The Church has serious problems:
Aug 9th, 2007 by Randy Toman
Despite the growing interest in religion in the United States, most churchgoers in America – perhaps most churchgoers worldwide – seem never to have read the Bible.
This is the opening line of the forward in “Counterfeit Miracles” by B. B. Warfield.
Benjamin Warfield was a great theologian who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary and died in 1921. The Trinity Foundation republished the book this summer 2007 and Dr. John Robbins wrote the forward.
Dr. Robbins goes on:
People who study the Bible and think for themselves, as Jesus commanded (Luke 12:57), are impossible to manipulate and control.
Dr. Robbins admonishes the churchgoer for his ignorance and lack of understanding of the Scriptures. Dr. Robbins also chastises the false teachers within the church. He says this about this general condition of the church and it’s people.
The results of this vast ignorance (and vast unbelief, for one cannot believe what one does not know) are all around us. The militant atheist writer Sam Harris, a gullible man who apparently believes every opinion poll he reads, but not the Bible, informs us that 80 percent of the American people believe the Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God. The statement is ludicrous. Eighty percent is 240 million Americans. It is an exaggeration to say that even eight percent of the American people believe the Bible is inspired and inerrant. Twenty-four million Bible – believing Christians, the salt of the Earth, would transform American society. But American society has not been transformed, at least not for the better. Instead, American civilization is rapidly disappearing. The churches and people Harris describes as true believers are actually true apostates, having more in common with Harris’ worldly philosophy than with the Bible’s teaching.
In these two short articles (see “Start up the reason “WHY” August 8th.) I have laid out what my position is and where I think the problem lies.
- The Republican Party is failing to holdup its’ duties as a body politic.
- The church is failing to teach and care for the souls of the people.
Between the two they have failed the American people and we are as Sheep all gone astray. To understand this should give us hope in that we may still have time to repent and get down on are knees and pray to the LORD. With this said let us start down the road and hopefully the Lord will have mercy on us as we interact with one another. I have invited some people to write and contribute in the way of analysis and commentary. Hopefully we can look at local, State, National issue and get to the point were we might affect are Representatives.