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The Narrative Behind the Narratives, by Dr. C. H. E. Sadaphal

For this first post of 2020, I am grateful for the following contribution by my friend and brother in Christ, Dr. C. H. E. Sadaphal. In this timely and well-researched piece, Sadaphal carefully connects the dots with regard to current events in the world and church and the anti-Christian ideologies which preceded them. He provides us with a succinct analysis of what I have routinely termed, “The Narrative”, and in the words of the late Dr. Stan Monteith, brings us “the story behind the story”. Links to a podcast of the article and Dr. Sadaphal’s website are provided at the end.

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‘The Great Silencer’: A method to the madness

For most of my Christian life, I was committed to a system of biblical interpretation known as Dispensationalism. Key tenets of that system include a premillennial eschatology, a pretribulational rapture of the saints, a future and physical restoration of ethnic Israel as God’s chosen people, and a commitment to a (generally) wooden-literal hermeneutic.[1] As I eventually started having doubts about the integrity of Dispensationalism’s “unified interpretive scheme”[2] and was concerned that perhaps Dispensationalists were unwittingly imposing a grand scenario on the Bible justified only by the use of a faulty hermeneutic, I nevertheless found it difficult to escape the futurists’ fold out of fear that I would be branded an “anti-Semite”. Continue reading…

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Walter Rauschenbusch and Russell Moore: The roots and fruits of the social gospel

“Americans had come to believe in the religion of progress and humanity. Rauschenbusch now visualized the tremendously swift transformation of America.” –David Noble

In a series of posts addressing the leftward trend in the church and in Western society and the hysterical aftermath of the publication of the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel, I attempted to show that the modern social justice movement is little more than a revival of the old social gospel repackaged for a racially “woke” environmentally-friendly gender-bending generation. Continue reading…

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On Sam Allberry and ‘Living Out’

When the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel was published back in September of 2018, some Christians wondered why its framers felt the need to include affirmations and denials concerning the subject of “Sexuality and Marriage” (article 10). In light of Matthew Vines’ publication of God and the Gay Christian, Gregory Coles’ Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity, and Sam Allberry’s Is God Anti-Gay? (and the subsequent rise to prominence of Allberry’s Living Out ministry), by now it should be abundantly clear why this component of the social justice narrative had to be squarely addressed. Continue reading…

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Molech and the masters of deceit

“Abortion is kind of fading as an issue….”

–Nancy Pelosi, 2017. Washington Post

“[Abortion] continues to be the fight of our lifetime.”

–Hillary Clinton, 2019. Bloomberg

“Kavanaugh is going to reverse Roe v. Wade. I have no doubt. Gorsuch is going to reverse Roe v. Wade. I have no doubt. So what do we do? Protect ourselves. Pass a state law that is a prophylactic from the Federal action.”

–Andrew Cuomo, 2019. Bloomberg

“A fool has no delight in understanding, But in expressing his own heart.”

–Solomon, 900 BC. Proverbs 18:2

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