How to Stay off the Slip & Slide Ride to the Post-Modern Abyss

Lately I've been cancelling a lot of e-mail newsletters I've been getting. There is just TOO MUCH INFORMATION out there, the majority of which I don't need to stockpile in my mailbox, but this morning I found some very important things to read in one update that are worth sharing. This is serious stuff...

This first one is really good. It's about the pattern of the downslide into theoligical liberalism. For example, that increasingly unpoplar unmentionable thing called hell. Albert Mohler calls this the air conditioning of hell, and says the pattern goes something like this...

• First, a doctrine simply falls from mention.
• Second, a doctrine is revised and retained in reduced form.
• Third, a doctrine is subjected to a form of ridicule.
• Fourth, a doctrine is reformulated in order to remove its intellectual and moral offensiveness.

Read about these things in more depth here:

Air Conditioning Hell: How Liberalism Happens
By R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

Oh, and here's another really good one to read by Phil Johnson about the four things to resist in order to stay off the down slide. He starts out like this:

The gospel's most dangerous earthly adversaries are not raving atheists who stand outside the door shouting threats and insults. They are church leaders who cultivate a gentle, friendly, pious demeanor but hack away at the foundations of faith under the guise of keeping in step with a changing world.

No Christian should imagine that heresy is always conspicuous or that every purveyor of theological mischief will lay out his agenda in plain and honest terms. The enemy prefers to sow tares secretly, for obvious reasons. Thus Scripture expressly warns us to be on guard against false teachers who creep into the church unnoticed (Jude 4), wolves who sneak into the flock wearing sheep's clothing (Matt 7:15), and servants of Satan who disguise themselves as angels of light (2 Cor. 11:13-15).

You can find the rest of that one over here:

The Neo-Liberal Stealth Offensive
By Phil Johnson

These are very good articles, and anyone stopping by to read them today would do well to take heed and pass them on to others who are lining up for their lethal ride on the slip and slide.