this. So the context is yes, there are those who
1:43.6	receive and those who reject Christ and no one and because no one can come to the Father except
1:48.2	through Christ, they will not be coming to the Father. So it is an exclusive statement in the
1:52.4	context of John in the teaching of the Scripture. Their interpretation is instead, Jesus has
1:58.1	part of the deal whether you like it or not. Well, I would agree with that as well. He's part of
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