><>...The Conspiracy to Silence the Son Of God...><>
"Christiaity is now beseiged by on eof the most powerful heresies it has faced in 2000 years. This heresy is subtle because it assumes there can be no such thing as heresy. It deconstructs and reconstructs not only the church and the Bible, but Jesus Himself!
Of course, gnostics,docetists,ebionites, and others in the early church redefined the person and nature of Christ. More recently, higher critics,neoorthodox theologians, and new agers have tried to do the same. The terrifying difference today is that current heritics-a minority of radical scholars who call themselves the Jesus Seminar-receive unprecedented media coverage. Over the past decade they have capitalized on the media's quest for controversy, and the public's hunger for novelty to market their "findings" in popularized books and articles. In this postmodern, post-Christian world, most people are too biblically illiterate to discern the errors in the work of the Seminar's scholars.
Today the average person picks up a copy of Time magazine to learn that the Jesus of the gospels is a fiction. At least that is what these scholars keep telling us in print, over the airways, and even on the internet.
The watershed question for our day remains the one that Jesus Himself asked: Who do you say I am?....On the answer to this question hangs the survival to our faith and our church. If we do not answer it firmly and immediately, believers and potential believers may suffer fromt he public dissection and deconstruction of Jesus and the Gospel.
The Jesus Seminar has stretched our Lord on the rack,trying to prove Him merely human. Now is the time for all Christians, not just apologists and scholars, to rally to the Lord's side.
In the supposed five gospels( the fifth is the very questionable gospel of Thomas), Robert Funk and Roy Hoover conclude that Jesus was nothing more than a laconic sage, slow to speech, a person of few words, one who was self-effacing, modest and unostentatious. This type of holy man does not initiate cures or exorcisms. Accordingly, the real Jesus who appears in the gospels is often to give help, even when asked...He does not initiate debates or controversies. In fact, the rare events in which Jesus begins the argument are thought to be creations of the storyteller."
In light of this image of Jesus, they say, "it is difficult to imagine Jesus making claims for Himself- I am the Son of God, I am the expected one, the Annointed- unless, of course he thought that nothing he said applied to himself"
All of the above was taken from a book titled ..."The Conspiracy to Silence the Son of God", written by Tal Brooke
We live in an age of fierce and utter contempt for Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, and his followers and defenders are no less hated. We must therefore stand with the Gospel armour in place....and all the glory be to God!
I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ it is the power of God unto salvation for everyone.
Shalom...><> |
