Sep
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2018
Thursday, September 20 2018
After I had one of the most mind-numbing, incomprehensible exchanges with the president of Union Theological Seminary a few years ago, a listener to my radio program sent me a note. In it, he included the words of the great theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who, after studying briefly at Union, wrote in his biography of the feckless seminary,
If there was any question, nothing has changed at UTS. In a thread responding to the prominent Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel, the seminary dropped some doozies:
In case you’re wondering how these folks can be considered Christian when they reject the infallibility of Spirit-inspired scripture as well as salvation alone in Christ, there’s a fairly simple answer: they can’t. Not for any orthodox Christian perspective. I’m not sure if that would offend them or not, particularly that they seem to be quite content heretically diminishing the authority of God’s Word, the specific proclamations of Christ Himself, and the work of the Holy Spirit. The entirety of their response thread was such a theological dumpster fire that the school felt obligated to respond days later with a clarification that, unsurprisingly, only made things worse:
Umm, yes, that’s the lure Christianity offers to a lost world. Where the world is confused, Christ is consistent. Where the world is full of deceit, Christ is truthful. Where the world is unreliable and unpredictable, Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And the Scriptures He affirmed are the same. That’s why the Bible is the only firm foundation for our feet in a world of shifting sand. So why would a pseudo-Christian institution surrender that? This:
And there it is. If you look closely enough and wait long enough, humanists will always reveal themselves. For political or sociological reasons the folks at Union Theological Seminary are just like the ancient Greeks the Apostle Paul corrected at Mars Hill a couple thousand years ago. They are determining the attributes of a god they want to worship, they are forming that god, and they are worshipping it. No one has broken it to them yet, that in such an arrangement, if they are determining ultimate value, ultimate morality, and what is worthy of worship…they are their own god. Man, Bonhoeffer was right.
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