Flawed Theology?
Dec 12th, 2007 by Randy Toman
The following is quoted from the book “God and Politics” Four Views on the Reformation of Civil Government. The conference was held June 2,3 1987. And the book is made up of papers presented at that conference. Gary Scott Smith editing.
“Although the English law tradition, which helped to contour American society, incorporated many biblical principles and many of the colonist’s espoused Christian values, our nation has never been thoroughly or consistently Christian . . .”
“Christian and Enlightenment worldviews, though resting upon very different presuppositions, combined to furnish principles that guided the development of the American political system. Both systems taught that human lust for power must be curbed, that public virtue was necessary to sustain a republic, …”
“Reformed beliefs about human nature helped to shape important features of the new nation’s Constitution such as the separation and balance of powers. In the years following 1789, however, the United States became increasingly pluralistic denominationally and theologically.”
This pluralistic combination turn deadly some time after the civil war and progressed down that path ever so slowly. The early 1900’s further distorted the reform teaching with its’ social Gospel teaching, a liberal theology that border on heresy. When we get to FDR and his policies of government control, which readily joined forces with the social Gospel, we have the process accelerating and being taken over by a liberal element that no longer has a classical definition. With the loss of the cohesiveness of the 2nd World War it did not take long to get to the 60’s and that generation thinking it was OK and necessary to burn the flag and have drugs as their god. It is easy to understand how absolutes did not exist and anything would be acceptable. With the destruction of absolutes and then the rejection of God, it was easy for anything to fill that void and it did.
The 60’s liberal thought his position and Ideology was the correct path and ultimately would bring a correction of life and solve the world problems for himself not others. They had no god; pluralistic denominationally within the church lost all semblances of reform theological teaching. And the Enlightenment thinking of today does not think humans have a lust for power and worse the church is not even aware of any change in Enlightenment thinking or their own ignorance of that fact. That is how we can get thinking from guys like Huckabee and Carter who want to give away money that doesn’t belong to them. Huckabee thinks Biblical Charity is giving other peoples money to the poor and looking like a nice guy. They do not realize they are contributing to this lust for power, which the Clinton types have, nor do they realize their theology is flawed.
If you do not think that is a big part of today’s problem let me know.