The Roots of the Emergent Church and "Relevance"

Do you think the emergent church has some hip, cool, new way of thinking? The mentality of "Well, we need to change Christianity..." and "The Bible doesn't need to be the center of everything..." has been around much longer than these "cool, new, hip guru's" would like for you to believe. The root of the problem is called "humanism", and this short video by Francis Schaeffer exposes this way of thinking for the departure from Christian faith that it really is. Notice the similarities between this culture of 1,000 years ago and the culture of today...

The Bible shows God's love, not someone's opinion about it.


This is a clip from Francis Schaeffer's How Should We Then Live series.

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[Cenamark2]

@DazedSpy2 Well of course the Bible is going to say that eyewitnesses confirmed it. I'm talking about contemporary sources outside of the bible. You know I once lifted a Ford F150 over my head with one hand and 50 people saw me do it.

[DazedSpy2]

@Cenamark2 which is something all historians agree upon. As paul writes in his epistles, he went to the apostles 2-3 times to ensure what he was preaching [and to other eyewitnesses] was accurate and perfect. They assured him it was. So these traditions about Jesus, if mythical, began basically the second he died. Seems a hard pill to swallow that such preaching could exist right beside eye witnesses who could point it out as a lie.

[DazedSpy2]

@Cenamark2 News story=/=historical record. Unfortunately you are sincerely just not correct about historical records. Most historical records pre the modern era come several centuries after the events. The earliest source of Alexander is more than 400 years after his death for example. I'm fully confident an individual could collect a fairly accurate composite of events happening fifty years prior, especially in an oral culture. And as said, Paul began to preach within two years

[Cenamark2]

@WorshipInTruth Well God sure is free to break his own laws. You know the devil kills way less people in the buybull than God. He's a way cooler character in that work of fiction.

[Cenamark2]

@DazedSpy2 If any news story is written 50-90 years after its done, its old news.  Think about any historical even, the written accounts come immediately after the fact. Jesus' story was not only written a long time after his death, the Gospels are the only accounts of it.

[Cenamark2]

@DazedSpy2 God's law. God is a genocidal psychopath. If he were real he'd still get no respect from me. I need his forgiveness for being human? You say God isn't sick? Then why's the dude so obsessed about people's foreskins?

[DazedSpy2]

@Cenamark2 "long" ? the gospels were written from 50-90 years after his death, well within the time frame where eyewitnesses would be alive. Paul's epistles and the evidence he collected, the message he preached, can be shown as far back as 2 years after jesus' death. Whats "sick" is entirely relative without following Gods law, so im afraid your last sentence is essentially nonsensical.

[Mahvalous1]

I have had these videos for years..they are great

[WorshipInTruth]

@Cenamark2  Ya you are a friggin face paint wearing clown.

[WorshipInTruth]

@Cenamark2 Forty children killed for making fun of a bald man? What the hell are you talking about?? You also need to learn to take the Old Testament in context of the New Testament. The Bible strictly prohibts murder of any sort.