Who would that be? Not the Pope, who leads the largest denomination world wide. Not the Apostolic Patriarch in Istanbul. Not the Archbishop of Canterbury. Not the Lutheran bishops of Scandinavia or Germany. Not, in other words, most Christian leaders worldwide that I can think of. Nor even would most Evangelicals. The point is that one must acknowledge the need of salvation before conversion, which requires the knowledge of sin. It is one thing to say that one cannot be saved except through grace, and another to say that one cannot know something of morality, and act accordingly, on the basis of reason. Now, it is true that all are deemed subject to moral fallibility, but that is true of Christians as well as others. The difference is always that Christians can specially call upon God for aid.
When Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority, his point was that most people, not just conservative Christians, agreed with the basic principles enunciated by the Ten Commandments. He was, in essence, trying to appeal to the mainstream........ |
